14. Question Time (Commission)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B7-0212/2009).

Question 21 (Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou): Women's participation in positions of responsibility in the job market.

Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Jörg Leichtfried and Mairead McGuinness.

Questions 22 and 23 lapsed as the questioners were absent.

Question 24 (Bernd Posselt): Language learning in border regions.

Leonard Orban (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Bernd Posselt, Janusz Władysław Zemke and Paul Rübig.

Question 25 (Nikolaos Chountis): Commission negligence in investigation of Siemens scandal.

Siim Kallas (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Nikolaos Chountis.

Question 26 (Gay Mitchell): Cigarette smuggling and revenue.

Siim Kallas answered the question and supplementaries by Gay Mitchell and Paul Rübig.

Question 27 lapsed as its author was absent.

Question 28 (Maria Badia i Cutchet): Education under the new European political strategy.

Maroš Šefčovič (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Maria Badia i Cutchet, Gay Mitchell and Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.

Question 29 (Silvia-Adriana Ţicău): Measures to guarantee young people access to quality education, to encourage and assist them to continue their studies and to ease their entry onto the job market.

Maroš Šefčovič answered the question and a supplementary by Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.

Question 30 (Liam Aylward): Volunteerism in Sport.

Maroš Šefčovič answered the question and supplementaries by Liam Aylward and Marian Harkin.

Question 31 (Brian Crowley): White Paper on sport.

Maroš Šefčovič answered the question and a supplementary by Brian Crowley.

Question 32 (Jelko Kacin): Difficulties of the Slovene theatre in Trieste.

Maroš Šefčovič answered the question and a supplementary by Jelko Kacin.

Questions which had not been answered for lack of time would receive written answers (see annex to the Verbatim Report of Proceedings).

Commission Question Time closed.

IN THE CHAIR: Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS
Vice-President