(The sitting was suspended at 11.15 pending voting time and resumed at 12.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS
Vice-President

5. Announcement by the President

Verbatim reports

The President spoke on the fire in a factory manufacturing clothes for Western companies in Dacca (Bangladesh) on 24 November 2012. He informed the House that the Conference of Presidents had decided that a debate covering all aspects of this matter, with statements by the Council and the Commission, would be held during the part-session in January 2013.

The President expressed the European Parliament's sympathy for the victims' families.