 Now, ladies and gentlemen, the session is open. We're going to start our meeting. Point number one of our agenda is the adoption of the agenda. No comments, no remarks. The agenda is adopted. Point number two, approval of the minute of our last session. No comments, no remarks. The minutes are adopted. Point number three, statement by the president, just that to welcome you back in Brussels after our event in Mons, the summit, I think it was very, very important. It was not only a moment to get everyone together, but also to have the kickoff of our 30th anniversary celebrations that will continue throughout this year. We are seeking to reinforce our institutional partnership, in particular with the revision of agreements with the European Commission and the European Parliament. I may inform you that in March the 20th, a new cooperation agreement with the European Commission was signed with the Vice President, and also that we have, I think, in this plenary, the agreement with the European Parliament. So I think those are interesting news. I would like also to inform you that upon a proposal from the COTER and ECON commissions, the Bureau has adopted four own initiative opinions via a written procedure. If there are no comments or remarks, let's move to point number four, the follow-up of the 10th European Summit of Regents. I think we have a video that will be played in just a few minutes. Before that, thank you. A lot of things have been said during the COP, during the Bureau about the summit. I think we have to build upon the summit. It's not the effects and the results, the benefits that the Committee of the Regents can get from the summit. I think they are still there. So the idea is to build upon the declaration, build upon the event, and continue to fight for the key issues that were at stake, namely the cohesion policy. I would like once more to express the gratitude and to thank not only our Secretariat, everyone that was involved, the Secretary General, all the people that collaborate with the Committee of the Regents, from political groups, the President's Cabinet, but also to express the gratitude to the Wallone region. We have our Vice President of the Wallone government here with us. To thank him, to thank Minister President Di Rupo, to thank the Belgian presidency of the European Union. And now without further delay, press the button. Politics is local. Social changes are best being managed on the local level. People trust their local governments to make sure that their interests are protected and to make sure that policies are being adapted. Regents and cities, and it's time that cities have the power to deliver a stronger... Mr. Borsus, you have the floor. Thank you very much for a very limited time. Thank you very much, Mr. President. I will be particularly brief, but I want to seize this opportunity to thank you for all the services of the Committee of the Regents, the Secretary General, all the members who have been present at MONS, those who have been interviewed and the experts. I think that this summit was a success. I sincerely wanted to thank you for this investment, including, of course, for the political declaration of the MONS summit, which has captured this one. Thank you again. Thank you so much. Now let's move to point number five. It's a debate on the 2023 enlargement package, Ukraine Moldova and Georgia, and adoption of one opinion. We have with us several special guests that will bring their views and make their statements on this issue. I would like to welcome to the table Vadim Bochenko, Mayor of Mariupol, Ukraine, sir. I would like also to acknowledge the presence here with us of Tatiana Yerohova-Luchenko, the President of the Association of Ukrainian Regents. Thank you for coming. And also with us at the table, we have Angie Grotir, the Rapporteur on this opinion. But first of all, let's proceed. We will have, we will have, we will start with a statement from Mayor Bochenko for 10 minutes. You have the floor for 10 minutes. I would like to greet our friends, thank you for taking the time to support Ukraine. Today I represent a very special city that became a symbol of the independence of the Ukrainian people, a symbol of the great tragedy that took place in the territory of Ukraine. We will have to study for many more years. Today I represent the communities that have already passed this path and have left the Russian occupation. Today I represent the communities that are still in the occupation as the head of the section of the occupied and occupied cities of the Association of the City of Ukraine. Today there are 144 occupied communities and 86 occupied communities. These are not just numbers, these are the fate of people, these are 4 million people who have received a status, a new status for their new life, a status of forced immigrants. And I would like to thank the European community for giving us very important knowledge about how to approach our Ukrainians today, because we did what we took from you. In the 15th to 16th years, when the city was under Ukrainian control, we received forced immigrants from Donetsk, Luhansk, and we talked about them, because you taught us. Today we ourselves became immigrants. Today we are talking about ourselves. Today we have created the same support centers that were located in 18 cities of Ukraine, their 28 centers. Why are we doing this? We ourselves want to be proud in the middle of the state, to be proud, to show the example of other communities. How should we be proud? Today it is very important for you to feel the fact that your tools that you give us, they are being used in life. Once in the 16th year, the first social proud appeared in Mariupol for people from Donetsk, Luhansk. Today, the very first social proud appeared in Dnipri for Mariupol. And we did this together with you. It is very important to feel the system and the complex approach from your side to the support of today's Ukrainian people, occupied and unoccupied cities. Today there are those people in this room who have been in power for 10 years. Here is my colleague, Mayor Kdańska, Oleksandr Dylkevich, who is always supporting Mariupol today. I thank her and her people for this support. I see you. Thank you for the support. Just like here Antonila, who represents the very important organization of ALDA, which is about transparency, about openness, about democratic values, which has always been a part of us. Antonila, just like here, among you. I thank you for the complex approach and support. Today, we are talking about those 4 million people who want the complex approach and the complex support. This is our common response to the Russian propaganda. Our unity is a response to the Russian propaganda. We feel a lot in the middle of the country that the European community has come from Ukraine. We understand that this is not true. And our common response is a specific action. What do Ukrainians want today? What are the names of the exiled people? Justice. Justice. And justice again. What is justice? Today, what have we lost? We have lost everything. We have lost our lives. I can't look at you as you are sorry. We have lost our village. But we want to be together with you. To give back to this enemy. Not with weapons, but with support. That is the justice we want. What do Ukrainians want? We have lost our village. We want a complex approach from the point of view of those 4 million people who are provided with their housing. There is a proposition. Today, France supports Mariupol from the point of view of building social housing for Mariupol. I thank you for this support. It is very important to start an economy in the middle of the country. So that every Mariupol, every settlement that is forced to move today in Vienna, in Lviv, in Ivano-Frankivsk, will see support from the side of our community. We have to build a complex approach from the point of view of the revival of Ukraine. We want to gain that experience today, such as Danesk, Warsaw, Vroslav, Havar and other cities of Utrecht, Rotterdam, which were reborn after the Second World War. We want to give us this knowledge, to learn from us, to form such a community for the revival of Ukraine. It is not important when we will start building Mariupol. It is important that we already understand and see how it will take place. We have been ready for this. This will be the message of Putin, that we have united together today for the sake of the future of Ukraine. Today, we see the future president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. We have to unite today and show the work, the word, the way what future Ukraine is. It is also very important to fix the crimes that have taken place and are taking place now in the middle of the country. Mariupol, which was in Obloz, was in the village of Prahla to leave the city, and they received from the Russian soldier-officer the answer that they do not have the order to release them from the city, to kill them, to cut them off. We have to fix it. And the film, which is about Mariupol today, is not a big part of the military crimes that took place in Mariupol. It is 5% because the aggressive war in Mariupol began on March 16. The destruction, the bombing, the murder, the execution of today's history of Ukraine. We beg for justice so that it is not important when Putin will sit on the bench of the judges, that there is indifference in the regime. We have fixed it, and I am sure that the European community, the values of democracy will overcome the fear that we have and today we are the shield of Europe of the European values. Therefore, I would like to thank you for your support, for your position, for the complex approach of Ukraine. Thank you so much, Mayor Bochenko, for this passionate statement about the situation in Ukraine. Now, I will give the floor to our Member Rapporteur of the Opinion, our Member Grotier. You have the floor for five minutes to present the Opinion. Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues and especially dear colleagues from Ukraine, I will continue in German, but I first wanted to express how or not I feel that you are here today listening to our work and I hope we will have the support of lots of members of this authority to make a strong opinion on the enlargement package. Dear colleagues, today morning people have come to Germany to live. There is still war in Ukraine. And we have to take into account that we are in demand to show our solidarity even further. That is what we can do with this position today. In the European election campaign I realize that the topic of the EU expansion and especially the one for Ukraine are always more important. I also want to mention the position of our colleague Nikolaj Droboslawicz and I do not think there is any business as usual. It is also interesting that our planning day is two weeks before the holidays for the 20th anniversary of the Great East expansion in the year 2004. I think that we generally have a very positive approach to the expansion. But I also agree with the great convergence of my position with the one of our colleague Droboslawicz, in particular on the three basic principles of the future expansion. First, the expansion will be on the self-sufficient services and performance of the application countries. Second, the EU must reform itself. The expansion process is not an entryway road. The study on the sustainability of the expansion has already been presented. Among other things, last week with the study of the Brüsseler think tanks Brügel, this new expansion process has to focus on the very positive experiences of the EU with the step-by-step, both for the expansion of the expansion in 2004 and 2007 and especially for the covering mechanisms. I would like to highlight that my position is not only the Ukraine but also Moldova and Georgia. I agree that the expertise of the ADR in view of Moldova and Georgia will certainly be lower and that the structural answer to the question of the cooperation between the localities of these two countries and the ADR has not yet been found. All three countries have expressed Russian aggression mean that the expansion process expresses their self-determination right in the geopolitical interest of the European Union and in the framework of the reconstruction of a comprehensive European peace order. My starting point is also that the expansion of these three countries as an investment in the security and reliability of the EU, in the possibility to strengthen the cooperation in the future and to achieve progress in the comprehensive implementation of the goals for sustainable development as well as the advantages of an expanded win market should be understood. In particular, the position at the Ukraine and Moldova to deepen the decentralization process and thus create the basis for the fact that the recording process does not take place as a top-down process but the Ukrainian government. This is the requirement for a citizen-like expansion process and the earliest possible and efficient application of the principles of regional politics. I had to agree to Georgian to a report of the Change Act, which defines the greatest concerns of the possible re-enactment of a law on the transparency of foreign influence, which expresses itself in the Russian law on foreign agents. In this law, the media freedom and the autonomy of civil society are dangerous organizations, the requirement for a functional democracy and for the EU to participate in Georgians. I hope that the government is aware that the expansion process with the re-enactment of such a law is on the verge of collapse. Dear colleagues from Ukraine, please allow me to realize that the core requirements of your proposed changes are essential. This is how I interpret the 15 proposed changes that are not the core requirements of the implementation in question. I would like to thank you for that. Certainly, this consensus is also a result of very good work that I have received from the partners of the Alliance for the reconstruction of Ukraine and the research center of Eastern Europe of the Bremen University. Thank you so much. Now we are going to proceed to have interventions from the political groups as you are aware. We are very time constrained, so we have interventions from the political groups. I will now give the floor for two minutes to member Alexandra Dulkiris. Mr. President, dear colleagues, first of all, Mayor Vadim Boychenko, my dear friend Antje, I am really, really grateful that on behalf of EPP Group, but also as a president of our working group on Ukraine here in the Committee of the Regions, that we can talk about enlargement on Ukraine with the presence of Mayor Marjupol, which is extremely strong political message that should be heard, not only here in Brussels but all over the world, that Marjupol is part of Ukraine and nothing could change it. So this is very, very important and I'm really grateful for your presence here Vadim Boychenko. I still can remember and in my opinion this is now we are talking about Marjupol, we are working together with Warsaw, with Mayor Czaskowski and with Poznan and my city, City of Gdansk, we are working on reconstruction plan, on master plan of reconstruction of Marjupol, but I still believe that you, your people from Marjupol can be examples for other colleagues all over Ukraine how to be open, how to be prepared for the integration of the European Union. So this is something what we always talk, peer to peer cooperation. This is now something really, really important that we could work together and help Ukrainian colleagues with you and your people from Marjupol staff to be ready to be a part of European family because it will take some time but on this local and regional level this is extremely important. From my point of view, from our political point of view is extremely important so we are really happy that you are here together and we will always be together. Slava Ukraine thank you. Thank you so much, now the floor goes the floor goes for two minutes for Ravin Tchen. Thanks a lot for the very strong speech to the mayor of Marjupol and thanks a lot to the reporter. I will compliment my dearest colleague Alexandra also by two other countries which are mentioned in the report and I also would like to stress out the importance to give space also to other accession countries because I think they need strong will and vision to become a part of our European family in the future. With regard to Georgia, we know that there is imminent threat military but also with regard to the security and the norms and values and we need to tackle this threat. I think that European committee of the regions as institutions have a very exclusive position for a kind of cooperation with local governments either regions or cities and municipalities within the peer-to-peer cooperation and I think we need to take this opportunity and challenge and try to do as many cooperation as possible. On behalf of the Czech Republic I can promise that we tackle this kind of cooperation and systematic cooperation with Georgia and with my experience from those corporations I know that it works very much and I think we need to help to those countries on their way to the European Union. So once again thanks for the package and I am looking forward cooperation worldwide with the other members of the European committee of regions in those countries with helping them on their journey to the European Union. Thank you so much members Dukiewicz and Srin were from the EPP group I am informed that the PES group declines this opportunity so he stands by the comments of Andy Grotier so we will move to the new group. You have the floor you have the floor for three minutes. I would like to speak to you as a friend and a partner I would like to share some thoughts with you. Your contribution will update the infrastructure and the people's homes. It will be more important to bring peace and justice to the hearts and lives of your countrymen. Please speak to Mr. Bukowar or Mr. Sarajevo so you will be prepared. Local and regional areas have criminal violations under criminal procedures when you are charged with your services. Do not underestimate the logic you have and bring other representatives from Georgia, Moldova, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania. Do not connect with other criminal partners, but learn from the success of those who have committed to the process. Your contribution will further reach the correct functions. You are the rulers of our cities, regions and villages whose efforts are to increase development, prepare a social cohesion and increase democratic values. As part of the European Union I would like to thank you for the participation. I would like to thank you for your contribution to the international community. Thank you for your participation. Thank you for your participation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Burmisch, dear friends and colleagues, a few comments from the ECR group. Over two years since the start of the Russian invasion on Ukraine, 10 years since the illegal annexation of Crimea, we are still supporting the Ukrainian struggle for independence, for integral territoriality and also, we say, Russia-Putninovsk can never win. Ukraine is still struggling with heavy blows in its territory, but it also has to mobilize how to use and work on the acceleration of access to the European Union. Long before the explosion of the aggression of the war, we supported the Ukrainian Partisan Regions in the development activities. We were supporting our great experience, we were the initiative of the school organization, which prepares the local and regional authorities from the development of regional development. The first training in this format began in 2023, in October, our partners from the Lvov region, Iwona Warankowska, Tarnopol, Zakarpac, Odessa, and the representative of the regional development agency used this good practice of this training, which we ensured in our own environment and in the budget. We will continue this year as well. I am back to the debate on the topic of expansion. We consider it unfair to use the countries that are candidate in the trading card that their, so to speak, introduction may and must be related to the issue of the change of the UN treaties. At the same time, the most common Ukrainian men and women are fighting to keep their sovereignty and I think they should not show them from the centralized Union. I think that the mistake is also creating the impression that there are no alternatives and that the only future is a more centralized Union with the concentration of the authorities in Brussels. The alternative is, of course, the European Union of National States using the same laws and possibilities. Let's remember that. Let's not delay the introduction process to Ukraine, because Ukraine to the European Union, because it is necessary for them, it is a challenge and it is also important for us, for the whole of Europe. Thank you very much. Thank you. Before going to member Strugala, P.S. Group, Mr. Ruyon. Yes, thank you, Mr. Ruyon. Mr. Strugala, wait. Before going to you, P.S. Group. And since we are still in the time of political groups interventions. So I give the floor to Mr. Ruyon. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. the Mayor, you can have all the support of the socialist group, of the regions, of the cities and of the villages of the socialist of Europe. And we share your determination and also your anger and your sadness also in the face of the damage that has been caused, the damages sometimes irreversible, that has been caused by your famous name, Martyr. And we are all citizens of Mariupol by thought. And we will continue to fight, to act on your side, so that the law of force in Europe does not predominate and so that the European continent remains at the brink of Russian aggression that has begun in Ukraine. But if P.S. understands that the language of force will not stop if Ukraine stops. So we will not stop with you. The fight for freedom in Europe starts in Mariupol, it starts in Ukraine. We know that, so we will continue to defend you and defend your freedom because it is also our freedom. We have not forgotten the crimes of Putin and we want a future, a European future for Ukraine. We have formulated the commitment. We must not now withdraw while the situation is more difficult. We know the difficulties that you will encounter. The States must continue to provide weapons and we will continue to provide you with our support, our political support, also by forgetting, in particular, of proposals such as that of anti-Egrotest, also bringing perspectives in terms of local democracy that will strengthen the new Ukraine, the integrated Ukraine in the European Union, in terms of good local governance, of the fight against corruption, of good practice, of local development, also of the creation of a more green city, more autonomous and energetic. And we also want to tell you, perhaps when it comes to the party of Europe, on May 9, we could perhaps have an European initiative with Ukraine and that May 9 is marked by a European commitment and also by a sharing of this celebration in Ukraine. In any case, you can count on our support. We will always be on your side. And the question that we ask you, what can we do more to help you? I will take the question that was asked earlier, because we still have possibilities. And your message is very strong, it will motivate, I think, many local European communities, cities, regions and villages to continue to support you, despite the difficulties. And it's in the difficulty that we recognize these friends. In any case, you can really count on us as friends. Thank you so much. The floor goes now to member Darius Rugala. You have the floor for two. Thank you, Mr President. I'm sorry for my false start. But I'm glad that I can take the voice in the name of my group, European Islands. This is a group that has always appreciated democracy, valued such rules as freedom, independence and the establishment of law. And it's very good that we can express ourselves in the same way as a group in this topic, when it comes to opinions. Well, I would like to have a short opinion. Of course, we are behind. And it's still a process of continuation and expansion. We have to cover some of the conditions that have been set up by these countries. And sitting next to my colleague from Romania, he asked me to tell you what the attitude of Poland, Romania, here in our hearts, and Moldavia, especially, but above all, also Ukraine. And when it comes to opinions, it's like the most so. Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor Mariupol, it's hard to say about the city of Ukraine without emotion. I am not alone. We often say that we understand what's going on with you. We have the awareness of what's going on. I think that we don't have this awareness to the end. We don't understand it to the end. I have cooperation with Ukraine, like Mr. Mayor. And I think that I will understand the end that would be there, that would be there. When the bomb was flying, I would see this tragedy of people and this tragedy of emigration. I will deal with it myself. I want to say that when it comes to... I think I can express my opinion, but I think that everyone would be sitting here under this banner. The European Court, the Ukrainian Court, especially the Polish Court. I thank you for today's exhibition for presenting in a clear, precise way what's going on in the city of Poland and what's going on in Ukraine. Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes! Thank you so much. Member Ratilainen, you have the floor for two minutes. Thank you to the speakers and the guests of the conference. To all the Ukrainian friends here today. I met a few weeks ago in the online meeting with the students of Lviv University. We talked about the EU intervention and the EU decision-making of Ukraine. I would like to talk about the EU intervention of a few minutes from the meeting because the students had a lot of questions about their own conversation. They all connected to the environment, the wind, the movement and the protection of the environment. This surprised me, even though young people are all interested in these kinds of things. Thank you to Antje Krootery for this good speech, which also manages the movement of the wind to the EU intervention. We are fighting for the future of Europe in Ukraine. And this summer, the future of Europe is also fighting for the power of the European Parliament. The mechanism for the movement of the wind has been brought by many EU members and its candidates. The energy movement is growing rapidly. If the price of this movement is not significant, then the direct impact on our economy and the candidates' economy will also lead to the fact that the EU is no longer responsible for these reforms. This is important to talk about today because it is important to refer to new näkökulmias to the economy. This näkökulma is also linked to the development of the society. There are many now-towards who want to either stop the EU intervention and stop the European integration of our society's politics and the movement of the wind. The same things are causing questions to all of these. We are also reading from the media recently how these kinds of things can be accompanied by these European Parliament elections and local elections. The future of the wind is in the cold of the epicenter and the risk of being destroyed in Europe. The committee in our area is important to address the issue, but also to tackle the narratives that try to make the cold of the epicenter the decision-making of Europe. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. Now the floor, this concludes the interventions from the floor because we have very limited time. I would now give the floor to Mayor Bochenko for five minutes for concluding remarks. You have the floor, sir. If we are to be the only one, it will be the force that will respond to Russia and its aggression that is taking place on the territory of my country, Ukraine. Our boys and girls are dying today, protecting our land. My son is serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the same way. We will do everything to bring back the cities that are occupied today and the ones that have already been de-occupied. Today, we are looking for expertise, common expertise, common knowledge about the construction of Ukraine. We have to address what I hear today from the cities occupied and de-occupied. This cooperation with the European Parliament, with European cities, with the future of Bochenko, is not important when. The main thing is that we have to be ready for the rejuvenation of Ukraine. We have to learn to prepare professional performers, managers of the rejuvenation of Ukraine. It will be easier to rejuvenate it and shorten the time. And the third thing is very important. Once again, justice. Justice. And once again, justice. We have to fix everything that happened in Ukraine. All crimes must be punished. All ruins that happened on the territory of our cities, our state, must be punished. We understand who did it. We have to tell the voice. This is Russia and this is Putin. And he must be punished. And all the military and political leadership that gave these orders must be punished. Once again, remember Mariupol. The detachment of the wife of the fourth tribe in the city of 400,000 people. This is a Russian-speaking city. Did Putin stop it? No. He raised such a plane and started bombing the city in which 400,000 people. Another big question is how many civilians in Mariupol died. The detachment of the wife of the fourth tribe is my number, which I support with the independent organization of Human Rights Watch. This is the detachment. Their number is 10,000. Our number is more than 20,000 civilians who died under these bombings. When you go out to the streets, look at the buildings that surround you today. Imagine that each other doesn't exist anymore. And there was life. Therefore, we demand justice again so that we can fix all the crimes that happened on the territory of Ukraine that brought us Russian aggression. This is a military or a state terrorist that surrounded the city and destroyed it. Therefore, justice, justice, and once again justice, joint justice is the answer to Russian aggression. Ukraine can do it, we can do it together. Thank you. Now the floor goes to the rapporteur for three minutes. Thank you, Mr. President. Dear colleagues, thank you very much for the discussion with the valuable participants. Thank you very much for your honest and serious interest in a positive future, not only in the previous European Union, but in an extended European Union. We all want a peaceful, peaceful Europe with health and well-being for all. And in this sense, I now ask you to make your decision on this matter. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. And now I think we are ready to proceed with the vote. Please, do you have your voting pads at hand? Ready to vote? I take that as a yes. So let's start voting. Amendment number one. Who votes against amendment number one? Abstention adopted. Amendment two are from the rapporteur if adopted amendment two and three falls. Who votes against amendment two are? Thank you. Abstention. Amendment he's adopted. May I suggest a block vote of amendments four, five, six and seven? If there are no opposition to a block vote of amendments four to seven, thank you. We're going to vote. Amendments four to seven are on vote. Who votes against amendments four to seven? Thank you. Abstention. Amendments are adopted. Amendment eight are from the rapporteur if adopted amendment eight falls. Who votes against amendment eight are? Thank you. Abstention. Who votes for amendment eight are? Electronic vote. The vote is open on amendment eight are. The vote is closed. Amendment eight are was adopted. Amendment may I suggest a block vote on amendments nine, 10. OK, amendment nine is on vote. Who votes against amendment nine? Abstention adopted. Amendment 10 is on vote. Who votes against amendment 10? Thank you. Abstention. Who votes for amendment 10? But electronic vote. Amendment 10 is on electronic vote. The vote is open. Yes, it is. The vote is closed. Amendment 10 was rejected. Amendment may I propose you a block vote? Tempt you with a block vote. 11, 12. Thank you. Amendment 11 is on vote. Who votes against amendment 11? Abstention adopted. Amendment 12 is on vote. Who votes against amendment 12? Thank you. Abstention adopted. Amendment 13 is on vote. Who votes against? Abstention adopted. Amendment 14 is on vote. Who votes against? Abstention adopted. Amendment 15 is on vote. Who votes against? Thank you. Abstention. Amendment 15 is rejected. Final vote on the opinion. No, they say amendment 12 is adopted. I don't have a 12A. 12R. 12R, I don't have a 12R. 12R was the Rapporteur's amendment I mentioned in my beginning, which was about Georgia's, you know, stranger, people, you know, foreign influence. I believe you. I don't doubt you, but the fact is I don't have that amendment, amendment 12R. And I think it's not only me. You don't have 12R either. Does everybody else has 12R? Some have, some haven't. It's in the package. Some have, some haven't. It's in the package of the amendments. So you can see it. If you look into the package, you could see it. There's a 12R. OK. Now I ask the plenary, can we vote? Do you feel you're ready to vote on amendment 12R? OK. Amendment 12R is on vote. Who votes against? Thank you. Abstention. Amendment 12R is adopted. Amendment 12 falls for the record. That means that the final vote that we're going to have on the opinion point the amendment 12R should be considered as adopted. And that's what's relevant for the final writing of the opinion. Final vote on the opinion. Who votes against the opinion? Abstention. Thank you. The opinion is adopted. Congratulations to the rapporteur. The opinion was adopted by majority. Thank you so much. Mayor, thank you so much. Thank you so much.