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: Mr President, I would like to begin by joining those who congratulated the rapporteur on this work.

SOLUTION: Señor Presidente, para comenzar quisiera sumarme a aquellos que han felicitado al ponente por este trabajo.

PROBLEM: Under no circumstances will we concede ground which we have won over the past few months, which we believe to be in the interests of openness and transparency.

SOLUTION: Bajo ninguna circunstancia vamos a ceder el terreno que hemos ganado en los últimos meses y que creemos que lo ha sido en interés de la apertura y la transparencia.

PROBLEM: Surely we have learnt this much from the events surrounding the Leonardo affair, when the internal examiners in the relevant Directorate-General issued warnings, but these were neither heeded nor passed on.

SOLUTION:
Así nos lo enseñan los hechos del caso Leonardo, en el que los interventores internos de la Dirección General competente efectuaron advertencias, pero ni fueron observadas ni comunicadas a los superiores.