Weight loss of this rate may have harmful consequences.

If this amendment were to be implemented, it would have very awkward consequences in Sweden.

I deplore the fact that this may have adverse consequences for employment in certain countries.

Does the Commission intend to take steps to ensure that this does not have a disastrous effect on the Community economy ?

We are facing the disastrous, but logical, consequences of the agreements that we signed in Maastricht and thereafter.

A failure, long deemed impossible because of the dire consequences, no longer seems imaginary.

It would have all the negative consequences which several speakers have evoked in connection with failure in Nice.

We must help a people which, in desperation, lives with and bears the consequences of damaging former government policies, on a daily basis.

The Commission clearly cannot ignore the fact that, when it holds commercial negotiations, its concessions have effects which sometimes turn out to be negative.

We all know that alcohol consumption is high, with all of the unfortunate consequences that this entails, specifically when young people are concerned.

So our conclusion is that excluding self employed workers is going to have horrendous effects for these workers and also for the sector.

The effects would be felt especially badly in certain countries, including Italy, where increased premiums are already giving rise to a particularly heated debate.

Moreover, the direct aid which is proposed does not in any way make up for the disastrous effect of the price freeze on farmers' incomes.

This is why the UEN Group has not supported the amendments which are inapplicable in our Member States and whose anticipated economic consequences could prove to be very harmful.

In addition, the timing of the outbreak, as the BSE crisis continues to do its damage, could not be worse.

This is still a holdover from the breakup of the Soviet Union.

However, in applying a good code of practice there should be no negative consequences concerning yield losses and production costs should also be reduced.

That is why there is a need for mechanisms and institutions not to stop the changes but to manage the changes and to prevent their negative social consequences.

Stereotypical and prejudiced depictions by the press can lead to disgraceful consequences both for the image of Brazilian women abroad and for Brazil overall.

Similarly, the policy that has led to the disappearance of small slaughterhouses, including in remote areas, has had pernicious effects.

We Moderates find it gratifying that, with this resolution, the European Parliament is attending to the harmful consequences that often arise in connection with the EU's Structural Funds.

Meanwhile, as I said, we must take measures to prevent the disappearance of beekeepers with all the harmful ecological consequences that this would entail.

This fact, whose economic and political consequences will be immeasurable in the medium and long term, nevertheless has certain negative implications for the citizens who make this move.

GUTIERREZ DIAZ deprived region in the total of 160 or more regions which make up our Community.

And He overthrew the Cities of the Plain,

And that it is He Who threw down the upturned townships?

and the Subverted City He also overthrew,

And the subverted cities He overthrew.

And He destroyed the overthrown cities of Sodom to which Prophet Lout (Lot) was sent .

And He toppled the ruined cities.

And He brought perdition upon the subverted cities

And Al Mu'tafikah He destroyed

and He overthrew the town that was overturned,

He plunged the villages

And the overturned towns He hurled down

It is He who turned upside down the people of Lot

And the overthrown cities did He overthrow,

and He overthrew the subverted cities of Sodom and Gomorrah

And He destroyed the Overthrown Cities (of Sodom and Gomorrah).

We find three points in this report particularly harmful.

There are lots of other dire things.

As it often does, the Commission is proposing regulatory measures to remedy or alleviate the adverse effects of a policy for which it is frequently jointly responsible, without in any way questioning its own basic approach.

Needless to say, the presence of such residues is generally the corollary of intensive farming methods whose harmful effects on the environment and on the food quality of the resulting products are well known.

It is a pity that neither this directive nor the directive on the disposal of waste has concerned itself with this problem, which, after all, has disastrous environmental effects in much of Europe.

It is your job to tidy up the mess left by national governments. These may well have grand visions when it comes to competition policy, but their capacity to wreak havoc seems boundless.