14. Draft general budget 2008 as modified by the Council (all sections) (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2008 as modified by the Council (all sections) (15717/2007 – C6-0436/2007 – 2007/2019(BUD) – 2007/2019B(BUD))
and Letters of amendment Nos 1/2008 (13659/2007 - C6-0341/2007) and 2/2008 (15716/2007 - C6-0435/2007) to the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2008
Section I, European Parliament
Section II, Council
Section III, Commission
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, European Ombudsman
Section IX, European Data Protection Supervisor – Committee on Budgets - Committee on Budgets. Co-rapporteurs: Kyösti Virrankoski and Ville Itälä (A6-0492/2007)

Ville Itälä and Kyösti Virrankoski presented the report.

The following spoke: Emanuel Santos (President-in-Office of the Council) and Dalia Grybauskaitė (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Richard James Ashworth, 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, Wiesław Stefan Kuc, on behalf of the UEN Group, Helga Trüpel, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Esko Seppänen, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nils Lundgren, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Sergej Kozlík, Non-attached Member, Salvador Garriga Polledo, Jutta Haug, Gérard Deprez, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Hans-Peter Martin, Reimer Böge, Vladimír Maňka, Nathalie Griesbeck, László Surján, Jan Mulder and Janusz Lewandowski.

IN THE CHAIR: Marek SIWIEC
Vice-President

The following spoke: Ingeborg Gräßle, Monica Maria Iacob-Ridzi, Margaritis Schinas, Simon Busuttil and Emanuel Santos.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 13.12.2007, Item 6.2.