With its Dying with Dignity Commission, Quebec recently discussed the delicate issue of the end of life.

As far as the substance of that question is concerned, the Commission considers that the environmental factors could have been better considered.

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As there was no interest in this issue, the 2015 Joint Committee had been postponed due to a lack of business to discuss.

Ladies and gentlemen, I think the thing is very straightforward. Nobody disputes the outcome.

I propose to consider these two aspects and then discuss the legislative programme for next year.

ERNST DE LA GRAETE (V), rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy (FR). Mr President, the introduction of more rigorous standards for motor vehicle emissions has enormous economic implications, on which we should adopt a neutral position, but this does not always seem to be the case as far as the Commission is concerned.

The confederation would have specific responsibilities in relation to foreign policy, security, and protection of national identities, including in particular a policy aimed at preventing the formation of foreign colonies on European nation's soil, this policy being essential to the maintenance of peace between peoples.

You are not entitled to refer the matter to the enlarged Bureau, but to the committee responsible.

It is the only power that is Parliament's own, unique, exclusive and indivisible.

It confirms that any adoption of the Green Group's motion would automatically mean that both motions on this urgent topic would be debated.

On this occasion the Legal Affairs Committee voted that under the circumstances it was not in a position to deliver an opinion.

The question of transformation in Africa really is a question of leadership.

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Parliament knows that the Commission, in collaboration, moreover, with the committee chaired by Mr Barzanti, has been in consultation with professionals, as confirmed in a communication.

operate under since they joined the Community and the special measures that are being made for the new enlarged Germany and the old territory of the GDR.

At all events, as the Commission itself says, it must not jeopardise freedom of trade.

That is my queston, I hope I shall receive an answer.

I should like to say that in its concept of the Europe agreements the Commission has quite consciously left the question of membership out of consideration.

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Proposals on quality, including designation of origin, are under active consideration by the Commission and decisions on the matter are expected shortly.

Commission, preferably through its President, is prepared to make a statement on a very serious matter.

If a Member of this Parliament requests an issue to be referred to the Committee on the Rules of Procedure, the Verification of Credentials and Immunities, it should be referred immediately and not be considered first by the enlarged Bureau.

Noting that the Commission on Sustainable Development at its fourteenth session discussed, inter alia, industrial development,

There is now deep concern in the Irish Sea area that marine life including fish and shellfish arc being adversely affected and entering the food chain.

Despite the vote, I think this matter should be referred to the Committee on the Rules of Procedure.

The Commission is taking the European Parliament resolution into account in its examination of this issue, and will keep Parliament informed of any developments.

Proposal from the Commission to the Council (COM(90) 358 final Doc.

The cooperation in question regards the obtaining of a permit from the U.S. Energy Commission, necessary to start a project to exploit marine energy in Alaska.

COLLINS (S), chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection. Madam President, on a point of order.

17. Requests the Commission on Human Rights to continue consideration of this matter at its sixtieth session under the same agenda item.

LAMASSOURE (LDR), rapporteur. (FR) Mr President, ladies and gentleman.

BRITTAN, Sir Leon, Vice President of the Commission. I commend the honourable gentleman for his persistence in raising the matter in every possible form.

(b) The question of compensation for any material loss caused by the act in question.

HARRISON (S), draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Regional Policy and Regional Planning. Mr President, I rise first of all to congratulate Mr Donnelly on his report and also for accepting, broadly, the amendments which I put forward on behalf of the Committee on Regional Policy and Regional Planning.

Don't we all wish that we had the same privileges in our private lives ?

We need no further deregulation of economic policy, on the contrary, we must have more regulatory instruments that will help to curb the destruction of the environment both inside and outside the Community.

We are voting for it, above all, because the report is overruling the positions of the Commission on the matter of the legal basis, and some particularly negative aspects of the Commission stance vis à vis the contents of the proposal.

Recalling further the important results accomplished by the former Commission on Human Rights on the question of the death penalty, and envisaging that the Human Rights Council could continue to work on this issue,

Let me remind you of the three main points which Parliament has asked for the right and duty to establish the constituent basis of this Community, the legitimacy of exercising legislative power the forms can be established later and the right to express its view and to amend the changes to the treaties to be made in the process of the intergovernmental conferences.

This question should therefore be examined within the Council's subsidiary bodies when the Commission submits its draft negotiating directives.

It is quite true that the services responsible yesterday duly reported the applause but, Mr President, I consider that, instead, the problem is to ensure, by increasing the numbet of personnel in the Chamber who are responsible for producing the Minutes and the Rainbow, that the interruptions and protests also are recorded, and not only the applause.

We have to demand that the Commission brings those proposals in front of us and I hope that issue is not going to be lost in this more general debate.

As there seems to be some confusion as to the number of specialisations the EESC recommends that the European Commission makes an update of the annex in question.

DONNELLY (S). Mr President, I need to raise a point concerning Wednesday's agenda. As I have to attend a meeting of the Temporary Committee on