European Parliament
President.
I hope that I am not mistaken in saying that the places were empty because the Conference of Presidents had decided not to appoint representatives of this Parliament to occupy them and to ask the Commission for clarification of the status, purpose and role of representatives of Parliament in this technical committee. Our not having received that clarification, the Conference of Presidents decided not to appoint representatives of this Parliament. It is not therefore a case of there being representatives who did not attend, but rather of representatives not having been appointed to do so.

