5. School Fresh Fruit Scheme (amendment of Single CMO Regulation) * (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report: on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy and (EC) No 1234/2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) in order to set up a School Fruit Scheme [COM(2008)0442 - C6-0315/2008 - 2008/0146(CNS)] - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Rapporteur: Niels Busk (A6-0391/2008)

Niels Busk introduced the report.

The following spoke: Michel Barnier (President-in-Office of the Council) and Mariann Fischer Boel (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Maria Petre, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, María Isabel Salinas García, on behalf of the PSE Group, Donato Tommaso Veraldi, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Alyn Smith, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Bairbre de Brún, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Jeffrey Titford, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Christa Klaß, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Marian Harkin and Hélène Goudin.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: James Nicholson, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Ilda Figueiredo, Neil Parish and Christel Schaldemose.

The following spoke: Michel Barnier, Mariann Fischer Boel and Niels Busk.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 18.11.2008, item 7.15.

IN THE CHAIR: Luigi COCILOVO
Vice-President