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This level of transparency which, in some cases, would amount to naming and shaming could transform how companies manage their financial affairs.

The ruling objective of the directive is that women who are pregnant or have just given birth should be able to go to work without risk.

The first is that after the dramatically fast moving develop ments in the Soviet Union and the countries of Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe, the agreement under the Helsinki Final Act of 1975 must now be put into

That is the message I am bringing from the Legal Affairs Committee.

VITALONE with or help deal with such situations, which have certainly shocked and distressed the international community.

This is the putpose of the Commission's proposal, and the Legal Affairs Committee is in agteement.

Commission statement on oil prices

All thirty five countries taking part in the Conference will find it very hard to find common stances and reach joint decisions in such a short time, with the risk of impasses or stalemate as often occurs at the UN but also a danger that certain results will not come about.

MARQUES MENDES (LDR), draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Social Affairs, Employment and the Working Environment. (PT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the few minutes at my disposal do not allow me to do anything more than call attention, in summary form, to a number of essential points arising from the draft budget for 1991 and the opinion approved by the Committee on Social Affairs.

From this point of view the financial services sector is moving faster than Community legislation.

He has also created murals and designed corporate logos.

Proposal from the Commission to the Council (COM(90) 439 final Doc.

It is not enough to will the aims, we must also will the means.

MARQUES MENDES in this matter was quite apparent, as it will be, too in this vote at second reading.

VITALONE. (IT) Mr President, I have already spoken of the Commission decision to provide financial aid to help resolve this problem of the orphans, the orphaned children of Romania.

PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE COMMISSION, INCLUDING THE UNION MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS

The Legal Affairs Committee has again taken over a limited number of amendments.

Others, particularly large corporates, appear more skeptical.

Yet the Legal Affairs Committee is still giving the regulation its backing.

So, Mr President, as the Committee on Social Affairs' rapporteur, I submitted a report at the beginning of this year indicating the priorities that we in this Parliament wished to establish for 1990. They were priorities in eight areas.

The Union Minister for Foreign Affairs shall be one of the Vice Presidents of the Commission.

The Commission, whenever it considers it desirable, shall consult the Committee on transport matters.

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The third comment I should like to make is this the prospect opened up by the CSCE not only does not check but it actually dictates speeding up and boosting of the progress towards European political union, defining a common foreign policy and security policy.

In this field, therefore, what is needed are rules that are flexible but not restrictive, and the proposal put forward by Mrs Salisch, on behalf of the Committee on Social Affairs, meets these expectations.

We believe this implies, firstly, that the European Parliament must not be rivalled by a second chamber which would limit the European Parliament's responsibilities and would tend to weaken those responsibilities vis à vis our citizens.

It is a modest step but an important one, and I very much hope, therefore, that the position that I have outlined will commend itself to Parliament.

PRESIDENT. I understood Mr Rothley to say that he was asking for postponement under Rule 105 of the Rules of Procedure, not referral back to Committee.

The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy and the Committee on External Economic Relations, whose views were requested by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights, have been cleatly in favour of ratification.

Impunity is widespread nbsp indeed, most corporate crimes go un noticed.

In that connexion I have tabled an amendment.

Both the Committee on Institutional Affairs and the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights have pointed to the following difficulty in the event of a change in the legislation in one of the conttacting parties, e.g. Switzerland, the Joint Committee can adapt the agreement to that changed legal situation in Switzetland.

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The Social Affairs Committee has not examined these three inter related pieces of legislation in a proper and thorough manner.

appoint Vice Presidents, other than the Union Minister for Foreign Affairs, from among the members of the Commission.

Affairs and Citizens' Rights, deletes this provision.

AMENDOLA (V). (IT) I should like simply to emphasize again what we already said in our first speech, namely that the measure that we have adopted is certainly a positive measure as a framework.