4. Welfare of laying hens (debate)

Verbatim reports

Oral question (O-0178/2010) by Paolo De Castro, on behalf of the AGRI Committee, to the Commission: The EU laying hen industry - the ban on the use of unenriched cages from 2012 (B7-0657/2010)

Paolo De Castro moved the oral question.

Androulla Vassiliou (Member of the Commission) answered the oral question.

The following spoke: Esther de Lange, on behalf of the PPE Group, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, on behalf of the S&D Group, George Lyon, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Martin Häusling, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, James Nicholson, on behalf of the ECR Group, John Stuart Agnew, on behalf of the EFD Group, and Mike Nattrass, Non-attached Member.

IN THE CHAIR: Libor ROUČEK
Vice-President

The following spoke: Esther Herranz García, Ulrike Rodust, Britta Reimers, Vicky Ford, Mairead McGuinness, Iratxe García Pérez, Jarosław Kalinowski, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Georgios Papastamkos, Spyros Danellis and Giovanni La Via.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Rareş-Lucian Niculescu, Andrew Henry William Brons, Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris, Diane Dodds, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Paul Rübig and Mairead McGuinness

The following spoke: Androulla Vassiliou.

The following spoke: Bernd Lange, James Nicholson and Paul Rübig, the latter on the conduct of the sitting.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 115(5):

- Esther de Lange, on behalf of the PPE Group, James Nicholson, on behalf of the ECR Group, and Lorenzo Fontana, on behalf of the EFD Group, on the EU laying hens industry: the ban on the use of battery cages from 2012 (B7-0705/2010)

- George Lyon and Chris Davies, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the EU laying hens industry: the ban on the use of battery cages from 2012 (B7-0706/2010)

- Martin Häusling, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, and Alyn Smith, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the EU laying hens industry: the ban on the use of battery cages from 2012 (B7-0714/2010)

- Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the welfare of laying hens (B7-0720/2010)

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 16.12.2010, item 6.8.

(The sitting was suspended at 11.40 pending voting time and resumed at 12.00.)