– Before the vote on Amendment 5

  José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra (PPE). – (ES) Mr President, in the interests of achieving the broadest consensus possible, we believe that this resolution should receive wide support from this House, and so we propose an oral amendment to Amendment 5, in agreement with Mr Swoboda, Mr Verhofstadt and the other political groups. In the English version, this oral amendment consists of adding the words ‘strengthening and implementation’ after the word ‘introduction’, and the replacement of the word ‘condemns’ by the word ‘deplores’.

(The oral amendment was accepted)