Portugal has set reuse targets for 1997-99 for soft drinks, beer, natural mineral water, spring water or other bottled water and table wine (ministerial order 29-B/98 of 15 January 1998).

The Member States should not put all the work on the table again at the Intergovernmental Conference.

4.1.5 In Greece, where no alternative has been identified for assessment, the lack of feasible alternatives is explained - this accords with the position following the Nederhoff case (see above) that where a developer does not assess alternatives he shall report the reasons for not doing so, including why such solutions do not exist.

Shouldn't the EC, apart from praising itself for its victories at the negotiating table, give some thought to the problems that may arise ahead, how the EU should act in order to avoid the exploitation by EU business of the opportunities given by China's WTO accession leading to negative effects of the type described in the above-quoted books?

I would therefore call upon you to request the legal services to go through the judgment carefully and see how we are to improve the Rules of Procedure in order to ensure complete equality. I would also call for the judgment to be brought up at the first meeting of the Conference of Presidents to be held directly after such an investigation of the judgment has been carried out. In that context, we shall be able to debate a package of arrangements for independent MEPs and smaller political units which are not large enough to form a group and, in that way, be able to secure the fair treatment of MEPs.

For example, a dam built to produce electricity serves quite a different purpose from a dam built to keep out the sea. Only building the latter type of dam should be classified as an improvement to land.