Translation of "Darauf zurückzuführen ist" in English

I am sure that the presence of Commissioner Barnier is in response to this.

Is it because the producers of these films are only photographing the good-looking ones in this Chamber and cast aside the unphotogenic?

Probably racism is not so virulent today, but xenophobia certainly is. This is partly because our populations will not put up with migratory flows which have a disastrous effect on their standard of living.

Although Europe's shipbuilding industry is currently experiencing a revival, it is affected by considerable overcapacity, due in particular to the Koreans' irresponsible doubling of their plant capacity over the past four or five years, to such an extent that Korea alone can now produce more vessels than all Europe's shipyards put together.

The Finnish quota for herring in subdivision 30-31 should therefore be increased by 7856 tonnes as the reduction was due to the fact that the IBSFC recommendation was not implemented in Community legislation.

The expert concluded that the favourable discrepancy in terms of IRR compared with the same calculations carried out for the first plan of October 2004 is primarily due to the deferral of part of Fintecna's investment to 2006 instead of 2005.

Trafficking in human beings is a rapidly growing lucrative business, and it is attractive because the punishments are mild compared with other money-making forms of organised crime such as drugs and the arms trade.

At any rate, I can say that the financial facility for SMEs has been a clear success. And this is due largely to the fact that the Commission and the EIB made it their common aim to create a simple and effective mechanism, and to ensure its prompt implementation.

I wish to say that this hesitation on the part of the Council and the Commission owes more to their reluctance to confront those chiefly responsible for this wretched situation. Take the bull by the horns and face up to the problem with courage.

As a result, the quota and safeguard procedures are becoming meaningless. The situation has been further aggravated by the failure to insist on certificates of origin for imported garlic and by the failure to apply the appropriate tariff codes correctly to differentiate between green garlic with undeveloped cloves and garlic to be sold dried or partly dried.

Indeed, there is reason to believe that the high level of non-cooperation results from the non-cooperating exporting producers in the investigated country generally having dumped at a higher level than any cooperating exporting producer.

A cynic would be forgiven for thinking that the government's inaction may be down to its own difficulty in meeting its end of the bargain if the EGF payments are finally secured.

However, the President of the Commission will perhaps agree with me that the crisis of confidence of Europe's citizens in the Community institutions may be caused partly by certain past actions of those same institutions.

To prevent any misunderstanding, therefore, they were not ruled inadmissible simply because they referred by name to a former official.

Next week, when we meet our African partners in the ACP Parliamentary Assembly - European Union meeting, we must bear in mind that, while Lusaka was a failure, in part this is definitely down to the fact that we did not pay enough attention to this matter, along with other matters.

Personally, I believe that we are making a mistake, largely due to the way the original regulations of OLAF were put together, but that is another question.

Of course, there is no doubt that the international negotiations will be very difficult, due in part to the fact that they are so complex.

This is due in particular to the fact that these diseases are becoming more resistant to drugs and to the lack of treatment options, which has come about because research has been stopped for the simple reason that it is unprofitable.

If we take a look at the first issue, namely, the origin of products, it makes sense to begin with the cliché that there is an ongoing crisis in the European Union that is due mainly to the fact that production industries, for example the textile industry, were outsourced to different countries in the Far East for easy and quick profits, and therefore production in the European Union has declined.

We know, among other things, that in the future the most difficult obstacle to overcome will be inadequate funding - and not just in the future, because it is a very real obstacle already. That inadequate funding is, in part, due to the increasing number of applications - which is certainly a hopeful sign - but more so to a decision by some Member States not to increase the Community budget in future years.

It has been difficult to verify some of these allegations, partly, perhaps, because they are said to have occurred in very remote parts of Colombia.

This seems to be in conflict with the previous paragraph. It is perhaps due to the fact that the rapporteur is actually only referring to the balance that exists among the states with large populations.

We are told that if we are not making progress towards VAT at source it is because the Member States do not have faith in the compensation system and the system for reallocating resources, which was initially based on the declarations of taxpayers and then on statistical data, but which has never satisfied the Member States.

We should all be aware that this report came about, to a large extent, as a result of the aeroplanes flying into the Twin Towers in New York in September 2001.

In addition, it seems that the influx of workers from the new Member States has had a basically positive effect. This is because enlargement has contributed to bringing black economy workers from EU-8 states out of the area of illegality.