| s-102
| Two months ago I had to have an operation for a serious complaint. |
| s-103
| No doubt much of what our citizens experience as noise does not fall within the competence of the Union. |
| s-104
| And this is one of the oldest pieces of environmental legislation that we have in Europe. |
| s-105
| I am thinking here of airport zones, high-speed trains and major motorways. |
| s-106
| This refusal can be interpreted as indirect encouragement of the impunity and immunity of the terrorists of yesterday, today and tomorrow. |
| s-107
| Resignation of a Vice-President |
| s-108
| The next item is the order of business. |
| s-109
| I would remind you that Mr Cornelissen's report has been added to the agenda for Tuesday. |
| s-110
| I hope she will take note of this, because it is an important point. |
| s-111
| (The President cut off the speaker) |
| s-112
| The next item is the joint debate on the following statement and oral question: |
| s-113
| For this reason, the initiative of the Commission is worthy of our congratulations. |
| s-114
| My group, the Liberal group, is presently focusing its attention on non-European Union nationals. |
| s-115
| They are no longer allowed to practise their previous activities as doctors, teachers, members of parliament. |
| s-116
| Madam President, I would also like to thank Mrs Bonino wholeheartedly for her work on behalf of the women in Kabul. |
| s-117
| Barbaric violence can only be fought when democracy is supported. |
| s-118
| The debate is closed. |
| s-119
| There have only been a few isolated amendments opposed to this approach and these were subsequently rejected. |
| s-120
| Madam President, my group supports the rapporteur's position. |
| s-121
| I fully support the need for contacts with third countries. |
| s-122
| Secondly, we should not allow this to be postponed indefinitely, and we should not introduce provisions restricted to physical persons. |
| s-123
| But that is not the language used in everyday encounters with the bemused populations of the EU countries. |
| s-124
| Two approaches are becoming clear, one of which is a pragmatic approach. |
| s-125
| Have negotiations really begun? |
| s-126
| Today we have two directives before us, including this one on capital income. |
| s-127
| Finally, it is my belief that it is not for us to deal with rate levels. |
| s-128
| I believe this is a job for the final compromise round of Europe's finance ministers. |
| s-129
| Where coordinating tax policy is concerned, the main objective is to limit manoeuvring and distortions on the capital markets. |
| s-130
| My country is one of them. |
| s-131
| Yet another amendment is aimed at simplification, taking references to the tank to include its accessories as a matter of course. |
| s-132
| The sitting was suspended at 11.25 a.m. until voting time at 11.30 a.m.. |
| s-133
| Your predecessor said earlier – we only finished the debate barely twenty minutes ago – that this report would be voted on tomorrow. |
| s-134
| Now we come to the references to Macao. |
| s-135
| In the motion for a resolution, we have: |
| s-136
| The way China develops is vital for the way our own societies develop. |
| s-137
| It will influence not only our economies but also, and above all, prospects for democracy world-wide. |
| s-138
| Directive 96/96/EC established the principle that commercial road vehicles must undergo an annual roadworthiness test at an approved testing centre. |
| s-139
| However, I seriously doubt that the introduction of free market principles, which the report so enthusiastically recommends, is the right solution. |
| s-140
| It would not be a good thing to blindly apply competition rules and risk endangering the efficiency of Community and national interventions. |
| s-141
| In addition, the Commission has exclusive competence in matters of state aid. |
| s-142
| In its communication, the Commission has presented some proposals for greater consistency between regional policy and competition policy in the EU. |
| s-143
| This solution must not become entrenched in a national-level mentality. |
| s-144
| The Commission has already established a number of actions to help them. |
| s-145
| It concentrates on combating unemployment and ensuring that everyone has a job. |
| s-146
| No one is left out; there are clear references to women, for example. |
| s-147
| It is heartening that the European Union recognises the problems and is willing to focus on them. |
| s-148
| Let us make it clear that the collection of clothing for people in third countries who need it can continue. |
| s-149
| We must accept that. |
| s-150
| The problem is that in many EU Member States it has become the easy option with dire consequences for the environment. |
| s-151
| I reserve my right to come back on this when it goes back to committee. |
| s-152
| On the question of whether to exempt energy-intensive industries, in our view the Commission's proposal has advantages and disadvantages. |
| s-153
| The international exemption for aircraft kerosene must be abolished as quickly as possible. |
| s-154
| The indexing of minimum rates introduced by Mr Cox is a good way of making the regulation simple and reliable. |
| s-155
| As a result, the legislation is complex, hard to understand and difficult to apply. |
| s-156
| Standards have been raised, and the question of the radio ham has also been given attention. |
| s-157
| If I have a criticism of the Legal Affairs Committee's opinion, it is that it is too one-sided. |
| s-158
| I salute him for all he has done in this area. |
| s-159
| A further point was how private copying should be regulated in the digital environment. |
| s-160
| Broad sections of the population having access to these new forms of knowledge and learning is something we should very much welcome. |
| s-161
| It is a directive which safeguards the interests of rightholders and protects intellectual property. |
| s-162
| That is why the Socialist Group will be supporting this position. |
| s-163
| The first concerns the limitations on copyright, in which context we have logically proposed providing compensation. |
| s-164
| In the first place, there are the creators. |
| s-165
| There are no clearly defined rules governing the sharing of responsibility. |
| s-166
| Cultural differences do exist, and so I do not understand why there should not be mandatory provision for exemptions. |
| s-167
| Some time ago we debated about giving the rights to artists who sell their artwork. |
| s-168
| Since that legislation came into being, there has been no noticeable difference. |
| s-169
| There is a proper balanced way to achieve the rights that everybody here wants to see. |
| s-170
| What is most needed in this, as well as in other areas, is a serious in depth analysis of the problems. |
| s-171
| This is a right which does not incur financial consequences. |
| s-172
| Mr President, many thanks to Mr Barzanti. |
| s-173
| We are told we must balance interests but, quite frankly, all interests are not equal. |
| s-174
| Blank screens will not enrich our society. |
| s-175
| Too many continue to scrape together a living in a kind of La Bohéme garret. |
| s-176
| Some would argue that there should be fair use without fair compensation. |
| s-177
| Allow the creators and others in the United Kingdom to have a fair debate about whether we should have a blank tape levy. |
| s-178
| Copyright holders are given an absolute right to protection, with the banning of copying for private use for example. |
| s-179
| Let us be honest. |
| s-180
| It may seem that the common agricultural policy or the trans-European transport network are higher priorities, but they are not. |
| s-181
| If these products are in short supply or of inferior quality, that will sound the death-knell for Europe. |
| s-182
| There are some very clear examples of this in the recitals. |
| s-183
| The ball is now in the Commission's court. |
| s-184
| At one time, almost all Europe's major hits came into being with the help of a producer who believed in them. |
| s-185
| We feel that the Internet provides an effective way of avoiding that stranglehold. |
| s-186
| The information society is in fact evolving in a global context. |
| s-187
| I am well aware that this was also the aim of Parliament's work. |
| s-188
| We can not, however, accept the concept of 'economic significance' for the rightholder. |
| s-189
| Your amendments uphold two important principles: the right of rightholders to fair remuneration and the fine distinction concerning private digital copies. |
| s-190
| The first principle protects a need for equity; it is a measured step forwards in the quest for legal certainty in this sector. |
| s-191
| That is a formula which allows broader harmonisation and respects the traditions and practices of the Member States. |
| s-192
| The vote will be taken tomorrow at 12 noon. |
| s-193
| C4-0497/98-98/0126 (CNS). |
| s-194
| The very structure of the text of the COM in wine shows us that wine is an agricultural product rather than an industrial product. |
| s-195
| Mr President, I should like to start by offering my sincere thanks to Mr Martin. |
| s-196
| The proposal, Commissioner Fischler, was also not nearly as good as this one. |
| s-197
| Circumstances have changed in some respects, while in others they have remained the same. |
| s-198
| That is why we support the Agriculture Committee's call for a framework regulation. |
| s-199
| Each area has its own way of making wine. |
| s-200
| We will only counter overproduction by introducing comprehensive new quality criteria. |
| s-201
| We support Mr Martin's report and we say one thing: quality not quantity! |