Text tabled : A7-0086/2011

  Raül Romeva i Rueda (Verts/ALE), in writing. – In its position at first reading, adopted on 18 May 2010, the European Parliament approved, by a very large majority, 63 amendments. The vast majority were technical amendments aimed at aligning the text with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and with the new legislative framework for the marketing of goods. Parliament also adopted a number of substantive amendments, including rules on origin marking, the indication of animal-derived materials, the use of language-independent symbols and a review clause.