(The sitting was suspended at 19.50 and resumed at 21.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Mario MAURO
Vice-President

20. The situation of women in rural areas of the EU (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report: on the situation of women in rural areas of the EU [2007/2117(INI)] - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Rapporteur: Christa Klaß (A6-0031/2008)

Christa Klaß introduced the report.

The following spoke: Mariann Fischer Boel (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Edit Bauer, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Iratxe García Pérez, on behalf of the PSE Group, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, on behalf of the UEN Group, Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ilda Figueiredo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Urszula Krupa, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Christa Prets, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Eva-Britt Svensson, Rumiana Jeleva, Ewa Tomaszewska, Esther Herranz García, Corina Creţu and Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Mairead McGuinness, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Danutė Budreikaitė, Avril Doyle, Roberta Alma Anastase, Anna Záborská and Monica Maria Iacob-Ridzi.

The following spoke: Mariann Fischer Boel and Christa Klaß.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 12.03.2008, item 5.6.