14. REACH ***I - Adaptation to REACH ***I (debate)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency and amending Directive 1999/45/EC and Regulation (EC) No …/… [on Persistent Organic Pollutants] [COM(2003)0644 - C5-0530/2003 - 2003/0256(COD)] - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Rapporteur: Guido Sacconi (A6-0315/2005)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 67/548/EEC in order to adapt it to Regulation (EC) of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals [COM(2003)0644 - C5-0531/2003 - 2003/0257(COD)] - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Rapporteur: Guido Sacconi (A6-0285/2005)

The following spoke: Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission), Stavros Dimas (Member of the Commission) and Lord Bach (President-in-Office of the Council).

Guido Sacconi introduced reports A6-0315/2005 and A6-0285/2005.

Hiltrud Breyer spoke on the rapporteur's presentation.

The following spoke: Christofer Fjellner (draftsman of the opinion of the INTA Committee), Elisa Ferreira (draftsman of the opinion of the ECON Committee), Thomas Mann (draftsman of the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Lena Ek (draftsman of the opinion of the ITRE Committee), Hartmut Nassauer (draftsman of the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Kurt Lechner (draftsman of the opinion of the JURI Committee) and Hiltrud Breyer (draftsman of the opinion of the FEMM Committee).

IN THE CHAIR: Mario MAURO
Vice-President

The following spoke: David Hammerstein Mintz (draftsman of the opinion of the PETI Committee), Satu Hassi (draftsman of the opinion of the ECON Committee), Ria Oomen-Ruijten, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Werner Langen on Satu Hassi's remarks, Robert Goebbels, on behalf of the PSE Group, Lena Ek, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Carl Schlyter, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jonas Sjöstedt, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Johannes Blokland, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Liam Aylward, on behalf of the UEN Group, Irena Belohorská, Non-attached Member, Werner Langen, Béatrice Patrie, Chris Davies, Caroline Lucas, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Urszula Krupa, Alessandro Foglietta, Ashley Mote, Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca, Erika Mann, Alexander Lambsdorff, Hiltrud Breyer, Jiří Maštálka and Hélène Goudin.

IN THE CHAIR: Miroslav OUZKÝ
Vice-President

The following spoke: Mogens N.J. Camre, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, John Bowis, Mary Honeyball, Patrizia Toia, Marie Anne Isler Béguin, Roberto Musacchio, Godfrey Bloom, Lydia Schenardi, Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Edit Herczog, Anne Laperrouze, Karl-Heinz Florenz, Manuel Medina Ortega, Frédérique Ries, Antonios Trakatellis, Dorette Corbey, Holger Krahmer, Amalia Sartori, Karin Scheele, Anders Wijkman, Dan Jørgensen, Péter Olajos, Riitta Myller, Avril Doyle, Adam Gierek, Marianne Thyssen, Evangelia Tzampazi, Åsa Westlund, Guido Sacconi, Lord Bach, Günter Verheugen, Stavros Dimas and Paul Rübig.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 17.11.2005, Item 4.1 and Minutes of 17.11.2005, Item 4.2.