And from then I wanted to look not at impairment, but at prevention of impairment.

FONTAINE (PPE). (FR) Mr President of the European Council, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we vigorously and unreservedly condemn the Iraqi government for its manifest violations of the law of nations and human rights, for its hostage taking, which under international law is a flagrant act of war, for its blackmailing threats of terrorism and use of the most barbarous methods.

BANOTTI (PPE). Mr President, I thank the Commissioner for his statement.

The decay of the shrine is due, in part, to acid rain.

Assessment of performances must be seen in the above context of the deterioration in the economic climate.

This worsening reflects the protracted deterioration of the primary surplus and the moderate growth of nominal GDP .

Trashing the ASEAN Brand

(iii) loss or damage by impairment of the environment

However much military hardware a superpower owns, decay of the will to use it is the same thing as a decay of effective power.

BANOTTI (PPE). Mr President, in the absence of the urgency debates this week I should like to draw the attention of the House and the Council of Ministers to the rapidly deteriorating situation of the hostages in Kuwait.

They are also indicative of the deterioration of law and order in the country.

By contrast , Denmark experienced a marked deterioration .

The deteriorating growth outlook for the US economy may have been a factor 85 80

OOMEN RUIJTEN (PPE). (NL) Mr President, regrettably the EPP Group will have to abstain in the vote on this report.

All expert studies involving the environment will always in fact be very expensive.

Compared with past economic slowdowns in the 1990s , employment growth in the euro area continued to be relatively resilient for a large part of 2002 .

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CAMBRIDGE India s recent fall from macroeconomic grace is a lamentable turn of events.

BOCKLET (PPE). (DA) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen.

HABSBURG (PPE). (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen.

I was deeply disappointed by the voting on the amendments. This morning I explained that economic and monetary union was a good instrument and had to be put to work to promote good policies.

ESTGEN (PPE), in writing. (FR) I shall vote in favour of the Salisch report as amended.

The Group of the European People's party has submitted many amendments to the report.

PRONK (PPE). (NL) Mr President, we have very little time indeed.

GRUND (DR). (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the report before us on this proposed Council directive must be seen as the first important step in the establishment of common rules on civil liability for damage to the environment caused by economic activities.

On the particular question of enabling the competent authorities to authorize exceptionnally other uses for such material, I can inform you that I have received considerable correspondence from a variety of special interests such as those farming maggots as bait for the millions of fish anglers in the Community and from other similar special interests.

However , several countries experienced a general deterioration in their fiscal position , which only partly reflected the less favourable cyclical conditions .

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This reflects the similarly deteriorating situation for Christians in Egypt, where they account for roughly 15 of the population.

As a result, we are moving quite slowly.

KILLILEA (RDE). Mr President, nobody can deny that large numbers of farmers in many different regions of the Community are on the brink of economic ruin.

PRESIDENT. We now come to questions to the Foreign Ministers.

Documents received Topical and urgent debate (objections) see Minutes.

Note Data refer to the Euro 12 ( including periods prior to 2001 ) .

The blogger, Mr. Live Wire , was critical of the rapidly deteriorating standards of the local media

ROBLES PIQUER (PPE). (ES) Madam President, at the end of May, a general election took place in Burma.

ANASTASSOPOULOS (PPE). (GR) Mr President, Friday's agenda includes a second examination of the report by our French colleague Mrs Denys.

We now come to questions to the Foreign Ministers. Question No 23 by Mr Elles (H 1264 90)

Everyone, the liberals, the socialists, the EPP and the Communists.

HERMANS (PPE), in writing. (NL) Development of a social Europe is urgent.

But it seems to me that the text proposed by the Commission underplays the role of telematics and comes nowhere near using the full potential of this tool.

Ladies and gentlemen, we uphold European unity in diversity because we know that this complex mosaic of history, cultures and languages is what makes Europe special in the international context.

Joseph Smith, returning to Far West from De Witt, was informed by General Doniphan of the deteriorating situation.

It also has anti fungal properties and has some potential for control of fungal deterioration of spices during storage.

This assessment incorporates a number of adverse developments which are likely to materialise over the coming months , such as a further deterioration in labour markets .