Mr Malangré was really a great help and I would like to thank him for his efforts.

That applies to the first part of Amendment No 8.

The First Amendment passed the House and Senate with almost no recorded debate, complicating future discussion of the Amendment's intent.

In the common position the Council rejected Amendment No 8, but the Commission made a statement in which it announced that it would adopt the first part of the amendment.

But the ban was contested by the American Civil Liberties Union as an infringement of the First Amendment.

For the work that Mary Morello put into this, she won a Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in 1996.

3, the Commission again expresses its inability to understand the reason underlying the first part of the amendment, in particular this reference to the 1989 budget.

Revision and amendment

Amendment and revision

It was because of this that our group wanted to tble an amendment.

The Commission will next week be presenting, on I think 17 December, the report on our programme manage ment, drawn up by Andersen Consulting in collaboration with Touche Ross, and may also present the other document, mentioned by Mr Samland, which has only just arrived and will, in due course, be passed on to the House.

Computer related Crime Bill (amendment)

We cannot accept this amendment.

A number of groups in this House had asked for a roll call vote on this amendment.

I accept amendment No 35.

We see this as the logical development of the Single European Marker, since exchange and transaction costs are just as much barriers to freedom of trade as differing technical standards, or incompatible health and safety regulations.

Electronic Transaction Bill (amendment)

Par liament's Amendment No 1, which appears to have been unanimously approved by the Committee on Legal

We also accept amendment No 80.

Amendment No 5 is acceptable.

Mr Vertemati's Amendment No 10 is already covered in Amendment No 7 and is thus superfluous.

As this amendment and amendment 8 were repetitive in their form and content, they were examined together.

Do, please, look at the facts.

Amendment No 1 is entirely acceptable.

Membership of political groups see Minutes.

Our community voted against this amendment.

While we do not agree with the 111(b) variant proposed by the Council, we would not seek a management committee procedure of the kind ad vocated in this amendment.

We come now to the famous compromise amendment.

This amendment is therefore unacceptable. ceptable.

The other proposal is the tenth directive on crossfrontier mergers between jointstock companies which the Commission presented in 1985 and which has been before Parliament since then without Parliament having given its opinion.

Similarly, I would have difficulty with Amendment No 3.

In opting for this particular procedure the Council obviously took account of the arguments for and against it.

Another question that is still open is the amount to be provided, despite the many figures that have been quoted in the gazettes.

The Thirteenth Amendment freed all Negro slaves.

Broadcasting and Telecommunication Regulator Bill (amendment)

Next, we must play our part in the

I am absolutely against Amendment No 7.

It is important.

It is to be hoped therefore that the Visser amendment will be accepted.

I also agree with Amendment No 6.

On Amendment No 12 I add a note of caution.

That is a frontier which is entirely unpoliced and that law is, I suggest to you, completely unenforceable.

That is why 1 cannot accept Amendment No 52.

PRESIDENT. The next item is the report (Doc. A3167 90) by Sir James Scott Hopkins, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection

For the past few days, it seems to me, our American friends have been adopting the same stance.