| s-1
| The proposal put forward by the Commission is to be welcomed from the consumers' point of view. |
| s-2
| Affected parties have also criticized the fact that the manufacturer's public declarations are also included in the defect definition. |
| s-3
| Ultimately that would be a disadvantage for the consumer. |
| s-4
| They were voted down and the reasons will no doubt be put once again by Mrs Bonino. |
| s-5
| One is the question of second-hand goods. |
| s-6
| I believe that with this hierarchy we have solved many of the problems for small and medium enterprises. |
| s-7
| At the same time it could result in job losses in the labour intensive repair services sector. |
| s-8
| In practise it turns out that it is sometimes impossible to answer this question. |
| s-9
| He is not to blame. |
| s-10
| But on the other hand a good reputation will benefit him, both with respect to the product and to his service. |
| s-11
| The shopkeeper will need right of recourse which he can use to recover his costs from the manufacturer. |
| s-12
| Madam President, I do not have a script, just two observations. |
| s-13
| That is an utterly ridiculous assumption. |
| s-14
| But a degree of protection is not the same as absolute cover against a host of things at the expense of something similar. |
| s-15
| What, for instance, is 'appropriate after-sales service'? |
| s-16
| The same applies to a whole series of other examples we can give. |
| s-17
| This is a sine-qua-non, and it would seem unnecessary to keep stressing it. |
| s-18
| I believe that this would be a lot easier if consumers were involved. |
| s-19
| There must be strict rules in abattoirs to maintain the highest levels of hygiene. |
| s-20
| Good farming practice and animal welfare can not be considered in isolation from food legislation as a whole. |
| s-21
| We have to sustain the European Union as a major food producer and a major exporter. |
| s-22
| Please allow me to say that the present report can be judged very positively. |
| s-23
| And I would not want the opposite view to arise through any misunderstanding in the present report. |
| s-24
| So we need to know the results of this debate and put them into effect. |
| s-25
| Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to read her speech to you. |
| s-26
| Public opinion still has no faith in the Commission's ability to exercise control. |
| s-27
| Mr President, the European consumer needs to have increased confidence in food, not least after the BSE crisis. |
| s-28
| In Holland and other countries the original nature of national identity is being stripped away in the name of chicken and pig feed. |
| s-29
| Would that not be better than total harmonization, which is fundamentally a commercial rule aimed at promoting commercial interests, not food quality? |
| s-30
| The framework directive is part of this process. |
| s-31
| I have just another brief comment on the foreign trade aspect. |
| s-32
| If we are a member of an international rights community, then we must stay with it. |
| s-33
| The vote will be taken at 12.00 noon tomorrow. |
| s-34
| It is complicated because it deals with all nine separately and it is necessary to submit amendments in nine sets. |
| s-35
| Upon which safeguards are we insisting? |
| s-36
| With the help of their financial controller proper arrangements will now be legislated for. |
| s-37
| That is the problem: you can not comment on things that you have not read. |
| s-38
| They were set up by the European Union for a specific purpose. |
| s-39
| Our research has shown that these agencies do not need more controls. |
| s-40
| Let us hope, therefore, that the proposals of the Commission will be sufficient to make sure this job will be done effectively. |
| s-41
| To a certain extent, this reminds me of my previous activity in the Committee on Budgets and in the Committee on Budgetary Control. |
| s-42
| We regret this and reaffirm our commitment to inform Parliament of all important agency decisions that have a financial impact. |
| s-43
| We take note of that, Mr von Habsburg, and I should be grateful if you could provide us with this letter. |
| s-44
| I have it here with me, Madam President. |
| s-45
| If that facility is available to Vice-President – and good luck to him – is it available to other Members? |
| s-46
| Ladies and gentlemen, you are persistently confusing the Minutes with the Report of Proceedings. |
| s-47
| I have therefore voted against the report. |
| s-48
| The measures you described could be improved and there are others which you did not mention. |
| s-49
| Does the Commission have any sort of long-term policy in mind here? |
| s-50
| The situation is also explained by the Asian and Russian crises, which also deprive the European Union of a potential market. |
| s-51
| Secondly, a promotion campaign should be swiftly launched within the Community to increase awareness amongst the general public and boost consumption in Europe. |
| s-52
| The taxpayer who has to pay for it, the smaller undertakings and species-friendly stock rearing all fall by the wayside. |
| s-53
| Nor have I expanded my production. |
| s-54
| What representation did the Commissioner receive from the United Kingdom Government about this dire emergency? |
| s-55
| The whole industry is in crisis. |
| s-56
| In a case like this, those governments that are still recommending increased production are being irresponsible. |
| s-57
| Measures should be the same throughout the EU to ensure no Member State gets an unfair advantage. |
| s-58
| Through you I urge the Commission and the Council to reach decisions and take urgent action following the meeting on 14 October. |
| s-59
| Europe's farmers need help now. |
| s-60
| That just goes to show the possibilities in our country! |
| s-61
| But we do not take the view that including a corresponding reference to this in a recital can produce that result. |
| s-62
| For generic drugs at the end of a patent or other protection period are of course useful. |
| s-63
| Further improvements were made to the proposal in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection. |
| s-64
| It will be resumed at 3 p.m. |
| s-65
| First there is the paragraph inviting the Commission to withdraw its proposal. |
| s-66
| It is very important for us to know that. |
| s-67
| Madam President, in the Swedish version of Amendment No-4 there is an unfortunate mistake. |
| s-68
| It is therefore very odd that the original text has been retained in this amendment. |
| s-69
| The authentic text is 'under certain conditions'. |
| s-70
| That needs to be made very clear. |
| s-71
| But business in the audiovisual sector is essentially done by small and medium-sized enterprises. |
| s-72
| Katiforis report (A4-0090/99) |
| s-73
| At some stage in their development all SMEs experience problems arising from their weak capital resources. |
| s-74
| Finance and mentorship should go hand in hand. |
| s-75
| If demand were to increase, so too would risk capital, regardless of whether the markets are fragmented or not. |
| s-76
| This document reflects our group's main concerns about the future of the ACP-EU link. |
| s-77
| Areas vital to the health of Europeans certainly ought to be prioritised for intensified action and initiative by the European Union. |
| s-78
| Parliament has demonstrated its great interest in this area on a number of occasions. |
| s-79
| Second Hautala report (A4-0029/99) |
| s-80
| However, I can not support the reference to abortion. |
| s-81
| But the harmful psychological effects that abortions have on women are deliberately and constantly concealed. |
| s-82
| Entitlement to free abortions equates with women having the right to manage their lives and make decisions about their own bodies. |
| s-83
| There is no easy answer to the painful issue of abortion. |
| s-84
| I am thinking here, amongst other things, of issues such as the law on abortion. |
| s-85
| This objective requires a comprehensive approach to policy making and the mobilisation of all policy actors. |
| s-86
| To a certain extent, ensuring equal opportunities for men and women is like trying to attain the unattainable. |
| s-87
| I would very much like to know on what kind of scientific evidence the Greens are basing all these amendments. |
| s-88
| Children and workers at power stations were both studied. |
| s-89
| We have evidence, Mr President, but we apparently do not have proof. |
| s-90
| This is an issue which affects aspects of everyday life. |
| s-91
| The guidelines and exposure proposed by the Commissioner are based on those recently published by the International Convention on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection. |
| s-92
| Mr Tamino's proposals are therefore greatly disproportionate. |
| s-93
| There are limited resources for public health and we must see to it that they are exploited effectively. |
| s-94
| The Commission's estimates of what would be health-endangering values reflect the outcome of the research carried out. |
| s-95
| However, it is essential that the rules should be reasonable. |
| s-96
| Electromagnetic fields and their effect on people are subjects that have come up for debate with increasing frequency in recent years. |
| s-97
| In point of fact, we still do not have any precise answers to the questions which they raise. |
| s-98
| We should be establishing limit values on a Europe-wide basis, but they should be reasonable as well. |
| s-99
| Sweden has been mentioned in the discussion as one of the countries with satisfactory limit values. |
| s-100
| These are concentrated rays, but they do not penetrate down to where we usually are. |