Parliament considered a number of questions to the Council (B6-0475/2008).
Question 1 (Claude Moraes): Progress on the 'Blue Card'.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the question and supplementaries by Claude Moraes and Reinhard Rack.
Question 2 (Liam Aylward): Effects of hazard-based approach on food prices and pest resistance.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and supplementaries by Liam Aylward, Jim Allister and Mairead McGuinness.
Question 3 (Seán Ó Neachtain): Accessing funding under EU Research Technology and Development Programmes.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and supplementaries by Seán Ó Neachtain, Teresa Riera Madurell and Avril Doyle.
Question 4 (Brian Crowley): Emergency relief following natural disasters.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and supplementaries by Brian Crowley, Reinhard Rack and Jim Allister.
Question 5 (Eoin Ryan): Food security in an unequal partnership.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and supplementaries by Eoin Ryan, Avril Doyle and Manuel Medina Ortega.
Question 6 was not taken as its subject matter had been dealt with by a question to the Council during the September II part-session (minutes of 23.09.2008, item 13).
Question 7 (Manuel Medina Ortega): Air safety.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and supplementaries by Manuel Medina Ortega, Robert Evans and Avril Doyle.
Question 8 (Robert Evans): Electronic passports.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and a supplementary by Robert Evans.
Question 9 (Marian Harkin): Volunteering.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and supplementaries by Marian Harkin, Zita Pleštinská and Paul Rübig.
Question 10 (Avril Doyle): EU policy on GM products.
Question 11 (Mairead McGuinness): Discussions on the strategic aspects of GMOs.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the questions and supplementaries by Avril Doyle and Mairead McGuinness.
Question 12 (Jim Higgins): Situation in Zimbabwe.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and supplementaries by Jim Higgins and Colm Burke.
Questions 13-17, 19-23, 25-28 and 30-39 would be answered in writing (see Annex to the Verbatim Report of the Sitting).