6. Food intended for infants and young children and food for special medical purposes ***I (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on food intended for infants and young children and on food for special medical purposes [COM(2011)0353 - C7-0169/2011- 2011/0156(COD)] - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Rapporteur: Frédérique Ries (A7-0059/2012)

Frédérique Ries introduced the report.

The following spoke: John Dalli (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Hannu Takkula (rapporteur for the opinion of the ITRE Committee), Iliana Ivanova (rapporteur for the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Esther de Lange, on behalf of the PPE Group, Daciana Octavia Sârbu, on behalf of the S&D Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Paul Rübig, Antonyia Parvanova, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Carl Schlyter, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Julie Girling, on behalf of the ECR Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Anja Weisgerber, Tadeusz Cymański, on behalf of the EFD Group, Alda Sousa, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Peter Liese, Matthias Groote, Oreste Rossi, Françoise Grossetête, Glenis Willmott, who also replied to a blue-card question by Esther de Lange, Jaroslav Paška, Richard Seeber, Åsa Westlund, Christa Klaß, Mario Pirillo, Karin Kadenbach, Marc Tarabella and Judith A. Merkies.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Anja Weisgerber, Toine Manders, Andreas Mölzer, Karin Kadenbach and Carl Schlyter.

The following spoke: John Dalli and Frédérique Ries.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 14.6.2012, item 11.3.