Re: europarl voting schedule

[bernhard.kaindl@gmx.de]

On June  7, Hartmut Pilch wrote:

>According to
>>http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/oeil/oeil_ViewDNL.ProcedureView?lang=2&procid=5974
>
> some decision will be taken on 03/09/01, but I don't know what the codes
> there (DGII, DGI etc) mean, so I am unable to conclude from this that the
> plenary vote has been delayed.
>
> Does anyone have a clue?

I only have a vague idea, maybe false:

In a table below, there is this enty:

| Agents in procedure - European Commission and Council of the Union
| European Commission DG:       DG Internal market

So I guessed that DG is one abbrev and I and II are only appened abbrevs
I also assumed DGI could mean DG Internal market(again pure guess )

The question what means DG remains.

It means: "Directorate General", which are is an administrative units
for the European Commission, there are 27 of them(and 20 Commissioners
in the European Commission) so most of them have a single Commissioner,
it looks like.

Here is how to get there:

The Europeon Union Online:
http://www.europa.eu.int
-> Select Language
   -> Select "Information sources" -> "How to find information on EUROPA"
      -> Select "Institutions" in the Menu on the left, and you are here:

         Institutions of the European Union:
         http://www.europa.eu.int/inst-en.htm

         -> European Commission:
            -> Seat, composition, role and organisation of work:
               http://www.europa.eu.int/institutions/comm/index_en.htm

Organisation of work

The "Commission", as a political body, is a college made up of 20 members.
It is assisted by an administration comprising general services
(Secretariat-General, Legal Service, Eurostat, etc.) and the
Directorates-General (DGs), each of which is headed by a Director-General
answerable to the relevant Commissioner.

                 Here at the very End:

                 The Directorates-General and Services:
                 http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/dgs_en.htm

Or:

start as above until:
   -> Select "Information sources" -> "How to find information on EUROPA"
Then go down to Maps and select:

->Maps showing access to European Parliament buildings:
  http://www.europarl.eu.int/addresses/parliament/default.htm
  |
  \>European Instituion Web Sites:
    http://www.europarl.eu.int/addresses/institutions/websites.htm
    |
    \
     Who's who in the European Union? - Interinstitutional Directory:
     http://europa.eu.int/idea/en/index.htm

                              Welcome to IDEA
           The Electronic Directory of the European Institutions

      Hierarchical search
      http://europa.eu.int/idea/bin/dispinst.pl?lang=en
      -> European Commission

         and voila, you have an sort-of 'LDAP' of the whole EU,
         incuding all DG's of the European Commission in this
         case...


DGII appears to be: (From a .pdf file):

Directorate General II
Economic and Financial Affairs
Monetary matters

Web:
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/economy_finance/index_en.htm

I have no 100% evidence wht DGI but it can only be one(IMHO):

DIRECTORATE GENERAL I
Internal Market
-> Is responsible for Intellectual Property:
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/index.htm
-> And it's Commissitioner is the Mr. Frits Bolkestein, he was mentioned
   by Mercedes Echerer in the Audio Recording from May 7th (Greens):
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/commissioners/bolkestein/index_en.htm

BTW, one page says:

All MEPs and staff in Parliament have an e-mail address of the following form:
<first name initial><last name>@europarl.eu.int

Bernhard Kaindl