3. Farm input supply chain - Imbalances in the food supply chain (debate)

CRE

Report on the farm input supply chain: structure and implications [2011/2114(INI)] - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Rapporteur: José Bové (A7-0421/2011)

Oral question (O-000239/2011) by Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, on behalf of the PPE Group, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, on behalf of the S&D Group, and James Nicholson, on behalf of the ECR Group, to the Commission: Imbalances in the food supply chain (B7-0675/2011)

Oral question (O-000302/2011) by Bairbre de Brún, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, to the Commission: Transparency and fairness in the food supply chain (B7-0676/2011)

Oral question (O-000001/2012) by Rolandas Paksas and Juozas Imbrasas, on behalf of the EFD Group, to the Commission: Imbalances in the food supply chain (B7-0021/2012)

José Bové introduced the report.

Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, James Nicholson, João Ferreira and Rolandas Paksas moved the oral questions

Antonio Tajani (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the oral questions.

The following spoke: Mairead McGuinness, on behalf of the PPE Group, Spyros Danellis, on behalf of the S&D Group, Marit Paulsen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Alyn Smith, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Janusz Wojciechowski, on behalf of the ECR Group, Alfreds Rubiks, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, John Stuart Agnew, on behalf of the EFD Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Alyn Smith, Diane Dodds, Non-attached Member, Albert Deß, Paolo De Castro, George Lyon, Bart Staes, Hynek Fajmon, who also replied to a blue-card question by Marc Tarabella, Jaroslav Paška, Andreas Mölzer, Esther Herranz García, Iratxe García Pérez, Britta Reimers, Richard Ashworth, Bastiaan Belder, Agnès Le Brun, Marc Tarabella, Liam Aylward, Kay Swinburne, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Wojciech Michał Olejniczak and Struan Stevenson.

IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Angel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ
Vice-President

The following spoke: Elisabeth Köstinger, who also replied to a blue-card question by Kay Swinburne, Ulrike Rodust, Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris, Karin Kadenbach, Rareş-Lucian Niculescu, Luís Paulo Alves, Esther de Lange, Daciana Octavia Sârbu, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt and Mario Pirillo.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Anna Záborská, Phil Prendergast, Riikka Manner, Andrew Henry William Brons, Seán Kelly, Peter Jahr and Petru Constantin Luhan.

The following spoke: Antonio Tajani and José Bové.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 115(5):

- Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Albert Deß and Esther Herranz García, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the imbalances in the food distribution chain (2011/2904(RSP)) (B7-0006/2012);

- James Nicholson and Janusz Wojciechowski, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the imbalances in the food distribution chain (2011/2904(RSP)) (B7-0007/2012);

- George Lyon, Britta Reimers, Liam Aylward, Marit Paulsen, Sylvie Goulard and Riikka Manner, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the imbalances in the food distribution chain (2011/2904(RSP)) (B7-0008/2012);

- José Bové, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the imbalances in the food distribution chain (2011/2904(RSP)) (B7-0009/2012);

- Paolo De Castro, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos and Luís Paulo Alves, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the imbalances in the food distribution chain (2011/2904(RSP)) (B7-0010/2012);

- Alfreds Rubiks, Patrick Le Hyaric, João Ferreira, Nikolaos Chountis, Kartika Tamara Liotard, Marisa Matias, Willy Meyer and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on imbalances in the food supply chain (2011/2904(RSP)) (B7-0013/2012).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 19.1.2012, item 10.10 and minutes of 19.1.2012, item 10.11.