14. Question Time (Council)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Council (B6-0006/2009).

Question 1 (Marian Harkin): SMEs.

Alexandr Vondra (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the question and supplementaries by Olle Schmidt, deputising for the author, Philip Bushill-Matthews and Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.

Question 2 (Manuel Medina Ortega): Grounds for a new world trade agreement.

Alexandr Vondra answered the question and supplementaries by Manuel Medina Ortega, Syed Kamall and Gay Mitchell.

Question 3 (Silvia-Adriana Ţicău): Measures to improve the energy efficiency of buildings.

Alexandr Vondra answered the question and supplementaries by Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Zita Pleštinská and Colm Burke.

Question 4 (Colm Burke): Energy, External Relations and the Economy under the Czech Presidency.

Alexandr Vondra answered the question and supplementaries by Colm Burke, Justas Vincas Paleckis and Paul Rübig.

Question 5 (Avril Doyle): Tobacco control and smoking cessation.

Alexandr Vondra answered the question and supplementaries by Avril Doyle and Mairead McGuinness.

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.