(The sitting was suspended at 19.15 and resumed at 21.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Angel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ
Vice-President

17. White Paper on Nutrition, Overweight and Obesity-related health issues (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report: on the White Paper on nutrition, overweight and obesity-related health issues [2007/2285(INI)] - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Rapporteur: Alessandro Foglietta (A6-0256/2008)

Alessandro Foglietta introduced the report.

The following spoke: László Kovács (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Małgorzata Handzlik (draftsman of the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Czesław Adam Siekierski (draftsman of the opinion of the AGRI Committee), Anna Záborská (draftsman of the opinion of the FEMM Committee), Philip Bushill-Matthews, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Linda McAvan, on behalf of the PSE Group, Frédérique Ries, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Ewa Tomaszewska, on behalf of the UEN Group, Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jens Holm, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Johannes Blokland, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Irena Belohorská, Non-attached Member, Horst Schnellhardt, Edite Estrela, Holger Krahmer, Roberta Angelilli, Ilda Figueiredo, Urszula Krupa, Avril Doyle, Åsa Westlund, Cristian Silviu Buşoi, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Christa Klaß, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Siiri Oviir, Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski, Françoise Grossetête, Marian Harkin, Bogusław Sonik, Danutė Budreikaitė, Miroslav Mikolášik and Antonio De Blasio.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Zbigniew Zaleski and Marian Zlotea.

The following spoke: László Kovács and Alessandro Foglietta.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 25.09.2008, item 7.6.