The Socialist Group is entirely in favour.

Consultation is mandatory when, after this House has delivered its first opinion, a substantial change is made to the proposal, in disregard of Parliament's opinion.

It is no good just talking about them when it suits us.

That is an objective which the Socialist Group fully supports.

I would add that it in no way binds the Socialist Group.

These questions were put by John Tomlinson in the name of the Socialist Group.

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welcomed by the Socialist Group. We welcome the prohibition of alkaline manganese batteries containing mote than 0.25 mercury and the other proposals in the ditective for the introduction of European wide labelling and collection systems.

But even if we let the law rest at present, it must not be allowed to sleep on for ever.

In some places the state is no longer capable of

He mentioned NIMBY. It is quite ironic that he should mention 'not in

It may be a strange agreement between mr Patterson and myself.

MEDINA ORTEGA (S). (ES) Mr President, I am speaking in the name of the Socialist Group, and on behalf of that Group I am sorry I cannot agree with the remarks Mr Metten has just made.

When a member of another group is applauded, they put 'Applause from the Liberal Group', 'Applause from the Socialist Group', and so on.

There is an evergrowing tendency towards something totally the opposite.

She also announced that the Commission would propose seventeen initiatives this year.

Amendments Nos 5, 7, 8 and 10, despite their import ance, do not seem to me to have a place in this directive.

I also reject amendment 5 on the introduction of administrative measures.

PRESIDENT. I would thank the Vice President of the Commission for his statement which was practically a doctoral thesis.

The Socialist Group, for its part, has proposed a number of improvements of form which have been accepted.

The group instead chose to remain independent, and became the Sheffield Socialist Society.

It is only to pretend that the Commission is dealing with the problem, but that pretence involves at least the need for effective remedies.

And the reason you do not, is because you are forgetting one small thing, namely that the Socialist Group will never let you.

The Commission has proposed the establishment of a second register, claiming that this will make it possible to avoid the heavy charges in the Community to some extent and to obtain tax advantages.

BELO still being debated more teeth so that Member States are forced to comply.

The Socialist Group urges a prompt decision on the granting of a negotiating brief, so that concrete negotiations can begin.

WYNN (S), in writing. I voted with the Socialist Group on this issue because I believe in Group discipline.

The Socialist Group attaches great importance to three further points.

Mr President, the Commission is particularly grateful to the European Parliament for wanting to devote a serious debate to this important subject at this stage of the preparations for possible action by the European Community, a debate from which the Commission hopes, of course, to derive benefit as it continues to work on the mandate it has been given.

Doc. B3 2027 90, by Mr Schmidt and others, on behalf of the Socialist Group, on Kuwait

Let me say on behalf of the Group of the Eutopean People's Party that it is most unusual to find that the Commission and the Council have agteed contrary to the Commission proposal to accept Patliament's limit values and even to teduce them.

The chair at this meeting was shared by the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr Shevardnadze, and by myself on behalf of the European Community.

McCARTIN (PPE). Mr President, first of all I want to say that I regret that this issue has arisen and I certainly regret the problems in an Irish company, which has brought this situation about.

The Socialist Group therefore supports the negotiating brief conferred on the Commission by the Council.

SANZ FERNANDEZ (S). (ES) Mr President, I rise to speak on behalf of the Socialist Group on the Porrazzini report.

I hope those fears are unfounded, but certainly the proposals for a resident's charter and for all people who have legal right of abode in the Community to have the right of freedom of movement is absolutely essential, as are voting rights under Recommendation 64.

I speak on behalf of the Socialist Group and as the draftsman of the opinions of the Committee on Budgetary Control.

I think, ladies and gentlemen, that it is your majority rights which are being trampled on more than any other

MUNTINGH (S). (NL) Mr President, the Socialist Group is of the opinion first of all that the steel leghold trap must be eliminated once and for all.

Many in this House, particularly in the Socialist Group, have advocated this for some time...

The Green Group although at the moment I am its only representative present in the Chamber will vote in favour of Mr Crampton's report only if Mrs Valent's amendment is adopted.

There is a country in Europe where, from '76 to '79, the entire party system was not responsible for one question on the P2 and the P38 the entire system, four hundred members of parliament! and played havoc with the law on emergencies and made the fascist penal codes more severe.

Doc. B3 1652 90, by Mr Newton Dunn, on behalf of the European Democratic Group, on democracy in Burma

The idea contained in amendments nos. 26 and 52 will be borne in mind in relation to Annex III, but it cannot be accepted in its present form.

BANDRES MOLET (V). (ES) Mr President, in the Spanish version of the Minutes the speech made by Mr Landa on behalf of his party is reported on page 11.