17. Question Time (Commission)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B6-0168/2008).

Part one

Question 43 (Georgios Papastamkos): Performance of the automobile industry as regards CO2 emissions.

Stavros Dimas (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Georgios Papastamkos, Reinhard Rack and Paul Rübig.

Question 44 (Johan Van Hecke): Policy on biofuels.

Mariann Fischer Boel (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Johan Van Hecke, Jim Allister and Glyn Ford.

Question 45 (Paulo Casaca): Execution of the perpetrator of an attack on the United Nations.

Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Paulo Casaca.

Part two

Question 46 (Claude Moraes): Anti-discrimination horizontal directive.

Vladimír Špidla answered the question and supplementaries by Claude Moraes and Syed Kamall.

Question 47 (Brian Crowley): Supplementary pensions and mobility across the EU.

Vladimír Špidla answered the question and supplementaries by Brian Crowley and Reinhard Rack.

Question 48 (Robert Evans): Medical support across the EU.

Vladimír Špidla answered the question and a supplementary by Glyn Ford, deputising for the author.

Questions 49 to 54 would receive written answers.

Question 55 (Eoin Ryan): Reporting burden of small and medium enterprises.

Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Eoin Ryan and Wiesław Stefan Kuc.

Question 56 (Colm Burke): Price of fertiliser.

Günter Verheugen answered the question and supplementaries by Colm Burke and Mairead McGuinness.

Question 57 (Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou): Policy in favour of small enterprises.

Günter Verheugen answered the question and a supplementary by Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou.

Question 58 would receive a written answer.

Question 59 (Liam Aylward): Proposed increase in modulation in the context of the CAP Health Check.

Question 60 (Seán Ó Neachtain): CAP payments.

Question 62 (Ioannis Gklavakis): 'Health check' for the Common Agricultural Policy.

Question 65 (Stavros Arnaoutakis): Common Agricultural Policy: planning and application in favour of small producers.

Mariann Fischer Boel answered the questions and supplementaries by Liam Aylward, Seán Ó Neachtain, Ioannis Gklavakis and Wiesław Stefan Kuc.

Questions 61, 63, 64, and 66 to 96 would receive written answers (see annex to the Verbatim Report of Proceedings).

Commission Question Time closed.