15. Question Time (Commission)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B7-0454/2010).

The following spoke: Gay Mitchell on the conduct of question time.

Question 16 (Justas Vincas Paleckis): Legislation on radioactive waste management and storage.

Karel De Gucht (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Justas Vincas Paleckis and Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.

Question 17 (Liam Aylward): European SMEs, international trade and child labour.

Karel De Gucht answered the question and supplementaries by Liam Aylward and Paul Rübig.

Question 18 (Mairead McGuinness): Possible impact of enhanced economic policy coordination.

Karel De Gucht answered the question and supplementaries by Mairead McGuinness and Marian Harkin.

Question 19 (Vilija Blinkevičiūtė): Implementation of pension reforms under the Europe 2020 strategy.

László Andor (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Vilija Blinkevičiūtė.

Question 20 (Georgios Papanikolaou): Impact on young people of new conditions of employment.

László Andor answered the question and supplementaries by Georgios Papanikolaou and Brian Crowley.

Question 23 (Gay Mitchell): Millennium Development Goals Summit.

Andris Piebalgs (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Gay Mitchell.

Question 22 (Pat the Cope Gallagher): The forthcoming EU-Africa Summit.

Andris Piebalgs answered the question and a supplementary by Pat the Cope Gallagher.

Question 26 (Silvia-Adriana Ţicău): Measures to fight drought and desertification.

Connie Hedegaard (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.

Question 27 (Karl-Heinz Florenz): Preparation of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16).

Question 28 (Andres Perello Rodriguez): EU contribution to the success of the Cancún Summit.

Connie Hedegaard answered the questions and supplementaries by Karl-Heinz Florenz and Andres Perello Rodriguez.

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.