As regards food aid, we have received two requests from Bulgaria.

For various reasons the two parts of the budgetary authority have not yet managed to approve the Commission's two proposals for the revision of the financial perspective.

In carrying out its responsibilities, the Commission shall be completely independent.

(Parliament adopted the proposal) (On the Commission statements)

In view of this flagrant violation of Directive No 75 442 EEC ' on solid waste, and notably Articles 4, 5 and 6 thereof, will the Commission say what measures it intends to take to ensure that Greece too implements this directive?

The question is, does the Commission regard this sort of involvement as right and proper, and can we expect in the course of time that other Commissioners will do the same thing and will quote this as a precedent ?

Close relations with the Commission The European Commission assumes an important role in EMU 's institutional setting .

The Group of the European People's Party would be perfectly willing to show its solidarity by contributing to a solution.

The Commission has been equally firm in demanding both.

We have a debate with the Commission and the Council.

At a later stage the Commission may decide to grant conferral of management on a basis other than provisional.

In that connexion I have tabled an amendment.

According to the Basic Law, the election committee should be broadly representative a provision that the committee s current composition violates.

In co operation with the European Commission ( Eurostat ) and national balance of payments compilers , the ECB worked on

The timetable was already very full to cope with that by the month of December, and we had expressed our doubts on the feasibility, even in practical terms, of examining this enormous package of highly complex legislation seriously.

The Committee has carefully examined the report, and has assessed the proposed amendments.

People can decide this issue for themselves by reading the records of what Mr Killilea and I myself said yesterday.

We urge the Commission and the Council to cooperate with the flexible approach that Parliament is prepared to take.

This proposal is consistent with the existing financial programming of the Commission .

I welcome the Commission's positive approach in this matter.

At EU level, the Commission will work

Co operation with the European Commission and international institutions The ECB also has close contacts with the BIS , the IMF and the OECD concerning statistical matters .

The Sicilian Mafia Commission was re established in 1970, with Bontade and Badalementi making up two of the three leaders of the Commission.

Mr President, my last remark is in praise of Mr Barzanti and Mr Elliott, for the fantastic work they have done on this subject.

For the Commission Member of the Commission

This bank is to have the task of offering help to cover the enormous needs of capital for the reorganization and modernization of the economies of Central and Eastern Europe.

The Commission should be empowered to conduct the negotiations with Andorra .

We commend the rapporteur on his excellent work.

So let us be quite clear that we are talking about two different things.

SPENCER (ED). Mr President, I want to make two points, if I may, about the GATT round and the food chain.

The Commission must respond with speed to this new opportunity.

There is also the Commission, rightly regarded as the guardian of the Community.

Thirdly, the Commission must give priority to efforts to bring about an international convention for the protection of forests.

They shall be notified to the Commission.

The meaning of Amendment 22 is not clear to the Commission.

It is important that a better working environment be secured not just for women but also for men, amongst other things so that reproductive capacity can be safeguarded.

The new Members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Council , acting by qualified majority and by common accord with the President of the Commission ,

Finally, Mr President, the environment, perhaps the most important problem area with which we have to deal.

We don't agree with this approach and regard it as politically quite wrong.

As usual, the principle of subsidiarity will guide the Commission.

I think that in the present situation, Parliament has no choice but to reject this Commission proposal, on the basis that in the long term or perhaps even, hopefully, in the medium term we can modify Article 113 and, with a transfer of responsibilities which includes the transport policy sector, give Parliament a different legal base through decisions of the intergovernmental conference.

I should just like to make three comments on the differences in relation to the original text from the Commission.

THE COMMISSION R ECOMMENDATION FOR A MONETARY AGREEMENT WITH ANDORRA

The Agency shall carry out its tasks in liaison with the Commission where necessary.

I am grateful to the general rapporteur and the Committee on Budgets for accepting the ideas of the Committee on Development and Cooperation, in corporating them in its proposals and so creating what I believe to be a good basis for the vote on Thursday morning.