12. Order of business

Verbatim reports

The next item was the order of business.

Hans-Peter Martin spoke.

The final draft agenda for the May I and II sittings (PE 373.210/PDOJ) had been distributed and a number of changes had been proposed (Rule 132):

Sittings of 15.05.2006 to 18.05.2006

Monday

- no changes

Tuesday

- Request from the GUE/NGL Group to refer back to committee the Speroni report on the request for the waiver of Tobias Pflüger's immunity (A6-0156/2006), which was due to be put to the vote on Tuesday (Item 2 on the final draft agenda).

Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann moved the request.

The following spoke on the request: Klaus-Heiner Lehne, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the PSE Group, who asked that the Conference of Presidents no longer be called upon to deal with matters relating to parliamentary immunity, and that such matters be dealt with in plenary and by the JURI Committee, Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, and Martin Schulz.

Parliament rejected the request by electronic vote (72 in favour, 102 against, 50 abstentions).

- Request from the PSE Group to hold over until Wednesday the vote on the Rack report on improving the environmental performance of the freight transport system ('Marco Polo II') (A6-0408/2005) (Item 11 on the final draft agenda).

Parliament approved the request.

Wednesday

As the Presidency-in-Office of the Council had notified Parliament that it could not stay after 19.00, Council Question Time would be cut to one hour.

The following spoke against that statement: Martin Schulz, Giles Chichester, Hans-Gert Poettering and Hans-Peter Martin (the President pointed out that he would pass the comments on to the Council).

Thursday

Debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Rule 115)

- Request from the ALDE Group to add an item on Taiwan to the debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

Graham Watson moved the request on behalf of the ALDE Group.

The following spoke on the request: Francis Wurtz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Astrid Lulling, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group.

Parliament approved the request.

Sittings of 31.05.2006 and 01.06.2006

- no changes

The order of business was thus established.