"Under their present agreement," the letter said, "none of these officers have any right to such accelerated payment" or to the tax money.

The present agreement shall come into force on the data of its signature.

But such experimentation should not delay carrying out the present agreement with Moscow.

"Right now," a foreign diplomat said, "there's a solid wall of opposition to going back to the negotiations based on present agreements."

The present agreement is a kind of pre-pre-agreement, but with a view to joining in future.

And let us not forget that, without the present agreement, we would have faced heavy certification requirements for our 2005 vintage.

The present agreement may, then be far from perfect, but, as I said earlier, it is acceptable.

It troubles me that the present agreement once again contains no such provisions.

Under the present interim agreement respect of these principles is periodically monitored.

With regard to the present agreements, too, the Commission has again gone ahead without waiting for Parliament's opinion.