Translation of "Unsere bemerkungen" in English

To this end, our observations and conclusions centred on four main elements.

We also examined the extent to which the Commission followed up our earlier observations.

You are right that we have to be more precise in our observations.

We shall ensure that you are informed on a periodic basis of our observations and conclusions.

To this end, our observations and conclusions are based on four main components:

Confirming the soundness of the decision to invest

Our comments will be published shortly.

But our considerations have also shown us something else.

From the point of view of risk management, our main comments and recommendations regarding these measures are as follows.

We hope the Commission will look at our comments very seriously, take them on board and will produce a better report next time and, in doing that, will recognize what we say in the report that it must look at the whole question of reporting to Parliament, particularly where our guarantees are at risk.

So we made a regular report based on Article 28 including conclusions from Cardiff, including our comments on progress in the European strategy for Turkey and so forth.

It is not true, as the Commissioner present says, that Mr van den Broek dealt with all our comments this morning; that would have been impossible.

Second, our comments in this report on the regulatory structure and the European Regulatory Group are important. In paragraph 22, we put it on record that we feel that the existence of the European Regulators Group – the ERG – and the Independent Regulators Group – the IRG – is increasingly illogical because there is so much overlap between the two.

I will keep this House informed as to progress but I would like you, Madam President, to pass on our comments to the presidency.

The European Union, by means of its institutions, Commissioner, should take care to ensure that our comments and views are heard in this regard.

Our commentary also records our regret at the introduction of a Management Committee for Community Initiatives and at the deletion of 5(a) programming.

This involved a considerable element of wastage and there is also a considerable element of wastage in the fact that the Commission has maintained the exceptional, costly subsidies to the processing of milk powder to make feedstuffs for pigs and poultry for too long.

We have had agreement with what we have said this afternoon, but if our remarks had not been quite as favourable in this area, I do not think it would have been quite such an issue between the two committees.

I am certain it has become apparent that this Europe is not the Europe of the national governments.

I should like to make it quite clear that I consider the supplementary budget for 1980 and also the 1981 budget to be legal and that they must be implemented.

The other matter which arose during the debate was the fact that there are a large number of goods vehicles which come from third countries and that that, in itself, could diminish the effect of the directive.