Swedish Green MEP Carl Schlyter said that improved animal welfare could lead to better research.
The Parliament's original rapporteur on the issue was former Green MEP Caroline Lucas.
British Green MEP Keith Taylor said it could lean to improved planning and surveillance of the EU's waters.
Belgian Green MEP Philippe Lambert agreed, saying that that operators' margins were still too big, and amounted to a "swindle".
But German Green MEP Rebecca Harms dismissed the plans as a "paper check" designed to "downplay the risks of nuclear power".
Belgian green MEP Philippe Lamberts believed the proposal put forward by the Commission was "reasonable" but regretted it was not more ambitious.
Meanwhile Danish green MEP Margrete Auken pointed to the current economic climate, saying that it was a "folly to waste and burn".
Philippe Lamberts, the Belgian Green MEP who led calls for the bonus cap, said the measures "will really bring down pay" in the sector.
Speaking during the debate on 10 December 2012, French Green MEP Eva Joly said the agreement would "enshrine deep unfairness between the EU and Central America".
Belgian green MEP Isabelle Durant criticised the amount of house building going on Europe, saying that this was reducing the permeability of soil, leading to increased flooding.
The European Parliament's chief negotiator on the issue, Green MEP Claude Turmes, said the auditors were right to call for better selection of projects and better evaluation.
And German Green MEP Franziska Brantner hit out at EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Baroness Ashton, accusing her of deploying "empty phrases" on human rights in Egypt.
However Belgian green MEP Bart Staes said the events of April were the "unthinkable" and that action was needed to ensure a similar event never happened in Europe.
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French green MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit accused the EU of being "scared" of challenging the regime of the ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, during a debate on 17 January 2011.
Spanish green MEP Raul Romeva i Rueda urged the EU to tell Morocco that "enough was enough", whilst British conservative Charles Tannock said the dispute was destabilising the whole region.
Meanwhile, French Green MEP Sandrine Belier said the EU must push for "a new model of development" to come out of the crisis, including a financial transaction tax and green taxation.
Danish Green MEP Emilie Turunen lamented that it had been left up to the EU to take the initiative on the matter, as action should already have been taken by member states and banks.
However the author of one of the reports, Dutch green MEP Marije Cornelissen said that there would be no growth in the EU because resources were focused on dealing with the ongoing crisis in the eurozone.
Horsemeat in France is not noticeably cheaper than beef, but according to the Green MEP Jose Bove the price of horsemeat has recently fallen dramatically in Romania following a new law there banning horses and carts on the highway.
Spanish socialist MEP Antolin Sanchez-Presedo said he had acted "bravely and courageously", but Belgian green MEP Philippe Lamberts was critical of Mr Trichet's position that "the only way to ensure stability is to cut spending", a stance denied by Mr Trichet.
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So said French Green Party MEP Pascal Canfin in February, after filing a report on CDS in January.
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However British Green party MEP Caroline Lucas said that the EU had been "shamefully absent" in dealing with the recommendations of the report.
Conservative and Liberal Democrat MEPs say the opt-out should continue but Plaid Cymru MEP Jill Evans and the Green Party's two British MEPs are also against it.
This point was echoed by Portuguese socialist MEP Marisa Matias, who has published the European Parliament's formal response to the green paper, on behalf of the Industry, Energy and Research Committee.
However British Liberal MEP Catherine Bearder warned him that any discussion of possible relaxing of trade bans would send a "green light" to poachers.
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