69. Notes that since January 2012, a new set of rules came into force governing the reception of visitors' groups, including the method of paying subsidies; notes that the Bureau decided to maintain the option to make cash payments to visitor groups; is concerned about the significant reputational and security risk entailed in making cash payments to visitor groups; asks for a new decision of the bureau to abolish cash payments which constitutes a violation of Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ; takes note that out of approximately 2 000 visitor groups annually, only 365 in 2012 received more than EUR ...[+++] 15 000 but that the majority of these visitors' groups opt for cash payment method, although Parliament’s administration encourages payment by bank transfer or a mix of both methods instead;

67. Notes that since January 2012, a new set of rules came into force governing the reception of visitors' groups, including the method of paying subsidies; notes that the Bureau decided to maintain the option to make cash payments to visitor groups; is concerned about the significant reputational and security risk entailed in making cash payments to visitor groups; asks for a new decision of the bureau to abolish cash payments which constitutes a violation of Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council; takes note that out of approximately 2 000 visitor groups annually, only 365 in 2012 received more than EUR ...[+++]15 000 but that the majority of these visitors' groups opt for cash payment method, although Parliament’s administration encourages payment by bank transfer or a mix of both methods instead;

9. Maintains that the choice of energy mix, while a matter for the individual Member States, should allow for the common objectives and, where appropriate, be the subject of a coordinated European approach, as the targets proposed might otherwise not be reached, especially with regard to efforts to combine renewable energy sources; points out that approximate investment needs, in terms of energy infrastructure, will be impossible to predict without estimating the likely make-up of the energy mix in 2030;

Please indicate an approximate figure of EIAs carried out each year before and after the application of Directive 97/11/EC (starting with 1995) and specify according to Annex I and Annex II project categories.

Then there are the acts adopted by the supreme political authority, the European Council, which have names as varied and as vague as 'conclusions of the Presidency, summary of decisions, Council acts, reports, declarations, solemn declarations', but have no legal force whatsoever and whose scope, as one lawyer has nicely put it, amounts to the 'power to make high-flown statements' (P-Y Monjal, October 2000).