3. Draft general budget 2009 as modified by the Council (all sections) (debate)

CRE

Report: on the draft general budget of the European Union for 2009 as modified by the Council (all sections)
[16257/2008 – C6-0457/2008 – 2008/2026(BUD)]
and amending letters:
n° 1/2009 [SEC(2008)2435 - 13702/2008 - C6-0344/2008]
n° 2/2009 [SEC(2008)2707 - 16259/2008 - C6-0458/2008]
n° 3/2009 [SEC(2008)2840 - 16260/2008 - C6-0459/2008]
to the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2009
Section I, European Parliament
Section II, Council
Section III, Commission
Section IV, Court of Justice
Section V, Court of Auditors
Section VI, Economic and Social Committee
Section VII, Committee of the Regions
Section VIII, European Ombudsman
Section IX, European data-protection Supervisor - Committee on Budgets. Co-rapporteurs: Janusz Lewandowski and Jutta Haug (A6-0486/2008)

Jutta Haug and Janusz Lewandowski presented the report.

The following spoke: Dalia Grybauskaitė (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: László Surján, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Catherine Guy-Quint, on behalf of the PSE Group, Anne E. Jensen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Helga Trüpel, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Wiesław Stefan Kuc, on behalf of the UEN Group, Esko Seppänen, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nils Lundgren, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Sergej Kozlík, Non-attached Member, Salvador Garriga Polledo, Göran Färm, Nathalie Griesbeck, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Pedro Guerreiro, Jeffrey Titford, Jean-Claude Martinez, Reimer Böge, Costas Botopoulos and Jan Mulder.

IN THE CHAIR: Marek SIWIEC
Vice-President

The following spoke: Seán Ó Neachtain, Søren Bo Søndergaard, Patrick Louis, Andreas Mölzer, Ville Itälä, Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón, Daniel Dăianu, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Hans-Peter Martin, Simon Busuttil, Brigitte Douay, István Szent-Iványi, Paul Rübig, Vladimír Maňka, Jean Marie Beaupuy, Valdis Dombrovskis, Marusya Ivanova Lyubcheva, Kyösti Virrankoski, Margaritis Schinas, Emanuel Jardim Fernandes, Péter Olajos and Maria Martens.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Mairead McGuinness, Czesław Adam Siekierski and Reinhard Rack.

The following spoke: Jutta Haug and Janusz Lewandowski.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 18.12.2008, item 6.7.