IN THE CHAIR: Manuel António dos SANTOS
Vice-President

13. Question Time (Council)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Council (B6-0462/2008).

Question 1 (Silvia-Adriana Ţicău): Importance given to road transport policy.

After expressing his condolences to the families of the victims of the shooting that had taken place the same day at Kauhajoki school (Finland) and to Finnish Members, Jean-Pierre Jouyet (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the question and the supplementary by Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.

Question 2 (Manuel Medina Ortega): European immigration pact.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and a supplementary by Manuel Medina Ortega.

Question 3 (Eoin Ryan): Anti-corruption tools.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and a supplementary by Eoin Ryan.

Question 4 (Seán Ó Neachtain): Rising food prices.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and a supplementary by Seán Ó Neachtain.

Question 5 (Liam Aylward): White Paper on Sport.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and a supplementary by Liam Aylward.

Question 6 (Brian Crowley): Objectives of European Conference on Alzheimer's.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and supplementaries by Liam Aylward (deputising for the author) and Zita Pleštinská.

Question 7 (Avril Doyle): Agricultural policy and the French Presidency.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and a supplementary by Jim Higgins (deputising for the author).

Questions 8 and 9 were inadmissible as they had already been taken during recent part-sessions (see Annex II to the Rules of Procedure).

Question 10 (Jim Higgins): Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and supplementaries by Jim Higgins, Gay Mitchell and Paul Marie Coûteaux.

Question 11 (Gay Mitchell): Iran and the development of a nuclear capacity.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and a supplementary by Gay Mitchell.

Question 12 (Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou): European agreement on migration and asylum arrangements.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question.

The following spoke: Margie Sudre (deputising for the author).

Question 13 (Alain Hutchinson): Reform of French public-sector television.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and a supplementary by Alain Hutchinson.

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.