16. Question Time (Commission)

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Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B6-0457/2008).

Part one

Question 35 (Stavros Arnaoutakis): Food crises in the EU and protection of European consumers.

Androula Vassiliou (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Stavros Arnaoutakis, Mairead McGuinness and Danutė Budreikaitė.

Question 36 (Bilyana Ilieva Raeva): Road safety.

Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Bilyana Ilieva Raeva.

Question 37 lapsed as its author was absent.

Part two

Question 38 (Emmanouil Angelakas): Information and education for young consumers.

Meglena Kuneva (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Emmanouil Angelakas and Danutė Budreikaitė.

Question 39 (Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou): Consumer protection and education.

Meglena Kuneva answered the question and supplementaries by Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Paul Rübig and Reinhard Rack.

Question 40 (Giovanna Corda): Consumer complaints about e-commerce.

Meglena Kuneva answered the question and supplementaries by Giovanna Corda, Paul Rübig and Justas Vincas Paleckis.

Question 42 (Colm Burke): Internal market scoreboard.

Charlie McCreevy (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Colm Burke.

Question 43 (Jim Higgins): Banking sector in border areas.

Charlie McCreevy answered the question and a supplementary by Jim Higgins.

Question 44 (Dimitrios Papadimoulis): Sale of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation (OTE) and refusal to make a public takeover bid.

Charlie McCreevy answered the question and a supplementary by Dimitrios Papadimoulis.

Question 48 (Georgios Papastamkos): Black Sea Synergy.

Benita Ferrero-Waldner (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Georgios Papastamkos.

Question 49 (Robert Evans): EU election observation missions.

Benita Ferrero-Waldner answered the question and supplementaries by Robert Evans and Martin Callanan.

Question 50 (David Martin): Israel withholding Palestinian tax funds.

Benita Ferrero-Waldner answered the question and supplementaries by David Martin and Reinhard Rack.

Questions 41, 45 to 47, 51 to 59, 62 to 70 and 72 to 85 would receive written answers (see annex to the Verbatim Report of the sitting).

Commission Question Time closed.