4. Use of genetically modified food and feed ***I (debate)

CRE

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 as regards the possibility for the Member States to restrict or prohibit the use of genetically modified food and feed on their territory [COM(2015)0177 - C8-0107/2015- 2015/0093(COD)] - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Rapporteur: Giovanni La Via (A8-0305/2015)

Giovanni La Via introduced the report.

The following spoke: Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Albert Deß (rapporteur for the opinion of the AGRI Committee), Peter Liese, on behalf of the PPE Group, Guillaume Balas, on behalf of the S&D Group, Zbigniew Kuźmiuk, on behalf of the ECR Group, Gesine Meissner, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Tibor Szanyi, Lynn Boylan, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by John Stuart Agnew, Bart Staes, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Eleonora Evi, on behalf of the EFDD Group, Jean-François Jalkh, on behalf of the ENF Group, Zoltán Balczó, non-attached Member, Françoise Grossetête, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Bronis Ropė and Gesine Meissner, Carlos Zorrinho, Richard Ashworth, who also replied to a blue-card question by Molly Scott Cato, Jan Huitema, Luke Ming Flanagan, José Bové, Julia Reid, Mara Bizzotto, Lampros Fountoulis, Pilar Ayuso, Paolo De Castro, Beata Gosiewska, Frédérique Ries, Martin Häusling, who also replied to a blue-card question by Doru-Claudian Frunzulică, Ivo Belet, Susanne Melior, Esther Herranz García, Damiano Zoffoli and Paul Brannen.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Mairead McGuinness, Maria Grapini, Notis Marias, Hilde Vautmans, Lidia Senra Rodríguez, Claude Turmes, Krzysztof Hetman and Biljana Borzan.

The following spoke: Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis.

The following spoke: Seán Kelly on the conduct of the catch-the-eye procedure (the President responded, giving explanations).

The following spoke: Giovanni La Via.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 28.10.2015, item 7.5.