12. European code of conduct on arms exports (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: European code of conduct on arms exports

Janez Lenarčič (President-in-Office of the Council) and Benita Ferrero-Waldner (Member of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Urszula Gacek, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Ana Maria Gomes, on behalf of the PSE Group, Fiona Hall, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Tobias Pflüger, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Janez Lenarčič.

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

- Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers - failure of the Council to adopt the Common Position and transform the Code into a legally binding instrument (B6-0063/2008),

- Raül Romeva i Rueda and Angelika Beer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers - failure of the Council to adopt the Common Position and transform the Code into a legally binding instrument (B6-0064/2008),

- José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Stefano Zappalà and Karl von Wogau, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers - failure of the Council to adopt the common position and transform the Code into a legally binding instrument (B6-0065/2008),

- Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, Brian Crowley, Ryszard Czarnecki and Adam Bielan, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the EU Code of Conduct on arms transfers - failure of the Council to adopt the Common Position and transform the Code into a legally binding instrument (B6-0070/2008),

- Tobias Pflüger, Willy Meyer Pleite and Vittorio Agnoletto, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers - failure of the Council to adopt the Common Position and transform the Code into a legally binding instrument (B6-0074/2008),

- Ana Maria Gomes, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers – failure of the Council to adopt the Common Position and transform the Code into a legally binding instrument (B6-0109/2008).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 13.03.2008, item 4.6.