IN THE CHAIR: Diana WALLIS
Vice-President

16. Question Time (Council)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Council (B7-0203/2009).

Question 1 (Marian Harkin): Animal welfare.

Cecilia Malmström (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the question and supplementaries by Marian Harkin, Mairead McGuinness and Seán Kelly.

Question 2 (Claude Moraes): Child trafficking in the EU.

Cecilia Malmström answered the question and supplementaries by Anna Hedh (deputising for the author) and Elizabeth Lynne.

Question 3 (Mairead McGuinness): Message for FAO high-level meeting.

Cecilia Malmström answered the question and supplementaries by Mairead McGuinness and Marian Harkin.

Question 4 (Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou): Stability and Development Pact.

Cecilia Malmström answered the question and a supplementary by Marietta Giannakou (deputising for the author).

Question 5 (Seán Kelly): EU measures to combat unemployment.

Cecilia Malmström answered the question and supplementaries by Seán Kelly and Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.

Question 6 (Bernd Posselt): Information about Chechnya.

Cecilia Malmström answered the question and a supplementary by Bernd Posselt.

Question 7 (Nikolaos Chountis): Authorisation from the Turkish Government for hydrocarbon prospecting within the exclusive economic zones of EU Member States.

Cecilia Malmström answered the question and a supplementary by Nikolaos Chountis.

Question 8 (Liam Aylward): EU policy in Burma.

Cecilia Malmström answered the question and a supplementary by Liam Aylward.

Question 9 (Brian Crowley): Closer EU-US relations.

Cecilia Malmström answered the question and supplementaries by Brian Crowley and Justas Vincas Paleckis.

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.