14. Question Time (Commission)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B7-0316/2010).

Question 15 (Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines): Selection criteria for senior management and high-profile executives in Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI), and support for SMEs.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Salvador Garriga Polledo (deputising for the author).

Question 16 (Joanna Senyszyn): European Union accession to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Algirdas Šemeta (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Joanna Senyszyn, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg and Sarah Ludford.

Question 17 (Georgios Papanikolaou): International cooperation on tax havens and offshore companies.

Algirdas Šemeta answered the question and supplementaries by Georgios Papanikolaou, Janusz Władysław Zemke and Seán Kelly.

Question 18 had been withdrawn.

Question 19 (Bernd Posselt): Serbia-Macedonia-Kosovo cross-border cooperation.

Štefan Füle (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Bernd Posselt, Nikolaos Chountis and Georgios Papanikolaou.

Question 20 lapsed as its author was absent.

Question 21 (Nikolaos Chountis): Full implementation by Turkey of the Association Agreement and the Additional Protocol.

Štefan Füle answered the question and supplementaries by Nikolaos Chountis and Seán Kelly.

The following spoke: Mairead McGuinness, James Nicholson and Pat the Cope Gallagher on the arrangements for question time.

Question 22 (Gay Mitchell): Middle East Peace.

Štefan Füle answered the question and supplementaries by Gay Mitchell and Chris Davies.

Question 26 (Ryszard Czarnecki): Progress of democratisation in Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Štefan Füle answered the question and a supplementary by Jacek Włosowicz (deputising for the author).

Question 32 (Marc Tarabella): Infringement of fair trade rules by European importers. Question 33 (Linda McAvan): Fair Trade.

Karel De Gucht (Member of the Commission) answered the questions and a supplementary by Linda McAvan.

Question 34 lapsed as its author was absent.

Question 35 (Richard Howitt): Draft EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
Question 36 (David Martin): EU - Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

Karel De Gucht answered the questions and supplementaries by Richard Howitt and David Martin.

Questions 25 and 27 to 31 were not answered as the matters with which they dealt were already on the agenda for the part-session.

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.