TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a sentence in the English language and your task is to convert it into the Swedish language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).
PROBLEM: In fact, it found a sort of convenient excuse in the shortening of the programming stage in the Member States, and it published the guidelines back in July 1999, even before the new Parliament had taken up its legislative duties, thereby preventing Parliament itself from having any influence on the current content of the guidelines.

SOLUTION: På det viset hindrade man parlamentet att påverka riktlinjernas utformning.

PROBLEM: Anyone who has been in an old car knows that this is to the detriment of the consumer and the amateur mechanic.

SOLUTION: Var och en som någon gång har kört en gammal bil vet att detta är till nackdel för konsumenten och för den som gillar att meka.

PROBLEM: We know full well that what you are doing, Commissioner, and that is, limiting yourself to giving us the hypothetical and remote possibility of benefiting from the Structural Funds of the new Objective 2 or from the provisional Objectives 2 or 5b.

SOLUTION:
Herr kommissionär! Ni begränsar er till, och vi förstår er, att erbjuda oss den hypotetiska och avlägsna möjligheten att få strukturstöd enligt det nya mål 2 eller övergångssystemet för mål 2 och mål 5b.