improve the existing cooperation procedure.

I want to emphasise that this issue not just as a symbolic one.

Assistant Rapporteurs must have a high level of expertise in the relevant technical field.

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The Assistant Rapporteurs shall be chosen from persons whose independence is beyond doubt and who possess the necessary legal qualifications they shall be appointed by the Council .

Major assets may comprise components with different useful lives .

I have listened to the three previous speakers, and guess what happened?

I shall come back to that briefly in a moment to say how happy the Commission is that, thanks to the Italian presidency, we have made considerable progress towards ensuring that the two intergovernmental conferences will be a success.

CORNELISSEN (PPE). (NL) Mr President, I endorse the compliments paid to the two rapporteurs.

LANE (RDE). Mr President, I also compliment the two rapporteurs.

LE CHEVALLIER the decisionmaking process and particularly in corporate strategy and planning.

COX (LRD). Mr President, I do not want to reopen the debate and I respect your request to be brief.

The crucial factor if there is to be a appropriate financial planning is, however, the rate at which progress is likely to be made in the East and in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Assistant rapporteurs shall like the judges be appointed for a term of six years with the possibility of reappointment.

As this would not give the section sufficient time to draw up its opinions, the section decided to ask for the rapporteurs to be appointed as rapporteurs general for the 8 and 9 December plenary session.

The Assistant Rapporteurs shall be chosen from persons whose independence is beyond doubt and who possess the necessary legal qualifications they shall be appointed by a European decision of the Council, acting by a simple majority.

Since we've arrived, there's been a constant buzz about all the exciting speakers here for the conference.

LANNOYE (V). (FR) I think everybody knows, and Mr Valverde López, the rapporteur, reminded us at the beginning of his speech, that the impact of agriculture and agricultural policy on the environment is extremely important.

Assistant rapporteurs shall have the right to ask questions to the parties to clarify relevant technical questions.

What we must do is make every effort we can in every possible sector to stabilize farm income.

In conclusion, we all know that in this Parliament, we are going to have to go for revision of the financial perspectives, a major revision next year, so that we can keep the budget train on the rails.

ELLES (ED). Mr President, I would like to join with those of my colleagues who have thanked our two rapporteurs for the work they have done.

We suppott fully the line taken by our general rapporteur that there must be a very clear commitment from the Commission tomorrow in terms of proposals

A European law may provide for the appointment of Assistant Rapporteurs and lay down the rules governing their service.

Number two I am going to put together an incredible line up of speakers for next year.

ANDRIESSEN. (NL) Naturally, this touches on quite a fundamental issue.

The Commission talked about the problems, and proposed solutions to the problems, of the handicapped.

In conclusion, Mr President, many thanks to both rapporteurs for their very sound work.

The festival, which ran from April 20 to April 22 and took place in downtown Cartagena, attracted more than 500 participants and reporters from around the world.

This year, many women are among the spotlight speakers at the main WPFD event in Riga, Latvia, including female journalists and media executives from the host country, Colombia, Egypt, and other jurisdictions.

Assistant Rapporteurs are required, under the conditions laid down in the Rules of Procedure, to participate in the preparation, the hearing and the deliberation of cases.

I want to thank all the participants and speakers in this debate, particularly of course Mrs Peijs and Mr Stavrou.

Catalans to save their language, persecuted and banned by the Franco dictatotship.

The reports by Mr Muntingh and Mrs Maria Santos on the conservation of the tropical forests return to this subject and do so with an eloquence on which I congratulate them both, as well as on the excellent work they have done and on their impassioned delivery in opening the debate.

And finally, it keeps Parliament's amendments on the research programmes, with the reservation of some transfers of payment and a savings to be found of ECU 20 million.

We must find a common denominator so that progress can be made in the area referred to by Mrs Breyer, namely the prenormative field.

I can not sit down without mentioning tobacco. I express the concern that a lot of people feel that in next year's budget wc still have ECU 1.34 billion earmarked for the tobacco sector.

These measures included the appointment, following adoption of the legislative programme, of rapporteurs on future proposals announced in that programme.

The transitional arrangement for VAT has, after all, been proposed because of a lack of political will in some quarters to approve the initial proposals put forward in 1987.

PASTY (RDE), rapporteur. (FR) Mr President, the political and institutional circumstances of the ECSC operating budget for 1991 are quite exceptional.

Firstly, the reiteration of scrupulous respect for national identities in this process of gradual transformation of

We believe there should be more TEDx initiatives in other locations in Syria, as long as it doesn t risk the lives of the organizers, speakers and attendees.

This brings me to Amendment 4.1 would point out here that maritime transport makes no distinction between cabin and stowed baggage.

Assistant rapporteurs shall take an oath before the Court of Justice to perform their duties impartially and conscientiously and to preserve the secrecy of deliberations.

I am glad that the fruitful discussion which took place yesterday between the rapporteurs of the various Groups and Mr Valverde López ended in agreement that any authorization concerning genetically modified organisms should be subjected to the conditions of the specific directive applicable to these pesticides.