14. Agricultural products and foodstuffs as traditional specialities guaranteed * - Protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs * (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation on agricultural products and foodstuffs as traditional specialities guaranteed [COM(2005)0694 - COM(2005)0694 - 2005/0270(CNS)] - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Rapporteur: Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (A6-0033/2006)

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs [COM(2005)0698 - COM(2005)0698 - 2005/0275(CNS)] - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Rapporteur: Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (A6-0034/2006)

Neelie Kroes (Member of the Commission) spoke.

Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf introduced the reports.

The following spoke: Giuseppe Castiglione, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, María Isabel Salinas García, on behalf of the PSE Group, Jan Mulder, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Daniel Strož, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Witold Tomczak, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Janusz Wojciechowski, on behalf of the UEN Group, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Non-attached Member, Astrid Lulling, Bogdan Golik, Giusto Catania, Kathy Sinnott, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, James Hugh Allister, Agnes Schierhuber, Robert Navarro, Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski, Esther Herranz García, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, Mairead McGuinness, Marc Tarabella, Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf and Neelie Kroes.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 16.03.2006, Item 9.2 and Minutes of 16.03.2006, Item 9.3.