18. Community trade mark ***I - Laws of the Member States relating to trade marks ***I (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 on the Community trade mark [COM(2013)0161 - C7-0087/2013- 2013/0088(COD)] - Committee on Legal Affairs. Rapporteur: Cecilia Wikström (A7-0031/2014)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (recast) [COM(2013)0162 - C7-0088/2013- 2013/0089(COD)] - Committee on Legal Affairs. Rapporteur: Cecilia Wikström (A7-0032/2014)

Cecilia Wikström introduced the reports.

The following spoke: Michel Barnier (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: George Sabin Cutaş (rapporteur for the opinion of the INTA Committee), Andreas Schwab (rapporteur for the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Marielle Gallo, on behalf of the PPE Group, Bernhard Rapkay, on behalf of the S&D Group, Christian Engström, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jiří Maštálka, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Dimitar Stoyanov, Non-attached Member, and Giuseppe Gargani.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Sandra Petrović Jakovina, Eva Lichtenberger and Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.

The following spoke: Michel Barnier and Cecilia Wikström.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 25.2.2014, item 5.9 and minutes of 25.2.2014, item 5.10.