Traduction de «heure consacrée aux initiatives parlementaire » (Français → Anglais) :

24. Further, asks Member States, local entities and school authorities to monitor and to improve the quality and nutritional standards of school and kindergarten meals including by means of specific training and guidelines for catering staff, quality control of caterers and guidelines for healthy food in canteens; underlines the importance of adapting portion sizes to needs and including fruit and vegetables in these meals; asks for more nutrition education on a balanced diet and encourages a move away from the sale of foods and beverages high in fat, salt or sugar and of poor nutritional value in schools; advocates instead making fre ...[+++]sh fruit and vegetables more available at points of sale; invites competent authorities to ensure that at least three hours a week of the school curriculum are devoted to physical activities, in accordance with the objectives of the above-mentioned White Paper on sport, and asks those authorities to provide plans for the construction of new public sports facilities, accessible also to disabled persons, and for the safeguarding of existing sports facilities in schools; welcomes a possible "fruit at school" project to be financially supported by the EU similar to the current school milk programme; calls for solutions to be found to continue the free distribution of fruit and vegetables to schools and charitable institutions during 2008 as requested by some Member States, pending the entry into application of the school fruit scheme on 1 January 2009;

However, the motion must be proposed under Standing Order 26(1)(b), as the hon. member has pointed out, in the hour preceding the time at which the business under consideration should be interrupted by dinner hour, private members' hour or the ordinary hour of daily adjournment.

ECHO activities include: a WFP operation providing food for 748 000 people, with special care for pregnant women and children and food and cash for work schemes to rehabilitate basic infrastructure; support through NGOs to supply temporary shelter, food, safe water, household items and basic sanitation to over 150 000 people living in camps; assistance to 150 000 families to restore their livelihoods in the fishing and agriculture sectors; mobile health clinics; psychological support; and specific medical treatment for the disabled.

Pursuant to Standing Order 94(2)(b), private members' hour will thus be suspended tomorrow and the House will continue with the business before it prior to private members' hour.

This is the first sitting of this parliamentary legislature in which we will have Question Time, in this case to the Council.

However, in order to accommodate the House, instead of waiting until eight o'clock this evening to commence the debate, and in order to allow more members to participate, I wonder if there would be a disposition to commence the debate immediately after private members' hour so that members can speak either for or against the emergency in question.