13. Question Time (Commission)

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Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B7-0210/2011).

Question 11 (Georgios Papastamkos): Provision of humanitarian aid to countries in North Africa.

Kristalina Georgieva (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Georgios Papastamkos and Zigmantas Balčytis.

Question 12 (Zigmantas Balčytis): Discrepancies in healthcare in the Member States.

Maria Damanaki (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Zigmantas Balčytis, Nikolaos Chountis and Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.

Question 13 (Marian Harkin): Enabling technologies.

Antonio Tajani (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Marian Harkin.

Question 14 (Chris Davies): Future of EU fishing industry.

Maria Damanaki answered the question and supplementaries by Chris Davies, Barbara Matera and Seán Kelly.

Question 15 (Jim Higgins): Proposed ban on shark finning.

Maria Damanaki answered the question and supplementaries by Jim Higgins, Brian Crowley and Chris Davies.

Question 16 (Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou): New maritime strategy for the Mediterranean.

Maria Damanaki answered the question and supplementaries by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Giovanni La Via and Ivo Vajgl.

Question 17 (Georgios Papanikolaou): Training of researchers and assessment of universities in the flagship initiative on innovation.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Georgios Papanikolaou and Seán Kelly.

Question 18 (Ioannis A. Tsoukalas): Minimal checks and a high percentage of errors in projects in the 7th FP for research.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn answered the question and a supplementary by Ioannis A. Tsoukalas.

Question 19 (Silvia-Adriana Ţicău): Involvement of SMEs in European research and innovation.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn answered the question and a supplementary by Zigmantas Balčytis (deputising for the author).

Question 26 (Bernd Posselt): Air pollution in German cities.

Janez Potočnik (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Bernd Posselt.

Question 27 (Karin Kadenbach): EU Biodiversity Strategy.

Janez Potočnik answered the question and supplementaries by Kriton Arsenis (deputising for the author), Bernd Posselt and Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy.

Question 28 (Nikolaos Chountis): Waste management in Greece.

Janez Potočnik answered the question and a supplementary by Nikolaos Chountis.

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.