In this budget we have a total of 0.26 of noncompulsory expenditure and of the total budget a full 0.06 !

As was said yes terday, this is a very complicated subject.

Let me say at this stage that I speak as someone with long contacts with the poultry industry. My own family business is involved in poultry.

I asked you to be so good as to explain to us if only for the record and as a precedent for this Assembly on which procedural provisions this concept the presentation of a report was based and in particular how this procedure differed from that stipulated in Rules 26 and 42.

It is perhaps appropriate that I should be the first to get to my feet.

To turn to South Africa, therefore, first everyone in this House condemns apartheid.

Secondly, I would like to speak in support of Mrs Morgantini' s motion.

Maffre Baugé time today to deal with my question of problems relating to wine growing, which has already been deferred once.

Your party, even Mr Marchais himself, keep quiet when I speak in the French Assembly.

Mrs Martin. (F) Madam President, we were most disappointed by the rejection of our amendment together with any other which provided for the committee's work to be continued, and we still think that our work will not be understood by all the men and women who have followed its progress.

President. Mr Scott Hopkins, the Rules of Proce dure stipulate that for each proposal there shall be one speaker in favour and one against.

I rarely speak in debates after summits but this is an important one.

For these reasons, congratulating Mr Soares once again, I wish, in conclusion, to express my support and my praise for his report.

the humanitarian organizations which are working to the same purpose in the Lebanon, particularly the Palestinian Red Crescent.

In the wake of Cpmmissipner Richard's statement we now have a clear idea as to the form the directive will take.

Mr Adam (S). Mr President, I rise on a point of order regarding this amendment.

The purpose of my speech is mainly to state that we support the amendments the rapporteur has tabled.

Mr President, I rise as the draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy.

Mr Cecovini. (I) Mr President, I am speaking in place of Mr Bettiza who has been called unexpectedly to Milan.

Mr Nordmann. (FR) Mr President, I support the joint resolution for a number of reasons.

Madam President, if I speak now, I will not speak again on behalf of my group, so I shall kill two birds with one stone.

Mr President, this is a first for me, being the first time I have taken the floor during a vote, and I also want to keep it brief.

the last few hours of our budget debate and after the voting this morning, it is quite impossible for this Parliament to adopt any more resolutions.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, you have before you the Commission's Work Programme for 1981.

(Parliament adopted Amendment No 5 and the second indent of the preamble)

motion for a resolution (Doc.

Mrs Wieczorek Zeul (S). (DE) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank Sir Fred Catherwood most sincerely for his remarkable and important report, and especially for the cooperative way he presided over deliberations in committee.

Mr Moreland (ED). I rise to give an explanation of vote because I shall be voting for this resolution.

Mr President, like Mr Andrews I speak this afternoon as one who regards himself as a friend of the Arab and Islamic world.

I am taking the floor today because I feel we need technical systems that offer environmental benefits.

Mr President, I am not speaking as one of the authors of the motion, because the Group of the Greens does not support this compromise proposal.

Madam President, it is with the utmost care that I take the floor once again on the painful issue of the Middle East.

However, I have taken the floor to explain my reasons for voting in this way because I wish to say that, once again, there is something missing.

That's your chance, Tom. Take it!

President. I call Mr Beyer de Ryke on a point of order.

This judgment should help to revive the negotiations on the harmonization of the taxes on alcohol.

I rise to speak because I have just been in Thailand and on the borders of Laos and Kampuchea.

Moreover, Madam President, Rule 14(3) states that items on which urgent procedure has been decided shall take precedence over other items on the agenda.

Referral back to the committee was automatic, and this opens up the various possibilities set forth in the following paragraphs.

Mr President, I simply wish to update the information I communicated to the House a few moments ago.

Mr President, I rise to speak in place of Ruth Hieronymi, who actually should have been speaking, but is unfortunately unwell.

I have just learned of the matter through Parliament and I will make sure that I reply when I get back.

The first is the overall economic situation in Poland which urgently needs our assistance, while the second is the political objective of maintaining and reinforcing the potential for reform in Poland.

In the wine growing sector, the new regulation adopted in 1982 falls short of what was required and is not being applied properly in the Community.

Mr Ansart. (FR) Madam President, at this very minute Bobby Sands is dying.