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IP/86/445 Date: 22/09/1986 Mr Chairman : The starting gun for a new round of multilateral trade negotiation has at last been fired. Under your leadership, what we came to achieve has been achieved. Each of us has tempered his demands, in the interest of the common good. |
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IP/86/444 Date: 22/09/1986 Delivering the opening address at the "Bio-Technica 86" Fair in Hanover on 22 September 1986, Vice President NARJES vigorously advocated a strengthening of Community efforts in the field of biotechnology. Having pointed out the numerous prospects brought about by the latest developments in biology: new medical techniques, new forms of... |
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MEMO/86/103/4 Date: 22/09/1986 The "Uruguay Round" was launched at 16.00 on Saturday amid an atmosphere of general satisfaction. There was neither bitterness nor frustration, with the possible exception of Argentina, which had maintained a very firm line on agriculture. |
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IP/86/442 Date: 19/09/1986 La Commission vient de proposer au Conseil l'approbation de deux accords de pêche, paraphés l'un avec la République de Guinée-Equatoriale, à Madrid, le 26 juin 1986, et l'autre avec la République de Guinée (Conakry), dans cette capitale, le 12 juillet 1986. |
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IP/86/441 Date: 19/09/1986 The Commission has decided to allocate emergency aid to the inhabitants of the Kalamata region in Greece who were the most seriously affected by earth tremors in this area on 13 September and the days following. This catastrophe caused the death of 19 people, 250 were injured, of whom many... |
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IP/86/440 Date: 19/09/1986 This year the twelve Member States of the European Community will pump into the atmosphere more than 18 million tonnes of sulphur diox- ide. It will fall to earth as acid. To make matters worse, they will strengthen the potion by adding more than 10 million tonnes of nitrogen oxides. |
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IP/86/439 Date: 19/09/1986 The Commission has decided to grant financial support amounting to a total of 1 734 000 ECU in respect of 11 research projects relating to the organization of work and the installation of equipment in accordance with human capabilities in the ECSC industries. |
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MEMO/86/103/3 Date: 19/09/1986 Council meeting, Thursday 18 September The Council unanimously adopted an alternative text on agriculture which Mr De Clercq was to present to the Community's partners. This text places subsidies in a wider context and aims at reducing their negative effects rather than reducing subsidies themselves. |
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MEMO/86/102 Date: 19/09/1986 Divergences (sometimes of major proportions) between the results of physical measurements or chemical analyses carried out by different laboratories in the Community often lie at the root of disputes between companies or even between Member States as well as of barriers to trade, financial losses, etc. |
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IP/86/438 Date: 18/09/1986 One significant difference between the nineteenth century and the present period is that in those days industry was much less regulated - it was more or less free to cheat and injure its customers, to ex- ploit its workforce and to pollute the environment. |
