The President of the Commission shall

It shall elect the President of the Commission.

The President of the European Commission

The answer is to be found in the record of the equivalent financial institutions the IMF foremost among them. It was the IMF and its cheeseparing policy

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.

Mr President, let us see the Commission finally taking a lead on this matter.

must take full account of the entire institutional architecture. That is why it seems to me that the question of the Council is important.

VON DER VRING (S), chairman of the Committee on Budgets. (DE) Mr President, just a brief comment, if I may.

DE GUCHT ation procedure must be applied to the full and that there really is every reason to do so in this case.

Abell served as president of the Cosmology Commission of the International Astronomical Union and as president and member of the board of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

FUCHS (S), rapporteur. (FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, setting up a common system of VAT is essential to the removal of internal frontiers in the Community by 1 January 1993.

This compromise raises three main questions, and these are addressed by the main amendments adopted by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy.

Service and system providers, network operators, manufacturers and the relevant groups in society must be in a position to be involved right from the outset in

First up will be the choice of the European Commission s next president.

Since the total meat consumption is shared by beef, sheepmeat, pigmeat and poultry, the beef market is further damaged by the surpluses of sheepmeat on the market in the present year caused, in the main, by imports of 200 000 tonnes of New Zealand lamb.

the report (Doc. A3 315 90) by Mr Donnelly, on behalf of the Temporary Committee to consider the the proposal from the Commission to the Council for a regulation on the temporary suspension of the

Within the European Council, its President and the President of the Commission shall not take part in the vote.

PRESIDENT. Mr Smith, your observations will be taken into account at the appropriate times.

VAN VELZEN (S), chairman of the Committee on Social Affairs, Employment and the Working Environ ment. (NL) Mr President, that risk does exist.

Having further considered the letter dated 15 October 2002 from the Chairman of the Sixth Committee addressed to the Chairman of the Fifth CommitteeA C.5 57 17. and the letter dated 31 October 2002 from the President of the General Assembly addressed to the Chairman of the Fifth Committee,A C.5 57 20.

But the European Parliament clearly has far more representation than taxation.

BANGEMANN, Vice President of the Commission. (DE) Mr President, I should like to express our thanks once again to the rapporteur and to the Temporary Committee.

Mr President, I want to put two points on behalf of the Agriculture Committee.

DELORS, President of the Commission. (FR) Mr President of Parliament, Mr President of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, I do not have a great deal to add to what has been said by President De Michelis.

Mr President, my last remark is in praise of Mr Barzanti and Mr Elliott, for the fantastic work they have done on this subject.

On behalf of my group I can say that we are very pleased that German unification can be completed on 3 October.

PRESIDENT. At the moment wc do not know when the Committee will complete its work.

First, of course, the present crisis must be managed and controlled.

We recognise all that has been done in this extraordinary period.

Elisse Walter, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Gary Gensler, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

The new Members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Council , acting by qualified majority and by common accord with the President of the Commission ,

(i) Mr. Peter F. Croker, Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

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 major task confronting the Community over the next three years will be to reexamine our existing policies to ensure that they are compatible with moves towards monetary union and possibly even the establishment of a single currency in the nineties.

PANDOLFI, Vice President of the Commission. (IT) Mr President, I refer to Amendment No 50.

Because, colleagues, the prospect of a peaceful solution exists and can exist for only as long as the will to seek that solution exists.

A member of the Commission shall resign if the President so requests.

RIPA DI MEANA

After obtaining the approval of the College , the President shall appoint Vice Presidents from among its Members .

This bank is to have the task of offering help to cover the enormous needs of capital for the reorganization and modernization of the economies of Central and Eastern Europe.

Solidarity and determination, these are the qualities that need to be shown by Europe and all the nations involved in this situation. The United Nations has decided to impose an embargo on the aggressor, to be backed up by force as necessary.

BETTINI (V). (IT) Mr President, I wish briefly to make a request to the Commission.

LUCAS PIRES (PPE). (PT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I should like to congratulate the rapporteur, my colleague Mr Colombo, for the magnificent report he has presented, which is most timely for it seems to me that the Community is indeed at a historic juncture not just a historic, but a constituent moment, a moment of transition.

RUBBI, President in Office of the Council. (IT) Mr President, I have nothing to add to what the President of the Commission said.

I suggest, if the House agrees, to interrupt the order of business at this point.