I thank you in advance for including these particular details.

My feeling is that the Council and Commission are adopting a rather continental type patronising attitude on this issue.

I must say that I find some of the points that they have made rather disturbing.

I will turn directly to the amendments, which cover all the points which have been raised during the course of the debate.

The Commission has no information regarding the points alleged by the honourable Member.

Nevertheless, there are some obvious and glaring anomalies which we noted in the second periodic report, particularly to those of us from Scotland, most notably the very artificial and nonsensical lumping together of regions to make an artificial level 2, which simply doesn't exist in the United Kingdom.

I hope that will be helpful, Mr President, in answering some ofthe points made in this short debate.

We shall need at Edinburgh to take full account of the wider economic background to our debate and our decisions.

I would like to welcome your incoming Presidency, Mr Chirac, and say a few words on a couple of issues you raised in your speech.

In this context, the Commission welcomes the points raised in the resolution by Parliament.

Mr President, I wanted to pick up on a couple of the points raised by Mr Prodi and by the Greek Presidency.

I would like to highlight briefly a couple of the key points that were raised during the discussion of this report.

Unfortunately, time does not allow me to deal in detail with all the points raised.

So I would ask for a special section dealing with the points raised here.

MILLAN, Member ofthe Commission. Mr President, I will respond to one or two ofthe points which have been raised.

I shall summarise at this juncture in response to the precise points that Mr Hyland raised.

I should like to pick up on a few key points made in the report. They are points which were also raised by various Members in the debate.

Looking at specific questions, we are very anxious to ensure that the points raised by Mr Welsh and Mr Howell are dealt with very quickly.

With regard to this agreement, I would like to comment on certain issues which have been raised during the debate in committee.

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For the other points raised in the report, I can refer to our communication on a People's Europe.

I close with an appeal to Members of this House. We are not here to represent narrow factional, sectional, nationalistic interests.

MARIN, Vice President of the Commission. (ES) Mr President, I am taking the floor in order to briefly react to some of the ideas put forward by Mrs Simons.

I want to assure the House of that and will take into account the points raised in the present resolution.

We have to stick to the NUTS II areas, however anomalous that may be.

On the other hand, economic growth is necessary, though growth by itself is not sufficient to tackle the problem.

Those are the most definite and most precise answers I can give you on the three points raised in your oral question.

We remember the issues that were raised then the need for balance in world food production which has become an imperative necessity.

we want the future European Central Bank to be democratically accountable to an institution for its actions, then that institution must be this House.

I have already written to you on a number of occasions concerning how points of order are raised in the House.

They're worn very high just at present.

The coverage and points being raised were quite varied, from the sickening editorial in the Washington Post to widespread calls for doing the right thing.

Mrs Veil (LDR). (FR) Mr President, my group will vote for this report, despite sharing the views expressed by the rapporteur on a number of points.

This level of implementation made a fairly high settlement rate possible. By contrast, in the case of the

I said that I wanted to make a couple of additional comments on two points that have been raised concerning issues which are not strictly related to this report, but with the previous report.

We lost nearly half an hour this morning and many of the points of order that were raised then, and are often raised here, are things that Members have just thought of that they would like to share with others. That hardly constitutes a point of order.

Arguments from ignorance Eugenie C. Scott, along with Glenn Branch and other critics, has argued that many points raised by intelligent design proponents are arguments from ignorance.

The olive growers have already been waiting too long, without surrendering, and they should not be abandoned.

SCHMIDHUBER, Member of the Commission. (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank all the speakers for their statements.

I would like to thank the rapporteur and the Committee on Fisheries which has incorporated the following points of the Committee on Budgets into the Resolution

kind of reply, especially as the Commissioner told us just now that when the legislation on the environment was not respected finance was blocked.

I think there is one point which has been raised by a few Parliamentarians which is fundamentally important, namely to guarantee that there will be strong European encryption products.

Second, several other factors were raised which might be of relevance in deciding on the avoidance of undue distortions of competition (see paragraphs 48 to 51 above).

My first reason for doing so is the scale of the Community programmes in support of Spain and the need not to decide things too quickly quickly enough, but not too quickly.

It should make available new and adequate financial resources which are not earmarked only for nuclear power, but for renewable forms of energy.