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On behalf of Parliament, the President paid tribute to the memory of Lord Bethell, former Member of the European Parliament, who had died on 08.09.2007.

The President announced that two Spanish soldiers from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) had been killed and others seriously injured by an explosion in Afghanistan.

Parliament observed a minute's silence in memory of Lord Bethell and of the victims of terrorism.

The President referred to the demonstrations in Burma against the military junta, expressed the wish that Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the Sakharov Prize in 1990, might finally be able to accept Parliament's invitation and urged the Burmese authorities to free political prisoners without delay.

The following spoke: Philip Claeys, on behalf of the ITS Group, who stated that his group would not participate in the election of the next winner of the Sakharov Prize because the candidate proposed by the ITS Group had, he said, been forced to withdraw his candidacy following pressure placed upon him. (The President invited him to make his protest via other channels.)

Pursuant to Rule 4(3), first subparagraph, of the Rules of Procedure, Rosa Díez González had given notice of her resignation as a Member of the European Parliament with effect from 29.08.2007.

Parliament established that there was a vacancy under Rule 4(3), third subparagraph, and informed the Member State concerned.

Konstantinos Hatzidakis had been appointed a member of the Greek Government with effect from 19.09.2007.

As this office was incompatible with that of a Member of the European Parliament under Article 7(1) of the Act concerning the election of representatives of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, Parliament established that there was a vacancy under Rule 3(2), second subparagraph, and informed the Member State concerned.

The President announced that, on Tuesday, together with the President of the Council and in accordance with Rule 68 of the Rules of Procedure, he would sign the following acts, which had been adopted by codecision:

The committee responsible had forwarded the following corrigendum to a text adopted jointly by Parliament and the Council:

‘Corrigendum to Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications’ — Document 13781/04 COR1.

Pursuant to Rule 204a of the Rules of Procedure, this corrigendum would be deemed approved unless, not later than 48 hours after its announcement, a request was made by a political group or at least 40 Members that it be put to the vote.

In accordance with Rule 116(5), written declarations 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51/2007 lapsed as they had not obtained the required number of signatures.

The following petitions, which had been entered in the register on the dates shown below, had been forwarded to the committee responsible pursuant to Rule 191(5):

Apostolos Bamihas and Konstantinos Aivaliotis (Του Λαϊκού Ορθόδοζου Συναγερμού) (2 signatures) (No 835/2007);

Apostolos Bamihas and Konstantinos Aivaliotis (Του Λαϊκού Ορθόδοζου Συναγερμού) (2 signatures) (No 836/2007);

Apostolos Bamihas and Konstantinos Aivaliotis (Του Λαϊκού Ορθόδοζου Συναγερμού) (2 signatures) (No 837/2007);

Nazzareno Corigliano (Coordinamento per la difesa e la promozione delle Scuole Serali Pubbliche) (1 056 signatures) (No 853/2007);

Anthony Harmattan (Associación de Inmigrantes Sub-Saharianos de Navarra en España (AISSNA)) (No 877/2007);

Pedro García Moreno (Asociación de Naturalistas del Sureste (ANSE)) (No 878/2007);

Jacek Rujna (The First Polish Weekly in Ireland) (250 signatures) (No 883/2007);

Krzysztof Bukiel (Ogólnopolski Związek Zawodowy Lekarzy Zarząd Krajowy) (6 770 signatures) (No 885/2007).

Gian Carlo Pastorutti (Comitato NO-TAV Bagnaria Arsa) (11 signatures) (No 900/2007);

The Commission communications on the action taken on the positions and resolutions adopted by Parliament during the May II, June I and June II part-sessions had been distributed.

The Committee on Budgets had considered the Commission's proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 29/2007 (C6-0225/2007 — SEC(2007)0687).

Having noted the Council's opinion, it had authorised the transfer in full under Article 24(3) of the Financial Regulation of 25.06.2002, as amended on 13.12.2006.

The Committee on Budgets had considered the Commission's proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 31/2007 (C6-0268/2007 — SEC(2007)0689).

It had authorised the transfer in full under Article 24(2) of the Financial Regulation of 25.06.2002, as amended on 13.12.2006.

The Committee on Budgets had considered the Commission's proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 32/2007 (C6-0269/2007 — SEC(2007)0690).

It had authorised the transfer in full under Article 24(2) of the Financial Regulation of 25.06.2002, as amended on 13.12.2006.

The final draft agenda for the September II and October I sittings (PE 395.008/PDOJ) had been distributed and a number of changes had been proposed (Rule 132):

The following spoke: Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the PSE Group, who moved the request.

The following spoke: Monica Frassoni, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, who moved the request, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group, and Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the PSE Group, who requested that the debate should not be followed by a vote during the current part-session.

Parliament approved the request to include these statements on the agenda, this item being inserted after the statements on Chad (Item 82 on the final draft agenda).

The President informed the House that the ALDE Group had requested that the vote on motions for resolutions be held during the next part-session in Brussels.

The following spoke on the appropriateness of a vote: Martin Schulz, on behalf of the PSE Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, and Hartmut Nassauer, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group.

Parliament approved the request to wind up the debate with the tabling of motions for resolutions.

The President announced that, following this change, Council Question Time would take place from 18.00 to 19.30.

The following spoke: Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the PSE Group, who moved the request.

The agricultural use of set aside land would allow European farmers to produce extra crops that would contribute to reducing market tensions.

The Commission proposal to reduce the set-aside rate for 2008 to 0 % should be adopted as soon as possible to allow European farmers to take this into account for their sowings of autumn 2007.

Parliament would take a decision on the request for urgent procedure at the beginning of the following day's sitting.

Pursuant to Rule 144, the following Members who wished to draw the attention of Parliament to matters of political importance spoke for one minute:

Timothy Kirkhope, Marianne Mikko, Marco Pannella, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Milan Horáček, Pedro Guerreiro, Bernard Wojciechowski, who criticised the President's participation at the congress of the German Landsmannschaft, Martin Schulz, following those remarks, who declared his support for the President, Petre Popeangă, Joseph Daul, who opposed the remarks made by Bernard Wojciechowski, Vladimír Maňka, Markus Ferber, Martin Schulz, on the remarks by Markus Ferber, Markus Ferber, on the remarks by Martin Schulz, Alojz Peterle, István Szent-Iványi, Irena Belohorská, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Roberta Alma Anastase, Alexandru-Ioan Morţun, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Thomas Mann, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Ljudmila Novak, Proinsias De Rossa and Neil Parish.

Report on a Road Map for renewable energy in Europe [2007/2090(INI)] — Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

The following spoke: Vittorio Prodi (draftsman of the opinion of the ENVI Committee), Willem Schuth (draftsman of the opinion of the AGRI Committee), Pilar Ayuso, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Reino Paasilinna, on behalf of the PSE Group, Fiona Hall, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, on behalf of the UEN Group, David Hammerstein, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Esko Seppänen, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Giles Chichester, Mechtild Rothe, Lena Ek, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Claude Turmes, Vladimír Remek, Anja Weisgerber and Teresa Riera Madurell.

The following spoke: Marios Matsakis, Marie Anne Isler Béguin, Paul Rübig, Dorette Corbey, Herbert Reul, Riitta Myller, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Romana Jordan Cizelj, Joan Calabuig Rull, Alexander Stubb, Gábor Harangozó, Ivo Belet, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Agnes Schierhuber, Antonio De Blasio, Valdis Dombrovskis, Péter Olajos, Petr Duchoň and Andris Piebalgs.

17. Development of the Community's railways ***III — Certification of train drivers operating locomotives and trains on the railway system in the Community ***III — Rail passengers' rights and obligations ***III (debate)

Report on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee on 24 July 2006 with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 91/440/EEC on the development of the Community's railways and Directive 2001/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure [PE-CONS 3635/2007 — C6-0212/2007 — 2004/0047(COD)] — Parliament's delegation to the Conciliation Committee.

Report on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee on 14 September 2006 with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the certification of train drivers operating locomotives and trains on the railway system in the Community [PE-CONS 3636/2007 — C6-0213/2007 — 2004/0048(COD)] — Parliament's delegation to the Conciliation Committee.

Report on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee on 24 July 2006 with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on rail passengers' rights and obligations [PE-CONS 3637/2007 — C6-0214/2007 — 2004/0049(COD)] — Parliament's delegation to the Conciliation Committee.

The following spoke: Reinhard Rack, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Bogusław Liberadzki, on behalf of the PSE Group, Anne E. Jensen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Roberts Zīle, on behalf of the UEN Group, Sepp Kusstatscher, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Erik Meijer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Michael Henry Nattrass, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Fernand Le Rachinel, on behalf of the ITS Group, Stanisław Jałowiecki and Saïd El Khadraoui.

The following spoke: Ryszard Czarnecki, Jaromír Kohlíček, Johannes Blokland, Luís Queiró, Inés Ayala Sender, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Georgios Toussas, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Joel Hasse Ferreira, Corien Wortmann-Kool, Gábor Harangozó, Renate Sommer, Marian-Jean Marinescu and Jacques Barrot.

Vote: Minutes of 25.09.2007, Item 6.15, Minutes of 25.09.2007, Item 6.16 and Minutes of 25.09.2007, Item 6.17.

The agenda for the next day's sitting had been established (‘Agenda’ PE 395.008/OJMA).

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

The following signed:

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Cohn-Bendit, Corbey, Corda, Cornillet, Correia, Cottigny, Gabriela Creţu, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Ryszard Czarnecki, Daul, De Blasio, de Brún, Degutis, Dehaene, De Keyser, Demetriou, Deprez, De Rossa, De Sarnez, Descamps, Désir, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, De Vits, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dičkutė, Didžiokas, Dillen, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Douay, Dover, Duchoň, Dührkop Dührkop, Duff, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ek, El Khadraoui, Elles, Esteves, Estrela, Ettl, Jill Evans, Jonathan Evans, Färm, Fajmon, Farage, Fava, Fazakas, Ferber, Fernandes, Fernández Martín, Ferrari, Anne Ferreira, Elisa Ferreira, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Flautre, Florenz, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Fontaine, Fourtou, Fraga Estévez, Frassoni, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, García Pérez, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gebhardt, Gentvilas, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gewalt, Gibault, Gierek, Giertych, Gklavakis, Glante, Glattfelder, Gobbo, Goebbels, Goepel, 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