They were put to the Commission.

The Commission, as a body, shall be responsible to the European Parliament.

The Commission must respond with speed to this new opportunity.

I think that with the system that existed before June 1988 we would today be facing a budget crisis with incalculable political consequences.

We had it there in front of us in the committee.

Other members of the Executive Board of the ECB also appear before the Committee .

As a parliament our concern has been to safeguard the position of this Parliament vis à vis the Commission.

It was this situation in the Soviet Union that led the European Council meeting in Dublin in June of this year to ask the Commission to consult with relevant international organizations and the government of the Soviet Union on ways of effectively backing our political commitment with respect to developments in the Soviet Union.

The Annual Report of the ECB is presented to both the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the plenary of the European Parliament .

Certainly, before he became a Secretary of State Lord Young was highly entrepreneurial.

LANGES (PPE). (DE) Mr President, the Group of the European People's Party will both approve the second reading and raise the financial limits.

I was present when Commissioner Bangemann made his ominous speech to the ad hoc committee.

As Confucius once warned 'If the words do not marry, the deeds will miscarry'.

The following appearances were made by members of the Executive Board before the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

Obviously, there will be some in the Council

The Commission proposed a 2.3 increase in the preliminary draft, and even that has been cut by the Council.

That would at least be a relatively clear answer.

In practice , the President of the ECB appears before the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on a quarterly basis .

As to the scope of any future EU legislation, the Commission is faced with several options.

I want to congratulate him on the vision and spirit of compromise he has shown, and the efficiency with which he has worked.

We are currently involved in GATT negotiations dominated by the quibbling of the most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

In addition, 70 according to the latest statistics of all jobs created in hte Community over the same decade have been part time.

For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

I am here to give our response. I am referring to Article II of the draft treaty.

The Commission administration spoke to the IBLC to ensure that these formalities do not cause delays in financial transactions.

It seems to me that at the present stage all that can be said about this is that before the end of this year any decisions or measures, conclusions if you like, relating to such assistance can be no more than general and, at best, tentative.

I trust that we are expressing that will in this resolution. It is difficult to believe that almost at the end of the 20th Century we can even contemplate a war in the Gulf, a war which would not be clean or easy or quick.

But Google s efforts to provide direct answers to questions have fueled complaints at the European Commission.

The Commission may attend all the meetings of the European Parliament and shall, at its request, be heard.

The Commission will ask the Yugoslav authorities about the incidents mentioned by the honourable Member and inform him of the outcome of this action.

The view of Parliament on the Gulf Cooperation Agreement was set out in the Moorhouse report last July.

The President of the ECB makes quarterly appearances in the form of testimonies before the European Parliament 's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and once a year before the European Parliament at its plenary session .

The President of the ECB appears before the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament once a quarter .

Should this conference be successful, the Commission would be faced with the task of adapting its ptoposal to this new situation.

As the institution that is directly accountable to Council and Parliament, the European Commission needs to have overall programme management responsibility.

Similarly we should like to fix the amount of aid at ECU 8 per 100 kg., as we understand that that is the amount which may make it possible to compensate smallscale growers when the stabilizer is applied.

In April 2003 the VicePresident presented the ECB 's Annual Report 2002 to the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs .

The Commission and Parliament are acting like firemen, reacting to events after they happen with the aim of simply limiting the damage.

GOEDMAKERS (S). (NL) Mr President, Parliament held its first debate on this programme in Juñe.

I ask the Commission whether it intends to adopt an attitude towards this serious matter, and whether it will raise the matter at the EEC Summit Conference in Rome ?

I say that advisedly and share, in this respect, the view taken by Mr Guillaume that it would be naive and mistaken collectively to write off the debt unless, at the same time, we work towards solutions designed to prevent a dramatic increase in debt in those countries for the future.

Faced with absence.

The same mandate has been given to the European Commission , and the two reports have been submitted to the EU Council in parallel .

(Applause from the Technical Group of the European Right)