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Amendments (18)
Amendment 3 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 116
Rule 116
1. Question Time with the Commission shall be held at each part-session at tifor a duration of ninety minutes on a specific horizontal themes decided by Parliament on a proposal from the Conference of Presidents. 2. No Member may put more than one question to the Commission at any given part-session. 3. Questions shall be submitupon by the Conference of Presidents in principle one month in advance of the part-session. 2. The Commissioners invited to participate by the Conference of Presidents shall have a portfolio related to the specific horizontal theme on which questions are to be put to them. The number of Commissioners shall be limited to two per part-session, with the possibility of adding a third being dependent on the specific horizontal theme chosen for the Question Time. 3. Members who put a question to one of the Commissioners shall be chosen by means of a ballot systedm in writing to the President, who shall rule on their admissibility and on the order in which they are to be taken. Tthe following way: – two ballot boxes are placed at the entrance of the Chamber one hour before the start of Question Time; – Members wishing to put a question write their name on a form and place that form in one of the ballot boxes; – the President opens Question Time and closes the ballot boxes; – the President draws one form at a time and calls on the Member whose name appears on that form to put his or her questioner shall be notified immediately of this decision. 4. The detailed procedure shall be governed to the competent Commissioner. The Member is given one minute in which to formulate the question and the Commissioner two minutes in which to reply. The President may exceptionally accept a supplementary question of 30 seconds' duration from any Member present if the President considers that the answer given by the Commissioner merits it. The Commissioner shall then bye guidelines laid down in an annex to these Rules of Procedure17iven two minutes in which to give a supplementary reply; 4. The President may rule on the admissibility of a question should it not be directly related to the specific horizontal theme chosen. Supplementary questions shall likewise have a direct bearing on the main question. 5. In accordance with guidelines established by the Conference of Presidents, specific question hours may be held with the Council, with the President of the Commission, with the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and with the President of the Eurogroup. _______________ 17See Annex II.
Amendment 10 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 117 – paragraph 2
Rule 117 – paragraph 2
2. Questions shall be submitted in writing to the President who shall forward them to the addressees. Doubts concerning the admissibility of a question shall be settled by the President. The President's decision shall be based not solely on the provisions of the annex referred to in paragraph 1 but on the provisions of these Rules of Procedure in general. The questioner shall be notified of hithe President's decision.
Amendment 11 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 117 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Rule 117 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 12 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 117 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Rule 117 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 13 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 117 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Rule 117 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 14 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 117 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Rule 117 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 16 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 117 – paragraph 5
Rule 117 – paragraph 5
5. Questions and answers shall be published ion the Official Journal of the European UnionParliament’s website.
Amendment 17 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 118 – paragraph 1
Rule 118 – paragraph 1
1. Any Member may put questions for written answer to the European Central Bank in accordance with guidelines laid down in an annex to these Rules of Procedure19. _________ 19The content of questions shall be the sole responsibility of their authors. _________ 19 See Annex III. See Annex III.
Amendment 19 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 118 – paragraph 2
Rule 118 – paragraph 2
2. Such questions shall be submitted in writing to the Chair of the committee responsible, who shall forward them to the European Central Bank. Doubts as to the admissibility of a question shall be settled by the Chair. The author shall be notified of the Chair's decision.
Amendment 20 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 118 – paragraph 3
Rule 118 – paragraph 3
3. The questions and answers shall be published ion the Official Journal of the European UnionParliament’s website.
Amendment 29 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Annex III – paragraph 1 – indent 2
Annex III – paragraph 1 – indent 2
– fall within the competence andexclusively within the limits of the competences conferred upon the Union in the Treaties and within the sphere of responsibility of the addressee, and be of general interest;
Amendment 30 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Annex III – paragraph 1 – indent 3 a (new)
Annex III – paragraph 1 – indent 3 a (new)
– not exceed 200 words;
Amendment 32 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Annex III – paragraph 1 – indent 5
Annex III – paragraph 1 – indent 5
– not relate to strictly personal matters. and comply with Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data;
Amendment 33 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Annex III – paragraph 1 – indent 5 a (new)
Annex III – paragraph 1 – indent 5 a (new)
– not contain more than three sub- questions.
Amendment 34 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Annex III – paragraph 2
Annex III – paragraph 2
2. If a question does not comply with these guidelinOn request, the Secretariat shall provide the authors with advice on how the question may be drafted in order to be admissibleo comply in an individual case with the criteria laid down in paragraph 1.
Amendment 36 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Annex III – paragraph 3
Annex III – paragraph 3
3. If an identical or similar question has been put and answered during the preceding six months, or to the extent that a question merely seeks information on the follow-up to a specific resolution of Parliament of a kind which the Commission has already provided in a written follow-up communication, the Secretariat shall transmit a copy of the previous question and answer to the author. The renewed question shall not be forwarded to the addressee unless the author invokes newPresident so decides in the light of significant new developments or is seeking further informationand in response to a reasoned request by the author.
Amendment 37 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Annex III – paragraph 4
Annex III – paragraph 4
4. If a question seeks factual or statistical information that is already available to Parliament's library, the latter shall inform the Member, who may withdraw the questionresearch services, it shall not be forwarded to the addressee but to those services, unless the President decides otherwise upon request by the author.
Amendment 39 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Annex III – paragraph 5
Annex III – paragraph 5
5. Questions concerning related matters may be merged into a single question by the Secretariat and answered together.