James Elles, Simon Coveney, Bernd Posselt and Thomas Mann, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Pasqualina Napoletano, Neena Gill and Emilio Menéndez del Valle, on behalf of the PSE Group, Elizabeth Lynne and Sajjad Karim, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Alyn Smith, Jean Lambert and Cem Özdemir, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Luisa Morgantini, Dimitrios Papadimoulis and Esko Seppänen, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Eoin Ryan, on behalf of the UEN Group.
- James Elles, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, who moved an oral amendment to recital A, which was incorporated;
- Catherine Stihler, on behalf of the PSE Group, and Elizabeth Lynne, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who withdrew the oral amendments by their respective groups in favour of the PPE-DE Group's oral amendment;
- Jaromír Kohlíček on the PPE-DE Group's oral amendment.