14. Draft general budget for 2007 (Section III) - Draft general budget for 2007 (sections I, II, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII) (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2007 and Letter of amendment No 1/2007 (5733/2006 – SEC(2006)0762) to the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2007, Section III – Commission [C6-0299/2006 – 2006/2018(BUD)] – Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: James Elles (A6-0358/2006)

Report on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2007
Section I - European Parliament,
Section II - Council,
Section IV - Court of Justice,
Section V - Court of Auditors,
Section VI - European Economic and Social Committee,
Section VII - Committee of the Regions,
Section VIII(A) - European Ombudsman, Section VIII(B) - European Data Protection Supervisor [C6-0300/2006 - 2006/2018(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Louis Grech (A6-0356/2006)

James Elles introduced the report (A6-0358/2006).

Louis Grech introduced the report (A6-0356/2006).

The following spoke: Ulla-Maj Wideroos (President-in-Office of the Council) and Dalia Grybauskaitė (Member of the Commission).

István Szent-Iványi (draftsman of the opinion of the AFET Committee) spoke.

IN THE CHAIR: Antonios TRAKATELLIS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Jürgen Schröder (draftsman of the opinion of the DEVE Committee), Ona Juknevičienė (draftsman of the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Jutta Haug (draftsman of the opinion of the ENVI Committee), Neena Gill (draftsman of the opinion of the ITRE Committee), Bill Newton Dunn (draftsman of the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Anne E. Jensen (draftsman of the opinion of the TRAN Committee), Marian Harkin (draftsman of the opinion of the REGI Committee), Marc Tarabella (draftsman of the opinion of the AGRI Committee), Rosa Miguélez Ramos (draftsman of the opinion of the PECH Committee), Helga Trüpel (draftsman of the opinion of the CULT Committee), Gérard Deprez (draftsman of the opinion of the LIBE Committee), Carlos Carnero González (draftsman of the opinion of the AFCO Committee), Piia-Noora Kauppi (draftsman of the opinion of the FEMM Committee), Alexandra Dobolyi (draftsman of the opinion of the PETI Committee), Ville Itälä, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Catherine Guy-Quint, on behalf of the PSE Group, Anne E. Jensen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Helga Trüpel, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Esko Seppänen, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Wojciech Roszkowski, on behalf of the UEN Group, Dariusz Maciej Grabowski, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Sergej Kozlík, Non-attached Member, Janusz Lewandowski, Giovanni Pittella, Kyösti Virrankoski, Gérard Onesta, Diamanto Manolakou, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Michael Henry Nattrass, Hans-Peter Martin and Ingeborg Gräßle.

IN THE CHAIR: Jacek Emil SARYUSZ-WOLSKI
Vice-President

The following spoke: Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Nathalie Griesbeck, Pedro Guerreiro, Liam Aylward, Hélène Goudin, Jean-Claude Martinez, Antonis Samaras, Vladimír Maňka, Markus Ferber, Szabolcs Fazakas, Simon Busuttil, Katerina Batzeli, László Surján, Herbert Bösch and Salvador Garriga Polledo.

The debate closed.

Vote: Item 6.2 and Minutes of 26.10.2006, Item 6.3.

(The sitting was suspended at 17.05 pending Question Time and resumed at 17.30.)