Parliament considered a number of questions to the Council (B6-0325/2006).
Question 1 (Claude Moraes): Directives.
Paula Lehtomäki (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the question and supplementaries by Claude Moraes, Philip Bushill-Matthews and Paul Rübig.
Question 2 (Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou): Implementation of the objectives of the European Youth Pact.
Paula Lehtomäki answered the question and a supplementary by Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou.
Question 3 (Manuel Medina Ortega): Illegal immigration: measures following the June European Council.
Paula Lehtomäki answered the question and supplementaries by Manuel Medina Ortega, Sarah Ludford and Paul Rübig.
Question 4 (Elizabeth Lynne): Elder abuse.
Paula Lehtomäki answered the question and supplementaries by Elizabeth Lynne, Andreas Mölzer and Lambert van Nistelrooij.
Question 5 (Roberta Angelilli): Request for judicial cooperation with the United States.
Paula Lehtomäki answered the question and supplementaries by Roberta Angelilli and David Martin.
Question 6 (Bernd Posselt): Democracy and the rule of law in Russia.
Question 7 (Milan Horáček): Situation in Russia.
Paula Lehtomäki answered the questions and supplementaries by Bernd Posselt, Milan Horáček, Richard Seeber and Laima Liucija Andrikienė.
Question 8 (Marian Harkin): Stem cell research.
Paula Lehtomäki answered the question and supplementaries by Marian Harkin and John Purvis.
Question 9 (Johan Van Hecke): Closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp.
Paula Lehtomäki answered the question and supplementaries by Johan Van Hecke, Elizabeth Lynne and Sarah Ludford.
Question 10 (Sarah Ludford): Framework decision on racism and xenophobia.
Paula Lehtomäki answered the question and supplementaries by Sarah Ludford and David Martin.
Question 11 (Inger Segelström): Human rights of women in Iran.
Paula Lehtomäki answered the question and a supplementary by Inger Segelström.
Question 12 (Robert Evans): Further enlargement of the EU.
Paula Lehtomäki answered the question and a supplementary by Robert Evans.
Question 13 (Brian Crowley): Combating international terrorism.
Paula Lehtomäki answered the question and supplementaries by Brian Crowley, James Hugh Allister and John Purvis.
Questions 14, 15 and 16 lapsed as their authors were absent.
Question 17 had been withdrawn.
Question 18 lapsed as its author was absent.
Question 19 (Esko Seppänen): Tours of duty for combat forces.
Paula Lehtomäki answered the question and supplementaries by Esko Seppänen and Brian Crowley.
Questions 20 to 38 would receive written answers.
Questions which had not been answered for lack of time would receive written answers (see annex to the Verbatim Report of Proceedings).