LANE (RDE). Mr President, the financial services sector has been developing at a very rapid rate over the past few years.

I regret, Madam President, since they have not been reported, I cannot name any other than Mr Gillespie.

I favour the common position.

I prefer the common position.

Report (Doc. A3 241 90) by Mrs Salisch, on behalf of the Committee on Social Affairs, Employment and the Working Environment, on the proposal from the Commission to the Council (COM(90) 228 final Doc.

Recommendation 252 90) on the Council's common position on EURET programme (COM(89) 557 final SYN 226) (Report by Mr Pierrôs)

I would also add that the Commission is doing whatever it can to go beyond the research and technological development sector pure and simple by means of the large networks policy, which is a new one.

CHIABRANDO (PPE). (IT) Mr President, we are preparing to ratify our recommendation on the Council's position on the Eurotra programme.

C3 142 90 SYN 129) with a view to the adoption of a directive on the protection of workers from risks related to exposure to biological agents at work (Rapporteur Mr Pronk)

This proposal by the Commission aims to supplement the Council's directive of 1980, which lays down the basic rules on the protection of public and occupational health against the dangers arising from ionizing radiation.

A3 200 90) from the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy on the common position of the Council (Doc.

(The President declared the common position adopted)

Aspects of the common position reflecting the European Parliament s amendments

already takes into account the Council political agreement of 5 November 2002 towards a common position , which the Commission fully supports .

The Council met yesterday and the Temporary Committee on German unification met last night to receive the common position from Mr Vitalone on behalf of the Council.

The Council will then be able to adopt its common position on 29 October, except insofar as agriculture is concerned.

As the second reading report of the European Parliament is based on the Common Position, the Commission amends its proposal also on the basis of the Common Position.

Aspects of the common position responding to the European Parliament's amendments

That is why all efforts by the UN Security Council to forge a common position on Syria have so far foundered.

This will satisfy the interests of both countries and will certainly be approved by the Council too. So that problem is resolved.

I am the mayor of the fair town of Douai in France. Now what happens to a mayor in France who fails to respect the environmental laws ?

VON ALEMANN (LDR). (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen !

The common position allows for control over insurers.

(The President declared the amended common approved)

A3 251 90), drawn up on behalf of the Committee on Energy, Research and Technology, on the common position adopted by the Council with a view to the adoption of a decision adopting a specific research and technological development programme in the field of transport

(Parliament declared the amended common approved)

(The President declared approved the common as amended)

On Monday we heard a statement from the Commission which seems to allay these misgivings.

We learn that the major European unions and associations welcome and support these amendments.

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We have done so because, in the common position, something of our own sentiments has been taken over.

We shall see what the outcome is.

(COM(89) 557 final SYN 226) (Report by Mr Pierrôs)

But did we lift a finger to help Solidarnosc in Poland, the dissident movements in Russia, or the efforts to overthrow the Ceauscescu dictatorship in Romania ?

On a number of other points too the Council fails to adopt Parliament's position.

I now turn to the Council. We should take up what Mr Romita proposed at the end of his statement, because I feel it is a very good way of overcoming the practical difficulties which persist with the Council and under which we too suffer.

This is its first reading, and it aims to convert the existing directive issued in 1983 to an exclusively technical basis.

approves the Council's position at first reading or has not taken a decision, the act concerned shall be deemed to have been adopted in the wording which corresponds to the position of the Council

I would add, moreover, that we have the feeling that this economic policy is something which is just being imposed or inflicted on us.

In the common position the Council rejected Amendment No 8, but the Commission made a statement in which it announced that it would adopt the first part of the amendment.

After financial services, at the beginning of the term now coming to its end, the most important sector for the internal market was company law.

For all these reasons I urge the House to approve the Garcia Amigo report and our amendments.

the Council Directive concerning the mutual recognition of type approval for telecommunication terminal equipment (COM(90) 263 final) on which a common position was reached on June 27, 1990.

If the Council does not approve the European Parliament's position, it shall adopt its position at first reading and communicate it to the European Parliament.

MacSHARRY, Member of the Commission. Mr President, the beef market throughout the Community has been depressed in recent months for a variety of reasons.