15. Question Time (Commission)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B6-0018/2007).

Part one

Question 30 (David Martin): The negative consequences of the EU biofuels targets.

Andris Piebalgs (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by David Martin, Danutė Budreikaitė and Reinhard Rack.

Question 31 (Danutė Budreikaitė): Energy agreement between EU Member States and Russia.

Andris Piebalgs answered the question and supplementaries by Danutė Budreikaitė, Paul Rübig and Justas Vincas Paleckis.

Part two

Question 33 (Claude Moraes): Hate websites.

Franco Frattini (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Claude Moraes, Andreas Mölzer and Hubert Pirker.

Question 34 (Glenis Willmott): EU-wide hotline for victims of forced prostitution.

Franco Frattini answered the question and supplementaries by Glenis Willmott, Richard Seeber and Justas Vincas Paleckis.

Questions 35 to 37 would receive written answers.

Question 38 lapsed as its author was absent.

Arlene McCarthy spoke on the conduct of Question Time.

Question 39 (Marco Cappato): Access to communication for people with disabilities.

Viviane Reding (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Marco Cappato.

Question 40 (Georgios Papastamkos): Separation on electronic communications markets.

Viviane Reding answered the question and a supplementary by Georgios Papastamkos.

Question 41 (Katerina Batzeli): European framework for the safer use of mobile telephones by adolescents and children.

Viviane Reding answered the question and a supplementary by Katerina Batzeli.

Question 42 would receive a written answer.

Question 43 (Bernd Posselt): Situation in Vojvodina.

Olli Rehn (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Bernd Posselt, Reinhard Rack and Zsolt László Becsey.

Question 44 (Dimitrios Papadimoulis): Implementation by Turkey of the Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Olli Rehn answered the question and a supplementary by Dimitrios Papadimoulis.

Question 45 (Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou): Political crisis in Turkey and prospects of accession.

Olli Rehn answered the question and supplementaries by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou and Konstantinos Hatzidakis.

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.

(The sitting was suspended at 20.05 and resumed at 21.00.)