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2016/2923(RSP) Resolution on the draft Commission implementing decision authorising the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of, or produced from genetically modified cotton 281-24-236 × 3006-210-23 × MON 88913 (DAS-24236-5×DAS-21Ø23-5×MON-88913-8)

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead ENVI PIETIKÄINEN Sirpa (icon: PPE PPE), BALAS Guillaume (icon: S&D S&D), STAES Bart (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE), EVI Eleonora (icon: EFDD EFDD) HUITEMA Jan (icon: ALDE ALDE)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 112-p2

Events

2017/03/29
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2016/10/06
   EP - Motion for a resolution
Documents
2016/10/06
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2016/10/06
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted by 384 votes to 168, with 39 abstentions, a resolution on the draft Commission implementing decision authorising the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of, or produced from genetically modified cotton 281-24-236 × 3006-210-23 × MON 88913 (DAS-24236-5×DAS-21Ø23-5×MON-88913-8) pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (D046168/00).

The resolution was tabled by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Members recalled that the draft Commission implementing decision was voted on in the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 on 8 July 2016, with no opinion being delivered .

The draft Commission implementing decision was voted on in the Appeal Committee on 15 September 2016 and once again no opinion was delivered.

Parliament already deplored the fact that, since the entry into force of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, authorisation decisions had been adopted by the Commission, in accordance with the applicable legislation, without the support of the opinions of Member State committees and that the return of the dossier to the Commission for the final decision, which was very much the exception for the procedure as a whole, had become the norm for decision-making on genetically modified (GM) food and feed authorisations.

Members also recalled that the legislative proposal amending Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 was rejected by Parliament on 28 October 2015 on the grounds that, while cultivation necessarily takes place on a Member State’s territory, GMO trade crosses borders, which means that a national ‘sales and use’ ban proposed by the Commission could be impossible to enforce without reintroducing border checks on imports. Parliament called on the Commission to withdraw its proposal and to submit a new one.

On this basis, Parliament considered that the draft Commission implementing decision exceeds the implementing powers provided for in provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 and is not consistent with Union law which seeks to provide the basis for ensuring a high level of protection of human life and health, animal health and welfare, environment and consumer interests in relation to genetically modified food and feed, whilst ensuring the effective functioning of the internal market.

Accordingly, Parliament called on the Commission to withdraw its draft implementing decision .

The Commission is called upon to submit a new legislative proposal on the basis of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, amending Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 to take into account frequently expressed national concerns which do not relate only to issues associated with the safety of GMOs for health or the environment.

Documents
2016/10/06
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2016/09/20
   EP - PIETIKÄINEN Sirpa (PPE) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2016/09/20
   EP - BALAS Guillaume (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2016/09/20
   EP - STAES Bart (Verts/ALE) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2016/09/20
   EP - EVI Eleonora (EFDD) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI

Documents

Activities

Votes

B8-1088/2016 - Résolution #

2016/10/06 Outcome: +: 384, -: 168, 0: 39
IT FR DE EL AT PL HU ES RO PT HR SI LV BE LU DK GB SK CY MT LT BG FI SE IE NL EE CZ
Total
60
62
80
17
17
43
16
44
24
17
9
7
6
18
6
8
44
10
4
4
8
14
10
14
8
21
3
16
icon: S&D S&D
148

Hungary S&D

2

Croatia S&D

2

Slovenia S&D

For (1)

1

Luxembourg S&D

For (1)

1

Cyprus S&D

2

Malta S&D

For (1)

1

Lithuania S&D

1

Bulgaria S&D

2

Ireland S&D

For (1)

1

Netherlands S&D

2

Czechia S&D

3
icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL
44

United Kingdom GUE/NGL

1

Cyprus GUE/NGL

1

Finland GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Sweden GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Ireland GUE/NGL

2

Netherlands GUE/NGL

3

Czechia GUE/NGL

1
icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE
40

France Verts/ALE

4

Austria Verts/ALE

3

Hungary Verts/ALE

2

Croatia Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Slovenia Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Latvia Verts/ALE

1

Belgium Verts/ALE

2

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Denmark Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

United Kingdom Verts/ALE

3

Lithuania Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Finland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Sweden Verts/ALE

2

Netherlands Verts/ALE

1

Estonia Verts/ALE

For (1)

1
icon: ENF ENF
31

Germany ENF

For (1)

1

Poland ENF

For (1)

1

Romania ENF

1

Belgium ENF

For (1)

1

Netherlands ENF

3
icon: ECR ECR
47

Italy ECR

1

Greece ECR

For (1)

1

Romania ECR

For (1)

1

Croatia ECR

For (1)

1

Latvia ECR

For (1)

1

Belgium ECR

2

Denmark ECR

2

Slovakia ECR

1

Bulgaria ECR

2

Finland ECR

Against (1)

2

Netherlands ECR

For (1)

1

Czechia ECR

2
icon: EFDD EFDD
35

France EFDD

1

Poland EFDD

1

Lithuania EFDD

For (1)

1

Sweden EFDD

1

Czechia EFDD

Against (1)

1
icon: NI NI
12

France NI

For (1)

Against (1)

2

Germany NI

2

Poland NI

1
icon: ALDE ALDE
60

Austria ALDE

Against (1)

1

Romania ALDE

2

Croatia ALDE

For (1)

Against (1)

2

Slovenia ALDE

For (1)

1

Latvia ALDE

1

Luxembourg ALDE

For (1)

1

Denmark ALDE

2

United Kingdom ALDE

Against (1)

1

Lithuania ALDE

Against (1)

Abstain (1)

3

Bulgaria ALDE

For (1)

4

Ireland ALDE

For (1)

1

Estonia ALDE

Against (1)

1
icon: PPE PPE
173

Belgium PPE

Against (1)

3

Luxembourg PPE

Against (1)

3

Cyprus PPE

1

Lithuania PPE

Against (1)

2

Finland PPE

1

Estonia PPE

Against (1)

1

History

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