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South Africa should be congratulated.

This report is an important report about an important subject.

PARODI (PPE). (IT) I too wish to congratulate and thank Mr Coimbra Martins.

As regards Mr Seligman and Mr Spencer, I should like to say that I entirely agree that we must take care that no cats are stolen from their constituencies to be used for their skins in Germany.

First of all I should like to congratulate Mr Konstantinos Stavrou on the excellent and devoted work he has done.

I also want to congratulate Mrs Garcia Arias on her excellent work.

It has united with great dignity and with great consideration for other European partners.

LANNOYE (V). (FR) I think everybody knows, and Mr Valverde López, the rapporteur, reminded us at the beginning of his speech, that the impact of agriculture and agricultural policy on the environment is extremely important.

ANDREOTTI sidency will therefore be able to inform the par liamentary delegation of the report it will menawhile have drawn up for the December European Council and give an account of the observations and proposals put forward by Members, which will no doubt be both useful and timely.

Firstly, concerning the deadline for the discharge of sludge.

I also feel the Spanish Government should be complimented on the way it is trying to protect the wolf.

VERNIER (RDE). (FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have five remarks to make on this problem of liability for damage created by waste.

I want to congratulate ICL for developing open systems interconnection and widely compatible computers.

The UK, France, Italy, Germany, and the others who have decided to join the AIIB should be congratulated.

The first deals with the ability of Member States, if a problem arises as a result of the transitional measures that are introduced, to raise this issue with the Commission.

GOLLNISCH (DR). (FR) I understand, Mr President, I entirely agree with your interpretation.

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Two of these have been held, one in Brussels and the other in Arcachon.

PIERRÔS (PPE). (GR) The Council's President in Office referred to the resolution of 16 Septembet 1986.

RAMIREZ HEREDIA (S). (ES) Madam President, I too want to take this opportunity to express my surprise at what is happening and, indeed, my sorrow at the spectacle presented by this House with regard to a subject on which, let there be no mistake, Madam President, there should be absolute unanimity.

As we all know, young people of Maghreb origin who have French nationality suffer at least as much, if not more, from racism as young people of foreign origin.

BANGEMANN, Vice President of the Commission. (DE) Mr President, the Commission would prefer to make this statement at the December partsession.

Turning to the Commission's proposal to reform the fisheries structural policy, may I congratulate Mr Arias on his work.

TOMLINSON, rapporteur. (S) Madam President, first of all I would like to commend to the House the report concerning supplementary and amending Budget No 3.

I hope a commissioner such as the old friend who is honouring us with his presence at the moment, may draw from this debate the courage to raise inside the Commission the question of deciding to help Parliament, because a stronger Parliament means a stronger Commission, a Commission stronger in its daily dealings with the Council.

SPECIALE (GUE). (IT) Mr President, I wish to begin by congratulating Mr Coimbra Martins for his welldocumented report which is packed with suggestions and proposals.

DE CLERCQ (LDR). (NL) Mr President, I would like to compliment the rapporteur on his thorough report. I will confine myself to a few remarks in connection with the GATT.

COX (LDR). Mr President, I would like to congratulate Mr Lamassoure and Mrs Theato on their excellent work on this year's budget.

Mr President, in spite of a very precise directive, I was called at 6 p.m. to the meeting of the Committee on the Rules.

A few weeks ago we got a mandate to come up with some form of integrated network scheme or, at least, to pave the way

I have already made some changes to Mrs Aglietta's report, but I see that she too has tabled certain amendments which reassure me to a certain extent.

One must applaud the prompt reaction by the Commission with regard to those who managed to get out to Jordan.

I would first call on Mr Andreotti, President in Office of the European Council.

HARRISON (S). Mr President, on behalf of the Socialist Group, may I first congratulate Mrs Salema on her work and the inspired suggestions set out in her report.

I would like to congratulate the girls and ask the authorities to take appropriate action, Lalitha Kumarmangalam, spokesman for the government s National Commission for Women, said.

Once the actual effects of approximation are known and it is possible to assess the successes or failures of its implementation, it will be possible to draw conclusions and decide the way forward, in terms of both the time scale and the method of application.

European social model, characterized by trade union freedom, equal treatment, no discrimination, the right to a sufficiently remunerated job, collective bargaining, public social protection, etc..

I think Parliament has done a good job, and we must at the same time congratulate the other institutions which helped to make it possible.

In these sectors the regulatory activities in Brussels play a less central role, while the role of the social partners, the social bodies and the national authorities is given greater prominence.

Adaptation measures, derogations to Community law are essential.

The transitional arrangement for VAT has, after all, been proposed because of a lack of political will in some quarters to approve the initial proposals put forward in 1987.

I would, however, like to congratulate my colleague, the rapporteur, on the report he has produced, because his report is far more enlightened than the document produced by the Commission.

Let me take a few examples, starting, naturally, with the common agricultural policy, which we consider absurd when seen in the light of the means defined for its implementation and the underlying strategies.

Sixthly, we have set up aid, in concert with the international organizations, to soften the economic impact on the three countries I mentioned earlier Egypt, Turkey and Jordan. The Commission