11.   The parliamentary vote was originally set for October last year, but was postponed because of a lack of funds, logistical problems and inadequate technical preparation.

12.   Trinidad said Hunosa customarily employs mining experts from eastern Europe to perform highly technical mining preparations.

13.   Turkey only relented after months of negotiations, weeks of technical preparations and anxious days studying weather forecasts.

14.   Turkey only relented after months of negotiations, weeks of technical preparations, and anxious days studying weather forecasts.

15.   But even in London technical preparations are under way.

16.   Commission President Jacques Santer told the finance ministers that he would strive to ensure that deadlines for technical preparations for the switch to a single currency were met.

17.   The technical preparations, slated to last for around a year, will have to be speeded up.

18.   Technical preparations will cost two million marks and security one million marks.