Translation of "dérivée réduite du dérapage " (French → English) :

It means that if you restrict yourself to using just existing stem cell lines created before the date stated by Mr Nisticò and others, you will be confined to using ageing stem cell lines from the USA that have been made by using mouse-derived proteins and that are not suitable for treatments for human patients.

It also cuts back on the volume of the secondary Community legislation (by an estimated 35,000 OJ pages compared with the 22,500 pages that represent the 25% objective for reduction set in the Commission's Communication to the Laeken European Council in December 2001 [7]).

I. whereas the specialised, often very powerful, formations of the Council, based on the pillar-structure resulting from the Treaties and the variable geometries (EMU - Schengen), have undermined the coordinating role of the General Affairs Council, weakened the Commission's role of legislative initiative and, finally, have reinforced the intergovernmental method to the detriment of the Community method in the Council,

(6) Whereas the risk of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) entering the human food or animal feed chains through the consumption of protein derived from domestic carnivores is considered low; whereas that risk can be further reduced by requiring that domestic carnivores are not fed mammalian meat-and-bone meal originating in the United Kingdom; whereas it is therefore appropriate to provide that food for domestic carnivores which is produced in the United Kingdom but contains no mammalian meat-and-bone meal originating in that country may be dispatched from its territory to other Member States or to third countries;

Maj.-Gen. Day: I know you didn't ask the question, but if I might seize the opportunity to talk about the space program and slippage, et cetera, I have reduced none of the scope or ambition of any of the space programs that I currently have.