20. The European Union's Generalised System of Preferences (debate)

Verbatim reports

Commission statement: The European Union's Generalised System of Preferences

Peter Mandelson (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, on behalf of the PSE Group, Sajjad Karim, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Caroline Lucas, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jan Andersson, Kader Arif and Peter Mandelson.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled pursuant to Rule 103(2):

- Helmuth Markov, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the European Union’s Generalised System of Preferences (B6-0578/2006)

- Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Ria Oomen-Ruijten and Maria Martens, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the European Union’s Generalised System of Preferences (B6-0579/2006)

- Cristiana Muscardini, Eugenijus Maldeikis, Roberta Angelilli and Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the European Union’s Generalised System of Preferences (B6-0580/2006)

- Caroline Lucas and Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the European Union's Generalised System of Preferences (B6-0581/2006)

- Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Jan Andersson, Erika Mann and Stephen Hughes, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the European Union’s Generalised System of Preferences (B6-0582/2006)

- Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Bernard Lehideux and Johan Van Hecke, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on tariff preferences granted to special incentive arrangement (GSP+) beneficiary countries (B6-0583/2006)

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 15.11.2006, Item 4.2.