17. Question Time (Commission)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B6-0001/2008).

The following spoke: Avril Doyle on the organisation of Question Time .

Part one

Question 31 (Mairead McGuinness): Ensuring consumers are protected from counterfeit and sub-standard medicines.

Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Mairead McGuinness, Danutė Budreikaitė and Josu Ortuondo Larrea.

Question 32 (Chris Davies): Carbon dioxide emissions.

Stavros Dimas (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Chris Davies, Paul Rübig and Karin Scheele.

Question 33 (Claude Moraes): Protecting consumers against spam, spyware and malicious software.

Günter Verheugen answered the question and supplementaries by Claude Moraes, Georgios Papastamkos and Avril Doyle.

Part two

Question 34 (Giovanna Corda): Monitoring imports of dangerous consumer goods.

Meglena Kuneva (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Giovanna Corda, Reinhard Rack and Colm Burke.

Question 35 (Manolis Mavrommatis): Profiteering by food shops.

Meglena Kuneva answered the question and supplementaries by Manolis Mavrommatis, Mairead McGuinness and Danutė Budreikaitė.

Question 41 (Marian Harkin): The Review of the Single Market.

Charlie McCreevy (Member of the Commission) answered the question.

The following spoke: Bernd Posselt.

Charlie McCreevy answered the supplementaries by Marian Harkin, Reinhard Rack and Mairead McGuinness.

Question 42 (Georgios Papastamkos): Markets in financial instruments.

Charlie McCreevy answered the question and a supplementary by Georgios Papastamkos.

Question 43 (Colm Burke): Irish county development plans.

Charlie McCreevy answered the question and supplementaries by Colm Burke and Brian Crowley.

Question 44 (Gay Mitchell): Health insurance industry in Ireland.

Charlie McCreevy answered the question and a supplementary by Gay Mitchell.

Question 36 (Jim Higgins): Online airline ticket sales.

Meglena Kuneva answered the question and supplementaries by Jim Higgins and Manolis Mavrommatis.

The following spoke: Brian Crowley on the organisation of Question Time.

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.