One of the oldest depictions of ‘Pa de Pagès Català’ is in the mural paintings of Pia Almoina de Lleida (14th-15th centuries), which show large round loaves on the tables of the poor, different from the types of bread eaten by the more affluent classes at that time.

The Commission is now as good as in place, but it has had an easy start compared with what is to come.

Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 958/2006 of 28 June 2006 on a standing invitation to tender to determine refunds on exports of white sugar for the 2006/07 marketing year (2) opens a standing invitation to tender to determine export refunds on white sugar covered by CN code 1701 99 10 for all destinations excluding Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro (3), the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Romania.

L. pointing out that the Commission, both in its Communication and previously in the White Paper on Governance, focuses on future "regulatory" agencies, i.e. agencies "required to be actively involved in exercising the executive function by enacting instruments which contribute to regulating a specific sector" (page 4 of its Communication), but does not mention the fate of existing agencies and leaves aside agencies established outside the framework of the EC Treaty; whereas such an approach does not appear inappropriate in the context of reflection on new forms of "governance" which may be introduced "without departing from the law as it stands", it must not disregard, however ...[+++], the fact that older agencies and those created on the basis of the EU Treaty also merit consideration and, as a matter of urgency, require proposals for modification in order to bring them into line with a common approach to be agreed between the institutions,

– (DE) Mr President, I would first like to support what Mr Mennea has said, and then to ask this question: do we see the social significance of sport as the old ‘bread and circuses’ or ‘bread and sport’, or do we see it as a means of improving health and building moral fibre?

Registration as a PGI is justified by the quality and historic and current reputation of ‘Ail blanc de Lomagne’.