(The sitting was suspended at 10.50 pending voting time and resumed at 11.05.)

IN THE CHAIR: Josep BORRELL FONTELLES
President

4. Tribute

Verbatim reports

On behalf of Parliament and of the Commission, Josep Borrell Fontelles (President of the European Parliament) and Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission) paid tribute to the memory of Loyola de Palacio, Vice-President of the Commission between 1999 and 2004, who had died in Madrid on 13.12.2006.

Parliament observed a minute's silence.