The European Parliament adopted by 501 votes to 113, with 18 abstentions, a legislative resolution in which its gives its consent to the conclusion of a Geneva Agreement on Trade in Bananas between the European Union and Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela and of an Agreement on Trade in Bananas between the European Union and the United States of America.
It should be noted that, in parallel, Parliament expressed its position on the conclusion on these agreements in a resolution adopted on the same day (refer to RSP/2010/2821).