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Wednesday 3 December 2008 — Stefano Zappalà and Karl von Wogau, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Renate Weber, on behalf of the ALDE Group, and Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports (B6-0621/2008), — Tobias Pflüger and Willy Meyer Pleite, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers — failure of the Council to adopt the common position and transform the Code into a legally binding instrument — need to control arms brokering (B6-0622/2008).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 04.12.2008, Item 7.9.

18. One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Pursuant to Rule 144, the following Members who wished to draw the attention of Parliament to matters of political importance spoke for one minute:

Dragoș Florin David, Marusya Ivanova Lyubcheva, Marco Cappato, Ewa Tomaszewska, Pedro Guerreiro, Urszula Krupa, Jim Allister, Nicolae Vlad Popa, Neena Gill, Marco Pannella, László Tőkés, Marcin Libicki, Ilda Figueiredo, Desislav Chukolov, Romana Jordan Cizelj, , Sylwester Chruszcz, Anna Záborská, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, , Csaba Sógor, Zita Pleštinská and .

19. Facility for rapid response to soaring food prices in developing countries ***I (debate)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the and of the Council establishing a facility for rapid response to soaring food prices in developing countries [COM(2008)0450 — C6-0280/2008 — 2008/0149(COD)] — Committee on Development. Rapporteur: Gay Mitchell (A6-0396/2008)

Gay Mitchell introduced the report.

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

The following spoke: László Surján (rapporteur for the opinion of the BUDG Committee), Stéphane Le Foll (rapporteur for the opinion of the AGRI Committee), Colm Burke, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Josep Borrell Fontelles, on behalf of the PSE Group, Kyösti Virrankoski, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Marie-Hélène Aubert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, and Wiesław Stefan Kuc, on behalf of the UEN Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Mechtild ROTHE Vice-President

The following spoke: Konstantinos Droutsas, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Hélène Goudin, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Juan Fraile Cantón, Proinsias De Rossa and Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.

The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf.

The following spoke: Louis Michel and Gay Mitchell.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 04.12.2008, Item 7.5.