My second question is: what will happen to the outermost regions?

The situation in the outermost regions of the Community is completely different.

Support for the outermost regions must be based on sustainable development.

There are also, in addition, quite specific conditions for what we term the outermost regions.

We have proposed a special programme for the outermost regions and welcome your support.

An urgent deal on the budget is particularly important for the outermost regions.

The special circumstances of the outermost regions must not be forgotten.

In this area it is important not to leave out the most isolated and outermost regions.

The Commission will continue to work with you on improving the situation in the outermost regions.

The Presidency' s programme also talks about the outermost regions.

The sugar companies in the outermost regions will not fall under these arrangements.

It is the outermost regions that put Community shipping in its position as world leader.

Community policies have presented many challenges to the outermost regions.

These could do enormous damage to the outermost regions, and indeed every region.

I also wish to highlight the Constitution’s approach to the status of the outermost regions.

I turn now to the reform of the sugar arrangements and to the outermost regions.

We then have specific situations as regards individual outermost regions.

However, it does apply to the outermost regions, which are considered Community waters.

There are, however, issues that cause me some concern, particularly with regard to the needs of the outermost regions.

The intensity of the proposed aid for the outermost regions should be kept at current levels.

During the current period of uncertainty about what will happen after 2006, Parliament’s support for the outermost regions is very valuable.

All of these points are common to both the overseas territories and the outermost regions.

Those in brief are the specific measures available under the new financial perspective for the outermost regions.

But they are also for Community purposes outermost regions.

Hence the importance to the outermost regions of these two Commission documents.