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Here's a draft of an e-mail to return to the DG TREN Biofuels Consultation people:

Thank you for advising us of the posting of your summary of responses to the Biofuels Consultation. Those of us at European Tribune who have followed the Consultation are impressed by the speed with which you have collated a fairly large number of responses and complex points of view. By and large, we feel the Summary is exhaustive and fair-minded. It also seems to us that the overall spirit of the Consultation, as exemplified by the framing of the questions, has, up to this point, been open, inviting thoughtful contribution rather than attempting to direct public expression into predetermined channels.

We'd like to thank the team responsible for this work at DG TREN for making the effort to run a public consultation properly.

There's currently a discussion on the European Tribune site under the heading Biofuels Consultation Summary.

Best regards

Crits, changes, suggestions?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Aug 24th, 2006 at 11:12:35 AM EST
rather than attempting to direct public expression into predetermined channels.

Sounds negative , will made them suspicious about our intentions. First part of the sentence says the same in a positive way. Suggest replacing it by a . .

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by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Thu Aug 24th, 2006 at 12:00:48 PM EST
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I'd go with Elco

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Aug 24th, 2006 at 12:02:54 PM EST
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It's excellent, and I support Elco B's amendment.

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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Aug 25th, 2006 at 01:04:37 AM EST
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So that sentence would be:

It also seems to us that the overall spirit of the Consultation, as exemplified by the framing of the questions, has, up to this point, been open and has favoured thoughtful contribution.

?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Aug 25th, 2006 at 03:47:59 AM EST
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Sounds good to me.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Aug 25th, 2006 at 04:21:38 AM EST
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Shouldn't we mention the "Interactive Policy Making" explicitly as what we think is "not running a consultation properly"?

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Aug 25th, 2006 at 05:07:39 AM EST
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Not here. Here we should praise them for doing the right thing.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Aug 25th, 2006 at 05:11:41 AM EST
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Right.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Aug 25th, 2006 at 05:13:40 AM EST
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I think we can make our thinking clear about that in another text. ("make clear" = clarify our thinking + express it clearly). This is a brief one to say: this is a good consultation (to date).

However this question occurs to me: the Summary is at the draft stage. Do we want to comment on it, i.e. suggest some points might be stressed more?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Aug 25th, 2006 at 05:52:59 AM EST
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Might as well, but I wouldn't overdo it. It might work to nudge them a little bit more forcefully into looking at this diary...

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Aug 25th, 2006 at 06:45:03 AM EST
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Since there has been no further comment, I sent this this morning:

Thank you for advising us of the posting of your summary of responses to the Biofuels Consultation. Those of us at European Tribune who have followed the Consultation are impressed by the speed with which you have collated a fairly large number of responses and complex points of view. By and large, we feel the Summary is exhaustive and fair-minded. It also seems to us that the overall spirit of the Consultation, as exemplified by the framing of the questions, has, up to this point, been open and has favoured thoughtful contribution.

We'd like to thank the team responsible for this work at DG TREN for making the effort to run a public consultation properly.

The discussion on the European Tribune site (under the heading Biofuels Consultation Summary) suggests some points we feel the final summary might underline a little more clearly.

Best regards

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Aug 28th, 2006 at 04:50:29 AM EST
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