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"We are dealing with cold waters late at night in the middle of December and it seems that only the EPP has the nerve to go swimming. For that reason there is not very much left to say. My colleague Mr Stevenson has been complaining bitterly about the fact that we are dealing with something that is already in effect. Nevertheless, he was not here in the last Parliament and when he has been here as long as I have he will learn to have a little bit more patience. It was a particularly bad season for the Commission and a particularly difficult time to proceed through all the normal channels since we had elections, Commission difficulties, and so on. Of course, I am impressed by the quality of the legislation and by the fact that this is the way to solve problems internationally, that everybody sits down and makes agreements. But, of course, if the Commission, representing all of us in ensuring that this agreement is put into good effect, does not have any resources to do it with, then we are back to the original situation as far as the Member States are concerned. Nobody has absolute confidence that anybody else is carrying out the supervision and enforcing the law as they should and we will end up in the same situation with this agreement. If we do not agree, having adopted common policies, to give ourselves the resources to ensure that these policies are put into effect, then we are really stretching ourselves too far and we are only bringing the Community and its laws and regulations into disrepute. That is the major reservation that I have about what we are proposing here tonight."@en1
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