IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Angel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ Vice-President
1. Opening of the sitting
The sitting opened at 9.00.
2. Documents received
The following documents had been received:
1) from the Council and Commission:
- Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2000/25/EC as regards the application of emission stages to narrow-track tractors (COM(2011)0001 - C7-0018/2011 - 2011/0002(COD))
referred to
responsible :
ENVI
The President announced that, in accordance with Rule 124(1), he would consult the Economic and Social Committee on this proposal.
- Proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council providing further macro-financial assistance to Georgia (COM(2010)0804 - C7-0019/2011 - 2010/0390(COD))
referred to
responsible :
INTA
opinion :
AFET
- Proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Partnership Agreement in the fisheries sector between the European Community and the Union of the Comoros (15572/2010 - C7-0020/2011 - 2010/0287(NLE))
referred to
responsible :
PECH
opinion :
DEVE, BUDG
- Amended proposal for a Council decision concerning the accession of the European Union to the Protocol of 2002 to the Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974 (COM(2010)0686 - C7-0021/2011 - 2003/0132(NLE))
referred to
responsible :
TRAN
opinion :
JURI
- Proposal for a Council decision amending Decision 2004/162/EC as regards the products that may benefit from exemption from or a reduction in dock dues (COM(2010)0749 - C7-0022/2011 - 2010/0359(CNS))
referred to
responsible :
REGI
opinion :
ECON
- Proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund (COM(2011)0010 - C7-0023/2011 - 2011/2021(BUD))
referred to
responsible :
BUDG
opinion :
REGI
- Proposal for a Council regulation laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2007-2013 (16973/2010 - C7-0024/2011 - 2010/0048(APP))
referred to
responsible :
BUDG
- Proposal for a Council regulation concerning the extension of the scope of the regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the professional cross-border transport of euro cash by road between euro area Member States (17787/2010 - C7-0025/2011 - 2010/0206(APP))
referred to
responsible :
ECON
opinion :
EMPL, TRAN
- Proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Croatia on the participation of the Republic of Croatia in the work of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (11633/2010 - C7-0026/2011 - 2010/0011(NLE))
referred to
responsible :
LIBE
2) from Members, a proposal for a recommendation (Rule 121)
- Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, on behalf of the ALDE Group. Proposal for a recommendation to the Council on the 66th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (B7-0072/2011)
referred to
responsible :
AFET
opinion :
DEVE
3. Report on competition policy 2009 (debate)
Report on the Report on Competition Policy 2009 [2010/2137(INI)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Derk Jan Eppink (A7-0374/2010)
Derk Jan Eppink introduced the report.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle (Member of the Commission).
The following spoke: Silvana Koch-Mehrin (rapporteur for the opinion of the ITRE Committee), Cristian Silviu Buşoi (rapporteur for the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Michael Cramer (rapporteur for the opinion of the TRAN Committee), Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, on behalf of the PPE Group, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, on behalf of the S&D Group, Sophia in 't Veld, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Philippe Lamberts, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, who also took a blue card question from Hans-Peter Martin, Kay Swinburne, on behalf of the ECR Group, Thomas Händel, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, William (The Earl of) Dartmouth, on behalf of the EFD Group, partly in response to Philippe Lamberts, who made a personal statement in response to remarks made by William (The Earl of) Dartmouth, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, partly on the conduct of the debate, Gunnar Hökmark, Edit Herczog, Sylvie Goulard, Reinhard Bütikofer, Vicky Ford, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Peter Skinner, Sławomir Witold Nitras, Lara Comi and Sari Essayah.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Danuta Jazłowiecka, George Sabin Cutaş, Jaroslav Paška, Alajos Mészáros, Elena Băsescu, Mairead McGuinness and Czesław Adam Siekierski.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle and Derk Jan Eppink.
4. A sustainable EU policy for the High North (debate)
Report on a sustainable EU policy for the High North [2009/2214(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Michael Gahler (A7-0377/2010)
Michael Gahler introduced the report.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle (Member of the Commission).
The following spoke: Inese Vaidere, on behalf of the PPE Group, Liisa Jaakonsaari, on behalf of the S&D Group, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Indrek Tarand, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Konrad Szymański, on behalf of the ECR Group, Sabine Lösing, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, who also took a blue card question from Liisa Jaakonsaari, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group, Andreas Mölzer, Non-attached Member, Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa, Diana Wallis, Struan Stevenson, Søren Bo Søndergaard, Timo Soini, Cristian Dan Preda, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Pat the Cope Gallagher and Edit Herczog.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Birgit Schnieber-Jastram, Mitro Repo, Riikka Manner, Alfreds Rubiks and Anna Rosbach.
IN THE CHAIR: Isabelle DURANT Vice-President
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Anna Ibrisagic, Kriton Arsenis, Miloslav Ransdorf, Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, Seán Kelly, Franz Obermayr and Sari Essayah.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle and Michael Gahler.
At the request of the PPE Group, Parliament ratified the following appointments:
AGRI Committee: Agnès Le Brun
EMPL Committee: Philippe Boulland
PETI Committee: Philippe Boulland
6. An EU Strategy for the Black Sea (debate)
Report on an EU strategy for the Black Sea [2010/2087(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Traian Ungureanu (A7-0378/2010)
Traian Ungureanu introduced the report.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle (Member of the Commission).
The following spoke: Metin Kazak (rapporteur for the opinion of the INTA Committee), Silvia-Adriana Ţicău (rapporteur for the opinion of the ITRE Committee), Victor Boştinaru (rapporteur for the opinion of the REGI Committee), Elmar Brok, on behalf of the PPE Group, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, on behalf of the S&D Group, Ivo Vajgl, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Werner Schulz, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Paweł Robert Kowal, on behalf of the ECR Group, David Campbell Bannerman, on behalf of the EFD Group, Dimitar Stoyanov, Non-attached Member, Iuliu Winkler, Maria Eleni Koppa, Adina-Ioana Vălean, Oldřich Vlasák, Georgios Koumoutsakos, Evgeni Kirilov, Marek Siwiec and George Sabin Cutaş.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Niki Tzavela, Petru Constantin Luhan, Csanád Szegedi, Lambert van Nistelrooij and Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle and Traian Ungureanu.
Details of voting (amendments, separate and split votes, etc.) appear in the Results of Votes annex to the minutes.
The results of roll-call votes are available in electronic form only, as an annex to the minutes, and can be accessed via Europarl.
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The following spoke: Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the bloody events in Vilnius of 13 January 1991.
7.1. EU-Libya Framework Agreement (vote)
Report with a proposal for a European Parliament recommendation to the Council on the ongoing negotiations on the EU-Libya Framework Agreement [2010/2268(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Ana Gomes (A7-0368/2010)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 1)
Elmar Brok, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Ioannis Kasoulides, Joseph Daul, Mario Mauro, Jaime Mayor Oreja, Ernst Strasser, Tunne Kelam, Doris Pack, Mário David, Francisco José Millán Mon, Gay Mitchell, Filip Kaczmarek, Marietta Giannakou, Carlo Casini, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Anna Záborská, Traian Ungureanu, Cristiana Muscardini, Andrzej Grzyb, Constance Le Grip, Sari Essayah and Othmar Karas, on behalf of the PPE Group, Adrian Severin, Hannes Swoboda, Richard Howitt, Kyriakos Mavronikolas, Guido Milana, Vincent Peillon, Gianni Pittella, David-Maria Sassoli and Patrizia Toia, on behalf of the S&D Group, Marietje Schaake, Vincenzo Iovine, Marielle De Sarnez, Charles Goerens, Frédérique Ries, Kristiina Ojuland, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff and Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Heidi Hautala, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Margrete Auken and Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Marek Henryk Migalski, Peter van Dalen, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Adam Bielan, Konrad Szymański, Ryszard Czarnecki, Mirosław Piotrowski and Tomasz Piotr Poręba, on behalf of the ECR Group, Fiorello Provera, on behalf of the EFD Group, Cornelis de Jong, Takis Hadjigeorgiou and Kyriacos Triantaphyllides.
Elmar Brok, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Ioannis Kasoulides, Jacek Protasiewicz, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Elena Băsescu, Piotr Borys, Michael Gahler, Andrzej Grzyb, Gunnar Hökmark, Tunne Kelam, Krzysztof Lisek, Monica Luisa Macovei, Cristian Dan Preda, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Peter Šťastný, László Tőkés, Traian Ungureanu, Corien Wortmann-Kool and Paweł Zalewski, on behalf of the PPE Group, Adrian Severin, Kristian Vigenin, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Marek Siwiec and Richard Howitt, on behalf of the S&D Group, Kristiina Ojuland, Marietje Schaake, Leonidas Donskis, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff and Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Rebecca Harms, Heidi Hautala, Elisabeth Schroedter and Werner Schulz, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Adam Bielan, Ryszard Czarnecki, Tadeusz Cymański, Peter van Dalen, Edvard Kožušník, Marek Henryk Migalski, Paweł Robert Kowal and Jacek Olgierd Kurski, on behalf of the ECR Group.
Justas Vincas Paleckis moved an oral amendment to paragraph 2, which was accepted;
Jacek Protasiewicz moved an oral amendment to paragraph 3, which was accepted ;
Vytautas Landsbergis moved an oral amendment to paragraph 9, which was accepted;
Kristiina Ojuland moved an oral amendment to paragraph 13, which was accepted.
7.4. Report on competition policy 2009 (vote)
Report on the Report on Competition Policy 2009 [2010/2137(INI)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Derk Jan Eppink (A7-0374/2010)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 4)
Situation of Christians in the context of freedom of religion - RC-B7-0039/2011
Salvatore Iacolino, Antonello Antinoro, Morten Messerschmidt, Marek Józef Gróbarczyk, Adam Bielan, Andrzej Grzyb, Tunne Kelam, Cristiana Muscardini, Licia Ronzulli, Hannu Takkula, Philip Claeys, Seán Kelly, Ryszard Czarnecki
Corrections to votes and voting intentions appear on the 'Séance en direct' website under 'Votes'/'Results of votes'/'Roll-call votes'. They are published in hard copy in the Result of roll-call votes annex.
The electronic version on Europarl will be regularly updated for a maximum of two weeks after the day of the vote concerned.
After the two-week deadline has passed, the list of corrections to votes and voting intentions will be finalised so that it can be translated and published in the Official Journal.
(The sitting was suspended at 13.10 and resumed at 15.00.)
IN THE CHAIR: Libor ROUČEK Vice-President
10. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting
The minutes of the previous sitting were approved.
11. Debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (debate)
Marietje Schaake, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Marie-Christine Vergiat and Jean Lambert introduced motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Tunne Kelam, on behalf of the PPE Group, Mitro Repo, on behalf of the S&D Group, Kristiina Ojuland, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the ECR Group, William (The Earl of) Dartmouth, on behalf of the EFD Group, Thomas Mann, Justas Vincas Paleckis and Csaba Sógor.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris, Pino Arlacchi, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Charles Tannock, Seán Kelly, Jaroslav Paška, Csanád Szegedi, Monica Luisa Macovei, Gerard Batten, Cristian Dan Preda, Miroslav Mikolášik, Michael Gahler, Bernd Posselt and Sari Essayah.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle (Member of the Commission).
Mara Bizzotto, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Roberta Angelilli, David-Maria Sassoli and Ryszard Czarnecki introduced motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Mario Mauro, on behalf of the PPE Group, Gianluca Susta, on behalf of the S&D Group, Ilda Figueiredo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, who also answered blue-card questions from Francesco Enrico Speroni and Roberta Angelilli, Fiorello Provera, on behalf of the EFD Group, and Salvatore Iacolino.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Carlo Fidanza.
The following spoke: Charles Tannock, on the conduct of the debate.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Eija-Riitta Korhola, Corina Creţu, and Marie-Christine Vergiat, who, also answered a blue-card question from Roberta Angelilli.
The following spoke: Mario Mauro, on the organisation of the debate.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Oreste Rossi.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle (Member of the Commission).
Bastiaan Belder, Marietje Schaake, Struan Stevenson, Rosario Crocetta, Cristian Dan Preda, Raül Romeva i Rueda introduced motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Bogusław Sonik, on behalf of the PPE Group, Corina Creţu, on behalf of the S&D Group, Charles Tannock, on behalf of the ECR Group, and Marco Scurria.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Seán Kelly, George Sabin Cutaş, Ryszard Czarnecki, Jaroslav Paška, Sari Essayah, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg and Monica Luisa Macovei.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle (Member of the Commission) and Bernd Posselt, the latter on the conduct of the debate.
Eija-Riitta Korhola, Filip Kaczmarek, Cristian Dan Preda, Bernd Posselt, Tunne Kelam, Monica Luisa Macovei, Sari Essayah, Elena Băsescu, Csaba Sógor, Thomas Mann and Tadeusz Zwiefka, on behalf of the PPE Group; Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Karin Kadenbach and Richard Howitt, on behalf of the S&D Group Marietje Schaake, Norica Nicolai, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Frédérique Ries, Sonia Alfano, Marielle De Sarnez, Kristiina Ojuland, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff and Elizabeth Lynne, on behalf of the ALDE Group; Jean Lambert, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group; Charles Tannock, Peter van Dalen, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Adam Bielan, Konrad Szymański, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Ryszard Czarnecki and Marek Henryk Migalski, on behalf of the ECR Group; Rui Tavares, Helmut Scholz, Cornelia Ernst and Marie-Christine Vergiat, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group; Fiorello Provera and Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group.
Roberta Angelilli, Mario Mauro, Carlo Casini, Erminia Mazzoni, Cristian Dan Preda, Filip Kaczmarek, Bernd Posselt, Tunne Kelam, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Monica Luisa Macovei, Sari Essayah, Elena Băsescu, Csaba Sógor and Thomas Mann, on behalf of the PPE Group; Hannes Swoboda, Gianni Pittella and David-Maria Sassoli, on behalf of the S&D Group; Niccolò Rinaldi, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Kristiina Ojuland and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, on behalf of the ALDE Group; Charles Tannock, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Adam Bielan, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Konrad Szymański, Marek Henryk Migalski, Ryszard Czarnecki and Jacek Olgierd Kurski, on behalf of the ECR Group; Francesco Enrico Speroni, on behalf of the EFD Group.
José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Filip Kaczmarek, Cristian Dan Preda, Bernd Posselt, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Tunne Kelam, Monica Luisa Macovei, Sari Essayah, Elena Băsescu, Csaba Sógor, Ria Oomen-Ruijten and Roberta Angelilli, on behalf of the PPE Group; María Muñiz De Urquiza and Ana Gomes, on behalf of the S&D Group; Marietje Schaake, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Frédérique Ries, Marielle De Sarnez, Sonia Alfano, Kristiina Ojuland and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, on behalf of the ALDE Group; Barbara Lochbihler, Isabelle Durant, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group; Charles Tannock, Struan Stevenson, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Adam Bielan, Michał Tomasz Kamiński and Marek Henryk Migalski, on behalf of the ECR Group; Marie-Christine Vergiat, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group; Fiorello Provera and Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group.
Corrections to votes and voting intentions appear on the 'Séance en direct' website under 'Votes'/'Results of votes'/'Roll-call votes'. They are published in hard copy in the Result of roll-call votes annex.
The electronic version on Europarl will be regularly updated for a maximum of two weeks after the day of the vote concerned.
After the two-week deadline has passed, the list of corrections to votes and voting intentions will be finalised so that it can be translated and published in the Official Journal.
14. Council position at first reading
The President announced that, in accordance with Rule 61(1), the following position had been received from the Council, together with the reasons which had led to its adoption, and the Commission's position on:
- Position of the Council at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of fibre composition of textile products and repealing Council Directive 73/44/EEC, Directive 96/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive 2008/121/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (13807/4/2010 - C7-0017/2011 - 2009/0006(COD)) referred to responsible: IMCO
The three-month period available to Parliament to adopt its position would therefore begin the following day (21 January 2011).
15. Decisions concerning certain documents
Decision to draw up a report (Rule 127)
- Interinstitutional agreement on a common Transparency Register between the European Parliament and the Commission (2010/2291 ACI) (committee: AFCO) (Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 18.11.2010)
Decision to draw up own-initiative reports (Rule 48)
AFET Committee
- State of implementation of the EU Strategy for Central Asia (2011/2008(INI)) (opinion: INTA)
- Budgetary control of EU financial assistance to Afghanistan (2011/2014(INI)) (opinion: DEVE, AFET)
DEVE Committee
- The role of property rights, property ownership and wealth creation in eradicating poverty and fostering sustainable development in developing countries (2011/2009(INI))
ECON Committee
- Global Economic Governance (2011/2011(INI)) (opinion: EMPL, INTA)
- Analysis of options to move beyond 20% greenhouse gas emission reductions and assessing the risk of carbon leakage (2011/2012(INI)) (opinion: ITRE)
JURI Committee
- Policy options for progress towards a European contract law for consumers and businesses (2011/2013(INI)) (opinion: ECON, IMCO)
- Insolvency proceedings in the context of EU company law (2011/2006(INI)) (opinion: EMPL, ECON)
Associated committees
ENVI Committee
- Analysis of options to move beyond 20% greenhouse gas emission reductions and assessing the risk of carbon leakage (2011/2012(INI)) Associated committees ENVI, ITRE (Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 13.1.2011)
JURI Committee
- Policy options for progress towards a European contract law for consumers and businesses (2011/2013(INI)) (opinion: ECON) Associated committees JURI, IMCO (Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 13.1.2011)
Referral to committees
DEVE Committee
- Future European international investment policy (2010/2203(INI)) referred to responsible: INTA opinion: DEVE, ECON
JURI Committee
- Harmonisation of criminal law in the EU (2010/2310(INI)) referred to responsible: LIBE opinion: JURI
FEMM Committee
- Organised crime in the European Union (2010/2309(INI)) referred to responsible: LIBE opinion: FEMM
16. Written declarations included in the register (Rule 123)
Number of signatures obtained by the written declarations included in the register (Rule 123(3)):
Document number
Author
Signatures
73/2010
Oreste Rossi
67
74/2010
Aldo Patriciello, Alfredo Pallone, Gabriele Albertini, Barbara Matera, Licia Ronzulli
92
76/2010
Jiří Maštálka, Vladimír Remek
29
77/2010
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Fiona Hall, Marisa Matias, Algirdas Saudargas, Claude Turmes
179
78/2010
László Surján, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Carl Haglund, Salvador Garriga Polledo
87
79/2010
Oreste Rossi
52
80/2010
Marisa Matias, Jo Leinen, Michèle Rivasi, Herbert Reul, Antonyia Parvanova
Mariya Nedelcheva, José Bové, Rareş-Lucian Niculescu, Dimitar Stoyanov, Janusz Wojciechowski
59
98/2010
Patrizia Toia, Paolo De Castro
31
99/2010
Andreas Mölzer
27
100/2010
Daciana Octavia Sârbu, János Áder, José Bové, Chris Davies, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi
60
101/2010
Burkhard Balz, Udo Bullmann, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Sven Giegold, Sylvie Goulard
45
1/2011
Jean Lambert, Marian Harkin, Olle Ludvigsson, Peter Skinner, Gabriele Zimmer
23
2/2011
Mara Bizzotto
10
17. Forwarding of texts adopted during the sitting
Pursuant to Rule 179(2), the minutes of that day's sitting would be submitted to Parliament for its approval at the beginning of the next sitting.
With Parliament's agreement, the texts that had been adopted would be forwarded forthwith to the bodies named therein.
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The following spoke: Robert Sturdy, who asked for clarification regarding participation in roll-call votes that had been taken that day (the President reminded the House of the relevant rules).
18. Dates of forthcoming sittings
The next sittings would be held on 2 February 2011 and 3 February 2011.
19. Adjournment of the session
The session of the European Parliament was adjourned.