16. Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the SADC EPA States *** - Parliamentary oversight and civil society monitoring of EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement (debate)

Verbatim reports

Recommendation on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the SADC EPA States, of the other part [10107/2016 - C8-0243/2016 - 2016/0005(NLE)] - Committee on International Trade. Rapporteur: Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (A8-0242/2016)

Question for oral answer (O-000108/2016) by Bernd Lange and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, on behalf of the INTA Committee, to the Commission: Parliamentary oversight and civil society monitoring of the SADC-EU EPA (2016/2855(RSP)) (B8-0713/2016)

Alexander Graf Lambsdorff introduced the recommendation and moved the question.

The following spoke: Cecilia Malmström (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Pedro Silva Pereira (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee), Gabriel Mato, on behalf of the PPE Group, Joachim Schuster, on behalf of the S&D Group, Helmut Scholz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Christofer Fjellner, David Martin, Giovanni La Via, Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero Fernández, Joachim Zeller, Maria Arena, Adam Szejnfeld and Jude Kirton-Darling.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Clara Eugenia Aguilera García and Notis Marias.

The following spoke: Cecilia Malmström and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 14.9.2016, item 9.4.