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).

El discurso que escucho hoy es el siguiente: "Es imperativo concluir rápidamente" En otras palabras: "¡Vosotros, los del Parlamento, tenéis que reducir vuestras pretensiones, en particular las presupuestarias!" Puesto que si no logramos fijar el marco reglamentario de LIFE, de acuerdo al procedimiento de codecisión, se demorará su ejecución en el año 2000, y es cierto que las ONG y los operadores en el campo están esperando nuestros créditos.
This is the essence of how I understand the situation: we are being told that it is essential for us to reach a conclusion quickly, that, basically, the Members of Parliament should drop their claims, particularly claims on the budget, for if we do not soon, in line with the codecision procedure, get around to establishing the framework of the regulations for LIFE, then its implementation for the year 2000 is going to suffer a delay, and in the meantime the NGOs and the operators at grass roots level are waiting for our appropriations.