18. Support schemes for farmers (support for cotton) * (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report: on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, as regards the support scheme for cotton [COM(2007)0701 - C6-0447/2007 - 2007/0242(CNS)] - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Rapporteur: Ioannis Gklavakis (A6-0166/2008)

The following spoke: Mariann Fischer Boel (Member of the Commission).

Ioannis Gklavakis introduced the report.

The following spoke: Carmen Fraga Estévez, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, María Isabel Salinas García, on behalf of the PSE Group, Diamanto Manolakou, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nils Lundgren, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, and Katerina Batzeli.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf.

The following spoke: Mariann Fischer Boel and Ioannis Gklavakis.

IN THE CHAIR: Gérard ONESTA
Vice-President

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 08.05.2008, item 5.5.