16. Steps towards improving the environment for SMEs in Europe - Small Business Act (debate)

Verbatim reports

Oral question (O-0113/2008) by Edit Herczog, on behalf of the PSE Group, and Nicole Fontaine, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, to the Council: Steps towards improving the environment for SMEs in Europe - Small Business Act (B6-0485/2008)

Edit Herczog and Nicole Fontaine moved the oral question.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the oral question..

The following spoke: Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission).

The following spoke: Giles Chichester, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Neena Gill, on behalf of the PSE Group, Šarūnas Birutis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Corien Wortmann-Kool, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău and Dominique Vlasto.

IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Angel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ
Vice-President

The following spoke: Juan Fraile Cantón, Jacques Toubon and Pierre Pribetich.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Zita Pleštinská, Ewa Tomaszewska, Ilda Figueiredo, Jim Allister and Paul Rübig.

The following spoke: Jean-Pierre Jouyet and Günter Verheugen.

Motion for a resolution to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 108(5):

- Nicole Fontaine and Giles Chichester, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, and Edit Herczog, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the step towards improving the environment for SMEs in Europe – Small Business Act (B6-0617/2008).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 04.12.2008, item 7.8.