2005 2006 CONFERCE OF PRESIDTS OP TO ALL MEMBERS MINUTES of the meeting of Tuesday 20 December 2005 Paul-Henri Spaak Building Room 3 C 50 Brussels PV\596373.doc PE 368.206
CONTTS 1. Opening of meeting... 3 2. Presentation by the UK Presidency of the conclusions of the European Council... 3 3. Closure of meeting... 3 PE 368.206 2/5 PV\596373.doc
IN THE CHAIR: Josep BORRELL FONTELLES President 1. Opening of meeting The President opened the meeting at 9.55. 2. Presentation by the UK Presidency of the conclusions of the European Council Tony Blair, President-in-Office of the Council, introduced the Presidency Conclusions of the European Council. José Manuel Barroso, President of the Commission, spoke. The following Members spoke: Hans-Gert Poettering, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the PSE Group, Graham Watson, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Monica Frassoni, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Giusto Catania, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Brian Crowley, on behalf of the U Group, and Roger Helmer, Non-attached Member. Tony Blair replied to the Group Chairmen. The following Members spoke: Timothy Kirkhope, Gary Titley, Othmar Karas, Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Alexander Stubb, Terence Wynn, Ian Hudghton, Ryszard Czarnecki, Gunnar Hökmark, Jamila Madeira, Gerard Batten, Jerzy Buzek, Enrique Barón Crespo, Andrew Duff, Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf, Jo Leinen, Marianne Thyssen, Richard Corbett, Esko Seppänen, Stavros Lambrinidis, Geoffrey Van Orden, Jan Mulder, Borut Pahor, Salvador Garriga Polledo and Michael Cramer. Tony Blair and José Manuel Barroso answered the Members questions. 3. Closure of meeting The President closed the meeting at noon. PV\596373.doc 3/5 PE 368.206
RECORD OF ATTDANCE 20 December 2005 Josep Borrell Fontelles, President Group Chairmen: PPE-DE: PSE: ALDE: Verts/ALE: GUE/NGL: IND/DEM: U: NI: Hans-Gert Poettering Hannes Swoboda (deputising for the Chairman) Graham Watson Monica Frassoni Giusto Catania (deputising for the Chairman) Nigel Farage Brian Crowley Roger Helmer (spokesman) The following Members also signed the attendance register: James Hugh Allister, Alfonso Andria, Roberta Angelilli, Richard James Ashworth, Jean-Pierre Audy, Inés Ayala Sender, María del Pilar Ayuso González, Peter Baco, Maria Badia I Cutchet, Enrique Barón Crespo, Etelka Barsi-Pataky, Gerard Batten, Alessandro Battilocchio, Katerina Batzeli, Panagiotis Beglitis, Bastiaan Belder, Ivo Belet, Irena Belohorská, Johannes Blokland, Godfrey Bloom, Jana Bobošíková, Graham Booth, Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Emine Bozkurt, Philip Bradbourn, Frederika Brepoels, André Brie, Elmar Brok, Danut Budreikait, Ieke van den Burg, Philip Bushill-Matthews, Niels Busk, Simon Busuttil, Jerzy Buzek, Martin Callanan, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, Maria Carlshamre, Carlos Carnero González, David Casa, Paulo Casaca, Daniel Caspary, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Alejandro Cercas, Zdzisław Kazimierz Chmielewski, Sylwester Chruszcz, Philip Claeys, Derek Roland Clark, Carlos Coelho, Richard Corbett, Dorette Corbey, Thierry Cornillet, Jean Louis Cottigny, Simon Coveney, Michael Cramer, Ryszard Czarnecki, Massimo D'Alema, Chris Davies, Gérard Deprez, Proinsias De Rossa, Mia De Vits, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Valdis Dombrovskis, Bert Doorn, Avril Doyle, Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop, Andrew Duff, Antoine Duquesne, Saïd El Khadraoui, Edite Estrela, Camiel Eurlings, Jonathan Evans, Robert Evans, Giovanni Claudio Fava, Szabolcs Fazakas, Emanuel Jardim Fernandes, Fernando Fernández Martín, Anne Ferreira, Christofer Fjellner, Karl-Heinz Florenz, Alessandro Foglietta, Nicole Fontaine, Glyn Ford, Janelly Fourtou, Ingo Friedrich, Kinga Gál, Milan Gaľa, Iratxe García Pérez, Salvador Garriga Polledo, Jas Gawronski, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Adam Gierek, Neena Gill, Ioannis Gklavakis, Béla Glattfelder, Bruno Gollnisch, Ana Maria Gomes, Dariusz Maciej Grabowski, Vasco Graça Moura, Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf, Luis de Grandes Pascual, Louis Grech, Lissy Gröner, Mathieu Grosch, Ambroise Guellec, Pedro Guerreiro, Zita Gurmai, Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, András Gyürk, Klaus Hänsch, Fiona Hall, Marian Harkin, Rebecca Harms, Joel Hasse Ferreira, Konstantinos Hatzidakis, Christopher PE 368.206 4/5 PV\596373.doc
Heaton-Harris, Edit Herczog, María Esther Herranz García, Luis Herrero-Tejedor, Jim Higgins, Gunnar Hökmark, Mary Honeyball, Richard Howitt, Ian Hudghton, Alain Hutchinson, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Sophia in 't Veld, Ville Itälä, Carlos José Iturgaiz Angulo, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, Elisabeth Jeggle, Bernat Joan i Marí, Karin Jöns, Dan Jørgensen, Pierre Jonckheer, Filip Andrzej Kaczmarek, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Othmar Karas, Piia- Noora Kauppi, Timothy Kirkhope, Christa Klaß, Bogdan Klich, Roger Knapman, Silvana Koch- Mehrin, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Miloš Koterec, Holger Krahmer, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Ăirts Valdis Kristovskis, Urszula Krupa, Jan Jerzy Kułakowski, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Stavros Lambrinidis, Carl Lang, Werner Langen, Romano Maria La Russa, Vincenzo Lavarra, Jo Leinen, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marcin Libicki, Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, Astrid Lulling, Jules Maaten, Linda McAvan, Arlene McCarthy, Mairead McGuinness, Edward McMillan-Scott, Jamila Madeira, Erika Mann, Diamanto Manolakou, Sérgio Marques, David Martin, Hans-Peter Martin, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Ana Mato Adrover, Marios Matsakis, Manolis Mavrommatis, Hans-Peter Mayer, Manuel Medina Ortega, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, Emilio Menéndez del Valle, Willy Meyer Pleite, Rosa Miguélez Ramos, Francisco José Millán Mon, Andreas Mölzer, Cristobal Montoro Romero, Claude Moraes, Javier Moreno Sánchez, Pierre Moscovici, Ashley Mote, Jan Mulder, Joseph Muscat, Francesco Musotto, Riitta Myller, Pasqualina Napoletano, Michael Henry Nattrass, Bill Newton Dunn, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, James Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, Péter Olajos, Jan Olbrycht, Seán Ó Neachtain, Gérard Onesta, Csaba İry, Siiri Oviir, Reino Paasilinna, Borut Pahor, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Georgios Papastamkos, Bogdan Pęk, João de Deus Pinheiro, Józef Pinior, Mirosław Mariusz Piotrowski, Umberto Pirilli, Giovanni Pittella, Francisca Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Zita Pleštinská, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Lydie Polfer, Jacek Protasiewicz, John Purvis, Luís Queiró, Karin Resetarits, Herbert Reul, José Ribeiro e Castro, Teresa Riera Madurell, Frédérique Ries, Marco Rizzo, Bogusław Rogalski, Luca Romagnoli, Mechtild Rothe, Libor Rouček, Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda, Heide Rühle, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Eoin Ryan, Aloyzas Sakalas, María Isabel Salinas García, Anders Samuelsen, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Manuel António dos Santos, Jacek Emil Saryusz-Wolski, Pierre Schapira, Carl Schlyter, Pál Schmitt, György Schöpflin, Willem Schuth, Andreas Schwab, Richard Seeber, Esko Seppänen, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Nikolaos Sifunakis, José Albino Silva Peneda, Kathy Sinnott, Peter Skinner, Renate Sommer, Bogusław Sonik, María Sornosa Martínez, Sérgio Sousa Pinto, Jean Spautz, Francesco Enrico Speroni, Bart Staes, GraŜyna Staniszewska, Margarita Starkevičiūt, Dirk Sterckx, Struan Stevenson, Alexander Stubb, Robert Sturdy, László Surján, József Szájer, Konrad Szymański, Hannu Takkula, Charles Tannock, Marc Tarabella, Marianne Thyssen, Jeffrey Titford, Gary Titley, Witold Tomczak, Jacques Toubon, Georgios Toussas, Antonios Trakatellis, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Paavo Väyrynen, Nikolaos Vakalis, Anne Van Lancker, Geoffrey Van Orden, Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Marcello Vernola, Kyösti Tapio Virrankoski, Henri Weber, Phillip Whitehead, John Whittaker, Rainer Wieland, Jan Marinus Wiersma, Thomas Wise, Janusz Wojciechowski, Terence Wynn, Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou, Anna Záborská, Zbigniew Zaleski, Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski, Stefano Zappalà, Nicola Zingaretti, Tadeusz Zwiefka The following Observers signed the attendance register: Mihăescu Eugen, Podgorean Radu, Popeangă Petre PV\596373.doc 5/5 PE 368.206