Brussels, 20/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - The October plenary session in Strasbourg will be marked, on Wednesday, by an examination of the results of the Lahti Summit, as well as by the first reading of the 2007 budget. Several more political and sometimes polemical matters have also been added to the Parliament's agenda: - the peace process in Spain, frozen conflicts, and the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The agenda approved by the conference of presidents of the political groups is as follows:
Monday 23 October (17h00 - 22h00)
Joint debate on the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II), with three reports by Carlos Coelho (EPP-ED, Portugal):
The role and place of immigrant women in the EU, a report by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou (EPP-ED, Greece)
Recovery of Community funds, a report by Paulo Casaca (PES, Portugal)
Measures for implementation (level 2) of the Transparency and Prospectus Directives - Commission Declaration
Joint discussion on the financial instrument for the environment (LIFE+), report by Marie Anne Isler Béguin (Greens/EFA, France) and an oral question on the financing of the Natura 2000 network
Community civil protection mechanism, report by Dimitrios Papdimoulis (GUE/NGL, Greece)
European order for payment procedure, report by Arlene McCarthy (PES, UK)
Tuesday 24 October (9h00 - 24h00)
Commemoration of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, declarations by the EP and group presidents
Breast cancer, debate on the basis of three oral questions
Programme for support of audiovisual, report by Ruth Hieronymi (EPP-ED, Germany)
Culture programme 2007, report by Vasco Graça Moura (EPP-ED, Portugal)
Youth in Action programme, report by Lissy Gröner (PES, Germany)
Programme for education and lifelong learning, report by Doris Pack (EPP-ED, Germany)
Citizens for Europe programme, report by Hannu Takkula (ALDE, Finland)
Restrictions on the marketing and use of perfluorooctane sulfonates, report by Carl Schlyter (Greens/EFA, Sweden)
Debate at 15h00 on Budget 2007, reports by James Elles (EPP-Ed, UK) and Louis Grech (PES, Malta)
Question time at the Commission at 17h30
Wednesday 25 October (9h00 - 24h00)
Peace process in Spain - Declarations by Council and Commission
European Council report and Commission declaration - results of the informal summit of Heads of State and Government in Lahti, on 20 October 2006) with the participation of Presidents Vanhanen and Barroso.
Solemn session at 12h00, speech by Laszlo Solyom, President of the Republic of Hungary
Voting at 12h00, with proposals for resolutions on relations between the European Union and Russia after the assassination of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Moldova (Transnistria), Georgia (South Ossetia) - Council and Commission declarations 15h00
Joint discussion on exports of toxic waste to Africa with oral questions and Council and Commission declarations.
Euro-Mediterranean EU/Syria Association Agreement, report by Véronique De Keyser (PES, Belgium)
Question time at the Council at 17h30
Conference on climate change in Nairobi
European integrated action programme for inland waterway transport “NAIADES”, report by Corien Wortmann-Kool (EPP-ED, NL)
Public-private partnerships and Community law, report by Barbara Weiler (PES, Germany)
Posting of workers, report by Elisabeth Schroedter (Greens/EFA, Germany)
Thursday 26 October (10h00 - 18h00)
European Central Bank (2005), attended by Mr Trichet, ECB President - debate on report by Pervenche Berès (PES, France)
Joint discussion on support for rural development, report by Jan Mulder (ALDE, NL) and on optional modulation of direct payments in context of CAP, report by Lutz Goepel (EPP-ED, Germany)
Voting on General Budget 2007 from 11h30
Debates on cases of violation of human rights, democracy and rule of law (Article 115 of the EP Regulation): Tibet, Rios Montt trial in Guatemala, Uzbekistan, follow-up of vote on resolutions. (oj)