It should not, therefore, come as a surprise that there have been increasing numbers of situations in which anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard measures have been adopted.

E. whereas it is totally inappropriate to make international aid conditional on structural adjustment programmes, with major cutbacks in social spending and further redundancies in the public sector, while safeguarding private capital and increasing poverty among the population,

This decision is a flagrant violation of the provisions of the WTO safeguard clause, which provide that such measures may only be implemented if imports have shown a sharp and substantial increase, which is not the case.

The strategy of the programme hinges around the global objective of promoting job creation and job preservation, based on increasing the competitiveness of SMEs in St. Pauli.

For example, section 15 protects disadvantaged groups; section 27 provides for preservation and enhancement of the multicultural heritage; sections 16 to 23 protect francophone and anglophone rights; and section 29 protects rights to educate children in religious schools.

With such an annual increase there should be enough Community quotas by the end of 1991 to meet demand from road hauliers and to allow the disappearance of the bilateral quotas which are applied by some Member States and which were declared illegal by the Court of Justice in 1985. The Commission has just presented comprehensive proposals, to be discussed in the forthcoming Council, which would put this 40 per cent annual increase into effect as from 1987, would provide for a safeguard mechanism allowing measures to be taken in the event of market disturbance and would lay down the conditions under which the licences could be granted.