17. Reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment ***I (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment [COM(2018)0340 - C8-0218/2018 - 2018/0172(COD)] - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Rapporteur: Frédérique Ries (A8-0317/2018)

Frédérique Ries introduced the report.

The following spoke: Karmenu Vella (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Bronis Ropė (rapporteur for the opinion of the AGRI Committee), Ricardo Serrão Santos (rapporteur for the opinion of the PECH Committee), Karl-Heinz Florenz, on behalf of the PPE Group, Massimo Paolucci, on behalf of the S&D Group, Mark Demesmaeker, on behalf of the ECR Group, Nils Torvalds, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Margrete Auken, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Lynn Boylan, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, John Stuart Agnew, on behalf of the EFDD Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Frédérique Ries, Christelle Lechevalier, on behalf of the ENF Group, Peter Liese, who also replied to a blue-card question by Margrete Auken, Miriam Dalli, Marco Affronte, Piernicola Pedicini, Oscar Lancini, Pilar Ayuso, Michela Giuffrida, Bas Eickhout, Seán Kelly, Giovanni La Via, Christophe Hansen and Henna Virkkunen.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: José Inácio Faria, Notis Marias, Georgios Epitideios, Romana Tomc, Arne Gericke and Stanislav Polčák.

The following spoke: Karmenu Vella and Frédérique Ries.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 24.10.2018, item 11.12.