Translate the following English sentence to French:
"Mr President, first of all I would like to thank our colleague, Dirk Sterckx, who has put an enormous amount of work into a report which is extremely important as it is a policy document that will lead to a great deal of further discussion."
Monsieur le Président, je voudrais d' abord remercier notre collègue Dirk Sterckx, qui a fait un énorme travail sur un rapport très important, parce que c' est un rapport de doctrine, qui va engager de nombreuses autres réflexions.