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).

En primer lugar, Finlandia y Dinamarca tienen medidas de excepción al principio general de libre circulación de mercancías hasta el año 2003.
Firstly, Finland and Denmark are subject to exemptions to the basic rule of the free movement of goods until 2003.

Pero, al parecer, no lo es para la Comisión, que es la encargada de presentar al Consejo y al Parlamento, antes de finales del año 2001, el informe sobre el funcionamiento de la política pesquera común en la última década, sobre cuya base el Consejo deberá tomar las oportunas decisiones de modificarla.
However, it seems that the Commission does not share this view, although it is the Commission which is obliged to present the Council and Parliament with a report on the functioning of the common fisheries policy over the last decade before the end of 2001, and it is on this basis that the Council will have to make the appropriate decisions with regard to its modification.

Es necesario que les animemos a colaborar en la planificación y puesta en práctica de proyectos enmarcados en estos programas, por lo tanto, el calendario propuesto por la Comisión es demasiado ambicioso.

We need to encourage them to participate in designing and delivering projects for these programmes. The time-scale therefore proposed by the Commission is very ambitious.