The Budget Bill was being debated at the first stage of its parliamentary scrutiny and will now be further scrutinised at Holyrood.
This is a higher figure than in 2000 when approximately 22% of applications were allowed at the first stage.
At first reading stage MEPs failed to reach agreement with the Council of Ministers - which represents EU member states - over the implementation of the proposals.
The survey also showed that during 2001 and 2002 around 90 per cent of complaints were resolved by the practice at the first stage, known as local resolution.
It also made the case that the identities of any bids would become public once they had got beyond an initial application - and that the only extra information to be revealed would be those groups rejected at the first stage.
Through a shaky camera in the damp and dark mines of eastern Congo, filmmaker Frank Poulsen introduces us to some of the young men (and even children) toiling at the first stage of Congo's lucrative business in tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold.
The key to pulling it off is the serial number assigned to each vehicle at the very first stage of production, where metal parts are welded together to form an engine compartment.
Inzamam stepped down as skipper after Pakistan were knocked out of the World Cup at the first round stage, but although he is finished with one-day cricket, he hopes to continue his Test career.
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Albert Flynn, who chairs the EFSA panel which looked at these claims, said the first stage had been to look at general health claims for the products.
By then, Harbhajan was into his first spell, finding more turn and zip than he had at any stage in the first two days.
They were one of the few non-league sides to join the competition at the first round proper stage.
His focus will therefore switch to regaining full fitness in time for Ulster's Heineken Cup quarter-final, the Irish province's first appearance at that stage of the competition since 1999.
However many feel uneasy about a diet that, in the first stage at least, almost completely cuts out a food group (intake is limited to less than 20g a day).
But the reverse of that is they have got a massive squad of talented players and they are not the first side at this stage of the season to have injury problems.
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Since changing from his Titleist clubs to the Nike brand, he has failed to shine, missing the cut at Abu Dhabi and exiting the WGC Accenture World Matchplay event in Arizona at the first-round stage.
At her husband's urging, in 1955 Ms. Diller first took the stage at The Purple Onion, a small San Francisco nightclub.
Unless Harmony's shareholders or Gold Fields' lawyers halt it first, the battle will last at least to November 26th, when the first stage of Harmony's bid is due.
At 17, he first burst onto the athletic stage when he came within a whisker of a bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.
In a cricket-addicted nation, Dhoni was taking his first cricketing steps at a late stage.
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Unlike most of his colleagues at the same stage, his first commissions did not come from his family.
"It's a shame this year that I've run in to Ronnie O'Sullivan in the first two events at an early stage, " he said.
But at the halfway stage of his first season back in top-flight racing in nine years, Neil Hodgson admits it is proving a much taller order than he expected.
Both sides had led at one stage during a tight first half, with Matt King scoring the first of a brace of tries to give the Wolves an early lead.
For Sweden, who only needed a draw to advance, it was the first group stage exit at a major tournament since Euro 2000, but coach Lars Lagerback was gracious in defeat.
All went well at first, but when the second-stage booster ignited, the spacecraft veered off course and burned up in the atmosphere.
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Boycott's illness was first diagnosed last September and at one stage the 63-year-old had to be fed via a tube into his stomach.
Hussey ended a poor run of recent form as he helped guide Australia to a decent first-innings total that at one stage looked unlikely.
He was present at a meeting between the festival's first director, the late Jed Williams, and the committee which set up the festival, and his former group, the Mike Harries Band, were the first to perform on stage at the founding event.
Now, at first glance the men and women on this stage could not be more different.
Two DJs took the stage on Wednesday afternoon at the first IMS Engage conference in Los Angeles.
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