[Translation] Mr. Bernard Bigras: That may be so, Mr. Chairman. But referring to a session where there was not adequate quorum for the purposes of making decisions is, in my opinion, acting in bad faith.

Poor design and construction methods can have a significant effect on the health of a building's occupiers (people in Europe spend almost 90% of their time inside buildings) and on the environment (energy consumption for heating and lighting produces 35% of all greenhouse gas emissions; production of 450 million tonnes of construction and demolition waste per year).

In this context, the Commission examined more than 400 cases in 2002 of inadequate transposition or potential misapplication of the relevant Community provisions.

Noise, poor air quality, heavy traffic, neglect of the built environment, poor environmental management and a lack of strategic planning lead to health problems and a lower quality of life.

(9) Improvements need to be made to the poor conditions for supplying fresh milk products to local markets in the FOD, which at present come mainly from imports; this aim can be achieved on the one hand by continuing aid to develop cow's milk production within the limits of local consumption requirements as periodically evaluated under a supply balance, and on the other hand by ceasing to apply the arrangements for an additional levy on cow's milk producers laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92(4); the poor supply conditions typical of the outermost regions, which are completely different from those prevailing in the rest of the Com ...[+++]munity, and the need for a local production development incentive justify this derogation.

As the movers of this motion, we think it is immoral and totally unjustified to assume that less wealthy visitors who come from these countries would not act in good faith.