TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a sentence in English and your task is to translate it into Spanish. In translation, keep the numbers and capitalization (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and name).
PROBLEM: The competition report 1998 is not a bad foundation for this but, in fact, there is nothing that could not be further improved upon.

SOLUTION: El informe sobre la competencia en 1998 no es una mala base en este sentido, pero todo es mejorable.

PROBLEM: However, with Haider and his men, we would see the extreme right, openly racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic, promoted to the rank of co-ruler of our Community.

SOLUTION: Pero con Haider y sus hombres la extrema derecha abiertamente racista, antisemita y xenófoba sería la que resultaría propulsada al rango de codirigente de nuestra Comunidad.

PROBLEM: The truth, of course, is that a great many Member States, and no doubt other nations too, have taken measures to protect their populations' health which amount to using the precautionary principle, even if it has not always been called that.

SOLUTION:
La verdad es que muchos Estados miembros, obviamente también otras naciones, han adoptado medidas para proteger la salud de sus habitantes aplicando el principio de precaución, aunque no siempre lo han llamado así.