Existing national quotas will be eliminated under the 1992 program.

There are no national quotas for the 1100 staff members and a minimum of 33% will be from member states.

What will be the effect of a change in national quotas on, for example, a European quota system?

It is almost the reverse, because the national quotas account for just over one per cent.

We are not even meeting our national quota, which shows there is a problem with price.

The establishment of national quotas is necessary, therefore, and must take this year's production - 1998/99 - into consideration.

The practice of there being a de facto national quota for senior staff appointments in the Commission must end.

It also allowed a national quota of 105 Chinese immigrants per year.

It ended national quotas into law, and provided an unlimited number of visas for family reunification.

In any case, an open European market will make national quotas impossible to enforce.