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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Agenda2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000515.2.1-028"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-05-15-Speech-1-0292
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan-Kees Wiebenga2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (1999-07-20--2001-10-07)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (1999-12-09--2001-10-07)3 vice-president; European Parliament (1999-07-20--2001-10-07)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2001-10-07)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2001-10-07)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2001-10-07)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-20--2001-10-07)3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-09-13--2001-10-07)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, for those Members who do not know, I would like to make it clear beforehand that I do not belong to the action group which started this Friday action, but that I was the acting President who had to contend with it. I would like to remind you – and I am at liberty to say this here because I have also said this outside the Bureau – that I referred this point to the Bureau, to you and colleagues in the Bureau, and have, for the short term, suggested four possibilities for Fridays, before we decide on the agenda for the year 2001, because then we might just as well, of course, vote here in plenary. The first possibility is to scrap Friday sittings altogether. The second possibility is to have Friday sittings with a full agenda and hold votes at 12.00, at lunch times, or such like. The third possibility is to hold debates on Fridays without voting and then delay the votes until Brussels or subsequent sittings. The fourth possibility is to carry on as we are, that is to say, to hold minor debates on Fridays and round them off with votes. Clearly, this last possibility will lead to situations in which other Members can request that the quorum be checked, meaning that we will once again be unable to hold votes this coming Friday. Madam President, the competent body in these matters is not the Bureau but the Conference of Presidents. I think that, whatever your opinion may be, whether you are for or against Fridays and whether you are for or against Strasbourg, our Parliament would benefit most if we were not to argue every Friday about the quorum and – I also told the Bureau this – if we were not to hold any votes this coming Friday."@en1

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