Proposed subsection 78.1(3) states, “Subsection (1) does not apply to any amount awarded in the decision for costs”.

This would be a deal made at the expense of third parties, in other words, at the expense of the rights of the European Parliament.

19. Welcomes the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a possible way to enable developing countries to participate in the carbon market; underlines that the use of offsets to meet emission reduction targets by industrialised countries cannot be part of the responsibility of developing countries to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions in an international agreement on climate change; insists, therefore, that stringent project quality criteria must be part of future offsetting mechanisms, in order to avoid industrialised countries taking away the low-cost reduction options from developing countries, and in addition to guarantee ...[+++] the high standard of such projects, with reliable, verifiable and real emission reductions that also provide for sustainable development in such countries;

The real problem with the EU-Russia readmission agreement lies in the question whether protection of human rights is to occupy a central place or be relegated to second place by a summary approach to return in which the security aspect takes precedence over the humanitarian aspect.

It is a fact that each year the amount of fraud prejudicial to Community budgets – that is, in the final analysis, prejudicial to European taxpayers – amounts to approximately EUR one billion, as rightly stated by the motion for a resolution tabled by Mrs Theato – who has all my admiration and respect – and all the studies agree in saying that this phenomenon is set to steadily increase.

If any one country wants to hold out until the last possible moment, they do so at their own risk and not at the risk of all the other accession countries, because we must be prepared to agree as each country is prepared to agree.