Committee on Development Extraordinary meeting

Name: Committee on Development Extraordinary meeting
Uploaded: 2026-10-05T17:30:00+00:00
Duration: 3041 s

01:39 - 04:18

Speaker 1

Okay, good evening everybody. We will start with, we've item one and we've no modifications to propose to the draft agenda, so we can adopt it as it stands, if that's agreeable to everybody. Good. Second, we're joined for this meeting is to vote on the draft report on the amending decision EU 2021/1764 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Union, including relations between the EU on the one hand and Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark on the other. I appreciate your presence at this late hour in the plenary session.

So, due to several meetings running in parallel, there's no interpretation and the meeting will be held in English only.

So, item three is the vote. So, I would like to thank all the shadow rapporteurs for their excellent cooperation and indeed to the secretariat as well and everybody who has contributed to this report. So, first we'll check to see how the voting machine's working. And question is, do you think the government of Spain will be re-elected? Vote is open.

And the vote is one more, one more person is here who has not voted. Oh yeah, we've everybody's voted, voting is closed.

And it is a statistical tie. Oh! He just finished his thing. And as the chair, I have the casting vote. And I happily to announce that the government of Spain has just been re-elected.

Thank you. Right. Okay, let's go then to the actual vote itself. And we will start with compromise amendment one. By show of hands, those in favor?

Those against? Abstentions? And it is approved. Compromise amendment two, those in favor? And against?

Abstentions? It is carried. Compromise amendment three, those in favor? Against? Abstentions?

Carried. Compromise amendment four, in favor? Against? Abstentions? Carried.

Compromise amendment five, in favor? Against? Abstentions? Carried. Compromise amendment six, in favor?

04:18 - 05:08

Barry Andrews

Against? Abstentions? Carried. Compromise amendment seven, in favor? Against?

Abstentions? Carried. Compromise amendment eight, in favor? Against? Abstentions?

Carried. Compromise amendment ten, in favor? Against? Abstentions? Carried.

Compromise amendment nine, those in favor? Against? Abstentions? Carried. And then amendment fifty-six, in favor?

Against? Abstentions? We'll check. Okay. Open.

Voting is open. Amendment fifty-six. Voting is closed. And it is rejected. We go to the final vote, which is roll call vote.

The voting is open.

05:09 - 05:27

Voting is open. And the voting is closed. And it is carried with 17 in favor, 2 against, and 2 abstentions. So, item 4 is any other business. Does anybody have any other business?

05:27 - 05:34

So thank you all for the smooth running of this meeting. The date of the next meeting is the 19th of October in Strasbourg, joint votes with AFET. Thank you everybody.