The European Parliament shall adopt its position at first reading and communicate it to the Council.4.

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.

First reading

The Council shall inform the European Parliament fully of the reasons which led it to adopt its position at first reading.

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)

First position

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

rejects, by a majority of its component members, the Council's position at first reading, the proposed act shall be deemed not to have been adopted

The vote will be taken tomorrow at 5 p.m.

In my opinion, they were totally unnecessary in view of the Commission's proposals.

MARQUES MENDES (LDR). (PT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to begin by associating myself with what has just been said to the rapporteur, Mr Lamassoure, and, on behalf of the Committee on Social Affairs, Employment and the Working Environment and in my personal capacity, to congratulate him for the work he has done, for the effort he has made, and for the task he has managed to complete.

So I take it into the start position, and then I press the read button.

We have already forgotten the emotion we felt at the time, the calm and collected joy of the crowd that came frome East Berlin and all over the world to celebrate.

That only took place on Tuesday.

RIPA DI MEANA, Member of the Commission. (IT) Mr President, before examining the proposed amend ments in detail it is appropriate to remember that at the first reading numerous amendments were put down by the European Parliament to the text proposed by the Commission in 1988.

I never forget my first multicultural reading, in Harvard Square about 10 years ago.

We ought to cheer that. The economy needs new trained workers.

The first word of a game should cover the central position.

Where the cooperation procedure is involved, Parliament has specific rights of amendment and it is in those areas above all that we are entitled to have our say.

At first reading, the European Parliament approved the Commission's proposal without amendment.

However, I can also accept Amendments Nos 25, 34 and 35.

Mr Anastassopoulos said that in addition to fine words positive determination is necessary.

We are the first generation which is in a position to do this.

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.

But we in Europe, if we adopt these rules, will be forcing more than 2 million firms to meet disclosure and publication requirements of a kind which are met in Japan and the USA by only a rapidly dwindling number.

The European Parliament welcomed this Commission proposal at first reading on 19 May.

Letter amending the draft general budget for the 1991 financial year at first reading (Doc. C3 418 90)

proposes, by a majority of its component members, amendments to the Council's position at first reading, the text thus amended shall be forwarded to the Council and to the Commission, which shall deliver an opinion on those amendments.

As the Parliament has proposed in its first reading (see amendments 2, 3, 4, 8, 16, 20, 21, 22, 25), the common position deletes the references to repeated minor infringements .

If Economic and Monetary Union is to succeed, an all embracing macroeconomic frame of reference must therefore be created for all those responsible for the implementation of policy at European and national level.

BROK (PPE). (DE) Mr President, I think our sincere thanks are due to the rapporteur for the immense amount of work he has done in the past few months and for his most cooperative and helpful attitude.

When it conducted its second reading of the draft 1991 budget, the Council maintained the amount entered at the time of its first reading since no new legislative provision had come into force at that time.

Part of this material was given as the first lecture of the Mount Haemus Award series.

At first reading the European Parliament adopted a total of 65 amendments to the Commission s original proposal.

The ECB may start negotiations either ( a ) with the best ranked tenderer .

Returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of needle in the haystack string.

The damage inflicted on agriculture in Greece and the other Mediterranean countries, including the President in Officc's own country of Italy, by the drought has been catastrophic, and there are two points that I feel I must persist on.

For the countries hardest hit by the Gulf crisis the Council has decided on Community aid amounting to ECU 550 million. The letter of amendment therefore

Last Reading Access

Today's arraignment hearing offers the defendant his first opportunity to state his case personally.

As has already been pointed out, but for his patience, his diplomacy and his firmness, I do not think we would be here today to debate and approve the second reading of the budget.

And now to the unforeseeable, where on behalf of the Budget Committee which discussed this at great length yesterday, I would like to ask one question, make one request and put one proposal.

In the case of environmental protection, a priority of the most recent revision of the financial perspective, as explicitly confirmed at the Dublin summit, the Council only proposes an increase of 7.6 compared to the 1990 budget. That remains far below the rate of increase for the overall appropriations for Title IV of 19 for non obligatory expenditure.

Selects the first bullet located in the document immediately after the current cursor location.

Selects the first bullet located in the document immediately before the current cursor location.