IN THE CHAIR: Manuel António dos SANTOS
Vice-President

12. Question Time (Commission)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B6-0010/2008).

Part one

Question 39 (Anne E. Jensen): EASA airworthiness assessment procedures.

Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Anne E. Jensen and Jörg Leichtfried.

Question 40 (Jörg Leichtfried): Transparency with regard to management pay.

Charlie McCreevy (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Jörg Leichtfried.

Question 41 (Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines): Construction of underground stretch of high-speed rail line near the Sagrada Familia church (Barcelona).

Stavros Dimas (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines and Maria Badia i Cutchet.

Part two

Question 42 (Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou): Inclusion of Ancient Greek and Latin in the European Indicator of Language Competence.

Leonard Orban (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Manolis Mavrommatis and Bernd Posselt.

Question 43 (Bernd Posselt): Support for linguistic minorities.

Leonard Orban answered the question and a supplementary by Bernd Posselt.

Question 44 (Seán Ó Neachtain): Lesser-used languages in Europe.

Leonard Orban answered the question and supplementaries by Seán Ó Neachtain and Mairead McGuinness.

Question 45 would receive a written answer.

The following spoke: Evgeni Kirilov, on the conduct of Question Time.

Question 46 (Claude Moraes): Regional Development Funds and minority groups.

Danuta Hübner (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Claude Moraes and Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou.

Question 47 (Jim Higgins): EU regional funding for Ireland 2007-2013.

Danuta Hübner answered the question and a supplementary by Jim Higgins.

Question 48 (Brian Crowley): EU support for the peace process in Ireland.

Danuta Hübner answered the question and supplementaries by Seán Ó Neachtain (for the author) and Jim Higgins.

Question 49 (David Martin): European structural funding.

Danuta Hübner answered the question and a supplementary by David Martin.

Questions 50 to 54 would receive written answers.

Question 55 (Georgios Papastamkos): Creation of a regulatory authority for the European telecommunications sector.

Viviane Reding (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Georgios Papastamkos.

Question 56 (Giovanna Corda): Access to high-speed internet for citizens of all the Member States.

Viviane Reding answered the question and a supplementary by Giovanna Corda.

Question 57 (Gay Mitchell): Internet safety.

Viviane Reding answered the question and supplementaries by Gay Mitchell and Mairead McGuinness.

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.