As a rule , the Commission is represented by the commissioner responsible for economic and financial matters .

I know who killed the police inspector.

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PRESIDENT. Mr Commissioner, may I interrupt you for a moment ?

The Commissioner is of course acquainted with the arguments.

Be that as it may, once we have.opted for the VAT system, we have to go all the way.

Lastly, this crisis causes me great and deep disquiet.

Thirdly, income support for farmers.

Mr Commissioner, do you deem it one of a Commissioners' duties to intervene in private companies' problems ?

GUILLAUME (RDE). (FR) Mr President, I listened with interest to the statement by Mr MacSharry and I can support the general tenor of his remarks.

which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

So I think he has to be given credit for that.

Could the Commissioner answer that ?

We all know the problem of the North Sea, a sea that has in the

Europe must be complete in its economic, cultural and institutional dimensions, or it will be nothing at all.

I have two comments, however.

PAISLEY (NI). Mr President, it has been said that fools step in where angels fear to tread.

And we, we Europeans, have our responsibilities in this situation.

MUSSO (RDE). (FR) I am grateful for the Commissioner's reply.

You have twice dared to contradict me in front of the commissioner.

Despite the fact

When the Commissioner replies he has got to deal with a couple of crucial issues.

I listened very carefully to what the Commissioner said.

BANOTTI (PPE). Mr President, I thank the Commissioner for his statement.

I have prepared one or two questions for the Commissioner.

It met with the state secretariat for the handicapped, the EC team and representatives of the NGOs.

Of the Guatemalan population repatriated and receiving assistance from Community aid, only a minority of less than 20 returned to the part of the Ixcan Quiché region where there had been fighting.

I do not have the time now to mention them here.

Commissioner Van Miert tells us he shares our concerns.

I would also like to ask the Commissioner whether he can clarify what steps the Commission have taken to

There were some strange references in your speech, Commissioner Bangemann.

I believe, Commissioner, we shall see more crises in the future.

I see Commissioner Schmidhuber is listening carefully to what we have to say about this.

But it seems to me that the text proposed by the Commission underplays the role of telematics and comes nowhere near using the full potential of this tool.

Naturally, 260 million is an appreciable increase on 75 million, but the size of the problems is such that we will clearly need to invest a great deal in order to find solutions to our present environmental problems.

The press, specifically the Spanish press, refers to specific practices and has named an official, linking him to specific rings handling Commission funds.

DONNELLY ipulation of oil prices ?

VAN MIERT, Member of the Commission. (NL) I can confirm for Mr Vandemeulebroucke that the Commission keeps a careful eye on consequences ofthat kind related to the laying of TGV lines.

When Mr von der Vring requested a confirmation it emerged that we were too few at the beginning, the number increased later, but had fallen again by the end.

ICL then designed the chips which were then manufactured by Fujitsu.

It is true that this has become part of political reality the whole political establishment has focused on this, because it symbolizes an attitude towards social problems.

I sincerely hope, too, that the Commission can go along with the position we have adopted.

Would the Commissioner please give us an undertaking that the Commission will release those documents?

The Commission can also though drawing on another item take part in studies on environmental consequences in the framework of environmental effects reporting.