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President.
The rapporteur seems adamant. My ruling, therefore, is to go with the rapporteur and rule against Amendment No 61.
(The President declared the common position approved as amended)
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) by Jan Mulder, on behalf of the Committee on Budgets, on the guidelines for the 2004 budgetary procedure (2003/2001 (BUD)) Section III - Commission
(Parliament adopted the resolution)
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) by Neena Gill, on behalf of the Committee on Budgets, on the guidelines for Sections II, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII (A) and VIII (B) and on the European Parliament's preliminary draft estimates (Section I) for the 2004 budgetary procedure (2003/2002(BUD)): Section I - European Parliament; Section II - Council; Section IV - Court of Justice; Section V - Court of Auditors; Section VI - Economic and Social Committee; Section VII - Committee of the Regions; Section VIII (A) - European Ombudsman; Section VIII (B) - European Data Protection Supervisor
Before the vote on Amendment No 8:

