Translation of "Keine stellung nehmen" in English

It is normally its practice not to comment on specific cases of this kind.

Committee of the Regions decided not to give an opinion on the proposal.

This strate gy, the Commission has stated, must also include a detailed description of the framework measures for aid to businesses, particularly as regards respect for the goal of 'no increase across the board' in production by volume by the textile and clothing industry.

Furthermore, the Committee was not asked to advise on the question of microbiological standards.

I would not like to give any further comment about the conclusion of the settlement.

If you do this after work hours, I cannot comment on it.

I have decided not to take a position on it, not yet.

We learn nothing about what an employment pact would mean in concrete terms, so we cannot take a view on the proposal.

In my capacity as President-in-Office of the Council, I am unable to adopt a position on the assessments and the proposals contained in the first part of the honourable Member's question.

The text of the resolution does not actually ask the Commission any questions and so the Commission should not take a position on the precise terms of the resolution.

Where concrete financing proposals are concerned, it is not possible for me to adopt a position here, because we must respect the normal procedures.

As regards compliance with essential procedural requirements, the principle of audi alteram partem and the rights of the defence, the Court notes in particular that it has in no way been claimed that the Commission based its decision on the observations of interested third parties in respect of which the Italian Republic was not given an opportunity to express its views.

At the end of a discussion involving Mr Beirnaert and Mr Andrade, the Budget Group noted the requests that had been submitted for own-initiative opinions but decided not to take a position in this respect, as it did not consider these matters to be urgent.

The Commission has not been informed of this IPZ survey in Germany; it did not commission it and therefore cannot comment on this matter.

If Commissioner Clinton Davis meant the tem porary plant in Gorleben, then I would ask him if he does not know that the plant has not been approved, that legal action is being taken against it.

I should like to touch on another problem, but I take it that Mr Mac Sharry will be unable to respond — I am not sure how competent he is in matters of women's

The Hume report takes the view that Ireland should benefit from higher rates of participation in Community funding because of our special position.

The complaint lodged against an agreement be tween the two German public service television channels ARD and ZDF, to set up two public special-interest channels, 'Kinderkanal' and 'Phoenix', has been rejected on the grounds that the agreement does not restrict competition within the meaning of Article 85 of the Treaty either on the market in commercial television or on the market in the acquisition of television broadcast ing rights.

Once again, I'm not going to take any political sides on this, but hopefully this gives some clarity about what people are actually debating.

They instructed FKBNIP representatives present not to say a word and immediately closed the meeting.

Following the filing of the notice of opposition, the proprietor's representative stated that he was instructed to file no observations in reply, other than to state that the proprietor relied upon the file record of the application during proceedings before the examining division, for patentability of the invention.

A representative of the Swiss Trading and Shipping Association declined to comment and said it had no specific numbers about what a deal could mean for the famously close-lipped industry that it represents in Switzerland.