I share the view of Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner, who said that the Council had been in existence for a year, that we had imagined everything would be different but that we should not make snap judgments about the Council.

The careless classification of matters that are important to Member States as bilateral issues is dealing a deathblow to the credibility of the European Union’s foreign policy.

the number of carcases or half-carcases, boxes or other items stored individually, a description of the products and the weight of each pallet or the other items stored individually, recorded, where applicable, by individual lots;

(c) the weight and the number of boxes or pieces otherwise packaged;

(c) the number of half-carcases, quarters, boxes or other items stored individually, a description of the products and the weight of each pallet or of the other items stored individually, recorded, where applicable, by individual lots;

(f) Pumps incorporating measuring devices, of heading No 84.13 ; weight-operated counting and checking machinery, or separately presented weights for balances (heading No 84.23) ; lifting or handling machinery (heading Nos 84.25 to 84.28) ; paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds (heading No 84.41) ; fittings for adjusting work or tools on machine-tools, of heading No 84.66, including fittings with optical devices for reading the scale (for example, "optical" dividing heads) but not those which are in themselves essentially optical instruments (for example, alignment telescopes) ; calculating machines (heading No 84.70) ; ...[+++] valves and other appliances (heading No 84.81);