Verbatim report of proceedings

Tuesday, 4 April 2006 - Strasbourg

8.8. WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong (vote)

– Before the vote on paragraph 18

  Georgios Papastamkos (PPE-DE), rapporteur. – (EL) Mr President, in the sentence which starts with the phrase 'stresses the importance' and ends with the word 'subsidies', it is suggested that a word be added. This sentence would therefore be reworded as follows: 'Stresses the importance, therefore, of achieving positive results in reducing and eliminating its domestic subsidies'. In order not to create confusion and for reasons of grammatical and semantic consistency, it is proposed that this sentence be moved immediately after the sentence which ends with the words 'cotton farmers'.

(Parliament approved the oral amendment)