The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Richard CORBETT (PES, UK) to amend Rule 173 of Parliament's Rules of Procedure on verbatim reports. The resolution was adopted by 568 in favour, 94 against and 17 abstentions. The report states that:
-a verbatim report of the proceedings of each sitting shall be drawn up in all official languages;
- speakers shall be required to return corrections to typescripts of their speeches to the Secretariat within one week;
-the verbatim report shall be published as an annex to the Official Journal of the European Union;
-Members may request extracts of the verbatim report to be translated at short notice.
Lastly, the resolution states that, immediately after the sitting, an audiovisual record of the proceedings, including the soundtrack from all interpretation booths, shall be produced and made available on the Internet.