42. Considers that immigration policies which are more adaptable to job markets must be devised as a matter of urgency, with a view to protecting the labour market from the deregulating effects of cheap and illegal labour and in order to avoid an imbalance between the working and the non-working population, and calls upon the Member States to involve regional and local administrations, regional employment agencies and both sides of industry, professional organisations, grassroots voluntary associations and host communities, in any decision concerning the number of foreign workers to be admitted;

42. Considers that immigration policies which are more adaptable to job markets must be devised as a matter of urgency, with a view to protecting the labour market from the deregulating effects of cheap illegal labour and in order to avoid an imbalance between the working and the non-working population, and calls upon the Member States to involve regional and local administrations, regional employment agencies and both sides of industry, as well as trade unions and professional organisations, grassroots voluntary associations and host communities, in any decision concerning the number of foreign workers to be admitted;

In order to avoid the re-emergence of national transport markets, due to national supply chain security rules, a Community approach is required, as has been the case for maritime transport, seaports, aviation and airports.

At a time such as this when we have an opportunity to discuss drugs, the Malliori report does not provide Parliament, particularly in the light of the disastrous effects of 40 years of prohibitionist policies and insubstantial endeavours – ‘lightweight’ measures – which have failed miserably to control the spread of illegal drugs and, on the contrary, even exacerbated the social effects and effects on people’s lives and health – does not provide the European Parliament – with the opportunity to state some very simple truths: that prohibitionism has failed and that we therefore need to take steps, even one step at a time, to separate the markets, for examp ...[+++]le, to prevent the black market attracting consumers of hashish or marijuana, which are not drugs, and inducing them to approach the markets of other drugs. We need to look carefully at the experiments with public injection rooms, at the experiments carried out in Switzerland and other European countries, to find a different path from that of the current policy which has led the European countries, and all the countries striving in vain to combat drugs, to continue with their prohibitionist policies.

It should be added that it is extremely important to avoid, in a rapidly changing market, any uncertainty as regards responsibility for security of supply.

Any measures needed to prevent the market in sugar being disturbed by changes in price levels at the changeover from one marketing year to the next or during a single marketing year may be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).