I would like to thank the honourable Members for their work.

At any rate I will send Members of Parliament the information in writing.

If we had, I would be worried, just as the honourable Members are.

I hope that honourable Members of this Parliament will participate actively in this committee.

One or two honourable Members referred to the presidential debates.

I can only ask honourable Members to wait until the physical evidence is available.

It is, of course, one of the three 'E's with which the honourable Members are well acquainted.

I thank all honourable Members of the European Parliament for their very valuable and good speeches.

And the honourable Members know that this is one of the emblematic initiatives of this Prodi Commission.

With regard to the functional blocks, I understand what the honourable Members are saying.

In it they say we pray at your end, honourable European Parliamentarians, that justice may prevail on us .

. Mr President, I should like to thank the honourable Members for all their interesting and important comments.

Let me set out for honourable Members what we are doing to alleviate the present crisis.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would very quickly like to make one point. Various Members raised questions about the Portuguese Presidency.

I direct honourable Members to Article 4(3) public interest disclosure.

On this subject, I would like to say to honourable Members that the Commission will present the text.

We want therefore to know the real objections, the real reservations of Member States, so that each one of our countries can play its part in ensuring that the competition policy is equipped with the necessary tools.

I am very pleased that a number of MEPs, particularly Mrs Carlotti and Mr Martin, discuss the importance of association agreements between the EU and the partner countries.

PINTO (LDR). (PT) Mr President, ladies and gen tlemen, the debate on this report has been of the

Mr President, distinguished Members, it is indeed an honour to address the European Parliament.

This question echoes the questions worded in more general terms by previous honourable Members.

The Commission is following with very great concern, as I know all honourable Members will be, the emergency situation in Mozambique.

Mr President, I hope that honourable Members will forgive me if I stand back and ask a fundamental question.

I hope honourable Members will always try, even if sometimes it is difficult, to make a distinction between those people.

I believe that all the comments by Parliament's very worthy representatives have indicated this in one way or another.

I understand what the Members are saying in wanting to foster occupational training.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to apologise for not having been able to be here earlier.

I congratulate Mr Hudghton and fully support his report and would urge the honourable Members of Parliament to do likewise.

The honourable Members may refer to the Commission for more information about the exact amount of aid provided by the Union.

Mr President, I would once again like to thank Mr Vermeer and all the honourable Members for their work.

. Mr President, Members of the European Parliament, ladies and gentlemen, I am deeply honoured to be here today.

Many honourable Members are familiar with the details and I thank them for their very close interest.

The honourable Members must understand that there is a fundamental institutional problem which we cannot avoid when it comes to accepting certain types of amendment.

Mr President, honourable Members, honourable Members of the European Commission, ladies and gentlemen, it is a very great honour for me to speak in this Parliament for the first time here today.

The honourable Members also propose the creation of great axes (east west, north south) of roads and railways, as laid out in paragraph 36 and others.

Several honourable Members raised the question of indigenous peoples, which is always a particularly important issue on these occasions.

I can assure honourable Members that human rights considerations will play an important part in any future negotiations.

There is no competence at EU level to deal with many of the issues that have been raised by honourable Members in this debate this afternoon.

Within that scope we should bear in mind that coordination of the positions of the Twelve in the sec tor to which the honourable Member refers is pro ceeding satisfactorily.

The Commission shares the honourable Member's concerns that the Community's consumers may suffer as a result of the DVD regional coding system.

Mr President, I should like to start by thanking the members who took part in this debate.

Furthermore, we have an accounting system which, as the honourable Members know, differs, for example, from the accounting system for reserves of the International Energy Agency.

The Council should answer yes or no and if a report has been submitted the Council should tell us the reason for not divulging this, because there must be some reason and I am prepared to accept that the Council has one.

The honourable Members are aware that there is already a legal framework in place at EU level addressing data protection and obligations for operators.

LANE (RDE). As far as I am aware, voluntary organizations that seek funding under the Social Fund for work with the handicapped have received those funds in those Member States that operate the system.