4. Stresses the need to pay more attention to the outcomes of the work of the ACP-EU JPA, and to ensure coherence between its resolutions and those of the EP; is concerned over the fall in the participation of MEPs, in particular at JPA Committee meetings, and asks for greater involvement of MEPs in its meetings and activities; calls for greater flexibility in the admission of parliamentary assistants attending meetings of the JPA in order to enhance the quality of work of their members;

We reiterate the need to prevent base erosion and profit shifting and we will follow with attention the on-going work of the OECD in this area”

10. Notes that a long-term strategic plan on buildings policy including maintenance costs and environmental issues will be presented before the end of May 2008; stresses the importance of a thorough debate on this issue in view of arriving at relevant decisions on the way forward and the destination of these appropriations as soon as possible; wishes to be informed about the work of the Bureau with the Commission on an agreement on purchase of buildings and costs; pending such information, takes note of the fact that the buildings reserve included in the draft estimates amounts to EUR 30 000 000, an increase of EUR 10 000 000 compared ...[+++] to 2008; decides to place in reserve EUR 3 400 000 entered by the Bureau in the preliminary draft estimates, pending technical, administrative and financial clarifications on the proposed asbestos removal work in the SDM building in Strasbourg;

10. Notes that a long-term strategic plan on buildings policy including maintenance costs and environmental issues will be presented before the end of May 2008; stresses the importance of a thorough debate on this issue in view of arriving at relevant decisions on the way forward and the destination of these appropriations as soon as possible; wishes to be informed about the work of the Bureau with the Commission on an agreement on purchase of buildings and costs; pending such information, takes note of the fact that the buildings reserve included in the draft estimates amounts to EUR 30 000 000, an increase of EUR 10 000 000 compared ...[+++] to 2008; decides to place in reserve EUR 3 400 000 entered by the Bureau in the preliminary draft estimates, pending technical, administrative and financial clarifications on the proposed asbestos removal work in the SDM building in Strasbourg;

However, we have faith in the ability of Member States’ governments to meet the European citizens’ expectations of a more cohesive, authoritative and inclusive Europe: the expectations that Parliament has succeeded in interpreting so effectively, first in the Convention and then in the context of the Intergovernmental Conference, in which it has been fully involved.

I should, nevertheless, like to draw the House’s attention to the fact that the order of business for the current part-session will be established definitively at 9.00 a.m. on Wednesday.