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"Mr President, whatever the merit of Mr Fox’s proposal, it has been ruled inadmissible. On a previous occasion, when Mr Fox tabled amendments to the calendar in 2010, Mr Schulz and Mr Daul argued for a postponement of the vote to seek the legal position. On that occasion it took four months. Mr Fox has had an informal opinion from the President. I, too, have had an informal legal opinion, which says that Mr Fox’s amendments are actually compliant with the ruling of the European Court of Justice.
Mr Fox is a lawyer, and you are a lawyer. The EPP amendment, which has been ruled admissible, states that four of these new Wednesday afternoon mini-sessions (ten of them in Brussels) should be deleted, but I am not convinced of the legality of us allowing ourselves to vote for those ten sessions outside the ordinary procedure. Therefore, the proposal I make to the House is that we should postpone the vote on the 2015 calendar until one of the two plenaries in February – that is a matter of two or three weeks (or four or five weeks) – when we should have absolute clarity on the legal position on this calendar. After all, the only capacity the European Court of Justice has allowed us as a House – and, as you know, I lead a campaign to give us the right to choose when, where and how we meet (but that has so far not been totally successful, even though 73 % of you voted in November in favour of the Fox-Häfner report) – is to postpone the vote until one of the February plenary sessions in Strasbourg."@en1
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