European Parliament
President.
– I would remind honourable Members that this part of the sitting is to be used for asking questions; I realise that you sometimes take the opportunity to make statements, but in order not to set a precedent, please confine yourselves to asking questions.
Question No 8 by Manuel Medina Ortega 
Subject: ULYSSES programme for controls at the Member States' sea borders
In the wake of the launching, in the eastern Mediterranean and on an experimental basis, of the ULYSSES programme for cooperation between a number of Member States in the area of controls at the Union's sea borders with a view to containing illegal immigration, and given the plans to extend it shortly to the Atlantic islands (the Azores, Madeira and the Canaries), can the Council state exactly when it is expected that protection under this programme will be extended to those islands?

