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: Este período preparatorio de dos años se utilizará para reforzar los procesos de integración regional y la capacidad de los países ACP para llevar a cabo negociaciones comerciales.

SOLUTION: This two-year preparatory period will be used to strengthen regional integration processes and the ACP countries' capacity to conduct trade negotiations.

PROBLEM: Una parte muy importante, un tercio del agua potable que consumimos, se extrae en los Países Bajos de las aguas superficiales.

SOLUTION: A very important component, to wit, one third of our drinking water, is extracted from surface water in the Netherlands.

PROBLEM: No es cuestión de disponer de una normativa mucho más dura porque los problemas en muchos casos son de gestión, de asumir las competencias que uno tiene y no trasladar al Legislativo los grandes problemas que tiene el sistema de las aguas, cuya complicación todos conocemos.

SOLUTION:
It is not a question of having much tougher regulations, because in many cases the problems concern management. It is not a question of exercising the relevant competences and not referring the big problems of the water systems to the legislative, the complications of which we are all well aware of.