4. Annual report on the European Ombudsman's activities in 2007 (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report: on the Annual report on the European Ombudsman's activities in 2007 [2008/2158(INI)] - Committee on Petitions. Rapporteur: Dushana Zdravkova (A6-0358/2008)

Dushana Zdravkova introduced the report.

The following spoke: Nikiforos Diamandouros (Ombudsman) and Andris Piebalgs (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Andreas Schwab, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Proinsias De Rossa, on behalf of the PSE Group, Marian Harkin, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Margrete Auken, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Marcin Libicki, on behalf of the UEN Group, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nils Lundgren, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, Mairead McGuinness, Alexandra Dobolyi, Metin Kazak, Ryszard Czarnecki, Frank Vanhecke, Manolis Mavrommatis, Michael Cashman, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Simon Busuttil, Maria Matsouka, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg and Inés Ayala Sender.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Dumitru Oprea, Reinhard Rack, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău and Alessandro Battilocchio.

The following spoke: Nikiforos Diamandouros, Andris Piebalgs, Dushana Zdravkova and Hans-Peter Martin, who made a personal statement in response to the remarks made by Michael Cashman.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 23.10.2008, item 8.8.