12. Order of business

The next item was the order of business.

The final draft agenda for the March II sittings (PE 461.046/PDOJ) had been distributed and a number of changes had been proposed (Rule 140):

Wednesday 23 March 2011

1. A debate on the Council and Commission statements on the Situation in Japan, including the nuclear power plant alerts, had been added to the agenda. It replaced the Council and Commission statements on the review of the European Neighbourhood Policy (item 11 on the draft agenda). These statements had been postponed to the April part-session. A motion for a resolution on Japan would be put to the vote on Thursday.

2. The debate on the Francesca Balzani report (A7-0058/2011) on preparations for the 2012 budget (item 46 on the final draft agenda) had been postponed to Thursday after the joint debate on air agreements.

3. The debate on the oral question by the ENVI Committee to the Commission on Implementation of the Fuel Quality Directive, including an EU default value for tar sands and oil shale (B7-0209/2011) would be added to the agenda in place of the debate on the Francesca Balzani report.

4. The Giles Chichester report on the European Network and Information Security Agency (A7-0039/2011) (item 27 on the final draft agenda) would be taken without debate and included directly in voting time on Thursday.

Thursday 24 March 2011

1. The debate on the Brian Simpson report on European statistics on tourism (A7-0329/2010) (item 39 on the final draft agenda) was postponed to the April part-session

2. The vote on the Vital Moreira report on further macro-financial assistance for Georgia (A7-0053/2011) (item 35 on the final draft agenda) was postponed to the April part-session.

3. The vote on the motions for resolutions on the EU-Mauritania fisheries partnership agreement was postponed to a future part-session.

The order of business was thus established.