12. Order of business

Verbatim reports

The next item was the order of business.

The final draft agenda for the November II 2010 sittings (PE 452.507/PDOJ) had been distributed and a number of changes had been proposed (Rule 140):

Monday

Request by the political groups to remove from the agenda the debate on the report by Luigi Berlinguer (A7-0252/2010) (item 47 on the final draft agenda), which would nevertheless be put to the vote on Tuesday.

Parliament approved the request.

Tuesday

No changes.

The following spoke: Martin Schulz on the comments in the Dutch press on the reports by Barbara Matera on mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (items 91, 95, 94, 93, 96 and 92 on the final draft agenda), which were on the agenda for voting time.

Wednesday

Request by the GUE/NGL Group to include on the agenda of the current part-session the vote on the motions for resolutions on the situation in Western Sahara.

The following spoke: João Ferreira, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, who moved the request, Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, in support of the request, and Martin Schulz, against the request.

Parliament agreed to the request by electronic vote (156 in favour, 113 against, 16 abstentions).

The following deadlines had been set:

motions for resolution: Tuesday 23 November 2010, 12:00

amendments and joint motions for resolutions: Wednesday 24 November 2010, 12:00

amendments to joint motions for resolutions: Wednesday 24 November 2010, 13:00

Thursday

The following spoke: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who requested that the debate on Tibet (item 166 on the final draft agenda) should take place during the following part-session, in the presence of Catherine Ashton, and that it should be wound up by motions for resolution (the President replied that Mr Cohn-Bendit could submit this request to the Conference of Presidents).

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The order of business was thus established.