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The report accepts the philosophy of quotas and even tries to add to it with management quotas, despite the fact that the European Union's self-sufficiency in sheep- and goatmeat is around 80%, sheep and goat farms are to be found in the poorest areas of the European Union, where no alternative form of farming is generally possible, and sheep and goat farmers are the poorest social group in the European Union.

This sort of policy would help to reverse the rate of abandonment of mountain and mainly barren areas and, at the same time, make the European Union self-sufficient in sheep- and goatmeat.

23. Considers that fiscal measures now need to form part of a balanced package of instruments to encourage energy savings in industry and domestic households, and to promote the use of sustainable energy in order to ensure self sufficiency, and considers that voluntary agreements with industry are a valuable instrument; in this context calls on the Commission to present a proposal for framework legislation on voluntary environmental agreements, which lays down the relevant criteria with regard to conditions, monitoring arrangements and binding penalties.

We must also be quite clear that the decision by the fledgling democracies of central and eastern Europe to go down the road of constitutionality and the market economy has opened a new door for globalisation, the logic being as simple as it is compelling – it embraces the countries which successfully take their destinies into their own hands and which seek to build on the advantages of international competitiveness, and it excludes those countries which have become mired down in states of emergency, conflict or war, or Communist dictatorships such as Belarus which have sought their salvation in self-imposed isolation.

However, at no time may tourism and culture be permanently dissociated: tourism, as we have seen, cannot survive without incorporating, at one stage or another, cultural and environmental factors. Culture, for its part, can no longer remain in splendid isolation: the mental barriers have fallen before the physical ones and culture also is evolving and being nurtured by the exchange of experience.

The economy was integrated into the east European economic space, aimed at self-sufficiency with regard to the world market, and was almost exclusively limited to large-scale enterprises with no really viable small or medium-sized enterprises.