While various speakers defended the measures as necessary to defend trade and the interests of European producers and workers against unfair practises, others - from across the political spectrum - criticised them as consumer unfriendly, a result of “horse trading” in the Council and poor management of globalisation.
Parlaments pieņēma rezolūciju, kurā tas aicina pastiprināti pievērst uzmanību dzīvnieku aizsardzībai un labturības standartiem.