The procedure referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be conducted under the summary procedure provided for in Article 39 of the Statute (see also for the Court of First Instance Article 57(3) of the Statute).

in point 2, the second and third indents and the subparagraph following the third indent are replaced by the following:

5. In the event of a conflict between a provision of the Rules of Procedure relating to the second and third readings and any other provision of the Rules, the provision relating to the second and third readings shall take precedence.

For the first term of office, the Council representatives shall be composed of members drawn from the first two groups of Member States; for the second term of office, the Council representatives shall be drawn from the third and first groups and for the third term of office from the second and third groups, and so on for subsequent terms of office .

Eleven amendments can be accepted in part: No 6 (second part, in principle), No 11 (second part, except the terms in brackets), No 13 (the text will have to be shortened and simplified), No 17 (second and third parts, in principle), No 26 (except the term ‘consumables’), No 35 (first paragraph, second paragraph in principle, fourth paragraph, seventh paragraph in principle, eighth paragraph, ninth paragraph in principle), No 37 (except paragraph 5), No 46 (second and third parts, in principle), No 70 (except the part referring to printed circuit boards; the entry on capacitors can be accepted in principle) Nos 71 and 80 (the reference t ...[+++]o Regulation 2037/2000 can be accepted).

A. whereas the Commission's estimate in its November 1995 Economic Forecasts projected a 2.7 per cent growth for 1995 and a sustained growth of 3 to 3.5 per cent to be maintained up to the year 2000, yet it turned out to be not more than 2 per cent in the second and third quarters of 1995, which possibly demonstrates that the factors determining an employment-orientated and investment-led growth leading to a substantial fall of the unemployment rate by the third millennium are not yet in place, and agreeing with the Commission that a swift return to the White Paper growth scenario is a necessary prerequisite for reducing the levels of un ...[+++]employment;