A total quota of 110 athletes is allowed to compete at the Games.

Therefore there is a total quota of 150 athletes.

Firstly, this is not a large increase, as it amounts to barely 2% of the total quota.

Places for the time trial event are included in the total quota for cycling disciplines.

Even the Fellows Bill, however, left out Asians, and set a total quota only half as large as the one requested by President Truman.

China continues to make measured progress in increasing total quotas under the QFII program (which allows foreigners to invest in Chinese stocks and bonds).

Yesterday's decline was prompted by a report that OPEC production had reached 19.7 million barrels a day -more than 3 million barrels above the group's total quota.

At the meeting, Algeria requests a larger share of OPEC's total quota, but the issue will not be taken up until the OPEC Board of Governors meeting in August.

The size of these deficits has meant, nevertheless, that the normal financial facilities available from the IMF have proved inadequate even though the total quotas have been increased substantially: between 1964 and 1988 quotas were raised from SDR14 billion to SDR89.9 billion.

As you know, the national reserve counts in a sense as part of the Member States' total quota, so if individual producers go over their quota, but Member States as a whole do not exceed their quota, with the national reserve included, then no super levy is actually paid.

My final point is – and I stress the need to be more radical – that I think the way forward is to look at the total quotas of fish caught and see if we cannot change that into days at sea and fishing effort, so that we can land all the fish caught.