Topical political questions in the EC and at international level

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This Decision covers solely the agreement to be established between Andorra and the Community on monetary matters , to the exclusion of other matters requiring to be taken up in separate agreements .

National particularities may continue to exist to the extent that they do not infringe the Community 's exclusive competence in monetary matters .

That is why we prefer the text passed by the Legal Affairs Committee which gives a precise list of serious criminal offences falling within the coverage of this directive.

1 EUROPEAN ISSUES In 2003 the ECB continued to maintain its regular contacts with Community institutions and bodies .

Many of the proposals we will be voting on on Wednesday come directly from the standing committees and deal with issues of great importance to the European Community.

Wc sought through our amendments to ensure that Parliament would be kept fully informed of any steps that the German authorities took in this regard.

I agree that premature opening up of trade with East Germany has contributed to the current depressed market in the agricultural sector.

The Commission shall inform the Principality of Andorra of the Community 's readiness to conclude an agreement on monetary matters and it shall propose negotiations for such an agreement .

Its regional branches are officially called Departments of Internal Affairs city department of internal affairs, raion department of internal affairs, oblast department of internal affairs, etc.

The Union Minister for Foreign Affairs shall preside over the Foreign Affairs Council.4.

The Community has the competence , as from the same date , in monetary and foreign exchange regime matters in Member States adopting the euro .

This is why there is an undeniable need for rationalization and simplification to improve the efficiency of the sector, safeguarding the rights of citizens and consumers at the same time.

For the sake of brevity, I am now unfortunately able to endorse the explanation of vote that Mrs Ernst de la Graete has given on behalf of my group.

The cultural overshadowing of the Member States will not be remedied without a Community commitment which is capable of guaranteeing European choices and solutions.

It also reassures the French business community, which was shocked by Dominique de Villepin s flamboyant opposition to the United States when he was Chirac s foreign minister.

VAYSSADE (S). (FR) As the rapporteur and the draftsman of an opinion have just said, one of the most effective means of fighting the drug traffic, and indeed other forms of organized crime, is to prevent the the money it generates from being used and to strike at last at the source of one of the most important motives for

The ECB welcomes the fact that negotiations on behalf of the Community will be conducted by the Commission with full association of Spain and France and association of the ECB in all aspects of the negotiations falling within its fields of competence .

Balances there are being upset, we regularly hear of disasters oil slicks in Brittany and the North Sea, chemical pollution in the Seine estuary, mercury in the Baltic, red sludge in the Mediterranean, cutrophication of the

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This is another aspect that merits further consideration as part of a Community wide impact assessment of the Convention ( see paragraph 20 ) .

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I apologize to the President of the Commission for saying this once again as cleatly as I can we sympathize when the Commission defends its position, that goes without saying.

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PRESIDENT. The next item is the statements by the Council and the Commission on topical political questions in the Community and at international level, followed by a debate.

This brings me to the question of how integration of the former GDR is to be financed, this being another area where we find total confusion.

Article 7 Transfers of funds from the Community to payees outside the Community 1 .

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The subsidiarity principle applies insofar as the proposal does not fall under the exclusive competence of the Community .

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