PRESIDENT. Question No 67 by Mr Cassidy (H 1073 90)

As these amendments entered into force on 1 February 2001, it is however still too early to evaluate their effects.

The Eurosystem applies valuation haircuts reflecting features of the specific assets , such as the residual maturity .

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

I also would like to draw attention to Amendment No 3 that there should be much more urgency in the case of fraud.

Nor is it yet known whether the state will dispse of plastic bottles when the quantities become too large in these countries.

Other lawmakers have been unsuccessful so far in bringing their amendments to the floor, but not for lack of trying.

Article 47 Amendments

(The sitting was opened at 9 a.m.) noted,

I wish to thank everyone and to wish you a pleasant vacation since to be free of this House for at least four weeks is a human right.

There are 103 amendments!

Now there are, of course, some amendments.

Of course, the Gulf crisis must not make us forget other unresolved problems which make the balance in the Middle East so precarious.

The key job of this House today and in the vote on Wednesday is to assist the citizens of the five new Länder in Germany to become part of the European Community.

ARIAS CAÑETE (PPE). (ES) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the first reading of the budget for 1991 is proceeding very smoothly, no doubt because of the efficient work done by our two general rapporteurs, by the parliamentary committees and by the support services of this House.

procedure which will have absolute transparency and which will ensure that if Parliament wants to respond, if we feel there are difficulties, if we feel that there is the potential for imbalances, or if we feel that the territory of the GDR is not being treated fairly, then we have the right to express our opinions. Therefore, there are amendments in my report which take account of this.

But what is the position now with the amendments ? 105 amendments have been available for some months.

I would sum up by saying that these amendments serve no useful purpose.

Amendments to the Staff Regulations

It also shows the absurdity of Friday morning voting.

I ought to comment on the amendments.

You asked a number of questions regarding amendments to delete certain articles.

I had tabled amendments to improve the proposed texts along the lines I have just indicated.

That is the first commitment.

VANDEMEULEBROUCKE (ARC). (NL) We have a number of problems with this report.

The Community reaction came before that of both the United Nations and the Arab League and was therefore able to help them stand firm.

For all these reasons we have tabled a number of amendments to correct this report and try to improve it.

For these reasons, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission cannot accept the amendments that have been tabled.

Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Rules

I ask you to sympathize.

It is the time to do so.

JANSSEN VAN RAAY broker or not affects whether one can benefit from certain tax advantages.

Thus all the amendments are known.

After the vote of amendments

My amendments sought to strengthen this.

It is one of the largest employers.

(The President declared approved the common as amended) than conventional incineration reduction, hightemperature gasification are markedly more efficient and destroy 30 to 50 times more of the compounds concerned.

Amendments Nos 5, 32, and 15 are not acceptable, nor are Amendments Nos 8, 9, 13 and 14.

But in the media industry more materialistic tendencies are present.

VITALONE. (IT) Let me confirm to Mr Desmond that the Council has already entered into contact with the Romanian Government on this point.

Member States to take certain steps introduced by the Commission.

In September 1897, the convention met in Sydney to consider 286 proposed amendments from the colonies.

But this has and will have its costs, some of which have already been referred to this morning by the President of the Commission, especially in the field of agriculture, in which my country is especially affected Portugal, that is and my region, the Azores.

Communication of common positions of the Council Agenda for next sitting see Minutes.

Our group approves of the report's conclusions on the definition of the ultimate objective and also on the course leading towards it.