Her er Marco Polo II helt sikkert et program, som på den ene side kan varetage erhvervslivets interesser, men på den anden side også interesserne for miljøforkæmperne, miljøet og alt det, der hænger sammen med det. Jeg var derfor også meget glad for, at det lykkedes relativt hurtigt at udarbejde et forlænget, tilpasset Marco Polo-program.
The Marco Polo II programme is, in this respect, certainly capable of meeting the requirements of business and industry on the one hand, but also those of the environmentalists on the other, meeting the needs of the environment and all that is associated with that; that is one reason why I was very glad that it was possible relatively quickly to draft an extended and adapted Marco Polo programme.