The President announced that on Wednesday 28 October 2015, together with the President of the Council, he would sign the following acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure:
- Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 1343/2011 on certain provisions for fishing in the GFCM (General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean) Agreement area (00060/2015/LEX - C8-0318/2015 - 2014/0213(COD))
- Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (00043/2015/LEX - C8-0311/2015 - 2014/0180(COD)).
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The following spoke: Matt Carthy on the fire which killed ten people at a travellers' site on 10 October 2015, and on the death in the course of duty of Tony Golden, a member of the Irish police force, on 11 October 2015. Matt Carthy asked for Parliament's condolences to the families of the victims to be recorded in the minutes (the President took note of this).
The following spoke: João Ferreira to ask what criteria lay behind the decisions by Parliament's services on justifying the urgency of supplementary questions for written response submitted by Members (the President referred to the interpretation of Rule 130, approved by plenary, and stated that the matter was currently being examined).