15. Question Time (Commission)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B6-0224/2006).

Part one

Question 45 (Carl Schlyter): EBRD funding of the Sakhalin II project.

Joaquín Almunia (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Carl Schlyter and Marie Anne Isler Béguin.

Question 46 (Michl Ebner): Patentability of computer-implemented inventions in the European Union.

Charlie McCreevy (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Michl Ebner, Piia-Noora Kauppi and Carl Schlyter.

Question 47 (Saïd El Khadraoui): Abuse of position of power by Google.

Charlie McCreevy answered the question and a supplementary by Saïd El Khadraoui.

Part two

Question 48 (Dimitrios Papadimoulis): High charges for bank card payments in Greece.

Neelie Kroes (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Manolis Mavrommatis and Richard Seeber.

Question 49 (Bogusław Sonik): Parallel distribution of pharmaceuticals.

Neelie Kroes answered the question and supplementaries by Bogusław Sonik and Justas Vincas Paleckis.

Question 50 (Ivo Belet): Suez-Gaz de France merger - impact on competition in the Belgian energy market - protecting consumer interests.

Neelie Kroes answered the question and a supplementary by Ivo Belet.

Question 51 would receive a written answer.

Question 52 (Bart Staes): Establishment of a European influenza task force.

Markos Kyprianou (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Bart Staes.

Question 53 (Robert Evans): Car hire.

Markos Kyprianou answered the question and supplementaries by Robert Evans and Malcolm Harbour.

Question 54 (Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk): Ban on food imports into Russia.

Question 59 (Ryszard Czarnecki): Embargo on Polish meat exports to Ukraine and Russia.

Markos Kyprianou answered the questions and supplementaries by Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Paul Rübig and Marie Anne Isler Béguin.

Question 60 (Marie Anne Isler Béguin): Support for democratic transition in Mauritania.

Neelie Kroes answered the question and a supplementary by Marie Anne Isler Béguin.

Question 61 (Bernd Posselt): Development cooperation with Nigeria.

Neelie Kroes answered the question and a supplementary by Bernd Posselt.

Question 62 (Eoin Ryan): EU support to combat Aids in Africa.

Neelie Kroes answered the question.

The following spoke: Eoin Ryan, who put a supplementary which Neelie Kroes said would receive a written answer.

Questions which had not been answered for lack of time would receive written answers (see annex to the Verbatim Report of Proceedings).

Commission Question Time closed.