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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).
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Competition is an instrument and does not always produce ideal solutions.
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La competencia es un instrumento y no siempre conduce a soluciones óptimas.


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Lastly, I will repeat for some who have entered the Chamber in the last few minutes, what I said at the outset of my remarks: that I will not be able to stay until the end of the debate, largely as a result of having assumed that the debate was taking place this morning and having fixed a meeting on the Balkans for this evening.
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Por último, repetiré para los que han entrado en la sala en los últimos minutos lo que he dicho al principio de mi intervención: que no podré permanecer aquí hasta el final del debate, en buena parte debido a que daba por hecho que el debate se iba a celebrar esta mañana y a que he fijado una reunión sobre los Balcanes para esta tarde.


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If we do not obtain a framework of Community regulations which is sufficiently clear, strict and trenchant, then those Member States that wish to do so must be allowed to take the necessary steps to protect their people and their territory, in the same way that the United States succeeded in learning the lessons of the Exxon Valdez disaster by making double hulls compulsory and banning all vessels more than 20 years old from their waters.
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De no conseguirse un marco reglamentario comunitario suficientemente claro, estricto y riguroso, se debería autorizar a los Estados miembros que lo deseen, por su parte, a establecerlo para proteger a su población y su territorio, del mismo modo que los Estados Unidos han sabido, por su parte, aprovechar las enseñanzas de la catástrofe del Exxon Valdez exigiendo el doble casco y vedando sus aguas a todos los buques de más de veinte años.