11. Question Time (Council)

Verbatim reports

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

Question 1 (Marian Harkin): Youth Working Party.

Janez Lenarčič (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the question and supplementaries by Marian Harkin and Danutė Budreikaitė.

Question 2 (Manuel Medina Ortega): Multilateralism and bilateral agreements.

Janez Lenarčič answered the question and supplementaries by Manuel Medina Ortega, Paul Rübig and Josu Ortuondo Larrea.

Question 3 (Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou): Measures to promote family-friendly policies.

Janez Lenarčič answered the question and supplementaries by Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Brian Crowley and Marian Harkin.

Question 4 (Georgios Papastamkos): Initiatives by the Slovene Presidency regarding a new approach to neighbourhood policy and energy.

Janez Lenarčič answered the question and supplementaries by Georgios Papastamkos, Alexander Stubb and Justas Vincas Paleckis.

Question 5 (Colm Burke): EU Peace-keeping Mission to Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) - short on helicopters and medical facilities.

Question 6 (Liam Aylward): EU peacekeeping mission to Chad.

Janez Lenarčič answered the questions and supplementaries by Colm Burke, Liam Aylward and Bogusław Sonik.

Question 7 (Gay Mitchell): Protection of EU citizens in Muslim countries.

Janez Lenarčič answered the question and supplementaries by Gay Mitchell and Reinhard Rack.

Question 8 (Avril Doyle): Biodiversity and climate change.

Janez Lenarčič answered the question and supplementaries by Avril Doyle and Mairead McGuinness.

Question 9 (Jim Higgins): Moving beyond GDP.

Janez Lenarčič answered the question and supplementaries by Mairead McGuinness, deputising for the author, Reinhard Rack and Avril Doyle.

Question 10 (Mairead McGuinness): Investigation into care homes in Bulgaria.

Janez Lenarčič answered the question and supplementaries by Mairead McGuinness, Jim Allister and Elizabeth Lynne.

Question 11 (Bernd Posselt): Negotiating date for Macedonia.

Janez Lenarčič answered the question and supplementaries by Bernd Posselt, Avril Doyle and Nikolaos Vakalis.

Question 12 had been withdrawn.

Question 13 (Nikolaos Vakalis): Reduction in VAT rates for environmentally friendly technologies and products.

Janez Lenarčič answered the question.

Questions which had not been answered for lack of time would receive written answers (see annex to the Verbatim Report of Proceedings).

Council Question Time closed.