Examples of using This first reading in English and their translations into Danish
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In my own group, two issues have been of great importance at this first reading stage.
I voted for this first reading report on Commission plans to protect soil.
That is a very simple request which is not connected with any specific amendment proposed this first reading.
Hence at this first reading we have prioritised the aspects that improved on the Commission's original proposal.
I know how difficult it is for Parliament to get improvements to texts, but this first reading deal is a sensible one.
It is convinced that this first reading is opening a debate which can lead to a reasoned improvement of the text.
This decision is another key piece of that jigsaw; therefore, the Commission can wholly endorse this first reading agreement.
This first reading is predominantly about the asterisk amendment concerning Kosovo, the Morocco fisheries agreement, East Timor and Turkey, which was mentioned by the rapporteur.
Early next month we will present an amended proposal,which will be largely based on this first reading and the discussions in the Council.
With this first reading, we are concluding this initial phase so as to move on as quickly as possible to the creation of a task force of the Committee on Development, this being a decision that the committee itself has already made.
Mr President, I am very glad to be able to present my report on the water framework directive for this first reading.
And this is a message I would like to make very clear to the Commission and the Council: this first reading expresses a clear and unequivocal political compromise for the November negotiation.
I should like to acknowledge the personal contribution of my colleague, Mr Collins,in the long haul that has finally brought us to this first reading.
This first reading also allows us to suggest a balanced alternative to the initial Commission proposal by making the Commission arbitrator rather than judge as regards the monitoring of competition.
Mr R. Jackson(ED), rapporteur:- Mr President, could I just say a word to the Council now that we have passed this first reading of the supplementary budget?
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Parliament is about to conclude this first reading of the new proposal for a directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions:this was no easy task!
I hope that the Council will also agree to all Parliament's amendments andthat the regulation can thus be adopted as soon as possible in terms reflecting this first reading.
I trust that the Council will carefully study the results of this first reading in Parliament and that it can agree a Common Position quickly and, if possible, a Common Position which supports the proposal which is going to be issued by this Parliament.
Mr President, I would first of all like to thank our rapporteur and welcome the initiative she has taken to engage in dialogue with the Council andthe Commission immediately following this first reading in order to work towards ensuring that better consideration is given to the amendments desired by Parliament.
In this first reading, our group supports many of the choices made by the rapporteur, such as the horizontal amendments, in principle, and particularly when this involves a systematic reduction of the RAL and the desire to prevent further RAL from building up.
Only a few months have elapsed between the Commission's initiative andthe first reading here in Parliament, and this first reading will also be the last, as that is what has been agreed by Parliament, the Council and the Commission, who have, so to speak, taken a united approach.
We do not agree with the method, which is why, in this first reading, we place our confidence in the rapporteur' s approach, in spite of what happened last night in the Committee on Budgets, in the hope that this will constitute a basis for effective discussion with the Council in-between the first and second readings. .
Madam President, I would first of all like to thank all of my colleagues who have made this first reading agreement possible- in particular, of course, all of the shadow rapporteurs, the Commission and both the Spanish and Belgian Presidencies, as well as the Environment Committee and the group staff and assistants.
That means that it must also be in the interest of the Council to enter into an interinstitutional dialogue with Parliament after this first reading, not just on the financial perspective, because that is routine and always happens, but also on the reform of EU policies and on the position of the European Parliament and the Council, which will have to be prepared in future.
I shall conclude by expressing my complete willingness,in the period between this first reading of the budget for 2002 and the vote on it in December, to work together with the Council and the Commission in a systematic process to reach the most appropriate allocation of available resources and to find the appropriate responses to the challenges we are currently facing.
