European Parliament
President.
Before we move to the order of business I should like to mark and welcome the positive vote this weekend in Latvia, which showed an overwhelming majority in favour of EU accession, with a very high turnout of voters. This brings to a close a round of successful referenda in nine of the ten Accession States. The Cypriot Parliament ratified EU membership unanimously on 14 July 2003. I am sure colleagues will wish to join me in marking this milestone towards the target of an EU of 25 Member States on 1 May 2004.
We look forward now to the completion of the process of ratification in the parliaments of the Member States.
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Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting - Membership of committees and delegations - Verification of credentials - Membership of political groups - Documents received - Written declarations (Rule 51) - Action taken on Parliament's positions and resolutions - Petitions - Transfers of appropriations - Referral to committees/Authorisation to draw up own-initiative reports:
see Minutes.

