Traduction de «pleine campagne » (Français → Anglais) :

3. Without prejudice to Article 5(3), where applications for import licences for sugar for refining, with the exception of applications without reduction of the full rate of duty applicable to import for a marketing year, are equal to the total of the quantities referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, the Commission shall inform the Member States that the limit of the traditional supply needs to import has been reached at Community level.

(a)full-time refiners established in that Member State up to 30 June of the marketing year.

Without prejudice to paragraph 3 of this Article and to Article 5(3) of this Regulation, where, in a Member State, applications for import licences for sugar for refining for a marketing year, with the exception of applications without reduction of the full rate of duty applicable to import, are equal to or greater than the limit referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, Member States shall inform the Commission that they have reached the limit of their traditional supply needs for import and, where appropriate, shall fix an allocation coefficient in proportion to the quantity available to apply to each licence application for sugar fo ...[+++]r refining for the current week.

There will always be Member States in which national elections are being held and in which it seems expedient not to take the next step towards ‘more Europe’, as their slogans put it.

The Convention will also have to decide upon the way to follow to develop the new Charter, and we hope that the Intergovernmental Conference will be able to take place during the second half of 2003 to avoid Europe’s future being debated right in the middle of the electoral campaign.

However, we must make haste and decide before the end of 2003 to avoid the elections getting in the way of the process and the Constitution being adopted slap-bang in the middle of the electoral campaign.