European Parliament
Ribeiro e Castro (UEN ).
(PT)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on a point of order, I would like to emphasise, as Mr Leinen’s speech confirms, and as I said yesterday, that we are introducing a new precedent today: we are going to approve amendments which have not been agreed on the basis of proposals suggested by my fellow Members, but a new type of amendment, negotiated with the Council. This is a new interpretation of the Rules of Procedure, a new innovation by Parliament. I therefore felt that the procedure defined in Rule 130a of the Rules of Procedure should have been followed. At this stage, however, I do not want to labour the point. It is the Bureau’s decision and I can of course do no more than note this development.

