TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a sentence in Spanish and your task is to translate it into English. In translation, keep the numbers and capitalization (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and name).
PROBLEM: Señor Presidente, un ejemplo es la contaminación del Danubio y, antes, de su afluente hace unos días.

SOLUTION: What has happened over the past few days with the pollution of the Danube and its tributary has been instructive.

PROBLEM: La cooperación transfronteriza sigue referida casi exclusivamente a las fronteras terrestres y, en los casos en que se han hecho excepciones relativas a las fronteras marítimas, se trata de excepciones poco transparentes en la selección, pues a menudo tienen el aire de ser compensaciones por lo que sucede en otros frentes de las políticas comunitarias.

SOLUTION: Cross-border cooperation continues almost exclusively to be an issue concerning landlocked areas and, where exceptions have been made for maritime areas, their selection is not transparent and they often suffer from compensation from other Community policies.

PROBLEM: Es evidente que la incidencia de la tembladera en la especie ovina ha sido un factor que ha contribuido al problema general.

SOLUTION:
It is quite clear that the incidence of scrapie in sheep has been a contributing factor to the overall problem.