18. Agreements on trade in bananas *** - Repeal of Council Regulation (EC) No 1964/2005 on the tariff rates for bananas ***I - Agreements on trade in bananas (debate)

Verbatim reports

Recommendation on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of a Geneva Agreement on Trade in Bananas between the European Union and Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela and of an Agreement on Trade in Bananas between the European Union and the United States of America [07782/2010 - C7-0148/2010- 2010/0057(NLE)] - Committee on International Trade. Rapporteur: Francesca Balzani (A7-0002/2011)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1964/2005 on the tariff rates for bananas [COM(2010)0096 - C7-0074/2010- 2010/0056(COD)] - Committee on International Trade. Rapporteur: Francesca Balzani (A7-0003/2011)

Oral question (O-0012/2011) by Vital Moreira and Francesca Balzani, on behalf of the INTA Committee, to the Council: The conclusion of a Geneva Agreement on Trade in Bananas (B7-0007/2011)

Oral question (O-0013/2011) by Vital Moreira and Francesca Balzani, on behalf of the INTA Committee, to the Commission: The conclusion of a Geneva Agreement on Trade in Bananas (B7-0008/2011)

Francesca Balzani introduced the recommendation and the report and moved the oral questions.

Enikő Győri (President-in-Office of the Council) and Dacian Cioloş (Member of the Commission) answered the oral questions.

The following spoke: Charles Goerens (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee), Laima Liucija Andrikienė, on behalf of the PPE Group, Kriton Arsenis, on behalf of the S&D Group, Catherine Grèze, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Elie Hoarau, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, David Campbell Bannerman, on behalf of the EFD Group, Laurence J.A.J. Stassen, Non-attached Member, Gabriel Mato Adrover, Catherine Stihler, Giovanni La Via, Elisabeth Köstinger and Seán Kelly.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Nuno Teixeira and João Ferreira.

The following spoke: Dacian Cioloş, Enikő Győri and Francesca Balzani.

Motion for a resolution to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 115(5):

- Francesca Balzani and Vital Moreira, on behalf of the INTA Committee, on the conclusion of a Geneva Agreement on Trade in Bananas between the European Union and Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela and of an Agreement on Trade in Bananas between the European Union and the United States (B7-0074/2011).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 3.2.2011, item 8.5, minutes of 3.2.2011, item 8.6 and minutes of 3.2.2011, item 8.7.