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  <CHAPTER ID="013">
    <P id="1">
      <s id="1">Transfers of appropriations: see Minutes</s>
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  <CHAPTER ID="014">
    <P id="1">
      <s id="1">Voting time</s>
    </P>
    <SPEAKER ID="311" NAME="President">
      <P id="2">
        <s id="2">The next item is the vote.</s>
      </P>
      <P id="3">
        <s id="3">(For outcome of the vote and other information on the vote: see Minutes)</s>
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    </SPEAKER>
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  <CHAPTER ID="0">
    <P id="1"></P>
    <SPEAKER ID="1" LANGUAGE="FR" NAME="Berès">
      <P id="2">
        <s id="1">Madam President, I would like to take advantage of the Commission President' s attendance to ask him about a serious matter.</s>
        <s id="2">Every year, the European Movement in France organises a very important event, "Europe Day" , on 9 May.</s>
        <s id="3">This year we wish to organise a day dedicated to the euro.</s>
        <s id="4">Since last September, this movement has been asking you to fund this day.</s>
        <s id="5">It is not possible to organise the day without your support.</s>
        <s id="6">Yet, to date, we have received no assurance that the Commission' s contribution will be paid.</s>
        <s id="7">If we have no such assurance by the end of the week, the European Movement in France will have to abandon the idea of organising this year' s "Europe Day" .</s>
        <s id="8">I believe this would be extremely harmful to the common cause to which we dedicate all our strength.</s>
      </P>
      <P id="3"></P>
    </SPEAKER>
    <SPEAKER ID="2" NAME="President">
      <P id="4">
        <s id="9">Mr Prodi, do you wish to give Mrs Berès such assurance now or later in the course of your speech?</s>
      </P>
      <P id="5"></P>
    </SPEAKER>
    <SPEAKER ID="3" LANGUAGE="IT" NAME="Prodi">
      <P id="6">
        <s id="10">Mrs Berès, I am not familiar with the details of the question you have raised, but I will investigate the matter immediately and give you a response today.</s>
      </P>
      <P id="7"></P>
    </SPEAKER>
    <SPEAKER ID="4" NAME="President">
      <P id="8">
        <s id="11">Thank you, Mr President.</s>
      </P>
      <P id="9"></P>
    </SPEAKER>
  </CHAPTER>
  <CHAPTER ID="1">
    <P id="10">
      <s id="12">Vote on a request for urgent procedure</s>
    </P>
    <SPEAKER ID="5" NAME="President.">
      <P id="11">
        <s id="13">The Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs has decided to apply the procedure without report to that proposal.</s>
        <s id="14">I shall give the floor immediately to Mr Watson, who is Chairman of that committee, to give us its opinion.</s>
      </P>
      <P id="12">
        <s id="15">Watson (ELDR), Chairman of the Committee on Citizen's Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.</s>
        <s id="16">Madam President, the committee which I have the honour to chair is very much aware of the importance of this matter and the urgency of its adoption before 25 March 2001, to allow the Nordic Union to be fully involved.</s>
        <s id="17">We would have preferred to have been informed of this earlier by the Council.</s>
        <s id="18">They have brought it to us at the very last moment.</s>
      </P>
      <P id="13">
        <s id="19">Nonetheless, in the circumstances it is our view that we would not wish to delay the vote on this, and we consider it best to treat this as a matter without report; we would therefore suggest that it be put straight to the vote in this part-session.</s>
      </P>
      <P id="14"></P>
    </SPEAKER>
    <SPEAKER ID="6" NAME="President">
      <P id="15">
        <s id="20">There being no Member who wishes to speak against this urgent procedure, we shall put the matter to the vote.</s>
      </P>
      <P id="16">
        <s id="21">(Parliament approved the request for urgent procedure)</s>
      </P>
      <P id="17"></P>
    </SPEAKER>
  </CHAPTER>
  <CHAPTER ID="2">
    <P id="18">
      <s id="22">Commission work programme for 2001/Nice</s>
    </P>
    <SPEAKER ID="7" NAME="President">
      <P id="19">
        <s id="23">The next item is the joint debate on the presentation of the Commission's programme for 2001 and the oral question to the Commission tabled by Mr van Velzen and others, on behalf of the Group of the European People's Party and European Democrats, on the follow-up to the Nice European Council (B5-0006/2001).</s>
      </P>
      <P id="20">
        <s id="24">I now give the floor to Mr Prodi, President of the Commission.</s>