IN THE CHAIR: Marek SIWIEC
Vice-President

15. Human Rights in the World 2007 and the EU's policy on the matter - EU Election Observation Missions (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report: on the Annual Report on Human Rights in the World 2007 and the EU's policy on the matter [2007/2274(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Marco Cappato (A6-0153/2008)

Report: on EU election observation missions: objectives, practices and future challenges [2007/2217(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Co-rapporteurs: Véronique De Keyser and José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra (A6-0138/2008)

Marco Cappato introduced the report.

Véronique De Keyser and José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra introduced the report.

The following spoke: Janez Lenarčič (President-in-Office of the Council) and Benita Ferrero-Waldner (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Thijs Berman (draftsman of the opinion of the DEVE Committee), Giusto Catania (draftsman of the opinion of the LIBE Committee), Laima Liucija Andrikienė, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, on behalf of the PSE Group, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Konrad Szymański, on behalf of the UEN Group, Hélène Flautre, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Vittorio Agnoletto, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Frank Vanhecke, Non-attached Member, Zbigniew Zaleski, Józef Pinior, Fiona Hall and Raül Romeva i Rueda.

IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Angel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ
Vice-President

The following spoke: Luisa Morgantini, Hélène Goudin, Jim Allister, Ari Vatanen, Richard Howitt, Ona Juknevičienė, Margrete Auken, Willy Meyer Pleite, Kathy Sinnott, Urszula Gacek, Libor Rouček, Sarah Ludford, Maria da Assunção Esteves, Genowefa Grabowska, Maria Eleni Koppa, Marios Matsakis and Corina Creţu.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Marianne Mikko, Marie Anne Isler Béguin and Katrin Saks.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 08.05.2008, item 5.7 and minutes of 08.05.2008, item 5.8.