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"Mr President, I made a point of order with regard to the Haug report because the original version is in German and, unfortunately, I do not speak German, and the English version said something quite contradictory to the Portuguese version concerning Amendment No 31.
Mr President, when you presented the amendment to the vote, you read out “gross national product”, in other words, what you read out agrees with the Portuguese version. I had to wait until the end of the vote to ask my German colleagues what was in fact written in the German version and they confirmed to me that “BSP” means “gross domestic product”. This shows in fact that there is a contradiction, which is why I drew your attention to it. Given this contradiction, I feel that what you read out, which is “gross national product” must be right and not what was written in the original version which is “gross domestic product”, which is quite different. In these circumstances, I think that this amendment should not be considered valid, given that it was voted on without knowing about the most essential part of this amendment which is this concept of “GDP” or “GNP”. This is not a mere technical detail but is something that has extraordinarily important financial consequences."@en1
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