Believe me, he didn't mean this as anyway, let me just read it.

The provisional measures were voted for at a time when more rapid measures had taken than in the traditional procedure because of the feeling, which we all shared, that we must not impede a process that is of great value and of historical and political importance.

But in this context I'm just going to read an abridged version of those texts.

The committee therefore only puts forward one amendment which deals with the exceptions to this particular rule.

I will therefore limit myself to providing a few examples of the two major consequences of this form of competition .

COCHET (V). (FR) Mr President, I wish to speak on the question of financial resources and the Community budget.

What are the subjects, the problems in question ? And what was the basis on which we acted ?

First, there is the common foreign and security policy. We have heard President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl make clear and unequivocal proposals for Political Union.

The consequences of the new form of competition between sovereign issuers have also been widely commented , and I will limit myself to recalling a few facts .

We have affirmed in all our speeches that we categorically reject the violation of international law by Iraq, and we demand the freeing of all the citizens held hostage against all humanitarian and legal principles.

VERNIER (RDE). (FR) Mr President, Mr Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as former director of an Agency for the Nord Catchment Area in France, I can only be delighted at this directive which is trying to speed up the construction of waste water treatment plants for munipal waste water.

Of this it has been estimated that between fifty and seventy per cent is pure profit.

PAPANDREOU (GR), Member of the Commission. The Commission accepts amendments 12 and 13 in

Parliament has been kept informed of our action as it has developed, and the Presidency has already had a first opportunity of reporting in detail to your Political Affairs Committee, your Committee on External Economic Relations and the delegation on relations with the Gulf States, which met on 28 August last.

But, at the same time, we cannot forget that there are different ways of functioning, different conditions, different histories, different ways of dealing with a whole host of matters, all of which must be taken into account in our proposals and in the promotion of social matters.

I appeal to the Council to fall in line with the other two main Community institutions and, above all, to respect the wishes of the Plenary.

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We must direct all our attention to the countries directly affected by the embargo, and initiatives in this respect must be taken immediately.

First, it is going to have to show itself equal to the special role that it has to play in the Mediterranean and the Arab world, a role underlined by past links and by the challenges of the future, namely the disarmament imperative, the need to tackle demographic and economic imbalances, and the emphasis to be placed on trade, a fair division of effort and its fruits.

That seems to me to be a very European deal, namely that monetary union will ensure the integration of Germany within a united Europe and at the same time allow the costs which are presently German to become truly European.

In a very dynamic interpretation of the provisions of the Interinstitutional Agreement the Commission put forward an informal working document on 4 December 1990.

We also favour recycling waste water free of dangerous substances in areas suffering severe water shortages.