# Official Journal C 84E/2004

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| Official Journal
  of the European Union | C 84E |
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| English edition | Information and Notices | Volume 473 April 2004 |

ISSN 1725-2423

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 84E

English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 473 April 2004

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| Notice No | Contents | page |
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| | I   (Information) |
| | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT |
| | WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 1) |
| 2004/C 084E/1 | P-0021/03 by Vitaliano Gemelli to the CommissionSubject: Appointment of senior staff in the European Commission — medical service | 1 |
| 2004/C 084E/2 | E-0335/03 by Maria Sanders-ten Holte to the CommissionSubject: A new generation of mercenaries | 2 |
| 2004/C 084E/3 | E-0561/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Hunger strike by Mr Jebali | 3 |
| 2004/C 084E/4 | E-0646/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Smear campaign against Mohammed Charfi | 3 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0561/03 and E-0646/03 | 3 |
| 2004/C 084E/5 | E-0620/03 by Carles-Alfred Gasòliba i Böhm to the CommissionSubject: Freedom of establishment and the securing of authorisation to carry out roadworthiness tests on vehicles in Germany (Supplementary Answer) | 4 |
| 2004/C 084E/6 | P-0759/03 by Vitaliano Gemelli to the CommissionSubject: The European Commission’s medical service | 5 |
| 2004/C 084E/7 | E-0844/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Contracts with management consultants (Supplementary Answer) | 6 |
| 2004/C 084E/8 | E-1350/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Cross-border investment | 8 |
| 2004/C 084E/9 | P-1595/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: Cross-border payments in euro (Supplementary Answer) | 9 |
| 2004/C 084E/10 | E-1728/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Fight against the abuse of human beings and the sexual abuse of children | 10 |
| 2004/C 084E/11 | E-1940/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Stamp duty exemption scheme | 12 |
| 2004/C 084E/12 | E-1941/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Stamp duty exemption scheme | 12 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1940/03 and E-1941/03 | 13 |
| 2004/C 084E/13 | P-1974/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Rehabilitation of earthquake victims in Attica | 13 |
| 2004/C 084E/14 | P-2103/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Cross-border investment | 14 |
| 2004/C 084E/15 | E-2141/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: German road tolls | 14 |
| 2004/C 084E/16 | P-2243/03 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: Distortions of competition by German goods-vehicle toll | 15 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2141/03 and P-2243/03 | 15 |
| 2004/C 084E/17 | E-2195/03 by Michael Cashman to the CouncilSubject: Counterfeiting and piracy | 15 |
| 2004/C 084E/18 | E-2210/03 by Claude Moraes to the CouncilSubject: Progress on asylum in Thessaloniki | 16 |
| 2004/C 084E/19 | E-2258/03 by Erik Meijer to the CouncilSubject: Keeping new refugees away from EU territory by building reception camps in the future Member States or further afield | 16 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2210/03 and E-2258/03 | 17 |
| 2004/C 084E/20 | P-2302/03 by Miguel Martínez Martínez to the CouncilSubject: Murder of the young Spanish voluntary worker Ana Isabel Sánchez Torralba in Equatorial Guinea | 17 |
| 2004/C 084E/21 | P-2373/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Assessment of the COM in tobacco | 18 |
| 2004/C 084E/22 | E-2419/03 by Lucio Manisco to the CouncilSubject: Al Sahri deported by Italy and executed in Syria | 20 |
| 2004/C 084E/23 | E-2433/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Quota for sugar production in the autonomous region of the Azores | 21 |
| 2004/C 084E/24 | E-2434/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CouncilSubject: Penalisation of Portuguese farmers | 22 |
| 2004/C 084E/25 | E-2444/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CouncilSubject: US naval base in Guantanamo Bay | 23 |
| 2004/C 084E/26 | E-2449/03 by Georges Berthu to the CommissionSubject: Conservation of hedgerows | 24 |
| 2004/C 084E/27 | E-2455/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat: ‘cash flow audit’ and ‘value for money’ study by way of supplementary measures to clarify what happened and prevent any recurrence | 24 |
| 2004/C 084E/28 | E-2477/03 by Miet Smet to the CouncilSubject: Women’s rights in Afghanistan | 26 |
| 2004/C 084E/29 | E-2482/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CouncilSubject: Prevention against the risk of forest fires: Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92 | 27 |
| 2004/C 084E/30 | E-2498/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Investment | 28 |
| 2004/C 084E/31 | E-2515/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Opinion of the OLAF Supervisory Committee on the Eurostat Task Force | 28 |
| 2004/C 084E/32 | E-2516/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat Task Force and OLAF independence | 29 |
| 2004/C 084E/33 | P-2530/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat Task Force | 29 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2515/03, E-2516/03 and P-2530/03 | 30 |
| 2004/C 084E/34 | E-2562/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Compatibility between the violence perpetrated by the Sudanese dictatorial regime and the agreement initialled by the European Union and Sudan | 31 |
| 2004/C 084E/35 | P-2609/03 by Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Products in respect of which payment of premiums is directly linked to per-hectare yield | 32 |
| 2004/C 084E/36 | E-2624/03 by Michel-Ange Scarbonchi to the CouncilSubject: Establishment of a European civil protection corps | 32 |
| 2004/C 084E/37 | E-2665/03 by Daniel Hannan to the CommissionSubject: European citizenship financing | 34 |
| 2004/C 084E/38 | E-2680/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CouncilSubject: Setting up a United Nations Interim Administration in Chechnya | 35 |
| 2004/C 084E/39 | E-2735/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Costs of using Microsoft software | 36 |
| 2004/C 084E/40 | E-2760/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: ‘Mexillón de Galicia’ (Galician mussels) — protected designation of origin (PDO) | 36 |
| 2004/C 084E/41 | E-2764/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CouncilSubject: National land register in Turkey and property on the island of Imvros | 37 |
| 2004/C 084E/42 | E-2778/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Criteria for the assignment and removal of special adviser status for officials and their disappearance from the Commission’s establishment plan | 38 |
| 2004/C 084E/43 | E-2808/03 by Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Risks of hormone therapies | 39 |
| 2004/C 084E/44 | E-2902/03 by Miet Smet to the CouncilSubject: Suspension of cooperation agreements and postponement of their signature | 40 |
| 2004/C 084E/45 | E-2942/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Multiannual Guideline Programme (MGP): cutting the size of the Community fishing fleet | 41 |
| 2004/C 084E/46 | E-2945/03 by Dana Scallon to the CouncilSubject: Specific programme for research | 42 |
| 2004/C 084E/47 | E-2952/03 by Maurizio Turco and Marco Cappato to the CouncilSubject: Sentence of death by stoning in Nigeria | 43 |
| 2004/C 084E/48 | E-3014/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: European market in car insurance | 43 |
| 2004/C 084E/49 | E-3015/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: Third-party insurance for cars and the new Code | 44 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3014/03 and E-3015/03 | 44 |
| 2004/C 084E/50 | P-3036/03 by Niall Andrews to the CouncilSubject: Tackling hunger in the world | 44 |
| 2004/C 084E/51 | E-3041/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Serious defects in Greek ambulances (Supplementary Answer) | 45 |
| 2004/C 084E/52 | E-3050/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CouncilSubject: European Court of Human Rights judgment against Turkey | 47 |
| 2004/C 084E/53 | P-3053/03 by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: HIV/AIDS in China | 48 |
| 2004/C 084E/54 | E-3060/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Cost of Turkey joining the EU | 48 |
| 2004/C 084E/55 | E-3064/03 by Bernd Lange and Wilhelm Piecyk to the CommissionSubject: Vehicle emissions outside of the test cycle | 49 |
| 2004/C 084E/56 | E-3104/03 by Marianne Eriksson, Piia-Noora Kauppi and Joke Swiebel to the CouncilSubject: Funding EQUAL projects and sexual orientation discrimination | 49 |
| 2004/C 084E/57 | E-3115/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Spreading of false scientific claims regarding the effectiveness of condoms in combating AIDS by Catholic Church leaders/the Holy See/the Vatican City State | 50 |
| 2004/C 084E/58 | E-3116/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Illegal imports of textile products from China | 52 |
| 2004/C 084E/59 | E-3121/03 by Nelly Maes to the CouncilSubject: Reduction of VAT on CDs and cassettes | 53 |
| 2004/C 084E/60 | E-3127/03 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Bank accounts and freedom of movement | 53 |
| 2004/C 084E/61 | E-3146/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Waterways and cultural tourism between Switzerland and the Adriatic | 54 |
| 2004/C 084E/62 | E-3191/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alleged violation of Community company law by Telecom Italia in the Telekom Serbia affair | 55 |
| 2004/C 084E/63 | E-3214/03 by Jillian Evans to the CommissionSubject: North Korean refugees | 57 |
| 2004/C 084E/64 | P-3333/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: North Korean refugees in China | 57 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3214/03 and P-3333/03 | 57 |
| 2004/C 084E/65 | E-3234/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Export of lottery tickets from one country to another | 58 |
| 2004/C 084E/66 | E-3359/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Bycatch associated with shrimp fisheries | 59 |
| 2004/C 084E/67 | E-3387/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: Increases in the cost of motor insurance - data sources | 60 |
| 2004/C 084E/68 | E-3448/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Operation of quarries in a protected area | 62 |
| 2004/C 084E/69 | E-3491/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Single payment within the reform of the COM in olive oil | 63 |
| 2004/C 084E/70 | E-3504/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Information on the level of EU funding granted to Rhineland-Palatinate between January 1997 and December 2002 (Supplementary Answer) | 65 |
| 2004/C 084E/71 | E-3524/03 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Eco-point scheme in Austria | 65 |
| 2004/C 084E/72 | P-3539/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Windfarms in EU special areas of conservation | 66 |
| 2004/C 084E/73 | P-3563/03 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Transport Protocol of the Alpine Convention | 67 |
| 2004/C 084E/74 | P-3594/03 by Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler to the CommissionSubject: Novel Foods Regulation EC No 258/97, marketing of noni products in the EU | 68 |
| 2004/C 084E/75 | E-3597/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Tendering processes for development and humanitarian assistance | 70 |
| 2004/C 084E/76 | E-3599/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: Payable Internet services | 71 |
| 2004/C 084E/77 | P-3619/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Enlarging the Son Sant Joan de Palma de Mallorca airport (Balearic Islands) | 72 |
| 2004/C 084E/78 | E-3628/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: High-speed rail link between Galicia and Portugal as part of the European growth initiative | 73 |
| 2004/C 084E/79 | E-3629/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: High-speed rail link between Galicia, other parts of Spain and the French border | 74 |
| 2004/C 084E/80 | E-3643/03 by Salvador Jové Peres to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the common organisation of the market in olive oil | 75 |
| 2004/C 084E/81 | P-3653/03 by Jean-Louis Bernié to the CommissionSubject: Interpretative guide to the Birds Directive | 76 |
| 2004/C 084E/82 | E-3655/03 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Counterfeiting of euro notes and coins | 77 |
| 2004/C 084E/83 | E-3668/03 by María Sornosa Martínez and María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Impact of the enlargement of the port of Altea on flora and fauna | 78 |
| 2004/C 084E/84 | E-3669/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Camarles monkey farm | 79 |
| 2004/C 084E/85 | E-3673/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Community aid to the multinational Gerry Weber | 80 |
| 2004/C 084E/86 | E-3677/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Prato | 81 |
| 2004/C 084E/87 | E-3678/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Terni | 82 |
| 2004/C 084E/88 | E-3679/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Pesaro | 82 |
| 2004/C 084E/89 | E-3680/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Florence | 82 |
| 2004/C 084E/90 | E-3681/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Pisa | 83 |
| 2004/C 084E/91 | E-3682/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Ancona | 83 |
| 2004/C 084E/92 | E-3683/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Carrara | 83 |
| 2004/C 084E/93 | E-3684/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Livorno | 84 |
| 2004/C 084E/94 | E-3685/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Macerata | 84 |
| 2004/C 084E/95 | E-3686/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Massa | 84 |
| 2004/C 084E/96 | E-3687/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Pistoia | 85 |
| 2004/C 084E/97 | E-3688/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Perugia | 85 |
| 2004/C 084E/98 | E-3689/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Siena | 85 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3677/03, E-3678/03, E-3679/03, E-3680/03, E-3681/03, E-3682/03, E-3683/03, E-3684/03, E-3685/03, E-3686/03, E-3687/03, E-3688/03 and E-3689/03 | 86 |
| 2004/C 084E/99 | E-3704/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Terni | 86 |
| 2004/C 084E/100 | E-3705/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Ancona | 87 |
| 2004/C 084E/101 | E-3706/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Carrara | 87 |
| 2004/C 084E/102 | E-3707/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Florence | 87 |
| 2004/C 084E/103 | E-3708/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Livorno | 88 |
| 2004/C 084E/104 | E-3709/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Macerata | 88 |
| 2004/C 084E/105 | E-3710/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Massa | 88 |
| 2004/C 084E/106 | E-3711/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Perugia | 89 |
| 2004/C 084E/107 | E-3712/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Pesaro | 89 |
| 2004/C 084E/108 | E-3713/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Pisa | 89 |
| 2004/C 084E/109 | E-3714/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Prato | 90 |
| 2004/C 084E/110 | E-3715/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Siena | 90 |
| 2004/C 084E/111 | E-3716/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Pistoia | 90 |
| 2004/C 084E/112 | E-3717/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Massa | 91 |
| 2004/C 084E/113 | E-3721/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Carrara | 91 |
| 2004/C 084E/114 | E-3722/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Florence | 91 |
| 2004/C 084E/115 | E-3723/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Livorno | 92 |
| 2004/C 084E/116 | E-3724/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Macerata | 92 |
| 2004/C 084E/117 | E-3725/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Ancona | 92 |
| 2004/C 084E/118 | E-3726/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Pesaro | 93 |
| 2004/C 084E/119 | E-3727/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Pisa | 93 |
| 2004/C 084E/120 | E-3728/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Pistoia | 93 |
| 2004/C 084E/121 | E-3729/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Prato | 94 |
| 2004/C 084E/122 | E-3730/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Siena | 94 |
| 2004/C 084E/123 | E-3731/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Terni | 94 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3704/03, E-3705/03, E-3706/03, E-3707/03, E-3708/03, E-3709/03, E-3710/03, E-3711/03, E-3712/03, E-3713/03, E-3714/03, E-3715/03, E-3716/03, E-3717/03, E-3721/03, E-3722/03, E-3723/03, E-3724/03, E-3725/03, E-3726/03, E-3727/03, E-3728/03, E-3729/03, E-3730/03 and E-3731/03 | 95 |
| 2004/C 084E/124 | E-3719/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Evaluation of the risk inherent in zinc | 95 |
| 2004/C 084E/125 | E-3778/03 by Jürgen Zimmerling to the CommissionSubject: Protection of personal rights | 96 |
| 2004/C 084E/126 | E-3779/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Terni under the action programme to promote civil protection | 97 |
| 2004/C 084E/127 | E-3780/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Cararra under the action programme to promote civil protection | 97 |
| 2004/C 084E/128 | E-3781/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the city of Florence under the action programme to promote civil protection | 97 |
| 2004/C 084E/129 | E-3782/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the city of Livorno under the action programme to promote civil protection | 98 |
| 2004/C 084E/130 | E-3783/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Macerata under the action programme to promote civil protection | 98 |
| 2004/C 084E/131 | E-3784/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Massa under the action programme to promote civil protection | 98 |
| 2004/C 084E/132 | E-3785/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the city of Perugia under the action programme to promote civil protection | 99 |
| 2004/C 084E/133 | E-3786/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Pesaro under the action programme to promote civil protection | 99 |
| 2004/C 084E/134 | E-3787/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the city of Pisa under the action programme to promote civil protection | 99 |
| 2004/C 084E/135 | E-3788/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Pistoia under the action programme to promote civil protection | 100 |
| 2004/C 084E/136 | E-3789/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Prato the action programme to promote civil protection | 100 |
| 2004/C 084E/137 | E-3790/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the city of Siena under the action programme to promote civil protection | 100 |
| 2004/C 084E/138 | E-3791/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Ancona under the action programme to promote civil protection | 101 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3779/03, E-3780/03, E-3781/03, E-3782/03, E-3783/03, E-3784/03, E-3785/03, E-3786/03, E-3787/03, E-3788/03, E-3789/03, E-3790/03 and E-3791/03 | 101 |
| 2004/C 084E/139 | E-3817/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Road tolls charged on the ‘Attic Highway’ in Athens | 101 |
| 2004/C 084E/140 | E-3822/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Serious negative impact on habitats and species of Community interest on the island of Mallorca | 102 |
| 2004/C 084E/141 | E-3828/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: The Izar de Fene shipyard and the possibility of regaining authorisation to build merchant ships | 104 |
| 2004/C 084E/142 | P-3831/03 by André Brie to the CommissionSubject: Current European-American negotiations on the use of Galileo | 105 |
| 2004/C 084E/143 | E-3842/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Attacks on democracy in Mauritania | 106 |
| 2004/C 084E/144 | P-3865/03 by Marie Isler Béguin to the CommissionSubject: Balearic Islands Sectoral Roads Masterplan | 107 |
| 2004/C 084E/145 | E-3869/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Impact of specific residential building schemes on SIC ES 5223037 | 108 |
| 2004/C 084E/146 | E-3887/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Measures to tackle legionnaires’ disease | 109 |
| 2004/C 084E/147 | E-3895/03 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Conflicts between the objectives of the Water Framework Directive, the Renewable Energy Directive, the Emissions Trading Directive and the goal of ensuring security of supply: the case of Austria | 110 |
| 2004/C 084E/148 | E-3898/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Otters in UK rivers | 111 |
| 2004/C 084E/149 | E-3904/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: European satellite agency - Galileo programme | 112 |
| 2004/C 084E/150 | E-3906/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Single currency and cost-of-living increases | 114 |
| 2004/C 084E/151 | P-3909/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Framework directive | 115 |
| 2004/C 084E/152 | E-3912/03 by Ole Krarup to the CommissionSubject: Oil extraction in the North Sea | 117 |
| 2004/C 084E/153 | E-3928/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Forests and building cooperatives in Greece | 117 |
| 2004/C 084E/154 | P-3930/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Retention of privileges by the Agricultural Bank of Greece | 118 |
| 2004/C 084E/155 | P-3931/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Rehabilitation of areas devastated by the summer 2003 forest fires in Portugal (Supplementary Answer). | 119 |
| 2004/C 084E/156 | E-3934/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: US visa provisions which result in refusal to permit the return of Europeans who have a permanent residence and permanent job in the USA | 120 |
| 2004/C 084E/157 | E-3939/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: Failure by drivers of refuse and gritting lorries to comply with the rules on driving and rest periods when carrying out public service tasks | 121 |
| 2004/C 084E/158 | E-3952/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Standards on laying gas pipes | 122 |
| 2004/C 084E/159 | E-3963/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Geroi Sevastopolya - Safety at Sea | 122 |
| 2004/C 084E/160 | E-3969/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Judicial investigation by the Catania Public Prosecutor’s office into an EUR 5 million fraud against the European Union | 124 |
| 2004/C 084E/161 | E-3983/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the multiregional operational programme for water resources under Objective 1 for Italy in the context of the 1994-1999 Community Support Framework | 125 |
| 2004/C 084E/162 | E-3985/03 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Sourcing of timber for the refurbishment of Commission buildings | 126 |
| 2004/C 084E/163 | E-3986/03 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Radioactive waste dumps in Sicily | 127 |
| 2004/C 084E/164 | E-3987/03 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Galileo | 127 |
| 2004/C 084E/165 | P-3990/03 by Diana Wallis to the CommissionSubject: Posting/delivery of tender documents | 128 |
| 2004/C 084E/166 | P-4002/03 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Violation of privacy at the World Summit on the Information Society | 129 |
| 2004/C 084E/167 | E-4006/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Residence permits and the difficulty of obtaining them | 130 |
| 2004/C 084E/168 | E-4015/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Toxic sites | 131 |
| 2004/C 084E/169 | E-4021/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Support for research in Portugal | 132 |
| 2004/C 084E/170 | E-4026/03 by Nicholas Clegg to the CommissionSubject: Precious Metals Directive | 133 |
| 2004/C 084E/171 | E-4028/03 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: The euro and public opinion | 133 |
| 2004/C 084E/172 | E-4029/03 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: Euro-dollar exchange rate | 134 |
| 2004/C 084E/173 | E-4032/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: UK contribution to the EU budget | 135 |
| 2004/C 084E/174 | E-4033/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Censoring of the word ‘condom’ in the Commission’s official press release to mark World Aids Day at the request of Mr Prodi’s office | 135 |
| 2004/C 084E/175 | P-4034/03 by Kyösti Virrankoski to the CommissionSubject: Protecting people and livestock against wolves and bears | 136 |
| 2004/C 084E/176 | E-4036/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Novel Food Regulation (EC) No 258/97 and Noni products | 137 |
| 2004/C 084E/177 | E-4037/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Health reform and natural remedies in Germany | 139 |
| 2004/C 084E/178 | E-4057/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Trans-European telecommunications networks | 139 |
| 2004/C 084E/179 | E-4061/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Noise from aircraft at Eleftherios Venizelos airport | 141 |
| 2004/C 084E/180 | E-4067/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Cofinancing of the Júcar-Vinalopó conduit and environmental conditions | 142 |
| 2004/C 084E/181 | E-4070/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Conventions, Charter and Constitution: the costs | 143 |
| 2004/C 084E/182 | P-0074/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: European Convention | 144 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-4070/03 and P-0074/04 | 144 |
| 2004/C 084E/183 | E-4075/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Contracts of doctors working for the Greek Electricity Board (DEI) | 145 |
| 2004/C 084E/184 | E-4085/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Practical problems in application of Directive 1999/44/EC | 145 |
| 2004/C 084E/185 | E-0009/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Protection of Netherlands exports of radar detectors by exempting them from a domestic ban | 147 |
| 2004/C 084E/186 | E-0010/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Lower levels of protection against BSE infection in beef from America in the EU compared with Japan, Russia and other countries | 148 |
| 2004/C 084E/187 | E-0017/04 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Adaptation of Council Directive 92/58/EEC on minimum requirements for the provision of safety and/or health signs at work | 150 |
| 2004/C 084E/188 | P-0019/04 by Juan Ferrández Lezaun to the CommissionSubject: Júcar-Vinalopó project | 151 |
| 2004/C 084E/189 | E-0020/04 by Fiorella Ghilardotti, Massimo Carraro and Giovanni Fava to the CommissionSubject: Bridge over the Straits of Messina | 151 |
| 2004/C 084E/190 | E-0021/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Urgent adoption of a directive on aircraft safety imposing stringent and uniform checks | 153 |
| 2004/C 084E/191 | P-0038/04 by Juan Izquierdo Collado to the CommissionSubject: Illegal imports of dolphins | 153 |
| 2004/C 084E/192 | E-0042/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Structural Fund decommitments in Scotland | 154 |
| 2004/C 084E/193 | E-0062/04 by Giorgio Calò and Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Discriminatory treatment of Community research students in Germany | 156 |
| 2004/C 084E/194 | E-0070/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Chrome-plating factory in Tabaçò, Arcos de Valdevez | 157 |
| 2004/C 084E/195 | P-0075/04 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Flight safety checks | 157 |
| 2004/C 084E/196 | E-0078/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Schengen Information System and missing persons | 158 |
| 2004/C 084E/197 | E-0082/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Clinical Trials Directive | 159 |
| 2004/C 084E/198 | P-0084/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Ban on shipping of oil in single-hull tankers and the use of ‘flags of convenience’ | 160 |
| 2004/C 084E/199 | E-0088/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Excessively high premiums charged by Dutch medical insurance companies to policyholders in neighbouring States to offset deficits in the United States | 161 |
| 2004/C 084E/200 | E-0098/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Extradition of Sok Yoeun | 162 |
| 2004/C 084E/201 | E-0100/04 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Language arrangements on the ‘Europa’ website | 163 |
| 2004/C 084E/202 | E-0122/04 by Toine Manders to the CommissionSubject: Debt and European professional football | 164 |
| 2004/C 084E/203 | E-0128/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Application of age limits to recruitment of workers already having fixed-term contracts over a number of years in the public sector in Greece | 165 |
| 2004/C 084E/204 | E-0138/04 by Kathalijne Buitenweg to the CommissionSubject: Use of passenger data for CAPPS II testing | 166 |
| 2004/C 084E/205 | E-0139/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Financial support for undersea optic-fibre cable link for the islands of Flores and Corvo (Azores) | 167 |
| 2004/C 084E/206 | E-0151/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Shortage of intensive care units in Greece (Supplementary Answer) | 168 |
| 2004/C 084E/207 | P-0159/04 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Trial of women for illegal abortion in Portugal | 169 |
| 2004/C 084E/208 | P-0160/04 by Uma Aaltonen to the CommissionSubject: Use in the EU institutions of sniffer dogs trained to detect explosives | 169 |
| 2004/C 084E/209 | E-0179/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: National immigration plans | 170 |
| 2004/C 084E/210 | E-0180/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Directive 2000/78 in Greece | 171 |
| 2004/C 084E/211 | P-0192/04 by Philip Bradbourn to the CommissionSubject: Repayments under n+2 rule | 172 |
| 2004/C 084E/212 | E-0195/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Access to medical treatment in Member States | 172 |
| 2004/C 084E/213 | E-0196/04 by Ward Beysen to the CommissionSubject: Temporary agency workers directive | 173 |
| 2004/C 084E/214 | E-0197/04 by Ward Beysen to the CommissionSubject: Use of State funds to reduce electricity prices for industrial users | 174 |
| 2004/C 084E/215 | E-0200/04 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: The ‘Bob Programme’ and road accidents | 175 |
| 2004/C 084E/216 | E-0219/04 by Dominique Souchet to the CommissionSubject: Malta’s accession and maritime safety | 176 |
| 2004/C 084E/217 | E-0225/04 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Food safety and developing countries | 177 |
| 2004/C 084E/218 | E-0238/04 by Joachim Wuermeling to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the directive on the safety of cableways | 178 |
| 2004/C 084E/219 | E-0242/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Parkinson’s disease | 179 |
| 2004/C 084E/220 | P-0244/04 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Spanish National Hydrological Plan - cost and price of water | 180 |
| 2004/C 084E/221 | P-0245/04 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Impact assessment of OPTA decisions | 181 |
| 2004/C 084E/222 | E-0250/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Retirement age of football referees | 182 |
| 2004/C 084E/223 | E-0251/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Labelling of bread | 183 |
| 2004/C 084E/224 | P-0256/04 by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Open call for proposals VP/2002/6 for the programme relating to the Community framework strategy on gender equality (2001-2005) | 184 |
| 2004/C 084E/225 | E-0257/04 by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Open call for proposals VP/2002/6 for the programme relating to the Community framework strategy on gender equality (2001-2005) | 185 |
| 2004/C 084E/226 | E-0258/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Cambodia: Assassination of members of the Opposition | 186 |
| 2004/C 084E/227 | E-0260/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Blue tongue disease - protection of stock farmers in Lazio | 186 |
| 2004/C 084E/228 | E-0261/04 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Reported Spanish ban on motorcycles towing trailers | 188 |
| 2004/C 084E/229 | E-0262/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Sewage treatment plants | 189 |
| 2004/C 084E/230 | P-0263/04 by Matti Wuori to the CommissionSubject: Safety at Sosnovyi Bor nuclear power station | 189 |
| 2004/C 084E/231 | E-0269/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Consumer credit | 190 |
| 2004/C 084E/232 | E-0278/04 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Problems affecting contract negotiations under the Sixth Framework Programme | 191 |
| 2004/C 084E/233 | P-0281/04 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Wärtsilä and Italian state subsidies | 192 |
| 2004/C 084E/234 | E-0287/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Mislabelling of seal oil in the EU | 193 |
| 2004/C 084E/235 | P-0294/04 by Herman Vermeer to the CommissionSubject: Disclosure of the rate structure for the Central European Pipeline System | 194 |
| 2004/C 084E/236 | E-0295/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Age discrimination in the provision of goods and services | 194 |
| 2004/C 084E/237 | E-0299/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Compact disc pricing in the EU | 195 |
| 2004/C 084E/238 | P-0303/04 by Michael Cashman to the CommissionSubject: Booking tickets for travel in another country | 196 |
| 2004/C 084E/239 | P-0304/04 by Pietro-Paolo Mennea to the CommissionSubject: Prison guards | 196 |
| 2004/C 084E/240 | E-0315/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Language programme for minority languages | 197 |
| 2004/C 084E/241 | E-0316/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: European voluntary and solidarity service | 198 |
| 2004/C 084E/242 | E-0317/04 by Nicholas Clegg to the CommissionSubject: Pork by-products | 199 |
| 2004/C 084E/243 | P-0338/04 by Eluned Morgan to the CommissionSubject: Food safety | 199 |
| 2004/C 084E/244 | P-0340/04 by Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Compatibility of Law 69 of 3 February 1963 with the free movement of workers within the European Community | 200 |
| 2004/C 084E/245 | P-0342/04 by Dirk Sterckx to the CommissionSubject: Restrictions on the opening up of the Belgian railways market | 201 |
| 2004/C 084E/246 | P-0359/04 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Impact of lack of health care standards on free movement of labour and citizens | 202 |
| 2004/C 084E/247 | E-0366/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Shoppers’ rights in Ireland under EU law | 203 |
| 2004/C 084E/248 | E-0370/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Extension of the Working Time Directive to excluded sectors | 204 |
| 2004/C 084E/249 | P-0376/04 by Luciana Sbarbati to the CommissionSubject: Crisis in the steel sector in Terni | 204 |
| 2004/C 084E/250 | P-0388/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Terni steelworks: closure of the Thyssen-Krupp plant | 205 |
| 2004/C 084E/251 | P-0445/04 by Mario Mastella to the CommissionSubject: Crisis at the AST plant in Terni | 206 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions P-0376/04, P-0388/04 and P-0445/04 | 206 |
| 2004/C 084E/252 | E-0381/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Operation of reception classes — second operational programme: ‘education and initial training’ | 208 |
| 2004/C 084E/253 | E-0383/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Postage rates | 209 |
| 2004/C 084E/254 | E-0393/04 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Animal By-Products Regulation | 210 |
| 2004/C 084E/255 | P-0514/04 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up question to Written Question E-2133/02 on discrimination against international football referees on grounds of age | 211 |
| 2004/C 084E/256 | E-0580/04 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption | 212 |
| | WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 2) |
| 2004/C 084E/257 | E-0225/03 by Guido Podestà to the CommissionSubject: AIDS in eastern Europe | 213 |
| 2004/C 084E/258 | P-2374/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Contracting and subcontracting by the Commission (Supplementary Answer) | 214 |
| 2004/C 084E/259 | E-2454/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat: alteration of the Commission’s position on recognising and tackling fraud and consequences for independent investigation by OLAF | 214 |
| 2004/C 084E/260 | E-2573/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Breach of binding OSCE obligations on freedom of thought, conscience and religion by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan | 215 |
| 2004/C 084E/261 | E-2688/03 by Toine Manders to the CommissionSubject: Reduction in VAT rates for labour-intensive sectors | 217 |
| 2004/C 084E/262 | E-2837/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Creation of a new airline from Olympic Airways (Supplementary Answer) | 218 |
| 2004/C 084E/263 | E-3075/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Freedom and pluralism in information | 219 |
| 2004/C 084E/264 | E-3114/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Spreading of false scientific claims regarding the effectiveness of condoms in combating AIDS by Catholic Church leaders/the Holy See/the Vatican City State | 220 |
| 2004/C 084E/265 | E-3122/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Reduction of VAT on CDs and cassettes | 221 |
| 2004/C 084E/266 | E-3123/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CouncilSubject: Deportation of Chechens | 222 |
| 2004/C 084E/267 | E-3139/03 by Peter Liese to the CouncilSubject: EU preparedness in the event of biological attack | 223 |
| 2004/C 084E/268 | E-3148/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Support for institutions working with women and girls who are victims of prostitution | 223 |
| 2004/C 084E/269 | E-3206/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CouncilSubject: Search made of the offices of the newspaper ‘Il Giornale’: violation of press freedom in Italy | 224 |
| 2004/C 084E/270 | E-3242/03 by Jan Wiersma to the CouncilSubject: The ‘Buy American Act’ in the American defence budget | 225 |
| 2004/C 084E/271 | P-3246/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CouncilSubject: Somalia: internal situation, refugees and terrorism | 226 |
| 2004/C 084E/272 | E-3248/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CouncilSubject: Possibility of tracking cellphone users | 227 |
| 2004/C 084E/273 | E-3251/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CouncilSubject: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) | 228 |
| 2004/C 084E/274 | E-3267/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CouncilSubject: Qualified majority voting | 228 |
| 2004/C 084E/275 | P-3282/03 by Anne André-Léonard to the CouncilSubject: Harmonisation of European legislation in respect of boatmasters’ certificates for recreational craft | 233 |
| 2004/C 084E/276 | P-3313/03 by Hans-Peter Martin to the CouncilSubject: Negotiations on the EU Constitutional Treaty | 233 |
| 2004/C 084E/277 | E-3349/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CouncilSubject: Eurobarometer opinion poll | 234 |
| 2004/C 084E/278 | E-3354/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CouncilSubject: Minority language groups in Greece and official statistics | 235 |
| 2004/C 084E/279 | E-3358/03 by Chris Davies to the CouncilSubject: Bycatch associated with shrimp fisheries | 236 |
| 2004/C 084E/280 | P-3414/03 by Marianne Eriksson to the CouncilSubject: Estonia and directives on equal opportunities | 237 |
| 2004/C 084E/281 | P-3415/03 by Francesco Rutelli to the CouncilSubject: Statements made by the Presidency at the EU-Russia Summit of 7 November 2003 | 238 |
| 2004/C 084E/282 | P-3473/03 by Daniel Cohn-Bendit to the CouncilSubject: Statements made by the Presidency at the EU-Russia Summit of 7 November 2003 | 238 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions P-3415/03 and P-3473/03 | 239 |
| 2004/C 084E/283 | E-3440/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CouncilSubject: Human rights in China | 239 |
| 2004/C 084E/284 | E-3441/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CouncilSubject: EU action against the Guantánamo Bay prison | 240 |
| 2004/C 084E/285 | E-3451/03 by Ioannis Marínos to the CouncilSubject: Eurobarometer findings regarding the Euro and inflation | 241 |
| 2004/C 084E/286 | E-3468/03 by Bart Staes, Phillip Whitehead, Catherine Stihler and Margrietus van den Berg to the CouncilSubject: Post-polio syndrome | 242 |
| 2004/C 084E/287 | E-3495/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CouncilSubject: Colombia - ELN hostages | 242 |
| 2004/C 084E/288 | E-3499/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CouncilSubject: Romano Prodi - Manifesto | 243 |
| 2004/C 084E/289 | E-3525/03 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Size of apples | 244 |
| 2004/C 084E/290 | P-3526/03 by Jens-Peter Bonde to the CouncilSubject: The difference between unanimity and consensus | 245 |
| 2004/C 084E/291 | E-3531/03 by Rijk van Dam to the CouncilSubject: Statements by the President of the Transport Council after the informal Transport Council in Verona | 246 |
| 2004/C 084E/292 | E-3533/03 by Christine De Veyrac to the CouncilSubject: European Space Policy - budget | 246 |
| 2004/C 084E/293 | E-3572/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Lloyds of London | 247 |
| 2004/C 084E/294 | E-3575/03 by Michl Ebner to the CouncilSubject: EU Identity document for the disabled | 248 |
| 2004/C 084E/295 | E-3621/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Presence of chlophen in food produced in various regions of Greece (Supplementary Answer) | 249 |
| 2004/C 084E/296 | E-3661/03 by Konrad Schwaiger and Karl von Wogau to the CommissionSubject: Imports of preserved mushrooms from China | 250 |
| 2004/C 084E/297 | E-3812/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Tempus programme in Romania | 250 |
| 2004/C 084E/298 | E-3829/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: The milk quota situation after enlargement: Galicia’s production allowance | 251 |
| 2004/C 084E/299 | E-3854/03 by Samuli Pohjamo to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s plans for reforming State aid rules | 252 |
| 2004/C 084E/300 | E-3855/03 by Michl Ebner and Paolo Pastorelli to the CommissionSubject: Airport security | 253 |
| 2004/C 084E/301 | E-3856/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Contracts under the Eighth EDF | 254 |
| 2004/C 084E/302 | E-3858/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Invalidity pensions in the European Union | 255 |
| 2004/C 084E/303 | E-3866/03 by Robert Sturdy to the CommissionSubject: Bird-trapping in Cyprus | 256 |
| 2004/C 084E/304 | E-3876/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Exceeding of the basic cultivation areas for 2003 and application of penalties | 256 |
| 2004/C 084E/305 | E-3883/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel Italia: Community funding for telecommunications (Supplementary Answer) | 257 |
| 2004/C 084E/306 | E-3885/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel Italia: possible checks on funding granted by the EU (Supplementary Answer) | 258 |
| 2004/C 084E/307 | E-3897/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Unsustainable fishery by-catches | 260 |
| 2004/C 084E/308 | E-3900/03 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Trieste-Divaca rail link | 261 |
| 2004/C 084E/309 | E-3968/03 by Amalia Sartori to the CommissionSubject: Trans-European transport network | 261 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3900/03 and E-3968/03 | 262 |
| 2004/C 084E/310 | E-3905/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat enquiry: OLAF task force disbanded | 262 |
| 2004/C 084E/311 | E-3907/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Commission proposal to reduce fishery catches in 2004, in Galician waters and those of the Iberian peninsula in general | 263 |
| 2004/C 084E/312 | E-3914/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Expansion of Palma de Mallorca Airport | 265 |
| 2004/C 084E/313 | E-3921/03 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Illegal practices in use of water from the Segura Basin (Murcia, Spain) | 266 |
| 2004/C 084E/314 | E-3923/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Counterfeiting | 266 |
| 2004/C 084E/315 | E-3938/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: Use of surveying firms, contracted by the public authorities, to measure plot areas in connection with participation in EU set-aside schemes | 268 |
| 2004/C 084E/316 | E-3940/03 by Daniel Hannan to the CommissionSubject: Distortions in the sugar trade | 269 |
| 2004/C 084E/317 | E-3941/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination over issue of housing permit in Rotterdam | 270 |
| 2004/C 084E/318 | E-3944/03 by Dominique Souchet to the CommissionSubject: Fish-stock recovery plans | 271 |
| 2004/C 084E/319 | E-3945/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Use of EU funds for terrorist organisations and checks on funding for the PNA | 271 |
| 2004/C 084E/320 | E-3947/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Subsidies for pioneering solar energy plants | 273 |
| 2004/C 084E/321 | E-3961/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Jules Muis - functioning of the Commission | 274 |
| 2004/C 084E/322 | E-3962/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Portugal - toll charges and ‘people carriers’ | 277 |
| 2004/C 084E/323 | E-3979/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Planning amnesty in Ibiza | 278 |
| 2004/C 084E/324 | E-3988/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Doctoring of information passing between Commissioner Solbes and Eurostat | 279 |
| 2004/C 084E/325 | E-3994/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Culture and languages programme | 280 |
| 2004/C 084E/326 | E-3995/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Projects relating to the information society | 280 |
| 2004/C 084E/327 | E-3996/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: New work methods and development of e-commerce | 281 |
| 2004/C 084E/328 | E-4003/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Draught in the Vilshofen-Straubing section of the Danube | 281 |
| 2004/C 084E/329 | E-4007/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Earthquake risk prevention | 282 |
| 2004/C 084E/330 | E-4017/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Publicisation of the EU among the blind in the Community | 284 |
| 2004/C 084E/331 | E-4018/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Standardised use of the European flag on aircraft of EU airlines | 285 |
| 2004/C 084E/332 | E-4020/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Congo river basin | 286 |
| 2004/C 084E/333 | P-4035/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: Implementation in Portugal of the regulation on automobile distribution | 287 |
| 2004/C 084E/334 | E-4045/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Contamination of groundwater in Catalonia | 288 |
| 2004/C 084E/335 | E-4046/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Software and filtering systems | 289 |
| 2004/C 084E/336 | E-4047/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Safe use of the Internet | 290 |
| 2004/C 084E/337 | P-4048/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: EDF budgetisation | 291 |
| 2004/C 084E/338 | E-4054/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: National waters within the EU’s EEZ | 292 |
| 2004/C 084E/339 | E-4065/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) | 292 |
| 2004/C 084E/340 | E-4078/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Galileo | 293 |
| 2004/C 084E/341 | E-0006/04 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Granting of favourable tax status to Sicily | 294 |
| 2004/C 084E/342 | E-0016/04 by Jan Dhaene to the CommissionSubject: The Grefacsa company and the treatment of animal by-products | 295 |
| 2004/C 084E/343 | E-0031/04 by Astrid Lulling to the CommissionSubject: Practices of some Luxembourg insurance companies | 296 |
| 2004/C 084E/344 | E-0035/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Unavailability for commercial reasons of information on insufficient airline safety standards | 297 |
| 2004/C 084E/345 | E-0039/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Amount of EU legislative acts | 298 |
| 2004/C 084E/346 | E-0043/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Trade impact of the euro | 298 |
| 2004/C 084E/347 | E-0045/04 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Failure to carry out prior checks and a simultaneous environmental impact assessment on the entire building project coordinated by Impreglio SpA on the coastline of Sa Sea — Tentizzos in the municipality of Bosa (NU), Sardinia, Italy | 299 |
| 2004/C 084E/348 | E-0046/04 by Jan Dhaene to the CommissionSubject: Advertisements for jobs in European organisations requiring English mother tongue | 301 |
| 2004/C 084E/349 | E-0086/04 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Language requirements in EU job advertisements | 301 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0046/04 and E-0086/04 | 302 |
| 2004/C 084E/350 | E-0051/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Consequences of the letter to the Commission from six Member States following the failure of the Brussels IGC | 302 |
| 2004/C 084E/351 | E-0063/04 by Alexander de Roo and Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Incineration of railway sleepers | 303 |
| 2004/C 084E/352 | P-0066/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Parmalat bankruptcy | 304 |
| 2004/C 084E/353 | P-0093/04 by Martin Kastler to the CommissionSubject: Trafficking in humans and prostitution in the German-Czech border area | 305 |
| 2004/C 084E/354 | E-0112/04 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Dolphins | 306 |
| 2004/C 084E/355 | E-0121/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Integrated waste management in the municipality of Casale sul Sile (Treviso) | 307 |
| 2004/C 084E/356 | E-0123/04 by Dorette Corbey and Jan Wiersma to the CommissionSubject: Containers of arsenic pentoxide at sea | 308 |
| 2004/C 084E/357 | E-0131/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Tragedy involving Albanian migrants | 309 |
| 2004/C 084E/358 | E-0132/04 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Improved aviation safety through more effective channelling of information | 311 |
| 2004/C 084E/359 | P-0133/04 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Fishery control agency in Vigo | 312 |
| 2004/C 084E/360 | P-0134/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Collapse of Parmalat and insufficient checks by Bankitalia | 312 |
| 2004/C 084E/361 | P-0135/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Rome central dairy: safeguarding jobs and protecting farmers | 313 |
| 2004/C 084E/362 | E-0136/04 by Jillian Evans to the CommissionSubject: GM food and crop imports | 314 |
| 2004/C 084E/363 | E-0140/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Media access in the Azores and Madeira outlying regions | 315 |
| 2004/C 084E/364 | E-0141/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Child labour | 316 |
| 2004/C 084E/365 | E-0145/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: International Rice Year | 317 |
| 2004/C 084E/366 | P-0149/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Revenue from denationalisation used to cover current expenditure | 319 |
| 2004/C 084E/367 | E-0153/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Use of the term ‘Chechen network’ without any proven involvement of Chechens | 319 |
| 2004/C 084E/368 | E-0155/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Disadvantaging certain categories of passengers through further restrictions on the sale of rail tickets from the Netherlands to other European destinations | 320 |
| 2004/C 084E/369 | P-0156/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 321 |
| 2004/C 084E/370 | E-0161/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 322 |
| 2004/C 084E/371 | E-0162/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 322 |
| 2004/C 084E/372 | E-0163/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 322 |
| 2004/C 084E/373 | E-0164/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 323 |
| 2004/C 084E/374 | E-0165/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 323 |
| 2004/C 084E/375 | E-0166/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 323 |
| 2004/C 084E/376 | E-0167/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 324 |
| 2004/C 084E/377 | E-0168/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 324 |
| 2004/C 084E/378 | E-0169/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 324 |
| 2004/C 084E/379 | E-0170/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 325 |
| 2004/C 084E/380 | E-0171/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 325 |
| 2004/C 084E/381 | E-0172/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 325 |
| 2004/C 084E/382 | E-0173/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 325 |
| 2004/C 084E/383 | E-0174/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 326 |
| 2004/C 084E/384 | E-0175/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 326 |
| 2004/C 084E/385 | E-0176/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 326 |
| 2004/C 084E/386 | E-0177/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems | 326 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions P-0156/04, E-0161/04, E-0162/04, E-0163/04, E-0164/04, E-0165/04, E-0166/04, E-0167/04, E-0168/04, E-0169/04, E-0170/04, E-0171/04, E-0172/04, E-0173/04, E-0174/04, E-0175/04, E-0176/04 and E-0177/04 | 327 |
| 2004/C 084E/387 | E-0184/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Eircom telephone line rental charges in Ireland | 329 |
| 2004/C 084E/388 | E-0191/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Financial collapse of Parmalat: protecting savers and setting up a supervisory body | 330 |
| 2004/C 084E/389 | E-0201/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Linguistic discrimination in job descriptions | 332 |
| 2004/C 084E/390 | E-0210/04 by Markus Ferber to the CommissionSubject: Language discrimination in job advertisements | 332 |
| 2004/C 084E/391 | E-0236/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Job advertisements for ‘native speakers’ | 332 |
| 2004/C 084E/392 | E-0241/04 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Language discrimination - native speakers | 333 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0201/04, E-0210/04, E-0236/04 and E-0241/04 | 333 |
| 2004/C 084E/393 | E-0203/04 by Alexander de Roo and Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Spanish Fuel Quality Law - Royal Decree 1700/2003 | 334 |
| 2004/C 084E/394 | E-0211/04 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Allegations of manoeuvring to seize property owned by building cooperatives in Greece | 335 |
| 2004/C 084E/395 | E-0227/04 by Ewa Hedkvist Petersen to the CommissionSubject: Alcohol ignition interlock devices (‘alcolocks’) | 335 |
| 2004/C 084E/396 | E-0228/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Timely development and production of drugs to combat the merging of avian influenza virus H5N1 and influenza A occurring in humans | 336 |
| 2004/C 084E/397 | E-0235/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Violation of human rights of Cacarica communities in Colombia | 338 |
| 2004/C 084E/398 | E-0237/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Fees at the European Schools | 339 |
| 2004/C 084E/399 | E-0239/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of Christians and Buddhists in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic | 340 |
| 2004/C 084E/400 | E-0240/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Huge discount from banks to the ‘Democratici di Sinistra’ party in violation of the principle of free competition | 341 |
| 2004/C 084E/401 | E-0243/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Relocation and unemployment (Supplementary Answer) | 342 |
| 2004/C 084E/402 | E-0264/04 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Community funding for the Greek National Cadastre | 344 |
| 2004/C 084E/403 | E-0265/04 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Propagandist mileage from Community funding in the run-up to elections in Greece | 345 |
| 2004/C 084E/404 | E-0274/04 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Arsenic acid | 346 |
| 2004/C 084E/405 | E-0277/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: EU participation in a project to build a multi-purpose hall in Brussels | 348 |
| 2004/C 084E/406 | E-0279/04 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Embryo and stem-cell research | 349 |
| 2004/C 084E/407 | P-0280/04 by Rijk van Dam to the CommissionSubject: European Commission representation in Delhi | 350 |
| 2004/C 084E/408 | P-0282/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Identification of the outermost regions on official Community maps | 351 |
| 2004/C 084E/409 | P-0283/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Public procurement policy in timer | 352 |
| 2004/C 084E/410 | E-0285/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Landfill on Malta | 353 |
| 2004/C 084E/411 | E-0290/04 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: Scope of Directive 97/11/EC | 354 |
| 2004/C 084E/412 | E-0291/04 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Road accidents in European Union countries | 354 |
| 2004/C 084E/413 | P-0293/04 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Threat to the Güe springs from the construction of the Puente del Arco to El Condado section of the AS 17 highway (Asturias, Spain) | 355 |
| 2004/C 084E/414 | E-0298/04 by Bob van den Bos to the CommissionSubject: Relations between the EU and Libya and human rights in Libya | 356 |
| 2004/C 084E/415 | E-0307/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Genetically modified crops | 357 |
| 2004/C 084E/416 | E-0308/04 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: The French language at the Commission | 358 |
| 2004/C 084E/417 | E-0311/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Discontinuation of the activities of the rail freight company Ikea Rail within two years of its foundation and the status of the EU subsidy of EUR 500 000 awarded to this experiment | 359 |
| 2004/C 084E/418 | P-0324/04 by W.G. van Velzen to the CommissionSubject: New Belgian levy on Netherlands and German electricity distribution companies for use of the Belgian high-voltage grid when importing electricity from France | 360 |
| 2004/C 084E/419 | E-0325/04 by Willi Piecyk to the CommissionSubject: Transposition of Directive 2002/25/EC | 361 |
| 2004/C 084E/420 | E-0329/04 by Jillian Evans and Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Endometriosis | 362 |
| 2004/C 084E/421 | E-0332/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Mislabelling of arsenic acid as pentoxide by the Netherlands as a result of mistakes in ‘unambiguous’ new nomenclature for hazardous chemicals | 363 |
| 2004/C 084E/422 | P-0336/04 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Embryo research financed from the EU budget | 364 |
| 2004/C 084E/423 | P-0339/04 by Jean-Louis Bernié to the CommissionSubject: Wind turbines | 365 |
| 2004/C 084E/424 | E-0344/04 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: ‘Conseillers hors classe’ | 366 |
| 2004/C 084E/425 | E-0345/04 by Eluned Morgan to the CommissionSubject: Trans-European Transport Networks | 367 |
| 2004/C 084E/426 | E-0346/04 by Eluned Morgan to the CommissionSubject: Differential pricing | 368 |
| 2004/C 084E/427 | E-0349/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Serious irregularities involving the EU as regards the establishment of the private University of Formello (Rome) | 369 |
| 2004/C 084E/428 | E-0353/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Possibility of funding for a virtual health information project | 370 |
| 2004/C 084E/429 | E-0354/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Funding for the creation of a multi-purpose auditorium | 371 |
| 2004/C 084E/430 | E-0355/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Funding for young artists | 372 |
| 2004/C 084E/431 | E-0356/04 by Pasqualina Napoletano, Giorgio Ruffolo, Guido Sacconi and Walter Veltroni to the CommissionSubject: Crisis in the steel sector in Terni | 372 |
| 2004/C 084E/432 | E-0390/04 by Francesco Rutelli to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the electrical steel department of AST in Terni | 373 |
| 2004/C 084E/433 | E-0395/04 by Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Measures to prevent the closure of the steelworks in Terni | 373 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0356/04, E-0390/04 and E-0395/04 | 373 |
| 2004/C 084E/434 | P-0360/04 by Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Failure to include directory services among universal service obligations | 374 |
| 2004/C 084E/435 | E-0361/04 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Fluoridation of Irish drinking water | 375 |
| 2004/C 084E/436 | E-0363/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Complaint P2000/4974 | 376 |
| 2004/C 084E/437 | E-0364/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Packaging Waste Directive and Ireland | 377 |
| 2004/C 084E/438 | E-0365/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Separation of Accounts Directive | 377 |
| 2004/C 084E/439 | E-0367/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Animal experiments in Ireland | 378 |
| 2004/C 084E/440 | E-0368/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Irish Government charges and the Seveso II Directive | 379 |
| 2004/C 084E/441 | E-0369/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Public consultation during the preparation of emergency plans under the Seveso II Directive | 379 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0368/04 and E-0369/04 | 379 |
| 2004/C 084E/442 | E-0372/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Interrogation of the editor Alexander Podrabinek | 380 |
| 2004/C 084E/443 | P-0375/04 by Martin Kastler to the CommissionSubject: Measures to prevent the consumption of alcopops by young people | 381 |
| 2004/C 084E/444 | E-0379/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Dismissal of pregnant workers | 382 |
| 2004/C 084E/445 | E-0380/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Contract-holders at the Fire Service | 383 |
| 2004/C 084E/446 | P-0385/04 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Commercial activities of Ordnance Survey | 383 |
| 2004/C 084E/447 | P-0386/04 by Jean Saint-Josse to the CommissionSubject: Wind turbines | 385 |
| 2004/C 084E/448 | P-0387/04 by Yves Butel to the CommissionSubject: Wind turbines | 386 |
| 2004/C 084E/449 | E-0391/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Hair dye and cancer risks | 386 |
| 2004/C 084E/450 | P-0392/04 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: The EU’s continuing capacity to receive large quotas of immigrants from third-world countries | 388 |
| 2004/C 084E/451 | E-0405/04 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Outbreak of avian influenza | 389 |
| 2004/C 084E/452 | E-0415/04 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Review of decision on Norrmejerier | 390 |
| 2004/C 084E/453 | P-0417/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Sackings from the Finex Group factory (Supplementary Answer) | 390 |
| 2004/C 084E/454 | E-0421/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Lifting of the temporary restriction on the use of fishmeal in animal feed | 391 |
| 2004/C 084E/455 | E-0422/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: High-speed Lubian to Orense rail link giving central access to Galicia | 393 |
| 2004/C 084E/456 | E-0428/04 by Brian Simpson to the CommissionSubject: The future of publicly-owned regional airports in the light of the recent decision on Charleroi Airport, in Belgium, and Ryanair | 393 |
| 2004/C 084E/457 | E-0431/04 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: European Commission plan for a vertical-takeoff convertiplane | 394 |
| 2004/C 084E/458 | E-0432/04 by Helle Thorning-Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Passive smoking | 395 |
| 2004/C 084E/459 | P-0433/04 by Seán Ó Neachtain to the CommissionSubject: Status of Gaeilige for recruitment to the EU Institutions | 397 |
| 2004/C 084E/460 | E-0434/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: EURO 0 | 398 |
| 2004/C 084E/461 | E-0435/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: EURO 1 | 398 |
| 2004/C 084E/462 | E-0436/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: EURO 2 | 398 |
| 2004/C 084E/463 | E-0437/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: EURO 5 | 399 |
| 2004/C 084E/464 | E-0438/04 by Michl Ebnerto the CommissionSubject: EURO 6 | 399 |
| 2004/C 084E/465 | E-0439/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Nitrogen oxide emission limits | 400 |
| 2004/C 084E/466 | E-0440/04 by Michl Ebnerto the CommissionSubject: Particulate emission limits | 400 |
| 2004/C 084E/467 | E-0441/04 by Michl Ebnerto the CommissionSubject: Particulate filters | 400 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0434/04, E-0435/04, E-0436/04, E-0437/04, E-0438/04, E-0439/04, E-0440/04 and E-0441/04 | 401 |
| 2004/C 084E/468 | E-0453/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Exploitation of Portuguese workers in France | 402 |
| 2004/C 084E/469 | P-0455/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Illegal fishing - Azores and Madeira | 403 |
| 2004/C 084E/470 | E-0456/04 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Increase in consumer complaints in Greece | 404 |
| 2004/C 084E/471 | E-0458/04 by Brian Simpson and Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Avian flu and the ban on poultry from Thailand | 405 |
| 2004/C 084E/472 | E-0459/04 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: Closure of Thyssen Krupp plants in Terni | 406 |
| 2004/C 084E/473 | E-0460/04 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Belgium — European leader in the combating of salmonella enteritidis — pasteurisation of eggs | 407 |
| 2004/C 084E/474 | E-0464/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: ‘Brax’ - sackings and relocation | 408 |
| 2004/C 084E/475 | E-0467/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Mission expenses | 409 |
| 2004/C 084E/476 | E-0471/04 by Toine Manders to the CommissionSubject: Misuse of the model European disabled person’s parking card | 409 |
| 2004/C 084E/477 | E-0475/04 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Language discrimination in notices of vacancy | 410 |
| 2004/C 084E/478 | E-0538/04 by Kathalijne Buitenweg to the CommissionSubject: Language discrimination in notices of vacancy — ‘English mother tongue’ or ‘native speaker’ | 411 |
| 2004/C 084E/479 | E-0710/04 by Concepció Ferrer to the CommissionSubject: EU notices of vacancy for English mother-tongue candidates | 411 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0475/04, E-0538/04 and E-0710/04 | 412 |
| 2004/C 084E/480 | P-0476/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission cars | 412 |
| 2004/C 084E/481 | E-0478/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission Cars | 412 |
| 2004/C 084E/482 | E-0480/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission open competitions | 413 |
| 2004/C 084E/483 | P-0490/04 by Harlem Désir to the CommissionSubject: Imprisonment of the Pakistani journalist Khawar Mehdi Rizvi who was arrested in Karachi on 14 December 2003 together with the French journalists Marc Epstein and Jean-Paul Guilloteau who wrote for ‘L’Express’ magazine | 414 |
| 2004/C 084E/484 | P-0494/04 by Carlos Carnero González to the CommissionSubject: Exemption from the environmental impact assessment by the Government of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Spain, for work on the M30 motorway | 415 |
| 2004/C 084E/485 | E-0496/04 by María Sornosa Martínez and María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Research into Spanish Labour Ministry bursaries | 416 |
| 2004/C 084E/486 | E-0497/04 by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against minors with regard to access to sporting federations in Spain | 416 |
| 2004/C 084E/487 | E-0503/04 by Jorge Hernández Mollar to the CommissionSubject: National obstacles to the application of Directive 98/5/EC | 417 |
| 2004/C 084E/488 | E-0504/04 by Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Incineration of meat-and-bone meal | 418 |
| 2004/C 084E/489 | E-0505/04 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Use of meat-and-bone meal in animal feed | 419 |
| 2004/C 084E/490 | E-0507/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Outermost regions | 420 |
| 2004/C 084E/491 | P-0515/04 by Luís Queiró to the CommissionSubject: Scientific and technical opinions for management of Community fisheries | 421 |
| 2004/C 084E/492 | P-0524/04 by Eluned Morgan to the CommissionSubject: The Constitution | 421 |
| 2004/C 084E/493 | E-0530/04 by Bernd Lange, Karin Scheele and Johannes Swoboda to the CommissionSubject: Euronorm standards and particulates emitted from diesel vehicles | 422 |
| 2004/C 084E/494 | P-0531/04 by Elisabeth Schroedter to the CommissionSubject: Construction of a salt-water spa and discharge of thermal salt water from the spa into the River Spree without an environmental impact assessment | 424 |
| 2004/C 084E/495 | P-0532/04 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Nuclear submarines docked at Santo Stefano Island, Sardinia | 425 |
| 2004/C 084E/496 | E-0535/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of disability status across the European Union | 426 |
| 2004/C 084E/497 | E-0537/04 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: The role of Esperanto in maintaining language equality efficiently | 427 |
| 2004/C 084E/498 | E-0561/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Ireland and Nitrates Directive | 428 |
| 2004/C 084E/499 | E-0563/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the Nitrates Directive in Ireland | 428 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0561/04 and E-0563/04 | 428 |
| 2004/C 084E/500 | E-0565/04 by Martin Callanan to the CommissionSubject: Clarification on the scope of the Recreational Craft Directive | 429 |
| 2004/C 084E/501 | P-0567/04 by Marie-Arlette Carlotti to the CommissionSubject: Limitation of public exposure to electromagnetic fields | 430 |
| 2004/C 084E/502 | E-0569/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Leonardo da Vinci programme | 431 |
| 2004/C 084E/503 | E-0586/04 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Horse passports | 432 |
| 2004/C 084E/504 | E-0597/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Freedom of movement | 433 |
| 2004/C 084E/505 | E-0601/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Firearms licensing | 434 |
| 2004/C 084E/506 | E-0603/04 by Saïd El Khadraoui to the CommissionSubject: Marking down foodstuffs for quick sale | 435 |
| 2004/C 084E/507 | E-0604/04 by Saïd El Khadraoui to the CommissionSubject: Sale of foodstuffs that are past their sell-by dates | 435 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0603/04 and E-0604/04 | 435 |
| 2004/C 084E/508 | E-0605/04 by Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up to question E-3005/02 on the European shipbuilding sector | 436 |
| 2004/C 084E/509 | E-0625/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: If the French State prevents Jean-Marie Le Pen from standing in the regional elections it would represent a serious breach of Article 6 of the EU Treaty | 437 |
| 2004/C 084E/510 | P-0633/04 by Saïd El Khadraoui to the CommissionSubject: Integration of the Commission in Brussels | 438 |
| 2004/C 084E/511 | P-0635/04 by W.G. van Velzen to the CommissionSubject: Creation of a European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) | 439 |
| 2004/C 084E/512 | P-0641/04 by Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf to the CommissionSubject: Results of testing for the presence of GMOs in seeds since 2000 | 440 |
| 2004/C 084E/513 | P-0644/04 by Harald Ettl to the CommissionSubject: Further information on question concerning portability of supplementary pension rights | 441 |
| 2004/C 084E/514 | P-0645/04 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Expert advice in the JHA sector | 441 |
| 2004/C 084E/515 | P-0653/04 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: Question E-0760/03 — Operating conditions for incineration plants under Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 | 442 |
| 2004/C 084E/516 | E-0656/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Mobile neutering units | 443 |
| 2004/C 084E/517 | P-0704/04 by Guido Sacconi to the CommissionSubject: Transport of poultry | 443 |
| 2004/C 084E/518 | P-0709/04 by Pasqualina Napoletano to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel crisis (Rieti) | 444 |
| 2004/C 084E/519 | E-0717/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Johne’s disease | 445 |
| 2004/C 084E/520 | E-0728/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Ansaldo-Breda: possible monitoring of EU funding | 446 |
| 2004/C 084E/521 | P-0734/04 by Philip Bushill-Matthews to the CommissionSubject: Skiing safety and standardisation | 446 |
| 2004/C 084E/522 | P-0769/04 by Giovanni Pittella to the CommissionSubject: Safety of public buildings in areas of high seismic risk | 447 |
| 2004/C 084E/523 | E-0787/04 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Problems relating to the transposition into national law of Directive 2002/2/EC on the circulation of compound feedingstuffs | 448 |
| 2004/C 084E/524 | P-0799/04 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: UK implementation of Directive 2000/78/EC | 449 |
| 2004/C 084E/525 | P-0823/04 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of degrees and denial of employment | 450 |
| 2004/C 084E/526 | P-0824/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Vaccination of pet farm animals | 451 |
| 2004/C 084E/527 | P-0849/04 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Late payment in commercial operations | 452 |
| 2004/C 084E/528 | E-0865/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: European subsidies paid to the Flemish community | 453 |
| 2004/C 084E/529 | E-1064/04 by André Brie to the CommissionSubject: Inconsistencies relating to the reconstruction of the road S 282 A in the Free State of Saxony | 454 |
| | WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 3) |
| 2004/C 084E/530 | E-3897/02 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: The costs of enlargement and the national contributions of the existing Member States | 455 |
| 2004/C 084E/531 | E-0160/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Delayed recognition of diplomas owing to technicalities | 456 |
| 2004/C 084E/532 | E-0162/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Duties on canned Asiatic tuna | 457 |
| 2004/C 084E/533 | E-0496/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Palestine: hatred spreads to football | 458 |
| 2004/C 084E/534 | E-0501/03 by Evelyne Gebhardt to the CommissionSubject: European Parliament resolution on the memorandum presented by the Commission to the Council on income taxation and equal treatment for men and women (A2-0055/85) | 459 |
| 2004/C 084E/535 | P-0661/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Tariffs on imports of tinned tuna from Thailand and the Philippines | 460 |
| 2004/C 084E/536 | E-0806/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Violations of Community law in EU Member States | 461 |
| 2004/C 084E/537 | E-0857/03 by David Bowe to the CommissionSubject: Purchase of Corus by Outokumpu | 462 |
| 2004/C 084E/538 | E-0907/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Azerbaijan | 462 |
| 2004/C 084E/539 | E-0911/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Delayed recognition of diplomas owing to technicalities | 464 |
| 2004/C 084E/540 | E-0947/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Provisions enacted by the Italian Government with regard to electromagnetic pollution | 465 |
| 2004/C 084E/541 | E-1271/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Detention of Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva in Cuba | 467 |
| 2004/C 084E/542 | E-1306/03 by Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Further development of European legislation on car emissions | 467 |
| 2004/C 084E/543 | E-1367/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: EU agriculture subsidies and elimination of local producers | 468 |
| 2004/C 084E/544 | P-1511/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Financial corrections | 470 |
| 2004/C 084E/545 | E-1570/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Criticism of the active involvement of the Flemish government in environmental rehabilitation, allegedly in breach of the promotion of free competition | 471 |
| 2004/C 084E/546 | E-1571/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Solutions for environmental problems in Flanders without increasing dependence on private firms | 472 |
| 2004/C 084E/547 | E-1671/03 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up question to question E-3529/02 on statutory regulation of holiday pay | 473 |
| 2004/C 084E/548 | P-1696/03 by Danielle Darras to the CommissionSubject: European funds and subcontracting | 474 |
| 2004/C 084E/549 | E-1697/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Consumer fraud involving cat and dog skins | 475 |
| 2004/C 084E/550 | E-1700/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Financial corrections | 475 |
| 2004/C 084E/551 | E-1731/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Infringement by Denmark of Articles 82 and 86 of the Treaty | 476 |
| 2004/C 084E/552 | E-1736/03 by Jorge Hernández Mollar to the CommissionSubject: Commission presence at the Fifth World Avocado Congress | 477 |
| 2004/C 084E/553 | E-1830/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Letters to the Greek authorities regarding the proper use of Community funds and compliance with Community (regional policy) legislation | 478 |
| 2004/C 084E/554 | E-1857/03 by Brian Simpson to the CommissionSubject: Protecting slots for regional air routes | 478 |
| 2004/C 084E/555 | P-1886/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Iraqi cultural heritage | 479 |
| 2004/C 084E/556 | E-1936/03 by Anne Jensen to the CommissionSubject: Port safety | 479 |
| 2004/C 084E/557 | P-2007/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Vietnam: continuing imprisonment of the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do | 480 |
| 2004/C 084E/558 | P-2154/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Delays in the disbursement of funding for SMU projects (Supplementary Answer) | 481 |
| 2004/C 084E/559 | P-2158/03 by Danielle Darras to the CommissionSubject: Sub-contracting, EU funding and Isbergue | 482 |
| 2004/C 084E/560 | E-2257/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violations of religious freedom with regard to Pentecostal Church evangelists in Georgia | 483 |
| 2004/C 084E/561 | E-2280/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Train warning signals | 484 |
| 2004/C 084E/562 | E-2297/03 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Legal basis of the nuclear safety directive | 485 |
| 2004/C 084E/563 | E-2332/03 by Franz Turchi to the CommissionSubject: Non-compliance by Italy with Article 43 TEC | 486 |
| 2004/C 084E/564 | P-2341/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Letters to the Greek authorities on the proper use of Community Regional Policy funds | 487 |
| 2004/C 084E/565 | P-2350/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Protection of the Darwin Mounds | 487 |
| 2004/C 084E/566 | E-2413/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Funding for children’s choral exchanges | 488 |
| 2004/C 084E/567 | E-2421/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Bullfrogs | 489 |
| 2004/C 084E/568 | E-2431/03 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: HIV/AIDS situation in Central Asian countries | 489 |
| 2004/C 084E/569 | E-2445/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Illegal importations of bushmeat | 492 |
| 2004/C 084E/570 | E-2496/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: World current account discrepancy | 493 |
| 2004/C 084E/571 | E-2503/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Car hire companies | 493 |
| 2004/C 084E/572 | E-2526/03 by Nicholas Clegg to the CommissionSubject: EU egg producers | 494 |
| 2004/C 084E/573 | E-2572/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Attacks on freedom of religion in Georgia affecting members of Pentecostal, Baptist, Catholic and Orthodox confessions and Jehovah’s Witnesses | 495 |
| 2004/C 084E/574 | E-2681/03 by Robert Goebbels to the CommissionSubject: Approval of Luxembourg secondary school leaving certificates in Belgium | 496 |
| 2004/C 084E/575 | P-2817/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Revamped Olympic Airlines | 497 |
| 2004/C 084E/576 | E-2861/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: GM crops | 498 |
| 2004/C 084E/577 | E-3042/03 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Installation of telecommunications masts | 499 |
| 2004/C 084E/578 | P-3109/03 by Phillip Whitehead to the CommissionSubject: Hydrogenated fats | 501 |
| 2004/C 084E/579 | E-3170/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Problems regarding the Attica suburban railway project | 501 |
| 2004/C 084E/580 | E-3171/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Progress towards completion of the Athens tramway | 502 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3170/03 and E-3171/03 | 502 |
| 2004/C 084E/581 | E-3297/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Angola - food contingency plan | 503 |
| 2004/C 084E/582 | E-3330/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Import of packaged foodstuffs contaminated with toxins, and use of surreptitious routes to bring them into Member States with the strictest controls | 504 |
| 2004/C 084E/583 | E-3363/03 by Samuli Pohjamo to the CommissionSubject: Socio-economic impact of extractive industry in northern Europe | 506 |
| 2004/C 084E/584 | E-3409/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Appointment of privatisation advisers for the Post Office Savings Bank | 507 |
| 2004/C 084E/585 | E-3512/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Probable impact of the strike of employees at the National Statistical Service of Greece on the publication of European indicators | 508 |
| 2004/C 084E/586 | E-3586/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: EU funding for an Italian company linked to Romano Prodi | 508 |
| 2004/C 084E/587 | E-3852/03 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Appointments and transparency in the Commission | 509 |
| 2004/C 084E/588 | E-3884/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel Italia: suspected infringement of rules on funding granted by the EU (Supplementary Answer) | 510 |
| 2004/C 084E/589 | P-3930/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Retention of privileges by the Agricultural Bank of Greece (Supplementary Answer) | 511 |
| 2004/C 084E/590 | E-3955/03 by Heide Rühle to the CommissionSubject: Interpretation of environmental information directives | 512 |
| 2004/C 084E/591 | E-3964/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Endocrine disruptors in drinking water — reaction to the Commission’s answer to Written Question E-2565/03 | 513 |
| 2004/C 084E/592 | E-3976/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Complexity of simplifying the Community acquis | 515 |
| 2004/C 084E/593 | P-3999/03 by Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca to the CommissionSubject: Internal control standard 5 — ‘Sensitive functions’: Modalities relating to the implementation of compulsory mobility | 516 |
| 2004/C 084E/594 | E-4043/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Total allowable catch (TAC) and quotas for 2004 | 517 |
| 2004/C 084E/595 | E-4069/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: European Maritime Safety Agency | 519 |
| 2004/C 084E/596 | E-4071/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: The Growth and Stability Pact again | 520 |
| 2004/C 084E/597 | E-4076/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Widespread desiccation of pine trees in Greece | 521 |
| 2004/C 084E/598 | E-4079/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Bird trapping on Cyprus | 522 |
| 2004/C 084E/599 | P-0001/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds for exports to the Vatican City State (Supplementary Answer) | 522 |
| 2004/C 084E/600 | E-0011/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Tunis summit and immigration policy | 525 |
| 2004/C 084E/601 | E-0015/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Apple orchards | 526 |
| 2004/C 084E/602 | E-0022/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Support for the Po Valley dairy farmers’ campaign | 527 |
| 2004/C 084E/603 | E-0033/04 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition by the introduction of regional premiums | 527 |
| 2004/C 084E/604 | E-0048/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Location of the European fisheries monitoring agency in Galicia | 529 |
| 2004/C 084E/605 | E-0056/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Mr Prodi’s statement on the need for each Member State or group of Member States to take the initiative and move forward on the basis of reinforced cooperation if the draft constitution is not adopted in the near future | 529 |
| 2004/C 084E/606 | E-0059/04 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Animal welfare and subsidies following the reform of the CAP | 530 |
| 2004/C 084E/607 | E-0079/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Flight Times and Duty Limitations Proposal — COM(2002)0030 | 531 |
| 2004/C 084E/608 | P-0094/04 byAdriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the COM in tobacco | 531 |
| 2004/C 084E/609 | E-0099/04 by Pietro-Paolo Mennea, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Lucio Manisco, Mario Borghezio, Roberto Bigliardo, Luisa Morgantini, Carlo Fatuzzo, Giovanni Fava, Marco Pannella, Generoso Andria, Vitaliano Gemelli, Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Sebastiano Musumeci, Pasqualina Napoletano, Amalia Sartori, Giovanni Pittella, Mariotto Segni, Luigi Cocilovo, Walter Veltroni, Giorgio Ruffolo, Raffaele Costa, Luigi Cesaro, Paolo Pastorelli, Adriana Poli Bortone, Fiorella Ghilardotti, Giovanni Procacci, Claudio Martelli, Mauro Nobilia, Antonio Mussa, Renato Brunetta and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Burma | 532 |
| 2004/C 084E/610 | E-0102/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Paying for water | 533 |
| 2004/C 084E/611 | E-0103/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Water for human consumption | 534 |
| 2004/C 084E/612 | E-0105/04 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Curious approach adopted by the Greek government to the stock exchange | 535 |
| 2004/C 084E/613 | P-0111/04 by Minerva Malliori to the CommissionSubject: Dioxins in farm-raised salmon | 536 |
| 2004/C 084E/614 | E-0119/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Repression of Lao-Hmong communities in the Saysomboune region (Laos) | 537 |
| 2004/C 084E/615 | P-0127/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Community budget and the financial perspective | 538 |
| 2004/C 084E/616 | E-0129/04 by Lord Inglewood to the CommissionSubject: Invasive alien species | 539 |
| 2004/C 084E/617 | E-0130/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Fluoridation of drinking water | 540 |
| 2004/C 084E/618 | E-0152/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Collection of biometric data at ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’ airport, their processing by an external partner and the decision of the Greek Authority for the Protection of Personal Data | 541 |
| 2004/C 084E/619 | E-0186/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Infringement of religious freedom in Italy, Spain and Portugal | 542 |
| 2004/C 084E/620 | E-0189/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Tunisian regime’s repressive measures targeting human rights activists | 543 |
| 2004/C 084E/621 | E-0190/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Creating transparency regarding ownership of the company Italtrend (RE), beneficiary of consulting contracts from the European Commission worth millions of euro | 544 |
| 2004/C 084E/622 | E-0194/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Flight and duty time limitations for airline pilots | 546 |
| 2004/C 084E/623 | P-0198/04 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Creation of a Community body for the study of unexplained atmospheric phenomena | 546 |
| 2004/C 084E/624 | P-0199/04 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Ethnic census | 547 |
| 2004/C 084E/625 | E-0204/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Financial reporting | 548 |
| 2004/C 084E/626 | E-0205/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Protecting SMEs against multinationals: the case of Ford dealers in Italy | 549 |
| 2004/C 084E/627 | E-0209/04 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Selection procedures of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work | 550 |
| 2004/C 084E/628 | E-0212/04 by Simon Murphy to the CommissionSubject: Driftnets | 550 |
| 2004/C 084E/629 | E-0220/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Threats to Po Valley producers as a result of the euro’s excessive rise against the dollar | 552 |
| 2004/C 084E/630 | P-0222/04 by María Ayuso González to the CommissionSubject: Cotton | 552 |
| 2004/C 084E/631 | P-0230/04 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Utilisation of Community appropriations in the Member States at the close of 2003 (Supplementary Answer) | 553 |
| 2004/C 084E/632 | E-0232/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Euro | 554 |
| 2004/C 084E/633 | E-0246/04 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Start of work on the Ebro Transfer | 555 |
| 2004/C 084E/634 | E-0247/04 by Elisabeth Jeggle and Peter Liese to the CommissionSubject: Revision of Regulation (EC) No 2571/97 on the sale of butter at reduced prices and the granting of aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for use in the manufacture of pastry products, ice-cream and other foodstuffs | 556 |
| 2004/C 084E/635 | E-0252/04 by Raquel Cardoso to the CommissionSubject: Financing of the Natura 2000 network | 557 |
| 2004/C 084E/636 | E-0255/04 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Highways plan for Majorca | 557 |
| 2004/C 084E/637 | E-0259/04 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Introduction of tolls on state highway 47, Valsugana | 559 |
| 2004/C 084E/638 | E-0271/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Counterfeit euro coins and banknotes | 560 |
| 2004/C 084E/639 | E-0273/04 by Stefano Zappalà to the CommissionSubject: Automar srl — concessionaire for Mercedes Benz motor vehicles | 561 |
| 2004/C 084E/640 | E-0275/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: EU Charter of Fundamental Rights | 563 |
| 2004/C 084E/641 | E-0276/04 by Eluned Morgan to the CommissionSubject: Air pollution | 564 |
| 2004/C 084E/642 | E-0286/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: EU monkey experiments | 565 |
| 2004/C 084E/643 | E-0289/04 by Marco Cappato, Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Emma Bonino, Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Cultural genocide in China | 565 |
| 2004/C 084E/644 | E-0292/04 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Ship-building in Italy | 567 |
| 2004/C 084E/645 | E-0296/04 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Interim procedure on state aids paid in accession countries | 567 |
| 2004/C 084E/646 | E-0297/04 by Theodorus Bouwman to the CommissionSubject: Compliance with EU law of Spanish mining company Uminsa and possible frauds | 569 |
| 2004/C 084E/647 | E-0301/04 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Swedish nuclear power and the internal market | 570 |
| 2004/C 084E/648 | P-0305/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Request for PDO for ‘Sant Andrea Piemonte rice’ | 571 |
| 2004/C 084E/649 | P-0323/04 by Werner Langen to the CommissionSubject: Stage reached in examining the territorial monopoly of German chimney-sweeps | 572 |
| 2004/C 084E/650 | E-0327/04 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: County Clare and Objective I of the Structural Fund | 573 |
| 2004/C 084E/651 | E-0348/04 by Robert Sturdy to the CommissionSubject: Offensive material on websites in Member States | 574 |
| 2004/C 084E/652 | E-0357/04 by Ewa Hedkvist Petersen to the CommissionSubject: Sparsely populated areas in future regional policy | 575 |
| 2004/C 084E/653 | E-0371/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Ireland’s failure to fix penalties for ozone-depleting substances | 576 |
| 2004/C 084E/654 | E-0373/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Ansaldo-Breda: infringement of environmental protection legislation | 577 |
| 2004/C 084E/655 | E-0389/04 by Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Olivier Dupuis, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco and Emma Bonino to the CommissionSubject: African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights | 579 |
| 2004/C 084E/656 | E-0394/04 by Francesco Fiori, Giorgio Lisi and Georges Garot to the CommissionSubject: Measures against hunger in the EU | 580 |
| 2004/C 084E/657 | E-0398/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Child slavery networks | 581 |
| 2004/C 084E/658 | E-0399/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Secret detention in the USA of foreigners suspected of terrorist activities because their visa is not in order | 582 |
| 2004/C 084E/659 | E-0402/04 by Concepció Ferrer to the CommissionSubject: Crossborder hospital in La Cerdanya | 582 |
| 2004/C 084E/660 | P-0416/04 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Goose hunting in Zeeland | 583 |
| 2004/C 084E/661 | E-0420/04 by Brian Simpson to the CommissionSubject: Fluoridation of drinking water | 584 |
| 2004/C 084E/662 | E-0423/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the Brax factory in Portugal | 585 |
| 2004/C 084E/663 | E-0424/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Protecting wickerwork craftsmen in the Madeira Autonomous Region | 587 |
| 2004/C 084E/664 | E-0426/04 by Samuli Pohjamo and Mikko Pesälä to the CommissionSubject: Timetable for processing rural development projects | 588 |
| 2004/C 084E/665 | E-0444/04 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Compliance with legislation on health and safety at work | 590 |
| 2004/C 084E/666 | E-0451/04 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Food aid and food security programme | 591 |
| 2004/C 084E/667 | E-0457/04 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Strain on main roads | 591 |
| 2004/C 084E/668 | E-0469/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Aviation health warnings | 592 |
| 2004/C 084E/669 | E-0470/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: State aid to the Rome milk plant | 592 |
| 2004/C 084E/670 | P-0472/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Common External Tariffs | 594 |
| 2004/C 084E/671 | E-0473/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Pension adjustment | 596 |
| 2004/C 084E/672 | E-0474/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Closure of certain language sections of the European Schools | 597 |
| 2004/C 084E/673 | E-0477/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Banana trade | 599 |
| 2004/C 084E/674 | E-0482/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat | 599 |
| 2004/C 084E/675 | E-0483/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Rural development: young farmers | 600 |
| 2004/C 084E/676 | E-0484/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Rural development: less-favoured areas | 601 |
| 2004/C 084E/677 | E-0485/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: EU forest strategy: ‘Forest Focus’ | 602 |
| 2004/C 084E/678 | E-0486/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: The new CAP and direct aid to the enlargement countries | 603 |
| 2004/C 084E/679 | E-0488/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: EU dairy sector: milk quotas and enlargement | 604 |
| 2004/C 084E/680 | E-0489/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Gender violence in the EU: need for European legislation | 605 |
| 2004/C 084E/681 | E-0491/04 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Land Use Plans Implementation Law in Valencia - LRAU | 606 |
| 2004/C 084E/682 | E-0499/04 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Reclaiming subsidies granted for setting up industrial activity | 607 |
| 2004/C 084E/683 | E-0509/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Venezuela - hunger and the Portuguese community | 608 |
| 2004/C 084E/684 | E-0512/04 by Sérgio Marques to the CommissionSubject: Daphne programme | 609 |
| 2004/C 084E/685 | E-0519/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Agreement between the EC and the Swiss Confederation on the free movement of persons | 610 |
| 2004/C 084E/686 | P-0520/04 by Giovanni Fava to the CommissionSubject: Proposal for a regulation on technical measures regarding fisheries in the Mediterranean | 611 |
| 2004/C 084E/687 | E-0522/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Prize draw mailing scams | 612 |
| 2004/C 084E/688 | P-0523/04 by Emmanouil Mastorakis to the CommissionSubject: Second and Third Community Support Frameworks (Supplementary Answer) | 613 |
| 2004/C 084E/689 | E-0528/04 by Guido Sacconi, Vincenzo Lavarra and Pasqualina Napoletano to the CommissionSubject: Amendment of Regulation 753/2002 on the description, designation, presentation and protection of certain wine sector products | 614 |
| 2004/C 084E/690 | E-0529/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Access to the waters of the Azores autonomous region | 616 |
| 2004/C 084E/691 | E-0533/04 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Horse passport | 617 |
| 2004/C 084E/692 | E-0540/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Post 2006 financial perspectives | 617 |
| 2004/C 084E/693 | E-0543/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: CAP: the declining contribution of EU funds to the survival of small farmers in a context of low consumer prices and low world market prices (Supplementary Answer) | 618 |
| 2004/C 084E/694 | E-0544/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: CAP: intended change in the ratio between payments to large and small farms, a ceiling for aid per farm and limiting the damage caused to third countries (Supplementary Answer) | 620 |
| 2004/C 084E/695 | E-0546/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Involvement of the EU in a development project in the Mexican federal state of Chiapas which is causing the resumption of an armed conflict | 621 |
| 2004/C 084E/696 | E-0547/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Continued levying of a tax in Germany which, pursuant to an EU directive, ought no longer to exist in 2004, and use of the revenue from it | 623 |
| 2004/C 084E/697 | P-0549/04 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Equal treatment in employment and occupation | 624 |
| 2004/C 084E/698 | P-0550/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Employment by the European Commission of the radical Islamic thinker Tariq Ramadan in the capacity of a ‘consultant’ | 625 |
| 2004/C 084E/699 | E-0551/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive in Ireland | 626 |
| 2004/C 084E/700 | E-0552/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Right to collective action | 626 |
| 2004/C 084E/701 | E-0553/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Revision of pregnant workers directive | 627 |
| 2004/C 084E/702 | E-0554/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Paid paternity leave | 627 |
| 2004/C 084E/703 | E-0555/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Illiteracy and social exclusion | 627 |
| 2004/C 084E/704 | E-0556/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Definition of criteria for the recognition of disabilities | 627 |
| 2004/C 084E/705 | E-0557/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Directive on social protection on new forms of employment | 628 |
| 2004/C 084E/706 | E-0558/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Directive on individual dismissals | 628 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0552/04, E-0553/04, E-0554/04, E-0555/04, E-0556/04, E-0557/04 and E-0558/04 | 628 |
| 2004/C 084E/707 | E-0566/04 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Music censorship in China | 629 |
| 2004/C 084E/708 | E-0570/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Commission officials on leave | 630 |
| 2004/C 084E/709 | E-0576/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Electioneering activities of Romano Prodi | 631 |
| 2004/C 084E/710 | E-0581/04 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Relationships between the media and recording companies | 632 |
| 2004/C 084E/711 | E-0588/04 by Antonio Tajani, Giuseppe Gargani and Stefano Zappalà to the CommissionSubject: Appointment and promotion of senior Commission officials | 633 |
| 2004/C 084E/712 | E-0589/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement of an airport in the administrative and political capital of Spain: use of Cohesion Fund monies granted to Spain for extending infrastructure in Madrid | 634 |
| 2004/C 084E/713 | E-0592/04 by Helle Thorning-Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Aid to stud farms | 635 |
| 2004/C 084E/714 | E-0610/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Irish stud farms | 635 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0592/04 and E-0610/04 | 635 |
| 2004/C 084E/715 | E-0607/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Seasonal work | 636 |
| 2004/C 084E/716 | E-0612/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Support for Portuguese students studying for a master’s degree | 636 |
| 2004/C 084E/717 | E-0613/04 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Burma | 637 |
| 2004/C 084E/718 | E-0614/04 by Harlem Désir to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the 280-employee DHL site at Blanc Mesnil (France) | 637 |
| 2004/C 084E/719 | E-0619/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Damage caused by extreme weather conditions in Greece | 639 |
| 2004/C 084E/720 | E-0622/04 by Karin Riis-Jørgensen to the CommissionSubject: Ban on entering Russia for Danish journalist | 640 |
| 2004/C 084E/721 | E-0627/04 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Failure to comply with Community legislation during border veterinary checks in Spain | 640 |
| 2004/C 084E/722 | E-0628/04 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Documentary irregularities when authorising third-country products during Spanish border checks | 641 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0627/04 and E-0628/04 | 642 |
| 2004/C 084E/723 | E-0632/04 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Hunger strike by Tunisian journalist Abdallah Zouari | 642 |
| 2004/C 084E/724 | P-0634/04 by Giovanni Procacci to the CommissionSubject: Possible infringement by Italy | 643 |
| 2004/C 084E/725 | E-0636/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Europe and the future of young people | 644 |
| 2004/C 084E/726 | E-0642/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Threat to survival of Italian small communes | 645 |
| 2004/C 084E/727 | E-0643/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on suspected infringement of the rules on public contracts by ATAC in Rome | 646 |
| 2004/C 084E/728 | P-0646/04 by Mario Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Massacre in Lira (northern Uganda) | 646 |
| 2004/C 084E/729 | E-0650/04 by Mauro Nobilia to the CommissionSubject: Eliminating the distinction between ‘packaging/packaging waste’ and ‘goods/goods waste’ | 648 |
| 2004/C 084E/730 | E-0651/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Position of the French language in the European institutions | 649 |
| 2004/C 084E/731 | E-0652/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Commission against elementary rules of safety at sea | 649 |
| 2004/C 084E/732 | E-0659/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: NGO and civil society funding - European Convention | 650 |
| 2004/C 084E/733 | E-0671/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Ireland’s failure to report on CO2 emissions from new passenger cars | 651 |
| 2004/C 084E/734 | E-0672/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of pharmacists’ professional qualifications | 651 |
| 2004/C 084E/735 | E-0673/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Third level education charges for EU citizens | 652 |
| 2004/C 084E/736 | E-0679/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat - border controls | 653 |
| 2004/C 084E/737 | E-0680/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat - disease transmission | 653 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0679/04 and E-0680/04 | 654 |
| 2004/C 084E/738 | P-0688/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Application of Regulation No 1788/2003 Article 10(3) | 654 |
| 2004/C 084E/739 | E-0691/04 by Dominique Souchet to the CommissionSubject: Systemic insecticides | 655 |
| 2004/C 084E/740 | E-0696/04 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Funding by the ‘Culture 2000’ programme of books or translations of books which extol nationalistic policies and their despotic practices | 656 |
| 2004/C 084E/741 | E-0700/04 by Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Use of European Social Fund resources in connection with the Edunet project | 657 |
| 2004/C 084E/742 | P-0702/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Greenland halibut recovery: extraordinary measures to be adopted by the Commission | 658 |
| 2004/C 084E/743 | P-0703/04 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: Member State contributions to the Community Budget | 659 |
| 2004/C 084E/744 | E-0707/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Creation of a waste disposal site in the Monte Catillo nature reserve at Tivoli | 660 |
| 2004/C 084E/745 | E-0711/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Specific characteristics of mountain regions and Community policy | 661 |
| 2004/C 084E/746 | E-0716/04 by Luis Berenguer Fuster and Anna Terrón i Cusí to the CommissionSubject: Radio alarms | 662 |
| 2004/C 084E/747 | E-0720/04 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Export subsidies for oats | 663 |
| 2004/C 084E/748 | P-0722/04 by María Herranz García to the CommissionSubject: COM in olive oil | 664 |
| 2004/C 084E/749 | E-0726/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Aid for producer organisations in the fisheries sector | 665 |
| 2004/C 084E/750 | E-0727/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Information on the performance reserve for the Lazio Region | 665 |
| 2004/C 084E/751 | E-0735/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Funding of projects designed to transfer water from the Ebro river basin to southern and eastern parts of Spain | 666 |
| 2004/C 084E/752 | E-0736/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Support for regions which will not be included in Structural Fund Objective 1 on account of the so-called ‘statistical effect’ | 667 |
| 2004/C 084E/753 | E-0737/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Student participation in the Erasmus programme | 667 |
| 2004/C 084E/754 | E-0739/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: The EU’s future regional policy for the outermost Mediterranean regions | 668 |
| 2004/C 084E/755 | P-0766/04 by Giorgio Celli to the CommissionSubject: Financing of the Llubí-Crestaxt-Pollença watercourse (Balearic Islands) | 669 |
| 2004/C 084E/756 | P-0768/04 by Ole Sørensen to the CommissionSubject: Extradition of war criminals to Denmark | 670 |
| 2004/C 084E/757 | P-0770/04 by Seán Ó Neachtain to the CommissionSubject: EU citizenship | 671 |
| 2004/C 084E/758 | E-0792/04 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Return of property by Turkey | 672 |
| 2004/C 084E/759 | E-0796/04 by Michel Hansenne to the CommissionSubject: Lift safety | 673 |
| 2004/C 084E/760 | E-0802/04 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Unfair competition as a result of major differences in charges made for rendering | 673 |
| 2004/C 084E/761 | E-0803/04 by Markus Ferber to the CommissionSubject: Application for a grant by Mr Doriano Cataffo | 674 |
| 2004/C 084E/762 | P-0809/04 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Terrestrial trunked radio masts | 675 |
| 2004/C 084E/763 | E-0812/04 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Infringement of European legislation on phytosanitary products in the ‘Abac’ case (Valencia) | 676 |
| 2004/C 084E/764 | E-0827/04 by María Sornosa Martínez and Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop to the CommissionSubject: Extension of San Sebastián airport | 678 |
| 2004/C 084E/765 | P-0836/04 by Regina Bastos to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector | 679 |
| 2004/C 084E/766 | P-0837/04 by Joaquim Piscarreta to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector | 680 |
| 2004/C 084E/767 | P-0838/04 by Raquel Cardoso to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector | 680 |
| 2004/C 084E/768 | P-0839/04 by João Gouveia to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector | 681 |
| 2004/C 084E/769 | P-0840/04 by Sérgio Marques to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector | 682 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions P-0836/04, P-0837/04, P-0838/04, P-0839/04 and P-0840/04 | 683 |
| 2004/C 084E/770 | E-0846/04 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Communitarisation of Article 2 of the Schengen Convention | 684 |
| 2004/C 084E/771 | P-0857/04 by Vasco Graça Moura to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector | 685 |
| 2004/C 084E/772 | P-0858/04 by Teresa Almeida Garrett to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector | 685 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions P-0857/04 and P-0858/04 | 686 |
| 2004/C 084E/773 | P-0859/04 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Hair dyes and serious damage to health | 687 |
| 2004/C 084E/774 | P-0860/04 by Eluned Morgan to the CommissionSubject: The Constitution and funding | 688 |
| 2004/C 084E/775 | P-0870/04 by Wolfgang Ilgenfritz to the CommissionSubject: Work permits for workers contracted out in Italy | 689 |
| 2004/C 084E/776 | P-0871/04 by José Pacheco Pereira to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector | 690 |
| 2004/C 084E/777 | P-0872/04 by Giovanni Pittella to the CommissionSubject: Precautionary principle | 692 |
| 2004/C 084E/778 | E-0875/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Human rights violations in northern Uganda | 693 |
| 2004/C 084E/779 | E-0885/04 byPaulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: List of deep-sea, pelagic and demersal fish species | 694 |
| 2004/C 084E/780 | E-0887/04 by Bob van den Bos to the CommissionSubject: Health implications of pet bird imports | 694 |
| 2004/C 084E/781 | P-0892/04 by Véronique De Keyser to the CommissionSubject: European Super-Commissioner | 695 |
| 2004/C 084E/782 | E-0900/04 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Breastfeeding in public places | 696 |
| 2004/C 084E/783 | P-0928/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Equality of treatment in the written test for competition COM/A/3/02, sector 2 | 696 |
| 2004/C 084E/784 | P-0934/04 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Breakdown of EU staff by grades A, B, C and D | 697 |
| 2004/C 084E/785 | P-0949/04 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Difficulties for the Italian steel industry | 698 |
| 2004/C 084E/786 | P-0957/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: The stated intention of deactivating Sorefame-Bombardier | 699 |
| 2004/C 084E/787 | P-0966/04 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Chimney sweep monopoly | 700 |
| 2004/C 084E/788 | P-0974/04 by Guido Sacconi to the CommissionSubject: EU-Switzerland agreements and implementation of Rönfeldt-Thévenon case law | 702 |
| 2004/C 084E/789 | P-1040/04 by Enrico Ferri to the CommissionSubject: Requirements for entry in the studbook, transposition of Community legislation | 703 |
| 2004/C 084E/790 | E-1222/04 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: River access | 704 |
| | WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 4) |
| 2004/C 084E/791 | E-3150/02 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Application of the Stability Pact | 705 |
| 2004/C 084E/792 | P-3201/02 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Spanish National Hydrological Plan: Júcar-Vinalopó interbasin diversion | 706 |
| 2004/C 084E/793 | P-3821/02 by Elena Paciotti to the CommissionSubject: Violation of asylum rights in the EU | 707 |
| 2004/C 084E/794 | P-3826/02 by Giuseppe Di Lello Finuoli to the CommissionSubject: Expulsion from Italy of the Al-Shari family | 707 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions P-3821/02 and P-3826/02 | 708 |
| 2004/C 084E/795 | E-3867/02 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Salvage of the ferry ‘Le Joola’ | 708 |
| 2004/C 084E/796 | E-3868/02 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten and Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Netherlands Student Grants Act | 709 |
| 2004/C 084E/797 | E-0797/04 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Student grants and free movement of persons | 710 |
| Supplementary joint answer to Written Questions E-3868/02 and E-0797/04 | 710 |
| 2004/C 084E/798 | E-0017/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Support for Afghanistan | 711 |
| 2004/C 084E/799 | E-0093/03 by Peter Skinner to the CommissionSubject: German capital gains tax | 712 |
| 2004/C 084E/800 | E-0129/03 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Suspension of Voice of America and Radio Free Asia programme in Phnom Penh | 712 |
| 2004/C 084E/801 | E-0182/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Women’s rights in Iran | 713 |
| 2004/C 084E/802 | E-0199/03 by Margot Keßler to the CommissionSubject: Western Sahara — Visit of European Parliament Ad Hoc Delegation — Human Rights | 714 |
| 2004/C 084E/803 | E-0243/03 by Nirj Deva to the CommissionSubject: Kenya Westlands-St Austins road scheme | 715 |
| 2004/C 084E/804 | E-0453/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Boris Shikhmuradov | 716 |
| 2004/C 084E/805 | E-0562/03 by Juan Ojeda Sanz to the CommissionSubject: Arrest of journalists in Gibraltar | 717 |
| 2004/C 084E/806 | E-0587/03 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Balkan sugar | 717 |
| 2004/C 084E/807 | E-1040/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Leader+ programme by the municipality of Perugia | 719 |
| 2004/C 084E/808 | E-1046/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Leader+ programme by the municipality of Terni | 719 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1040/03 and E-1046/03 | 720 |
| 2004/C 084E/809 | E-1163/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund by the municipality of Terni | 720 |
| 2004/C 084E/810 | P-1396/03 by Margie Sudre to the CommissionSubject: Uniform application of a reduced rate of VAT in the restaurant sector | 721 |
| 2004/C 084E/811 | P-1398/03 by Arie Oostlander to the CommissionSubject: Publication of the fortnightly newsletter Europa van Morgen | 722 |
| 2004/C 084E/812 | P-1437/03 by Armin Laschet to the CommissionSubject: Direct payments of EUR 10 million per month in EU aid to the Palestinian Authority | 723 |
| 2004/C 084E/813 | E-1457/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Euratom/Distortions in the electricity market | 724 |
| 2004/C 084E/814 | E-1500/03 by Florence Kuntz to the CommissionSubject: Safeguarding the Iraqi archaeological heritage | 724 |
| 2004/C 084E/815 | P-1509/03 by Lucio Manisco to the CommissionSubject: Sacking of Iraq’s cultural and artistic heritage — the role of the European Union | 725 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1500/03 and P-1509/03 | 725 |
| 2004/C 084E/816 | P-1510/03 by Franz Turchi to the CommissionSubject: Direct financial assistance to the Palestine National Authority | 726 |
| 2004/C 084E/817 | E-1525/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Privatisation of art treasures as a result of widespread thefts from museums and inadequate checks on the international art trade | 726 |
| 2004/C 084E/818 | E-1939/03 by Giles Chichester to the CommissionSubject: Commission quarterly briefings and Small Business Europe: the participation of government-funded national bodies in Commission briefings | 727 |
| 2004/C 084E/819 | E-1983/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Establishment of a secondary school in the small town of Rizokarpaso in Turkish-occupied Cyprus | 728 |
| 2004/C 084E/820 | E-2033/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Re-opening of Greek secondary school at Rizokarpasso | 729 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1983/03 and E-2033/03 | 729 |
| 2004/C 084E/821 | P-2376/03 by Lucio Manisco to the CommissionSubject: Al Sahri deported by Italy and executed in Syria | 729 |
| 2004/C 084E/822 | E-2748/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Rizokarpasso primary school | 730 |
| 2004/C 084E/823 | E-3129/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Guinea-Bissau, Commission support | 731 |
| 2004/C 084E/824 | P-3142/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Career movements of Directors-General | 732 |
| 2004/C 084E/825 | E-3311/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Rotation principle in Directorates-General | 732 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions P-3142/03 and E-3311/03 | 732 |
| 2004/C 084E/826 | P-3154/03 by Michael Cashman to the CommissionSubject: Mobile telephone safety (Supplementary Answer) | 733 |
| 2004/C 084E/827 | E-3325/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Community expenditure | 734 |
| 2004/C 084E/828 | E-3464/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: The use of Tetrapol technology in the EU | 735 |
| 2004/C 084E/829 | E-3470/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Health risk reports relating to Tetrapol use | 736 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3464/03 and E-3470/03 | 736 |
| 2004/C 084E/830 | E-3471/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Buildings in ‘Es Trenc-Salobrar de Campos’ | 736 |
| 2004/C 084E/831 | E-3514/03 by Giovanni Pittella to the CommissionSubject: Course financed by means of the Structural Funds (Supplementary Answer) | 737 |
| 2004/C 084E/832 | E-3574/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: European Agreement on the transmission of applications for Legal Aid | 738 |
| 2004/C 084E/833 | E-3625/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Standardisation of national identity documents | 738 |
| 2004/C 084E/834 | E-3748/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Life III programme by the municipality of Prato | 739 |
| 2004/C 084E/835 | E-3832/03 by Nicholas Clegg to the CommissionSubject: Global Drug Facility | 740 |
| 2004/C 084E/836 | E-3840/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Race Directive (2000/43/EC) | 741 |
| 2004/C 084E/837 | E-3870/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Ecological volume of the river Júcar and the Júcar-Vinalopó water transfer | 741 |
| 2004/C 084E/838 | P-3924/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Seaworthiness of the Geroi Sevastopolya | 742 |
| 2004/C 084E/839 | E-3948/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Moves by the USA or other countries to make EU Member States comply with their wishes by rewarding or penalising European companies depending on the Member State in which the company is based | 744 |
| 2004/C 084E/840 | E-3980/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Yukos affair | 745 |
| 2004/C 084E/841 | E-4055/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Renewable energy | 746 |
| 2004/C 084E/842 | E-4056/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the environmental acquis | 747 |
| 2004/C 084E/843 | E-4066/03 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: Biometric passports | 748 |
| 2004/C 084E/844 | E-4068/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Unlawful toll demanded for the Turin-Milan motorway | 749 |
| 2004/C 084E/845 | E-0003/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Trade in wild birds | 750 |
| 2004/C 084E/846 | E-0023/04 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Inadequate information to the Commission concerning the Bothnia Line | 751 |
| 2004/C 084E/847 | E-0030/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Landfill and gravel extraction sites | 752 |
| 2004/C 084E/848 | E-0044/04 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Val Jumela | 752 |
| 2004/C 084E/849 | E-0050/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Conflict over pollution — between the Celulosas de Pontevedra woodpulp factory (Ence, Galicia) and the people and municipal authorities of Pontevedra | 753 |
| 2004/C 084E/850 | E-0053/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: The suspension of work at the Inzar shipyard (Fene, Galicia) arising from the ban on building merchant vessels: action of the Commission and the Spanish government | 755 |
| 2004/C 084E/851 | E-0054/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Compliance with the Kyoto protocol by the Spanish state | 756 |
| 2004/C 084E/852 | E-0068/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: International Convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families | 757 |
| 2004/C 084E/853 | E-0071/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: The Spanish National Hydrological Plan dam on the River Narla in Lugo (Galicia) a scheduled Site of Community Importance within the Natura 2000 network | 758 |
| 2004/C 084E/854 | E-0077/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Waste water treatment in Ireland | 759 |
| 2004/C 084E/855 | E-0080/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Rheumatism and Biomed programme | 759 |
| 2004/C 084E/856 | E-0081/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of IPPC Directive in Ireland | 760 |
| 2004/C 084E/857 | E-0092/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Evolution of electricity prices, investment in the energy sector | 760 |
| 2004/C 084E/858 | E-0101/04 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Position of SMUs in the system for the funding of the EU’s research activities | 761 |
| 2004/C 084E/859 | P-0110/04 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Legality of certain EU decisions should the Kyoto Protocol founder | 764 |
| 2004/C 084E/860 | E-0181/04 by Charlotte Cederschiöld to the CommissionSubject: Network and information security | 765 |
| 2004/C 084E/861 | E-0182/04 by Charlotte Cederschiöld to the CommissionSubject: Network and information security | 766 |
| 2004/C 084E/862 | E-0183/04 by Charlotte Cederschiöld to the CommissionSubject: Network and information security | 766 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0181/04, E-0182/04 and E-0183/04 | 766 |
| 2004/C 084E/863 | E-0267/04 by Juan Ferrández Lezaun to the CommissionSubject: Projects offering alternatives to the Spanish National Hydrological Plan (SNHP) | 767 |
| 2004/C 084E/864 | E-0300/04 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Financing for the new Athens airport (Supplementary Answer) | 768 |
| 2004/C 084E/865 | E-0309/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Extension of TAEIX’s area of activity to the Western Balkans | 769 |
| 2004/C 084E/866 | P-0313/04 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Galway incinerator | 770 |
| 2004/C 084E/867 | E-0319/04 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Funding of research with embryonic stem cells | 771 |
| 2004/C 084E/868 | E-0326/04 by Willi Piecyk to the CommissionSubject: Subsidies for new fishing nets | 772 |
| 2004/C 084E/869 | E-0328/04 by Marco Cappato, Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova, Olivier Dupuis and Emma Bonino to the CommissionSubject: Chinese New Year parade in Paris | 773 |
| 2004/C 084E/870 | E-0331/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Setting up of a regional coordination centre for social policy for the Balkans | 773 |
| 2004/C 084E/871 | E-0334/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The unchanged human rights and democracy situation in China and Hong Kong, the threat to Taiwan and the need for the arms embargo | 774 |
| 2004/C 084E/872 | E-0335/04 by Astrid Thors to the CommissionSubject: Extension of operating licence for Sosnovy Bor nuclear power plant | 775 |
| 2004/C 084E/873 | P-0337/04 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Subsidies for Parmalat | 776 |
| 2004/C 084E/874 | E-0347/04 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Use of ACT in treatment of malaria | 777 |
| 2004/C 084E/875 | E-0350/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Travel agencies: repercussions of the Alitalia crisis on employment | 779 |
| 2004/C 084E/876 | E-0351/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Travel agencies: serious difficulties for operators and customers | 779 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0350/04 and E-0351/04 | 780 |
| 2004/C 084E/877 | P-0358/04 by Werner Langen to the CommissionSubject: Proceedings concerning the German deposit on drinks cans | 781 |
| 2004/C 084E/878 | P-0377/04 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Sustainable management of fisheries resources in the Mediterranean and measures to combat illegal fishing | 781 |
| 2004/C 084E/879 | E-0396/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Guantánamo-on-Thames? | 783 |
| 2004/C 084E/880 | E-0397/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Legalising irregular migrants working in the Union | 783 |
| 2004/C 084E/881 | P-0407/04 by Hugues Martin to the CommissionSubject: CRAFT Community programmes | 784 |
| 2004/C 084E/882 | P-0408/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the Environmental Noise Directive in the Netherlands | 786 |
| 2004/C 084E/883 | E-0410/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Aer Rianta | 787 |
| 2004/C 084E/884 | E-0412/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: The regulation of exportation of timber from Indonesia | 787 |
| 2004/C 084E/885 | E-0414/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: The treatment of North Korean refugees in the People’s Republic of China | 788 |
| 2004/C 084E/886 | E-0418/04 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Security of EC cards | 789 |
| 2004/C 084E/887 | E-0447/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Exports of peat to Italy | 790 |
| 2004/C 084E/888 | E-0448/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Research on non-human primates in Münster, Germany | 791 |
| 2004/C 084E/889 | E-0450/04 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Counterfeit banknotes | 792 |
| 2004/C 084E/890 | E-0452/04 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: INFO 2000 programme | 793 |
| 2004/C 084E/891 | E-0462/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Guinea-Bissau - Commission support | 794 |
| 2004/C 084E/892 | E-0463/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Europe - terrorism | 795 |
| 2004/C 084E/893 | E-0468/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Competition in the glass sector | 797 |
| 2004/C 084E/894 | E-0479/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission open competitions | 798 |
| 2004/C 084E/895 | E-0481/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Blue Dragon | 800 |
| 2004/C 084E/896 | E-0487/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: EU dairy sector: Argentina and the WTO ‘peace clause’ | 800 |
| 2004/C 084E/897 | E-0498/04 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Community warning on Spanish productivity | 801 |
| 2004/C 084E/898 | E-0508/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Portugal - nuclear waste | 802 |
| 2004/C 084E/899 | E-0511/04 by Sérgio Marques to the CommissionSubject: Provision of aid to South Africa | 804 |
| 2004/C 084E/900 | P-0525/04 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Potato ring rot | 805 |
| 2004/C 084E/901 | E-0541/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Yielding to the USA’s pressure on airlines to supply unlimited quantities of data concerning passengers in advance of a possible agreement | 806 |
| 2004/C 084E/902 | E-0548/04 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Requirement to keep poultry indoors | 808 |
| 2004/C 084E/903 | E-0562/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Incidence of ‘blue-baby syndrome’ in EU Member States | 809 |
| 2004/C 084E/904 | E-0564/04 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: Ship-to-ship oil transfers | 810 |
| 2004/C 084E/905 | P-0568/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Final report concerning Eurostat | 811 |
| 2004/C 084E/906 | E-0573/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Start of construction work on the Brenner base tunnel | 811 |
| 2004/C 084E/907 | E-0575/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Electioneering activities of Mrs Diamantopoulou | 812 |
| 2004/C 084E/908 | E-0579/04 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Vasova lagoon | 813 |
| 2004/C 084E/909 | E-0582/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Application of Accounting Standard IAS 32 to co-operatives | 814 |
| 2004/C 084E/910 | E-0595/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Horse racing prizes in Greece | 815 |
| 2004/C 084E/911 | P-0600/04 by Generoso Andria to the CommissionSubject: Remuneration of amateur football managers | 816 |
| 2004/C 084E/912 | E-0602/04 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Global assessment of the major Ebro water transfer project | 817 |
| 2004/C 084E/913 | P-0608/04 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: The Commission’s political intentions re GMOs | 818 |
| 2004/C 084E/914 | E-0611/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Terrorism: drawing up a European directive providing for the presence of air marshals on board aircraft. | 819 |
| 2004/C 084E/915 | P-0615/04 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Role of certificates in rules of origin | 820 |
| 2004/C 084E/916 | E-0618/04 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Decision by the Dutch parliament to expel thousands of immigrants | 822 |
| 2004/C 084E/917 | P-0621/04 by Karin Riis-Jørgensen to the CommissionSubject: Revision of TEN-T | 822 |
| 2004/C 084E/918 | E-0623/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Schedules of airlines from third countries | 823 |
| 2004/C 084E/919 | E-0629/04 by Willi Piecyk, Gerhard Schmid and Johannes Swoboda to the CommissionSubject: Trans-European Networks - development of the Danube | 824 |
| 2004/C 084E/920 | E-0630/04 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Official Development Assistance (ODA) of the Union: funding by Member States, actions in the Balkans and application of conditionality and Community rules | 825 |
| 2004/C 084E/921 | E-0631/04 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Abolition of the interest rate subsidy for border regions in Greece | 826 |
| 2004/C 084E/922 | E-0637/04 by Toine Manders to the CommissionSubject: Inconsistencies in the Community Customs Code (CCC) | 827 |
| 2004/C 084E/923 | E-0639/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: The Torrentes de Mácara on the river Ulha (Galicia): three priceless rapids threatened with destruction by the building of a dam | 829 |
| 2004/C 084E/924 | E-0647/04 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Urban waste water treatment in Benidorm, (Alicante province) Spain | 830 |
| 2004/C 084E/925 | E-0648/04 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Incorrect transposition of Directive 89/391/EEC into Spanish law | 831 |
| 2004/C 084E/926 | P-0654/04 by Reinhold Messner to the CommissionSubject: Brenner axis | 832 |
| 2004/C 084E/927 | E-0655/04 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Algeria | 833 |
| 2004/C 084E/928 | E-0657/04 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Misfuelling of motor vehicles | 834 |
| 2004/C 084E/929 | E-0662/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Efforts to adopt uniform and transparent rules on valuing the assets of financial institutions and the resistance of the EFR to the IASB | 835 |
| 2004/C 084E/930 | P-0663/04 by Samuli Pohjamo to the CommissionSubject: Measures against concentrations of wolves in Finland | 837 |
| 2004/C 084E/931 | P-0664/04 by Encarnación Redondo Jiménez to the CommissionSubject: Legislation on yoghurt | 838 |
| 2004/C 084E/932 | E-0668/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Irish Government’s failure to cooperate with Lough Ree investigation | 839 |
| 2004/C 084E/933 | E-0683/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Medical certificates | 840 |
| 2004/C 084E/934 | E-0685/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Contrast between a common foreign policy and the varying treatment of EU Member States by countries such as America and Russia | 840 |
| 2004/C 084E/935 | E-0689/04 by Harald Ettl to the CommissionSubject: Transposition of Directive 2003/41/EC — competence of Member States to define occupational retirement provision | 842 |
| 2004/C 084E/936 | E-0690/04 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Complaints about the infringement of the property rights of building cooperatives in Greece | 843 |
| 2004/C 084E/937 | E-0692/04 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Invasion of privacy at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) | 844 |
| 2004/C 084E/938 | E-0693/04 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak, Ieke van den Burg and Joke Swiebel to the CommissionSubject: Proposal COM(2003) 657 and Directive 86/378/EEC | 845 |
| 2004/C 084E/939 | E-0694/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Auditing the Commission’s external activity | 846 |
| 2004/C 084E/940 | E-0697/04 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: State aid to credit unions | 846 |
| 2004/C 084E/941 | E-0698/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Tinned food and olive oil | 847 |
| 2004/C 084E/942 | E-0699/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Preserves and olive oil | 848 |
| 2004/C 084E/943 | E-0701/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Use of the appellations ‘vintage’ and ‘tawny’ by third countries | 848 |
| 2004/C 084E/944 | P-0705/04 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Creation of an observatory to study the phenomenon of organised mafia-type crime and similar forms of criminality in the EU | 850 |
| 2004/C 084E/945 | E-0706/04 by Jaime Valdivielso de Cué to the CommissionSubject: Wine | 852 |
| 2004/C 084E/946 | E-0712/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Increasing the Portuguese annual sugar quota | 854 |
| 2004/C 084E/947 | P-0713/04 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Management of the risk assessment process on zinc | 855 |
| 2004/C 084E/948 | P-0714/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Conversion of ENEL’s ‘Valdaliga Nord’ power station at Civitavecchia | 856 |
| 2004/C 084E/949 | E-0719/04 by Ieke van den Burg to the CommissionSubject: Training and development funds in the Netherlands as a contribution to the Lisbon strategy | 857 |
| 2004/C 084E/950 | E-0729/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Professional recognition for the police | 859 |
| 2004/C 084E/951 | E-0731/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Social and family assistance for the police | 860 |
| 2004/C 084E/952 | E-0732/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Dam-building on the international stretch of the river Minho | 861 |
| 2004/C 084E/953 | E-0738/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Regions which are to lose their Structural Fund Objective 1 status | 861 |
| 2004/C 084E/954 | E-0741/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Fiscal incentives to encourage job creation | 862 |
| 2004/C 084E/955 | E-0743/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: MEDA programme and regions | 863 |
| 2004/C 084E/956 | E-0745/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Facilitating access by SMEs to risk capital | 864 |
| 2004/C 084E/957 | E-0746/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Reform in the fruit and vegetable sector | 865 |
| 2004/C 084E/958 | E-0748/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Synergy in EU funding programmes | 866 |
| 2004/C 084E/959 | E-0750/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Possibility of registering rating agencies in Europe | 867 |
| 2004/C 084E/960 | E-0751/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Streamlining the Commission’s coordination of Member States’ economic policies | 868 |
| 2004/C 084E/961 | E-0752/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Enhancing the image of the euro and the European Union in non-member countries | 868 |
| 2004/C 084E/962 | E-0753/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Promotion of the international role of the euro in transactions between eurozone countries and third countries | 869 |
| 2004/C 084E/963 | E-0754/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Establishment of a European legal framework for hedge funds | 870 |
| 2004/C 084E/964 | E-0755/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Statistics relating to the harmonised consumer price index in Europe | 871 |
| 2004/C 084E/965 | E-0757/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Strengthening the role of market operators in the integration of European financial markets | 872 |
| 2004/C 084E/966 | E-0758/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Loss of investor confidence following recent financial scandals | 873 |
| 2004/C 084E/967 | E-0759/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: General framework for ensuring European financial market stability | 874 |
| 2004/C 084E/968 | E-0761/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: European passport and the sale of financial products in Europe | 874 |
| 2004/C 084E/969 | P-0767/04 by Brian Crowley to the CommissionSubject: eEurope 2005 Action Plan | 875 |
| 2004/C 084E/970 | P-0771/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: La Breña II dam - compensation measures | 876 |
| 2004/C 084E/971 | E-0780/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in the United Kingdom | 877 |
| 2004/C 084E/972 | E-0781/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Liberalisation of the electricity market — licences for river diversions | 878 |
| 2004/C 084E/973 | E-0782/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Liberalisation of the electricity market — special protective provisions | 879 |
| 2004/C 084E/974 | E-0785/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Deportation of parents of Irish/EU citizens | 880 |
| 2004/C 084E/975 | E-0791/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Encroachments on Ria Formosa Nature Reserve (Natura 2000) | 881 |
| 2004/C 084E/976 | E-0807/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Invalidity of a civil aviation pilot’s licence if use is made of it in another Member State or after revision of the rules governing Air Transport Pilot Licences (ATPL) | 882 |
| 2004/C 084E/977 | E-0816/04 by Stefano Zappalà to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of diplomas | 883 |
| 2004/C 084E/978 | E-0818/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Sludge storage in Ingensche Waarden | 884 |
| 2004/C 084E/979 | E-0819/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: The European School in Amsterdam | 886 |
| 2004/C 084E/980 | P-0825/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Opinion of the Council’s Legal Service challenged by the Commission | 886 |
| 2004/C 084E/981 | E-0829/04 by Mario Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Parmatour: tourism concern owned by the Tanzi family, involved in the Parmalat crisis | 888 |
| 2004/C 084E/982 | E-0831/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Radar installation on Pico do Areeiro — Environmental impact study | 889 |
| 2004/C 084E/983 | E-0832/04 by Anne Ferreira, Ioannis Souladakis and Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Theatrical signers and audience members with hearing difficulties | 889 |
| 2004/C 084E/984 | E-0834/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Nine years’ imprisonment for supplying 0,5 grams of methadone in Russia | 890 |
| 2004/C 084E/985 | P-0842/04 by Daniela Raschhofer to the CommissionSubject: Basis for economic growth | 891 |
| 2004/C 084E/986 | P-0843/04 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Approval by the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of the Ronchi south-Trieste high-speed rail link as part of Corridor 5 | 892 |
| 2004/C 084E/987 | P-0844/04 by Ulpu Iivari to the CommissionSubject: Aid to shipbuilding in breach of EU legislation | 894 |
| 2004/C 084E/988 | P-0851/04 by Gianni Vattimo to the CommissionSubject: Animal welfare | 895 |
| 2004/C 084E/989 | E-0855/04 by Jean-Maurice Dehousse to the CommissionSubject: Security in Brussels | 896 |
| 2004/C 084E/990 | E-0856/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Protecting traditional industries | 896 |
| 2004/C 084E/991 | E-0866/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: European subsidies for the Flemish Community | 897 |
| 2004/C 084E/992 | E-0869/04 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: ECHO and Chechnya | 898 |
| 2004/C 084E/993 | E-0879/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Romano Prodi - new centre party | 899 |
| 2004/C 084E/994 | E-0880/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003, Article 5 | 900 |
| 2004/C 084E/995 | E-0886/04 by Piia-Noora Kauppi to the CommissionSubject: Road toll system | 901 |
| 2004/C 084E/996 | E-0888/04 by Bob van den Bos to the CommissionSubject: Slaughterhouses in Greece | 901 |
| 2004/C 084E/997 | E-0890/04 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Authorisation for flying instructors to give instruction | 902 |
| 2004/C 084E/998 | E-0891/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the Valeo factory in Portugal | 903 |
| 2004/C 084E/999 | E-0893/04 by Werner Langen to the CommissionSubject: Costs of cross-border transfer payments | 904 |
| 2004/C 084E/1000 | P-0895/04 by Jan Andersson to the CommissionSubject: Dispute concerning port dues in Helsingborg | 905 |
| 2004/C 084E/1001 | E-0897/04 by Monica Frassoni, Caroline Lucas, Jean Lambert, Patricia McKenna, Giorgio Celli, Kathalijne Buitenweg, Pasqualina Napoletano, Marco Cappato, Giovanni Procacci and Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Incorrect implementation in Italy of directives 1999/74/EC and 2002/4/EC for the protection of laying hens | 906 |
| 2004/C 084E/1002 | E-0898/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Intimidation of well-known Israeli conscientious objectors who oppose the occupation of Palestinian territory by subjecting them to lengthy and repeated imprisonment | 907 |
| 2004/C 084E/1003 | P-0903/04 by Ingo Friedrich to the CommissionSubject: Termination of European Documentation Centres’ (EDCs) preferential subscription to the EC/EU Official Journal (printed edition) | 908 |
| 2004/C 084E/1004 | E-0906/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: The Threshold for British teachers in the European Schools | 909 |
| 2004/C 084E/1005 | E-0907/04 by Franz Turchi to the CommissionSubject: Safeguarding the profession of optometrist | 910 |
| 2004/C 084E/1006 | E-0909/04 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: To Serve and Protect - Netherlands Railways | 911 |
| 2004/C 084E/1007 | E-0910/04 by Ingo Friedrich to the CommissionSubject: Aid for olive production; common organisation of the market in olives | 911 |
| 2004/C 084E/1008 | E-0912/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Directive 2001/83/EC and Braille requirements | 912 |
| 2004/C 084E/1009 | E-0915/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Directive 2001/83/EC and ‘borderline products’ | 913 |
| 2004/C 084E/1010 | E-0923/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allowance Trading Scheme | 914 |
| 2004/C 084E/1011 | E-0925/04 by Franz Turchi to the CommissionSubject: Medical treatment for haemophilia sufferers | 914 |
| 2004/C 084E/1012 | E-0926/04 by Claude Turmes to the CommissionSubject: Health and safety in the European institutions | 915 |
| 2004/C 084E/1013 | E-0927/04 by Claude Turmes to the CommissionSubject: Practice of ‘prototypes’ at Eur-OP | 916 |
| 2004/C 084E/1014 | E-0931/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Standards on portable liquid oxygen devices | 918 |
| 2004/C 084E/1015 | E-0932/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Contribution to EU economy by fisheries | 919 |
| 2004/C 084E/1016 | P-0936/04 by Jens-Peter Bonde to the CommissionSubject: EU Economic EU support for positive publicity | 919 |
| 2004/C 084E/1017 | E-0944/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Components of small toys in food products | 920 |
| 2004/C 084E/1018 | E-0951/04 by Angelika Niebler to the CommissionSubject: Interpretative notes relating to the transposition into national law of the Directives on the electricity and gas markets in the European Union | 921 |
| 2004/C 084E/1019 | E-0952/04 by Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Procedure under Article 24 of Community Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 | 922 |
| 2004/C 084E/1020 | E-0953/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Discriminatory practices by Romania | 923 |
| 2004/C 084E/1021 | E-0960/04 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Language discrimination in recruitment procedures for European institutions | 924 |
| 2004/C 084E/1022 | E-0962/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The increasing dangers to public health and the environment caused by the increase in emissions of small particulate matter from motor vehicle engines | 925 |
| 2004/C 084E/1023 | E-0963/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The Euro 4 standard and consequent restrictions on the fitting of particle traps to prevent the emission of small particulate matter from motor vehicle engines | 925 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0962/04 and E-0963/04 | 926 |
| 2004/C 084E/1024 | E-0968/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Electromagnetic Compliance Standard | 927 |
| 2004/C 084E/1025 | P-1001/04 by Ulla Sandbæk to the CommissionSubject: Critical dialogue with Iranian theocracy on minorities | 928 |
| 2004/C 084E/1026 | E-1011/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Extremely grave human rights situation in Vietnam and Laos | 929 |
| 2004/C 084E/1027 | E-1020/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Emergency on the ferrous metals market | 929 |
| 2004/C 084E/1028 | E-1024/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Olympic Airways | 930 |
| 2004/C 084E/1029 | P-1026/04 by Joachim Wuermeling to the CommissionSubject: Axle weighing of HGVs at the German-Czech border | 931 |
| 2004/C 084E/1030 | E-1033/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Safeguarding the public lending right in Portuguese libraries | 932 |
| 2004/C 084E/1031 | E-1034/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Irregularities in competitions organised by the Commission | 933 |
| 2004/C 084E/1032 | P-1041/04 by W.G. van Velzen to the CommissionSubject: Number portability in connection with mobile telephony | 934 |
| 2004/C 084E/1033 | E-1042/04 by Roger Helmer and Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Pensions: discrimination against private pensions | 935 |
| 2004/C 084E/1034 | E-1057/04 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Implications for the Community textile sector of certain trade practices on the part of China | 936 |
| 2004/C 084E/1035 | P-1062/04 by Christine De Veyrac to the CommissionSubject: Economic impact of migration following enlargement of the European Union | 937 |
| 2004/C 084E/1036 | P-1063/04 by Marie-Françoise Duthu to the CommissionSubject: Russo-Chechen conflict — mediation by the European Union between the governments of Vladimir Putin and Aslan Maskhadov | 938 |
| 2004/C 084E/1037 | E-1072/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Commemoration in the town of Greccio of the first crib featuring live animals | 939 |
| 2004/C 084E/1038 | P-1082/04 by Adeline Hazan to the CommissionSubject: Decision taken by the Netherlands to expel more than 26 000 whose applications for asylum have been rejected | 940 |
| 2004/C 084E/1039 | P-1084/04 by Richard Howitt to the CommissionSubject: Possible breach of the European Works Council Directive in respect to redundancies announced by FLS Aerospace | 941 |
| 2004/C 084E/1040 | P-1088/04 by Arlene McCarthy to the CommissionSubject: Possible breach of the European Works Council Directive with respect to redundancies announced by FLS Aerospace | 941 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions P-1084/04 and P-1088/04 | 942 |
| 2004/C 084E/1041 | P-1085/04 by Paul Lannoye to the CommissionSubject: Evaluation of plant health products under Directive 91/414/EEC | 942 |
| 2004/C 084E/1042 | P-1087/04 by Kyösti Virrankoski to the CommissionSubject: Uncertainties regarding Finland’s Natura 2000 network | 944 |
| 2004/C 084E/1043 | P-1093/04 by Armin Laschet to the CommissionSubject: Staging of football matches between TSV Alemannia Aachen, a German football club, and foreign opponents at the Kerkrade Stadium in the Netherlands | 944 |
| 2004/C 084E/1044 | P-1106/04 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Vaccination against bluetongue | 945 |
| 2004/C 084E/1045 | P-1107/04 by Dirk Sterckx to the CommissionSubject: Administrative work involved in preparing a subsidy application | 946 |
| 2004/C 084E/1046 | P-1108/04 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Drilling for gas in the Waddenzee | 947 |
| 2004/C 084E/1047 | E-1109/04 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Restriction on allowances in connection with foreign income | 948 |
| 2004/C 084E/1048 | E-1115/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Work Discrimination Directive 2000/78/EC in Ireland | 949 |
| 2004/C 084E/1049 | P-1116/04 by Uma Aaltonen to the CommissionSubject: Sex education for children and young people in the enlarging Union | 950 |
| 2004/C 084E/1050 | P-1127/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Drilling for gas a significant threat to the Waddenzee | 951 |
| 2004/C 084E/1051 | E-1136/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Restrictions on the right to vote in European elections in Northern Ireland that have so far disenfranchised 16,5 % of the population because of a complicated system of annual individual voter registration | 952 |
| 2004/C 084E/1052 | P-1151/04 by Elizabeth Lynne to the CommissionSubject: Commissioning medical treatment abroad | 952 |
| 2004/C 084E/1053 | P-1167/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Regulation No 1954/2003: fishing activity in the Azores EEZ | 953 |
| 2004/C 084E/1054 | P-1170/04 by Manuel dos Santos to the CommissionSubject: Construction of the Amoreiras tunnel in Lisbon | 955 |
| 2004/C 084E/1055 | P-1203/04 by Gianfranco Dell’Alba to the CommissionSubject: Suspected irregularities in the management of European Development Fund (EDF) resources for Project 8.ACP.PNG.003 | 956 |

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 1)

2004/C 084E/1

P-0021/03 by Vitaliano Gemelli to the CommissionSubject: Appointment of senior staff in the European Commission — medical service

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2004/C 084E/2

E-0335/03 by Maria Sanders-ten Holte to the CommissionSubject: A new generation of mercenaries

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2004/C 084E/3

E-0561/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Hunger strike by Mr Jebali

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2004/C 084E/4

E-0646/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Smear campaign against Mohammed Charfi

3

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0561/03 and E-0646/03

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2004/C 084E/5

E-0620/03 by Carles-Alfred Gasòliba i Böhm to the CommissionSubject: Freedom of establishment and the securing of authorisation to carry out roadworthiness tests on vehicles in Germany (Supplementary Answer)

4

2004/C 084E/6

P-0759/03 by Vitaliano Gemelli to the CommissionSubject: The European Commission’s medical service

5

2004/C 084E/7

E-0844/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Contracts with management consultants (Supplementary Answer)

6

2004/C 084E/8

E-1350/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Cross-border investment

8

2004/C 084E/9

P-1595/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: Cross-border payments in euro (Supplementary Answer)

9

2004/C 084E/10

E-1728/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Fight against the abuse of human beings and the sexual abuse of children

10

2004/C 084E/11

E-1940/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Stamp duty exemption scheme

12

2004/C 084E/12

E-1941/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Stamp duty exemption scheme

12

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1940/03 and E-1941/03

13

2004/C 084E/13

P-1974/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Rehabilitation of earthquake victims in Attica

13

2004/C 084E/14

P-2103/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Cross-border investment

14

2004/C 084E/15

E-2141/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: German road tolls

14

2004/C 084E/16

P-2243/03 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: Distortions of competition by German goods-vehicle toll

15

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2141/03 and P-2243/03

15

2004/C 084E/17

E-2195/03 by Michael Cashman to the CouncilSubject: Counterfeiting and piracy

15

2004/C 084E/18

E-2210/03 by Claude Moraes to the CouncilSubject: Progress on asylum in Thessaloniki

16

2004/C 084E/19

E-2258/03 by Erik Meijer to the CouncilSubject: Keeping new refugees away from EU territory by building reception camps in the future Member States or further afield

16

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2210/03 and E-2258/03

17

2004/C 084E/20

P-2302/03 by Miguel Martínez Martínez to the CouncilSubject: Murder of the young Spanish voluntary worker Ana Isabel Sánchez Torralba in Equatorial Guinea

17

2004/C 084E/21

P-2373/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Assessment of the COM in tobacco

18

2004/C 084E/22

E-2419/03 by Lucio Manisco to the CouncilSubject: Al Sahri deported by Italy and executed in Syria

20

2004/C 084E/23

E-2433/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Quota for sugar production in the autonomous region of the Azores

21

2004/C 084E/24

E-2434/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CouncilSubject: Penalisation of Portuguese farmers

22

2004/C 084E/25

E-2444/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CouncilSubject: US naval base in Guantanamo Bay

23

2004/C 084E/26

E-2449/03 by Georges Berthu to the CommissionSubject: Conservation of hedgerows

24

2004/C 084E/27

E-2455/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat: ‘cash flow audit’ and ‘value for money’ study by way of supplementary measures to clarify what happened and prevent any recurrence

24

2004/C 084E/28

E-2477/03 by Miet Smet to the CouncilSubject: Women’s rights in Afghanistan

26

2004/C 084E/29

E-2482/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CouncilSubject: Prevention against the risk of forest fires: Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92

27

2004/C 084E/30

E-2498/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Investment

28

2004/C 084E/31

E-2515/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Opinion of the OLAF Supervisory Committee on the Eurostat Task Force

28

2004/C 084E/32

E-2516/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat Task Force and OLAF independence

29

2004/C 084E/33

P-2530/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat Task Force

29

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2515/03, E-2516/03 and P-2530/03

30

2004/C 084E/34

E-2562/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Compatibility between the violence perpetrated by the Sudanese dictatorial regime and the agreement initialled by the European Union and Sudan

31

2004/C 084E/35

P-2609/03 by Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Products in respect of which payment of premiums is directly linked to per-hectare yield

32

2004/C 084E/36

E-2624/03 by Michel-Ange Scarbonchi to the CouncilSubject: Establishment of a European civil protection corps

32

2004/C 084E/37

E-2665/03 by Daniel Hannan to the CommissionSubject: European citizenship financing

34

2004/C 084E/38

E-2680/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CouncilSubject: Setting up a United Nations Interim Administration in Chechnya

35

2004/C 084E/39

E-2735/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Costs of using Microsoft software

36

2004/C 084E/40

E-2760/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: ‘Mexillón de Galicia’ (Galician mussels) — protected designation of origin (PDO)

36

2004/C 084E/41

E-2764/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CouncilSubject: National land register in Turkey and property on the island of Imvros

37

2004/C 084E/42

E-2778/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Criteria for the assignment and removal of special adviser status for officials and their disappearance from the Commission’s establishment plan

38

2004/C 084E/43

E-2808/03 by Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Risks of hormone therapies

39

2004/C 084E/44

E-2902/03 by Miet Smet to the CouncilSubject: Suspension of cooperation agreements and postponement of their signature

40

2004/C 084E/45

E-2942/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Multiannual Guideline Programme (MGP): cutting the size of the Community fishing fleet

41

2004/C 084E/46

E-2945/03 by Dana Scallon to the CouncilSubject: Specific programme for research

42

2004/C 084E/47

E-2952/03 by Maurizio Turco and Marco Cappato to the CouncilSubject: Sentence of death by stoning in Nigeria

43

2004/C 084E/48

E-3014/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: European market in car insurance

43

2004/C 084E/49

E-3015/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: Third-party insurance for cars and the new Code

44

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3014/03 and E-3015/03

44

2004/C 084E/50

P-3036/03 by Niall Andrews to the CouncilSubject: Tackling hunger in the world

44

2004/C 084E/51

E-3041/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Serious defects in Greek ambulances (Supplementary Answer)

45

2004/C 084E/52

E-3050/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CouncilSubject: European Court of Human Rights judgment against Turkey

47

2004/C 084E/53

P-3053/03 by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: HIV/AIDS in China

48

2004/C 084E/54

E-3060/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Cost of Turkey joining the EU

48

2004/C 084E/55

E-3064/03 by Bernd Lange and Wilhelm Piecyk to the CommissionSubject: Vehicle emissions outside of the test cycle

49

2004/C 084E/56

E-3104/03 by Marianne Eriksson, Piia-Noora Kauppi and Joke Swiebel to the CouncilSubject: Funding EQUAL projects and sexual orientation discrimination

49

2004/C 084E/57

E-3115/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Spreading of false scientific claims regarding the effectiveness of condoms in combating AIDS by Catholic Church leaders/the Holy See/the Vatican City State

50

2004/C 084E/58

E-3116/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Illegal imports of textile products from China

52

2004/C 084E/59

E-3121/03 by Nelly Maes to the CouncilSubject: Reduction of VAT on CDs and cassettes

53

2004/C 084E/60

E-3127/03 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Bank accounts and freedom of movement

53

2004/C 084E/61

E-3146/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Waterways and cultural tourism between Switzerland and the Adriatic

54

2004/C 084E/62

E-3191/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alleged violation of Community company law by Telecom Italia in the Telekom Serbia affair

55

2004/C 084E/63

E-3214/03 by Jillian Evans to the CommissionSubject: North Korean refugees

57

2004/C 084E/64

P-3333/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: North Korean refugees in China

57

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3214/03 and P-3333/03

57

2004/C 084E/65

E-3234/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Export of lottery tickets from one country to another

58

2004/C 084E/66

E-3359/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Bycatch associated with shrimp fisheries

59

2004/C 084E/67

E-3387/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: Increases in the cost of motor insurance - data sources

60

2004/C 084E/68

E-3448/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Operation of quarries in a protected area

62

2004/C 084E/69

E-3491/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Single payment within the reform of the COM in olive oil

63

2004/C 084E/70

E-3504/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Information on the level of EU funding granted to Rhineland-Palatinate between January 1997 and December 2002 (Supplementary Answer)

65

2004/C 084E/71

E-3524/03 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Eco-point scheme in Austria

65

2004/C 084E/72

P-3539/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Windfarms in EU special areas of conservation

66

2004/C 084E/73

P-3563/03 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Transport Protocol of the Alpine Convention

67

2004/C 084E/74

P-3594/03 by Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler to the CommissionSubject: Novel Foods Regulation EC No 258/97, marketing of noni products in the EU

68

2004/C 084E/75

E-3597/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Tendering processes for development and humanitarian assistance

70

2004/C 084E/76

E-3599/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: Payable Internet services

71

2004/C 084E/77

P-3619/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Enlarging the Son Sant Joan de Palma de Mallorca airport (Balearic Islands)

72

2004/C 084E/78

E-3628/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: High-speed rail link between Galicia and Portugal as part of the European growth initiative

73

2004/C 084E/79

E-3629/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: High-speed rail link between Galicia, other parts of Spain and the French border

74

2004/C 084E/80

E-3643/03 by Salvador Jové Peres to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the common organisation of the market in olive oil

75

2004/C 084E/81

P-3653/03 by Jean-Louis Bernié to the CommissionSubject: Interpretative guide to the Birds Directive

76

2004/C 084E/82

E-3655/03 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Counterfeiting of euro notes and coins

77

2004/C 084E/83

E-3668/03 by María Sornosa Martínez and María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Impact of the enlargement of the port of Altea on flora and fauna

78

2004/C 084E/84

E-3669/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Camarles monkey farm

79

2004/C 084E/85

E-3673/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Community aid to the multinational Gerry Weber

80

2004/C 084E/86

E-3677/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Prato

81

2004/C 084E/87

E-3678/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Terni

82

2004/C 084E/88

E-3679/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Pesaro

82

2004/C 084E/89

E-3680/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Florence

82

2004/C 084E/90

E-3681/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Pisa

83

2004/C 084E/91

E-3682/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Ancona

83

2004/C 084E/92

E-3683/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Carrara

83

2004/C 084E/93

E-3684/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Livorno

84

2004/C 084E/94

E-3685/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Macerata

84

2004/C 084E/95

E-3686/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Massa

84

2004/C 084E/96

E-3687/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Pistoia

85

2004/C 084E/97

E-3688/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Perugia

85

2004/C 084E/98

E-3689/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Ecos-Ouverture II programme by the municipality of Siena

85

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3677/03, E-3678/03, E-3679/03, E-3680/03, E-3681/03, E-3682/03, E-3683/03, E-3684/03, E-3685/03, E-3686/03, E-3687/03, E-3688/03 and E-3689/03

86

2004/C 084E/99

E-3704/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Terni

86

2004/C 084E/100

E-3705/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Ancona

87

2004/C 084E/101

E-3706/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Carrara

87

2004/C 084E/102

E-3707/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Florence

87

2004/C 084E/103

E-3708/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Livorno

88

2004/C 084E/104

E-3709/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Macerata

88

2004/C 084E/105

E-3710/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Massa

88

2004/C 084E/106

E-3711/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Perugia

89

2004/C 084E/107

E-3712/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Pesaro

89

2004/C 084E/108

E-3713/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Pisa

89

2004/C 084E/109

E-3714/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Prato

90

2004/C 084E/110

E-3715/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Siena

90

2004/C 084E/111

E-3716/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the Altener II programme for the municipality of Pistoia

90

2004/C 084E/112

E-3717/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Massa

91

2004/C 084E/113

E-3721/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Carrara

91

2004/C 084E/114

E-3722/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Florence

91

2004/C 084E/115

E-3723/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Livorno

92

2004/C 084E/116

E-3724/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Macerata

92

2004/C 084E/117

E-3725/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Ancona

92

2004/C 084E/118

E-3726/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Pesaro

93

2004/C 084E/119

E-3727/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Pisa

93

2004/C 084E/120

E-3728/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Pistoia

93

2004/C 084E/121

E-3729/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Prato

94

2004/C 084E/122

E-3730/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Siena

94

2004/C 084E/123

E-3731/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update concerning the funds for the SAVE II programme for the municipality of Terni

94

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3704/03, E-3705/03, E-3706/03, E-3707/03, E-3708/03, E-3709/03, E-3710/03, E-3711/03, E-3712/03, E-3713/03, E-3714/03, E-3715/03, E-3716/03, E-3717/03, E-3721/03, E-3722/03, E-3723/03, E-3724/03, E-3725/03, E-3726/03, E-3727/03, E-3728/03, E-3729/03, E-3730/03 and E-3731/03

95

2004/C 084E/124

E-3719/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Evaluation of the risk inherent in zinc

95

2004/C 084E/125

E-3778/03 by Jürgen Zimmerling to the CommissionSubject: Protection of personal rights

96

2004/C 084E/126

E-3779/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Terni under the action programme to promote civil protection

97

2004/C 084E/127

E-3780/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Cararra under the action programme to promote civil protection

97

2004/C 084E/128

E-3781/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the city of Florence under the action programme to promote civil protection

97

2004/C 084E/129

E-3782/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the city of Livorno under the action programme to promote civil protection

98

2004/C 084E/130

E-3783/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Macerata under the action programme to promote civil protection

98

2004/C 084E/131

E-3784/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Massa under the action programme to promote civil protection

98

2004/C 084E/132

E-3785/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the city of Perugia under the action programme to promote civil protection

99

2004/C 084E/133

E-3786/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Pesaro under the action programme to promote civil protection

99

2004/C 084E/134

E-3787/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the city of Pisa under the action programme to promote civil protection

99

2004/C 084E/135

E-3788/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Pistoia under the action programme to promote civil protection

100

2004/C 084E/136

E-3789/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Prato the action programme to promote civil protection

100

2004/C 084E/137

E-3790/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the city of Siena under the action programme to promote civil protection

100

2004/C 084E/138

E-3791/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Ancona under the action programme to promote civil protection

101

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3779/03, E-3780/03, E-3781/03, E-3782/03, E-3783/03, E-3784/03, E-3785/03, E-3786/03, E-3787/03, E-3788/03, E-3789/03, E-3790/03 and E-3791/03

101

2004/C 084E/139

E-3817/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Road tolls charged on the ‘Attic Highway’ in Athens

101

2004/C 084E/140

E-3822/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Serious negative impact on habitats and species of Community interest on the island of Mallorca

102

2004/C 084E/141

E-3828/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: The Izar de Fene shipyard and the possibility of regaining authorisation to build merchant ships

104

2004/C 084E/142

P-3831/03 by André Brie to the CommissionSubject: Current European-American negotiations on the use of Galileo

105

2004/C 084E/143

E-3842/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Attacks on democracy in Mauritania

106

2004/C 084E/144

P-3865/03 by Marie Isler Béguin to the CommissionSubject: Balearic Islands Sectoral Roads Masterplan

107

2004/C 084E/145

E-3869/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Impact of specific residential building schemes on SIC ES 5223037

108

2004/C 084E/146

E-3887/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Measures to tackle legionnaires’ disease

109

2004/C 084E/147

E-3895/03 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Conflicts between the objectives of the Water Framework Directive, the Renewable Energy Directive, the Emissions Trading Directive and the goal of ensuring security of supply: the case of Austria

110

2004/C 084E/148

E-3898/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Otters in UK rivers

111

2004/C 084E/149

E-3904/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: European satellite agency - Galileo programme

112

2004/C 084E/150

E-3906/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Single currency and cost-of-living increases

114

2004/C 084E/151

P-3909/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Framework directive

115

2004/C 084E/152

E-3912/03 by Ole Krarup to the CommissionSubject: Oil extraction in the North Sea

117

2004/C 084E/153

E-3928/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Forests and building cooperatives in Greece

117

2004/C 084E/154

P-3930/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Retention of privileges by the Agricultural Bank of Greece

118

2004/C 084E/155

P-3931/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Rehabilitation of areas devastated by the summer 2003 forest fires in Portugal (Supplementary Answer).

119

2004/C 084E/156

E-3934/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: US visa provisions which result in refusal to permit the return of Europeans who have a permanent residence and permanent job in the USA

120

2004/C 084E/157

E-3939/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: Failure by drivers of refuse and gritting lorries to comply with the rules on driving and rest periods when carrying out public service tasks

121

2004/C 084E/158

E-3952/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Standards on laying gas pipes

122

2004/C 084E/159

E-3963/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Geroi Sevastopolya - Safety at Sea

122

2004/C 084E/160

E-3969/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Judicial investigation by the Catania Public Prosecutor’s office into an EUR 5 million fraud against the European Union

124

2004/C 084E/161

E-3983/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the multiregional operational programme for water resources under Objective 1 for Italy in the context of the 1994-1999 Community Support Framework

125

2004/C 084E/162

E-3985/03 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Sourcing of timber for the refurbishment of Commission buildings

126

2004/C 084E/163

E-3986/03 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Radioactive waste dumps in Sicily

127

2004/C 084E/164

E-3987/03 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Galileo

127

2004/C 084E/165

P-3990/03 by Diana Wallis to the CommissionSubject: Posting/delivery of tender documents

128

2004/C 084E/166

P-4002/03 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Violation of privacy at the World Summit on the Information Society

129

2004/C 084E/167

E-4006/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Residence permits and the difficulty of obtaining them

130

2004/C 084E/168

E-4015/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Toxic sites

131

2004/C 084E/169

E-4021/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Support for research in Portugal

132

2004/C 084E/170

E-4026/03 by Nicholas Clegg to the CommissionSubject: Precious Metals Directive

133

2004/C 084E/171

E-4028/03 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: The euro and public opinion

133

2004/C 084E/172

E-4029/03 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: Euro-dollar exchange rate

134

2004/C 084E/173

E-4032/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: UK contribution to the EU budget

135

2004/C 084E/174

E-4033/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Censoring of the word ‘condom’ in the Commission’s official press release to mark World Aids Day at the request of Mr Prodi’s office

135

2004/C 084E/175

P-4034/03 by Kyösti Virrankoski to the CommissionSubject: Protecting people and livestock against wolves and bears

136

2004/C 084E/176

E-4036/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Novel Food Regulation (EC) No 258/97 and Noni products

137

2004/C 084E/177

E-4037/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Health reform and natural remedies in Germany

139

2004/C 084E/178

E-4057/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Trans-European telecommunications networks

139

2004/C 084E/179

E-4061/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Noise from aircraft at Eleftherios Venizelos airport

141

2004/C 084E/180

E-4067/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Cofinancing of the Júcar-Vinalopó conduit and environmental conditions

142

2004/C 084E/181

E-4070/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Conventions, Charter and Constitution: the costs

143

2004/C 084E/182

P-0074/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: European Convention

144

Joint answer to Written Questions E-4070/03 and P-0074/04

144

2004/C 084E/183

E-4075/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Contracts of doctors working for the Greek Electricity Board (DEI)

145

2004/C 084E/184

E-4085/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Practical problems in application of Directive 1999/44/EC

145

2004/C 084E/185

E-0009/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Protection of Netherlands exports of radar detectors by exempting them from a domestic ban

147

2004/C 084E/186

E-0010/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Lower levels of protection against BSE infection in beef from America in the EU compared with Japan, Russia and other countries

148

2004/C 084E/187

E-0017/04 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Adaptation of Council Directive 92/58/EEC on minimum requirements for the provision of safety and/or health signs at work

150

2004/C 084E/188

P-0019/04 by Juan Ferrández Lezaun to the CommissionSubject: Júcar-Vinalopó project

151

2004/C 084E/189

E-0020/04 by Fiorella Ghilardotti, Massimo Carraro and Giovanni Fava to the CommissionSubject: Bridge over the Straits of Messina

151

2004/C 084E/190

E-0021/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Urgent adoption of a directive on aircraft safety imposing stringent and uniform checks

153

2004/C 084E/191

P-0038/04 by Juan Izquierdo Collado to the CommissionSubject: Illegal imports of dolphins

153

2004/C 084E/192

E-0042/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Structural Fund decommitments in Scotland

154

2004/C 084E/193

E-0062/04 by Giorgio Calò and Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Discriminatory treatment of Community research students in Germany

156

2004/C 084E/194

E-0070/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Chrome-plating factory in Tabaçò, Arcos de Valdevez

157

2004/C 084E/195

P-0075/04 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Flight safety checks

157

2004/C 084E/196

E-0078/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Schengen Information System and missing persons

158

2004/C 084E/197

E-0082/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Clinical Trials Directive

159

2004/C 084E/198

P-0084/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Ban on shipping of oil in single-hull tankers and the use of ‘flags of convenience’

160

2004/C 084E/199

E-0088/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Excessively high premiums charged by Dutch medical insurance companies to policyholders in neighbouring States to offset deficits in the United States

161

2004/C 084E/200

E-0098/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Extradition of Sok Yoeun

162

2004/C 084E/201

E-0100/04 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Language arrangements on the ‘Europa’ website

163

2004/C 084E/202

E-0122/04 by Toine Manders to the CommissionSubject: Debt and European professional football

164

2004/C 084E/203

E-0128/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Application of age limits to recruitment of workers already having fixed-term contracts over a number of years in the public sector in Greece

165

2004/C 084E/204

E-0138/04 by Kathalijne Buitenweg to the CommissionSubject: Use of passenger data for CAPPS II testing

166

2004/C 084E/205

E-0139/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Financial support for undersea optic-fibre cable link for the islands of Flores and Corvo (Azores)

167

2004/C 084E/206

E-0151/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Shortage of intensive care units in Greece (Supplementary Answer)

168

2004/C 084E/207

P-0159/04 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Trial of women for illegal abortion in Portugal

169

2004/C 084E/208

P-0160/04 by Uma Aaltonen to the CommissionSubject: Use in the EU institutions of sniffer dogs trained to detect explosives

169

2004/C 084E/209

E-0179/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: National immigration plans

170

2004/C 084E/210

E-0180/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Directive 2000/78 in Greece

171

2004/C 084E/211

P-0192/04 by Philip Bradbourn to the CommissionSubject: Repayments under n+2 rule

172

2004/C 084E/212

E-0195/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Access to medical treatment in Member States

172

2004/C 084E/213

E-0196/04 by Ward Beysen to the CommissionSubject: Temporary agency workers directive

173

2004/C 084E/214

E-0197/04 by Ward Beysen to the CommissionSubject: Use of State funds to reduce electricity prices for industrial users

174

2004/C 084E/215

E-0200/04 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: The ‘Bob Programme’ and road accidents

175

2004/C 084E/216

E-0219/04 by Dominique Souchet to the CommissionSubject: Malta’s accession and maritime safety

176

2004/C 084E/217

E-0225/04 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Food safety and developing countries

177

2004/C 084E/218

E-0238/04 by Joachim Wuermeling to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the directive on the safety of cableways

178

2004/C 084E/219

E-0242/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Parkinson’s disease

179

2004/C 084E/220

P-0244/04 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Spanish National Hydrological Plan - cost and price of water

180

2004/C 084E/221

P-0245/04 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Impact assessment of OPTA decisions

181

2004/C 084E/222

E-0250/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Retirement age of football referees

182

2004/C 084E/223

E-0251/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Labelling of bread

183

2004/C 084E/224

P-0256/04 by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Open call for proposals VP/2002/6 for the programme relating to the Community framework strategy on gender equality (2001-2005)

184

2004/C 084E/225

E-0257/04 by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Open call for proposals VP/2002/6 for the programme relating to the Community framework strategy on gender equality (2001-2005)

185

2004/C 084E/226

E-0258/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Cambodia: Assassination of members of the Opposition

186

2004/C 084E/227

E-0260/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Blue tongue disease - protection of stock farmers in Lazio

186

2004/C 084E/228

E-0261/04 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Reported Spanish ban on motorcycles towing trailers

188

2004/C 084E/229

E-0262/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Sewage treatment plants

189

2004/C 084E/230

P-0263/04 by Matti Wuori to the CommissionSubject: Safety at Sosnovyi Bor nuclear power station

189

2004/C 084E/231

E-0269/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Consumer credit

190

2004/C 084E/232

E-0278/04 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Problems affecting contract negotiations under the Sixth Framework Programme

191

2004/C 084E/233

P-0281/04 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Wärtsilä and Italian state subsidies

192

2004/C 084E/234

E-0287/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Mislabelling of seal oil in the EU

193

2004/C 084E/235

P-0294/04 by Herman Vermeer to the CommissionSubject: Disclosure of the rate structure for the Central European Pipeline System

194

2004/C 084E/236

E-0295/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Age discrimination in the provision of goods and services

194

2004/C 084E/237

E-0299/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Compact disc pricing in the EU

195

2004/C 084E/238

P-0303/04 by Michael Cashman to the CommissionSubject: Booking tickets for travel in another country

196

2004/C 084E/239

P-0304/04 by Pietro-Paolo Mennea to the CommissionSubject: Prison guards

196

2004/C 084E/240

E-0315/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Language programme for minority languages

197

2004/C 084E/241

E-0316/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: European voluntary and solidarity service

198

2004/C 084E/242

E-0317/04 by Nicholas Clegg to the CommissionSubject: Pork by-products

199

2004/C 084E/243

P-0338/04 by Eluned Morgan to the CommissionSubject: Food safety

199

2004/C 084E/244

P-0340/04 by Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Compatibility of Law 69 of 3 February 1963 with the free movement of workers within the European Community

200

2004/C 084E/245

P-0342/04 by Dirk Sterckx to the CommissionSubject: Restrictions on the opening up of the Belgian railways market

201

2004/C 084E/246

P-0359/04 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Impact of lack of health care standards on free movement of labour and citizens

202

2004/C 084E/247

E-0366/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Shoppers’ rights in Ireland under EU law

203

2004/C 084E/248

E-0370/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Extension of the Working Time Directive to excluded sectors

204

2004/C 084E/249

P-0376/04 by Luciana Sbarbati to the CommissionSubject: Crisis in the steel sector in Terni

204

2004/C 084E/250

P-0388/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Terni steelworks: closure of the Thyssen-Krupp plant

205

2004/C 084E/251

P-0445/04 by Mario Mastella to the CommissionSubject: Crisis at the AST plant in Terni

206

Joint answer to Written Questions P-0376/04, P-0388/04 and P-0445/04

206

2004/C 084E/252

E-0381/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Operation of reception classes — second operational programme: ‘education and initial training’

208

2004/C 084E/253

E-0383/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Postage rates

209

2004/C 084E/254

E-0393/04 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Animal By-Products Regulation

210

2004/C 084E/255

P-0514/04 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up question to Written Question E-2133/02 on discrimination against international football referees on grounds of age

211

2004/C 084E/256

E-0580/04 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption

212

WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 2)

2004/C 084E/257

E-0225/03 by Guido Podestà to the CommissionSubject: AIDS in eastern Europe

213

2004/C 084E/258

P-2374/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Contracting and subcontracting by the Commission (Supplementary Answer)

214

2004/C 084E/259

E-2454/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat: alteration of the Commission’s position on recognising and tackling fraud and consequences for independent investigation by OLAF

214

2004/C 084E/260

E-2573/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Breach of binding OSCE obligations on freedom of thought, conscience and religion by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

215

2004/C 084E/261

E-2688/03 by Toine Manders to the CommissionSubject: Reduction in VAT rates for labour-intensive sectors

217

2004/C 084E/262

E-2837/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Creation of a new airline from Olympic Airways (Supplementary Answer)

218

2004/C 084E/263

E-3075/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Freedom and pluralism in information

219

2004/C 084E/264

E-3114/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Spreading of false scientific claims regarding the effectiveness of condoms in combating AIDS by Catholic Church leaders/the Holy See/the Vatican City State

220

2004/C 084E/265

E-3122/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Reduction of VAT on CDs and cassettes

221

2004/C 084E/266

E-3123/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CouncilSubject: Deportation of Chechens

222

2004/C 084E/267

E-3139/03 by Peter Liese to the CouncilSubject: EU preparedness in the event of biological attack

223

2004/C 084E/268

E-3148/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Support for institutions working with women and girls who are victims of prostitution

223

2004/C 084E/269

E-3206/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CouncilSubject: Search made of the offices of the newspaper ‘Il Giornale’: violation of press freedom in Italy

224

2004/C 084E/270

E-3242/03 by Jan Wiersma to the CouncilSubject: The ‘Buy American Act’ in the American defence budget

225

2004/C 084E/271

P-3246/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CouncilSubject: Somalia: internal situation, refugees and terrorism

226

2004/C 084E/272

E-3248/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CouncilSubject: Possibility of tracking cellphone users

227

2004/C 084E/273

E-3251/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CouncilSubject: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

228

2004/C 084E/274

E-3267/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CouncilSubject: Qualified majority voting

228

2004/C 084E/275

P-3282/03 by Anne André-Léonard to the CouncilSubject: Harmonisation of European legislation in respect of boatmasters’ certificates for recreational craft

233

2004/C 084E/276

P-3313/03 by Hans-Peter Martin to the CouncilSubject: Negotiations on the EU Constitutional Treaty

233

2004/C 084E/277

E-3349/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CouncilSubject: Eurobarometer opinion poll

234

2004/C 084E/278

E-3354/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CouncilSubject: Minority language groups in Greece and official statistics

235

2004/C 084E/279

E-3358/03 by Chris Davies to the CouncilSubject: Bycatch associated with shrimp fisheries

236

2004/C 084E/280

P-3414/03 by Marianne Eriksson to the CouncilSubject: Estonia and directives on equal opportunities

237

2004/C 084E/281

P-3415/03 by Francesco Rutelli to the CouncilSubject: Statements made by the Presidency at the EU-Russia Summit of 7 November 2003

238

2004/C 084E/282

P-3473/03 by Daniel Cohn-Bendit to the CouncilSubject: Statements made by the Presidency at the EU-Russia Summit of 7 November 2003

238

Joint answer to Written Questions P-3415/03 and P-3473/03

239

2004/C 084E/283

E-3440/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CouncilSubject: Human rights in China

239

2004/C 084E/284

E-3441/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CouncilSubject: EU action against the Guantánamo Bay prison

240

2004/C 084E/285

E-3451/03 by Ioannis Marínos to the CouncilSubject: Eurobarometer findings regarding the Euro and inflation

241

2004/C 084E/286

E-3468/03 by Bart Staes, Phillip Whitehead, Catherine Stihler and Margrietus van den Berg to the CouncilSubject: Post-polio syndrome

242

2004/C 084E/287

E-3495/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CouncilSubject: Colombia - ELN hostages

242

2004/C 084E/288

E-3499/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CouncilSubject: Romano Prodi - Manifesto

243

2004/C 084E/289

E-3525/03 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Size of apples

244

2004/C 084E/290

P-3526/03 by Jens-Peter Bonde to the CouncilSubject: The difference between unanimity and consensus

245

2004/C 084E/291

E-3531/03 by Rijk van Dam to the CouncilSubject: Statements by the President of the Transport Council after the informal Transport Council in Verona

246

2004/C 084E/292

E-3533/03 by Christine De Veyrac to the CouncilSubject: European Space Policy - budget

246

2004/C 084E/293

E-3572/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Lloyds of London

247

2004/C 084E/294

E-3575/03 by Michl Ebner to the CouncilSubject: EU Identity document for the disabled

248

2004/C 084E/295

E-3621/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Presence of chlophen in food produced in various regions of Greece (Supplementary Answer)

249

2004/C 084E/296

E-3661/03 by Konrad Schwaiger and Karl von Wogau to the CommissionSubject: Imports of preserved mushrooms from China

250

2004/C 084E/297

E-3812/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Tempus programme in Romania

250

2004/C 084E/298

E-3829/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: The milk quota situation after enlargement: Galicia’s production allowance

251

2004/C 084E/299

E-3854/03 by Samuli Pohjamo to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s plans for reforming State aid rules

252

2004/C 084E/300

E-3855/03 by Michl Ebner and Paolo Pastorelli to the CommissionSubject: Airport security

253

2004/C 084E/301

E-3856/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Contracts under the Eighth EDF

254

2004/C 084E/302

E-3858/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Invalidity pensions in the European Union

255

2004/C 084E/303

E-3866/03 by Robert Sturdy to the CommissionSubject: Bird-trapping in Cyprus

256

2004/C 084E/304

E-3876/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Exceeding of the basic cultivation areas for 2003 and application of penalties

256

2004/C 084E/305

E-3883/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel Italia: Community funding for telecommunications (Supplementary Answer)

257

2004/C 084E/306

E-3885/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel Italia: possible checks on funding granted by the EU (Supplementary Answer)

258

2004/C 084E/307

E-3897/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Unsustainable fishery by-catches

260

2004/C 084E/308

E-3900/03 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Trieste-Divaca rail link

261

2004/C 084E/309

E-3968/03 by Amalia Sartori to the CommissionSubject: Trans-European transport network

261

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3900/03 and E-3968/03

262

2004/C 084E/310

E-3905/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat enquiry: OLAF task force disbanded

262

2004/C 084E/311

E-3907/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Commission proposal to reduce fishery catches in 2004, in Galician waters and those of the Iberian peninsula in general

263

2004/C 084E/312

E-3914/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Expansion of Palma de Mallorca Airport

265

2004/C 084E/313

E-3921/03 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Illegal practices in use of water from the Segura Basin (Murcia, Spain)

266

2004/C 084E/314

E-3923/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Counterfeiting

266

2004/C 084E/315

E-3938/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: Use of surveying firms, contracted by the public authorities, to measure plot areas in connection with participation in EU set-aside schemes

268

2004/C 084E/316

E-3940/03 by Daniel Hannan to the CommissionSubject: Distortions in the sugar trade

269

2004/C 084E/317

E-3941/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination over issue of housing permit in Rotterdam

270

2004/C 084E/318

E-3944/03 by Dominique Souchet to the CommissionSubject: Fish-stock recovery plans

271

2004/C 084E/319

E-3945/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Use of EU funds for terrorist organisations and checks on funding for the PNA

271

2004/C 084E/320

E-3947/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Subsidies for pioneering solar energy plants

273

2004/C 084E/321

E-3961/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Jules Muis - functioning of the Commission

274

2004/C 084E/322

E-3962/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Portugal - toll charges and ‘people carriers’

277

2004/C 084E/323

E-3979/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Planning amnesty in Ibiza

278

2004/C 084E/324

E-3988/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Doctoring of information passing between Commissioner Solbes and Eurostat

279

2004/C 084E/325

E-3994/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Culture and languages programme

280

2004/C 084E/326

E-3995/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Projects relating to the information society

280

2004/C 084E/327

E-3996/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: New work methods and development of e-commerce

281

2004/C 084E/328

E-4003/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Draught in the Vilshofen-Straubing section of the Danube

281

2004/C 084E/329

E-4007/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Earthquake risk prevention

282

2004/C 084E/330

E-4017/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Publicisation of the EU among the blind in the Community

284

2004/C 084E/331

E-4018/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Standardised use of the European flag on aircraft of EU airlines

285

2004/C 084E/332

E-4020/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Congo river basin

286

2004/C 084E/333

P-4035/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: Implementation in Portugal of the regulation on automobile distribution

287

2004/C 084E/334

E-4045/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Contamination of groundwater in Catalonia

288

2004/C 084E/335

E-4046/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Software and filtering systems

289

2004/C 084E/336

E-4047/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Safe use of the Internet

290

2004/C 084E/337

P-4048/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: EDF budgetisation

291

2004/C 084E/338

E-4054/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: National waters within the EU’s EEZ

292

2004/C 084E/339

E-4065/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)

292

2004/C 084E/340

E-4078/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Galileo

293

2004/C 084E/341

E-0006/04 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Granting of favourable tax status to Sicily

294

2004/C 084E/342

E-0016/04 by Jan Dhaene to the CommissionSubject: The Grefacsa company and the treatment of animal by-products

295

2004/C 084E/343

E-0031/04 by Astrid Lulling to the CommissionSubject: Practices of some Luxembourg insurance companies

296

2004/C 084E/344

E-0035/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Unavailability for commercial reasons of information on insufficient airline safety standards

297

2004/C 084E/345

E-0039/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Amount of EU legislative acts

298

2004/C 084E/346

E-0043/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Trade impact of the euro

298

2004/C 084E/347

E-0045/04 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Failure to carry out prior checks and a simultaneous environmental impact assessment on the entire building project coordinated by Impreglio SpA on the coastline of Sa Sea — Tentizzos in the municipality of Bosa (NU), Sardinia, Italy

299

2004/C 084E/348

E-0046/04 by Jan Dhaene to the CommissionSubject: Advertisements for jobs in European organisations requiring English mother tongue

301

2004/C 084E/349

E-0086/04 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Language requirements in EU job advertisements

301

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0046/04 and E-0086/04

302

2004/C 084E/350

E-0051/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Consequences of the letter to the Commission from six Member States following the failure of the Brussels IGC

302

2004/C 084E/351

E-0063/04 by Alexander de Roo and Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Incineration of railway sleepers

303

2004/C 084E/352

P-0066/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Parmalat bankruptcy

304

2004/C 084E/353

P-0093/04 by Martin Kastler to the CommissionSubject: Trafficking in humans and prostitution in the German-Czech border area

305

2004/C 084E/354

E-0112/04 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Dolphins

306

2004/C 084E/355

E-0121/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Integrated waste management in the municipality of Casale sul Sile (Treviso)

307

2004/C 084E/356

E-0123/04 by Dorette Corbey and Jan Wiersma to the CommissionSubject: Containers of arsenic pentoxide at sea

308

2004/C 084E/357

E-0131/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Tragedy involving Albanian migrants

309

2004/C 084E/358

E-0132/04 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Improved aviation safety through more effective channelling of information

311

2004/C 084E/359

P-0133/04 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Fishery control agency in Vigo

312

2004/C 084E/360

P-0134/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Collapse of Parmalat and insufficient checks by Bankitalia

312

2004/C 084E/361

P-0135/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Rome central dairy: safeguarding jobs and protecting farmers

313

2004/C 084E/362

E-0136/04 by Jillian Evans to the CommissionSubject: GM food and crop imports

314

2004/C 084E/363

E-0140/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Media access in the Azores and Madeira outlying regions

315

2004/C 084E/364

E-0141/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Child labour

316

2004/C 084E/365

E-0145/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: International Rice Year

317

2004/C 084E/366

P-0149/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Revenue from denationalisation used to cover current expenditure

319

2004/C 084E/367

E-0153/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Use of the term ‘Chechen network’ without any proven involvement of Chechens

319

2004/C 084E/368

E-0155/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Disadvantaging certain categories of passengers through further restrictions on the sale of rail tickets from the Netherlands to other European destinations

320

2004/C 084E/369

P-0156/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

321

2004/C 084E/370

E-0161/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

322

2004/C 084E/371

E-0162/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

322

2004/C 084E/372

E-0163/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

322

2004/C 084E/373

E-0164/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

323

2004/C 084E/374

E-0165/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

323

2004/C 084E/375

E-0166/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

323

2004/C 084E/376

E-0167/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

324

2004/C 084E/377

E-0168/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

324

2004/C 084E/378

E-0169/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

324

2004/C 084E/379

E-0170/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

325

2004/C 084E/380

E-0171/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

325

2004/C 084E/381

E-0172/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

325

2004/C 084E/382

E-0173/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

325

2004/C 084E/383

E-0174/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

326

2004/C 084E/384

E-0175/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

326

2004/C 084E/385

E-0176/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

326

2004/C 084E/386

E-0177/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s accounting systems

326

Joint answer to Written Questions P-0156/04, E-0161/04, E-0162/04, E-0163/04, E-0164/04, E-0165/04, E-0166/04, E-0167/04, E-0168/04, E-0169/04, E-0170/04, E-0171/04, E-0172/04, E-0173/04, E-0174/04, E-0175/04, E-0176/04 and E-0177/04

327

2004/C 084E/387

E-0184/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Eircom telephone line rental charges in Ireland

329

2004/C 084E/388

E-0191/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Financial collapse of Parmalat: protecting savers and setting up a supervisory body

330

2004/C 084E/389

E-0201/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Linguistic discrimination in job descriptions

332

2004/C 084E/390

E-0210/04 by Markus Ferber to the CommissionSubject: Language discrimination in job advertisements

332

2004/C 084E/391

E-0236/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Job advertisements for ‘native speakers’

332

2004/C 084E/392

E-0241/04 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Language discrimination - native speakers

333

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0201/04, E-0210/04, E-0236/04 and E-0241/04

333

2004/C 084E/393

E-0203/04 by Alexander de Roo and Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Spanish Fuel Quality Law - Royal Decree 1700/2003

334

2004/C 084E/394

E-0211/04 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Allegations of manoeuvring to seize property owned by building cooperatives in Greece

335

2004/C 084E/395

E-0227/04 by Ewa Hedkvist Petersen to the CommissionSubject: Alcohol ignition interlock devices (‘alcolocks’)

335

2004/C 084E/396

E-0228/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Timely development and production of drugs to combat the merging of avian influenza virus H5N1 and influenza A occurring in humans

336

2004/C 084E/397

E-0235/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Violation of human rights of Cacarica communities in Colombia

338

2004/C 084E/398

E-0237/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Fees at the European Schools

339

2004/C 084E/399

E-0239/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of Christians and Buddhists in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

340

2004/C 084E/400

E-0240/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Huge discount from banks to the ‘Democratici di Sinistra’ party in violation of the principle of free competition

341

2004/C 084E/401

E-0243/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Relocation and unemployment (Supplementary Answer)

342

2004/C 084E/402

E-0264/04 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Community funding for the Greek National Cadastre

344

2004/C 084E/403

E-0265/04 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Propagandist mileage from Community funding in the run-up to elections in Greece

345

2004/C 084E/404

E-0274/04 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Arsenic acid

346

2004/C 084E/405

E-0277/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: EU participation in a project to build a multi-purpose hall in Brussels

348

2004/C 084E/406

E-0279/04 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Embryo and stem-cell research

349

2004/C 084E/407

P-0280/04 by Rijk van Dam to the CommissionSubject: European Commission representation in Delhi

350

2004/C 084E/408

P-0282/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Identification of the outermost regions on official Community maps

351

2004/C 084E/409

P-0283/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Public procurement policy in timer

352

2004/C 084E/410

E-0285/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Landfill on Malta

353

2004/C 084E/411

E-0290/04 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: Scope of Directive 97/11/EC

354

2004/C 084E/412

E-0291/04 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Road accidents in European Union countries

354

2004/C 084E/413

P-0293/04 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Threat to the Güe springs from the construction of the Puente del Arco to El Condado section of the AS 17 highway (Asturias, Spain)

355

2004/C 084E/414

E-0298/04 by Bob van den Bos to the CommissionSubject: Relations between the EU and Libya and human rights in Libya

356

2004/C 084E/415

E-0307/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Genetically modified crops

357

2004/C 084E/416

E-0308/04 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: The French language at the Commission

358

2004/C 084E/417

E-0311/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Discontinuation of the activities of the rail freight company Ikea Rail within two years of its foundation and the status of the EU subsidy of EUR 500 000 awarded to this experiment

359

2004/C 084E/418

P-0324/04 by W.G. van Velzen to the CommissionSubject: New Belgian levy on Netherlands and German electricity distribution companies for use of the Belgian high-voltage grid when importing electricity from France

360

2004/C 084E/419

E-0325/04 by Willi Piecyk to the CommissionSubject: Transposition of Directive 2002/25/EC

361

2004/C 084E/420

E-0329/04 by Jillian Evans and Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Endometriosis

362

2004/C 084E/421

E-0332/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Mislabelling of arsenic acid as pentoxide by the Netherlands as a result of mistakes in ‘unambiguous’ new nomenclature for hazardous chemicals

363

2004/C 084E/422

P-0336/04 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Embryo research financed from the EU budget

364

2004/C 084E/423

P-0339/04 by Jean-Louis Bernié to the CommissionSubject: Wind turbines

365

2004/C 084E/424

E-0344/04 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: ‘Conseillers hors classe’

366

2004/C 084E/425

E-0345/04 by Eluned Morgan to the CommissionSubject: Trans-European Transport Networks

367

2004/C 084E/426

E-0346/04 by Eluned Morgan to the CommissionSubject: Differential pricing

368

2004/C 084E/427

E-0349/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Serious irregularities involving the EU as regards the establishment of the private University of Formello (Rome)

369

2004/C 084E/428

E-0353/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Possibility of funding for a virtual health information project

370

2004/C 084E/429

E-0354/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Funding for the creation of a multi-purpose auditorium

371

2004/C 084E/430

E-0355/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Funding for young artists

372

2004/C 084E/431

E-0356/04 by Pasqualina Napoletano, Giorgio Ruffolo, Guido Sacconi and Walter Veltroni to the CommissionSubject: Crisis in the steel sector in Terni

372

2004/C 084E/432

E-0390/04 by Francesco Rutelli to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the electrical steel department of AST in Terni

373

2004/C 084E/433

E-0395/04 by Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Measures to prevent the closure of the steelworks in Terni

373

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0356/04, E-0390/04 and E-0395/04

373

2004/C 084E/434

P-0360/04 by Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Failure to include directory services among universal service obligations

374

2004/C 084E/435

E-0361/04 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Fluoridation of Irish drinking water

375

2004/C 084E/436

E-0363/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Complaint P2000/4974

376

2004/C 084E/437

E-0364/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Packaging Waste Directive and Ireland

377

2004/C 084E/438

E-0365/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Separation of Accounts Directive

377

2004/C 084E/439

E-0367/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Animal experiments in Ireland

378

2004/C 084E/440

E-0368/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Irish Government charges and the Seveso II Directive

379

2004/C 084E/441

E-0369/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Public consultation during the preparation of emergency plans under the Seveso II Directive

379

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0368/04 and E-0369/04

379

2004/C 084E/442

E-0372/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Interrogation of the editor Alexander Podrabinek

380

2004/C 084E/443

P-0375/04 by Martin Kastler to the CommissionSubject: Measures to prevent the consumption of alcopops by young people

381

2004/C 084E/444

E-0379/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Dismissal of pregnant workers

382

2004/C 084E/445

E-0380/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Contract-holders at the Fire Service

383

2004/C 084E/446

P-0385/04 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Commercial activities of Ordnance Survey

383

2004/C 084E/447

P-0386/04 by Jean Saint-Josse to the CommissionSubject: Wind turbines

385

2004/C 084E/448

P-0387/04 by Yves Butel to the CommissionSubject: Wind turbines

386

2004/C 084E/449

E-0391/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Hair dye and cancer risks

386

2004/C 084E/450

P-0392/04 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: The EU’s continuing capacity to receive large quotas of immigrants from third-world countries

388

2004/C 084E/451

E-0405/04 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Outbreak of avian influenza

389

2004/C 084E/452

E-0415/04 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Review of decision on Norrmejerier

390

2004/C 084E/453

P-0417/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Sackings from the Finex Group factory (Supplementary Answer)

390

2004/C 084E/454

E-0421/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Lifting of the temporary restriction on the use of fishmeal in animal feed

391

2004/C 084E/455

E-0422/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: High-speed Lubian to Orense rail link giving central access to Galicia

393

2004/C 084E/456

E-0428/04 by Brian Simpson to the CommissionSubject: The future of publicly-owned regional airports in the light of the recent decision on Charleroi Airport, in Belgium, and Ryanair

393

2004/C 084E/457

E-0431/04 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: European Commission plan for a vertical-takeoff convertiplane

394

2004/C 084E/458

E-0432/04 by Helle Thorning-Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Passive smoking

395

2004/C 084E/459

P-0433/04 by Seán Ó Neachtain to the CommissionSubject: Status of Gaeilige for recruitment to the EU Institutions

397

2004/C 084E/460

E-0434/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: EURO 0

398

2004/C 084E/461

E-0435/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: EURO 1

398

2004/C 084E/462

E-0436/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: EURO 2

398

2004/C 084E/463

E-0437/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: EURO 5

399

2004/C 084E/464

E-0438/04 by Michl Ebnerto the CommissionSubject: EURO 6

399

2004/C 084E/465

E-0439/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Nitrogen oxide emission limits

400

2004/C 084E/466

E-0440/04 by Michl Ebnerto the CommissionSubject: Particulate emission limits

400

2004/C 084E/467

E-0441/04 by Michl Ebnerto the CommissionSubject: Particulate filters

400

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0434/04, E-0435/04, E-0436/04, E-0437/04, E-0438/04, E-0439/04, E-0440/04 and E-0441/04

401

2004/C 084E/468

E-0453/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Exploitation of Portuguese workers in France

402

2004/C 084E/469

P-0455/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Illegal fishing - Azores and Madeira

403

2004/C 084E/470

E-0456/04 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Increase in consumer complaints in Greece

404

2004/C 084E/471

E-0458/04 by Brian Simpson and Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Avian flu and the ban on poultry from Thailand

405

2004/C 084E/472

E-0459/04 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: Closure of Thyssen Krupp plants in Terni

406

2004/C 084E/473

E-0460/04 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Belgium — European leader in the combating of salmonella enteritidis — pasteurisation of eggs

407

2004/C 084E/474

E-0464/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: ‘Brax’ - sackings and relocation

408

2004/C 084E/475

E-0467/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Mission expenses

409

2004/C 084E/476

E-0471/04 by Toine Manders to the CommissionSubject: Misuse of the model European disabled person’s parking card

409

2004/C 084E/477

E-0475/04 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Language discrimination in notices of vacancy

410

2004/C 084E/478

E-0538/04 by Kathalijne Buitenweg to the CommissionSubject: Language discrimination in notices of vacancy — ‘English mother tongue’ or ‘native speaker’

411

2004/C 084E/479

E-0710/04 by Concepció Ferrer to the CommissionSubject: EU notices of vacancy for English mother-tongue candidates

411

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0475/04, E-0538/04 and E-0710/04

412

2004/C 084E/480

P-0476/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission cars

412

2004/C 084E/481

E-0478/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission Cars

412

2004/C 084E/482

E-0480/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission open competitions

413

2004/C 084E/483

P-0490/04 by Harlem Désir to the CommissionSubject: Imprisonment of the Pakistani journalist Khawar Mehdi Rizvi who was arrested in Karachi on 14 December 2003 together with the French journalists Marc Epstein and Jean-Paul Guilloteau who wrote for ‘L’Express’ magazine

414

2004/C 084E/484

P-0494/04 by Carlos Carnero González to the CommissionSubject: Exemption from the environmental impact assessment by the Government of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Spain, for work on the M30 motorway

415

2004/C 084E/485

E-0496/04 by María Sornosa Martínez and María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Research into Spanish Labour Ministry bursaries

416

2004/C 084E/486

E-0497/04 by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against minors with regard to access to sporting federations in Spain

416

2004/C 084E/487

E-0503/04 by Jorge Hernández Mollar to the CommissionSubject: National obstacles to the application of Directive 98/5/EC

417

2004/C 084E/488

E-0504/04 by Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Incineration of meat-and-bone meal

418

2004/C 084E/489

E-0505/04 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Use of meat-and-bone meal in animal feed

419

2004/C 084E/490

E-0507/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Outermost regions

420

2004/C 084E/491

P-0515/04 by Luís Queiró to the CommissionSubject: Scientific and technical opinions for management of Community fisheries

421

2004/C 084E/492

P-0524/04 by Eluned Morgan to the CommissionSubject: The Constitution

421

2004/C 084E/493

E-0530/04 by Bernd Lange, Karin Scheele and Johannes Swoboda to the CommissionSubject: Euronorm standards and particulates emitted from diesel vehicles

422

2004/C 084E/494

P-0531/04 by Elisabeth Schroedter to the CommissionSubject: Construction of a salt-water spa and discharge of thermal salt water from the spa into the River Spree without an environmental impact assessment

424

2004/C 084E/495

P-0532/04 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Nuclear submarines docked at Santo Stefano Island, Sardinia

425

2004/C 084E/496

E-0535/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of disability status across the European Union

426

2004/C 084E/497

E-0537/04 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: The role of Esperanto in maintaining language equality efficiently

427

2004/C 084E/498

E-0561/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Ireland and Nitrates Directive

428

2004/C 084E/499

E-0563/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the Nitrates Directive in Ireland

428

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0561/04 and E-0563/04

428

2004/C 084E/500

E-0565/04 by Martin Callanan to the CommissionSubject: Clarification on the scope of the Recreational Craft Directive

429

2004/C 084E/501

P-0567/04 by Marie-Arlette Carlotti to the CommissionSubject: Limitation of public exposure to electromagnetic fields

430

2004/C 084E/502

E-0569/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Leonardo da Vinci programme

431

2004/C 084E/503

E-0586/04 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Horse passports

432

2004/C 084E/504

E-0597/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Freedom of movement

433

2004/C 084E/505

E-0601/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Firearms licensing

434

2004/C 084E/506

E-0603/04 by Saïd El Khadraoui to the CommissionSubject: Marking down foodstuffs for quick sale

435

2004/C 084E/507

E-0604/04 by Saïd El Khadraoui to the CommissionSubject: Sale of foodstuffs that are past their sell-by dates

435

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0603/04 and E-0604/04

435

2004/C 084E/508

E-0605/04 by Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up to question E-3005/02 on the European shipbuilding sector

436

2004/C 084E/509

E-0625/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: If the French State prevents Jean-Marie Le Pen from standing in the regional elections it would represent a serious breach of Article 6 of the EU Treaty

437

2004/C 084E/510

P-0633/04 by Saïd El Khadraoui to the CommissionSubject: Integration of the Commission in Brussels

438

2004/C 084E/511

P-0635/04 by W.G. van Velzen to the CommissionSubject: Creation of a European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)

439

2004/C 084E/512

P-0641/04 by Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf to the CommissionSubject: Results of testing for the presence of GMOs in seeds since 2000

440

2004/C 084E/513

P-0644/04 by Harald Ettl to the CommissionSubject: Further information on question concerning portability of supplementary pension rights

441

2004/C 084E/514

P-0645/04 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Expert advice in the JHA sector

441

2004/C 084E/515

P-0653/04 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: Question E-0760/03 — Operating conditions for incineration plants under Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002

442

2004/C 084E/516

E-0656/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Mobile neutering units

443

2004/C 084E/517

P-0704/04 by Guido Sacconi to the CommissionSubject: Transport of poultry

443

2004/C 084E/518

P-0709/04 by Pasqualina Napoletano to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel crisis (Rieti)

444

2004/C 084E/519

E-0717/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Johne’s disease

445

2004/C 084E/520

E-0728/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Ansaldo-Breda: possible monitoring of EU funding

446

2004/C 084E/521

P-0734/04 by Philip Bushill-Matthews to the CommissionSubject: Skiing safety and standardisation

446

2004/C 084E/522

P-0769/04 by Giovanni Pittella to the CommissionSubject: Safety of public buildings in areas of high seismic risk

447

2004/C 084E/523

E-0787/04 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Problems relating to the transposition into national law of Directive 2002/2/EC on the circulation of compound feedingstuffs

448

2004/C 084E/524

P-0799/04 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: UK implementation of Directive 2000/78/EC

449

2004/C 084E/525

P-0823/04 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of degrees and denial of employment

450

2004/C 084E/526

P-0824/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Vaccination of pet farm animals

451

2004/C 084E/527

P-0849/04 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Late payment in commercial operations

452

2004/C 084E/528

E-0865/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: European subsidies paid to the Flemish community

453

2004/C 084E/529

E-1064/04 by André Brie to the CommissionSubject: Inconsistencies relating to the reconstruction of the road S 282 A in the Free State of Saxony

454

WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 3)

2004/C 084E/530

E-3897/02 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: The costs of enlargement and the national contributions of the existing Member States

455

2004/C 084E/531

E-0160/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Delayed recognition of diplomas owing to technicalities

456

2004/C 084E/532

E-0162/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Duties on canned Asiatic tuna

457

2004/C 084E/533

E-0496/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Palestine: hatred spreads to football

458

2004/C 084E/534

E-0501/03 by Evelyne Gebhardt to the CommissionSubject: European Parliament resolution on the memorandum presented by the Commission to the Council on income taxation and equal treatment for men and women (A2-0055/85)

459

2004/C 084E/535

P-0661/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Tariffs on imports of tinned tuna from Thailand and the Philippines

460

2004/C 084E/536

E-0806/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Violations of Community law in EU Member States

461

2004/C 084E/537

E-0857/03 by David Bowe to the CommissionSubject: Purchase of Corus by Outokumpu

462

2004/C 084E/538

E-0907/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Azerbaijan

462

2004/C 084E/539

E-0911/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Delayed recognition of diplomas owing to technicalities

464

2004/C 084E/540

E-0947/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Provisions enacted by the Italian Government with regard to electromagnetic pollution

465

2004/C 084E/541

E-1271/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Detention of Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva in Cuba

467

2004/C 084E/542

E-1306/03 by Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Further development of European legislation on car emissions

467

2004/C 084E/543

E-1367/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: EU agriculture subsidies and elimination of local producers

468

2004/C 084E/544

P-1511/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Financial corrections

470

2004/C 084E/545

E-1570/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Criticism of the active involvement of the Flemish government in environmental rehabilitation, allegedly in breach of the promotion of free competition

471

2004/C 084E/546

E-1571/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Solutions for environmental problems in Flanders without increasing dependence on private firms

472

2004/C 084E/547

E-1671/03 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up question to question E-3529/02 on statutory regulation of holiday pay

473

2004/C 084E/548

P-1696/03 by Danielle Darras to the CommissionSubject: European funds and subcontracting

474

2004/C 084E/549

E-1697/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Consumer fraud involving cat and dog skins

475

2004/C 084E/550

E-1700/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Financial corrections

475

2004/C 084E/551

E-1731/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Infringement by Denmark of Articles 82 and 86 of the Treaty

476

2004/C 084E/552

E-1736/03 by Jorge Hernández Mollar to the CommissionSubject: Commission presence at the Fifth World Avocado Congress

477

2004/C 084E/553

E-1830/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Letters to the Greek authorities regarding the proper use of Community funds and compliance with Community (regional policy) legislation

478

2004/C 084E/554

E-1857/03 by Brian Simpson to the CommissionSubject: Protecting slots for regional air routes

478

2004/C 084E/555

P-1886/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Iraqi cultural heritage

479

2004/C 084E/556

E-1936/03 by Anne Jensen to the CommissionSubject: Port safety

479

2004/C 084E/557

P-2007/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Vietnam: continuing imprisonment of the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do

480

2004/C 084E/558

P-2154/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Delays in the disbursement of funding for SMU projects (Supplementary Answer)

481

2004/C 084E/559

P-2158/03 by Danielle Darras to the CommissionSubject: Sub-contracting, EU funding and Isbergue

482

2004/C 084E/560

E-2257/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violations of religious freedom with regard to Pentecostal Church evangelists in Georgia

483

2004/C 084E/561

E-2280/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Train warning signals

484

2004/C 084E/562

E-2297/03 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Legal basis of the nuclear safety directive

485

2004/C 084E/563

E-2332/03 by Franz Turchi to the CommissionSubject: Non-compliance by Italy with Article 43 TEC

486

2004/C 084E/564

P-2341/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Letters to the Greek authorities on the proper use of Community Regional Policy funds

487

2004/C 084E/565

P-2350/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Protection of the Darwin Mounds

487

2004/C 084E/566

E-2413/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Funding for children’s choral exchanges

488

2004/C 084E/567

E-2421/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Bullfrogs

489

2004/C 084E/568

E-2431/03 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: HIV/AIDS situation in Central Asian countries

489

2004/C 084E/569

E-2445/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Illegal importations of bushmeat

492

2004/C 084E/570

E-2496/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: World current account discrepancy

493

2004/C 084E/571

E-2503/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Car hire companies

493

2004/C 084E/572

E-2526/03 by Nicholas Clegg to the CommissionSubject: EU egg producers

494

2004/C 084E/573

E-2572/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Attacks on freedom of religion in Georgia affecting members of Pentecostal, Baptist, Catholic and Orthodox confessions and Jehovah’s Witnesses

495

2004/C 084E/574

E-2681/03 by Robert Goebbels to the CommissionSubject: Approval of Luxembourg secondary school leaving certificates in Belgium

496

2004/C 084E/575

P-2817/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Revamped Olympic Airlines

497

2004/C 084E/576

E-2861/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: GM crops

498

2004/C 084E/577

E-3042/03 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Installation of telecommunications masts

499

2004/C 084E/578

P-3109/03 by Phillip Whitehead to the CommissionSubject: Hydrogenated fats

501

2004/C 084E/579

E-3170/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Problems regarding the Attica suburban railway project

501

2004/C 084E/580

E-3171/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Progress towards completion of the Athens tramway

502

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3170/03 and E-3171/03

502

2004/C 084E/581

E-3297/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Angola - food contingency plan

503

2004/C 084E/582

E-3330/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Import of packaged foodstuffs contaminated with toxins, and use of surreptitious routes to bring them into Member States with the strictest controls

504

2004/C 084E/583

E-3363/03 by Samuli Pohjamo to the CommissionSubject: Socio-economic impact of extractive industry in northern Europe

506

2004/C 084E/584

E-3409/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Appointment of privatisation advisers for the Post Office Savings Bank

507

2004/C 084E/585

E-3512/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Probable impact of the strike of employees at the National Statistical Service of Greece on the publication of European indicators

508

2004/C 084E/586

E-3586/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: EU funding for an Italian company linked to Romano Prodi

508

2004/C 084E/587

E-3852/03 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Appointments and transparency in the Commission

509

2004/C 084E/588

E-3884/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel Italia: suspected infringement of rules on funding granted by the EU (Supplementary Answer)

510

2004/C 084E/589

P-3930/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Retention of privileges by the Agricultural Bank of Greece (Supplementary Answer)

511

2004/C 084E/590

E-3955/03 by Heide Rühle to the CommissionSubject: Interpretation of environmental information directives

512

2004/C 084E/591

E-3964/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Endocrine disruptors in drinking water — reaction to the Commission’s answer to Written Question E-2565/03

513

2004/C 084E/592

E-3976/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Complexity of simplifying the Community acquis

515

2004/C 084E/593

P-3999/03 by Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca to the CommissionSubject: Internal control standard 5 — ‘Sensitive functions’: Modalities relating to the implementation of compulsory mobility

516

2004/C 084E/594

E-4043/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Total allowable catch (TAC) and quotas for 2004

517

2004/C 084E/595

E-4069/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: European Maritime Safety Agency

519

2004/C 084E/596

E-4071/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: The Growth and Stability Pact again

520

2004/C 084E/597

E-4076/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Widespread desiccation of pine trees in Greece

521

2004/C 084E/598

E-4079/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Bird trapping on Cyprus

522

2004/C 084E/599

P-0001/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds for exports to the Vatican City State (Supplementary Answer)

522

2004/C 084E/600

E-0011/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Tunis summit and immigration policy

525

2004/C 084E/601

E-0015/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Apple orchards

526

2004/C 084E/602

E-0022/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Support for the Po Valley dairy farmers’ campaign

527

2004/C 084E/603

E-0033/04 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition by the introduction of regional premiums

527

2004/C 084E/604

E-0048/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Location of the European fisheries monitoring agency in Galicia

529

2004/C 084E/605

E-0056/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Mr Prodi’s statement on the need for each Member State or group of Member States to take the initiative and move forward on the basis of reinforced cooperation if the draft constitution is not adopted in the near future

529

2004/C 084E/606

E-0059/04 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Animal welfare and subsidies following the reform of the CAP

530

2004/C 084E/607

E-0079/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Flight Times and Duty Limitations Proposal — COM(2002)0030

531

2004/C 084E/608

P-0094/04 byAdriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the COM in tobacco

531

2004/C 084E/609

E-0099/04 by Pietro-Paolo Mennea, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Lucio Manisco, Mario Borghezio, Roberto Bigliardo, Luisa Morgantini, Carlo Fatuzzo, Giovanni Fava, Marco Pannella, Generoso Andria, Vitaliano Gemelli, Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Sebastiano Musumeci, Pasqualina Napoletano, Amalia Sartori, Giovanni Pittella, Mariotto Segni, Luigi Cocilovo, Walter Veltroni, Giorgio Ruffolo, Raffaele Costa, Luigi Cesaro, Paolo Pastorelli, Adriana Poli Bortone, Fiorella Ghilardotti, Giovanni Procacci, Claudio Martelli, Mauro Nobilia, Antonio Mussa, Renato Brunetta and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Burma

532

2004/C 084E/610

E-0102/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Paying for water

533

2004/C 084E/611

E-0103/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Water for human consumption

534

2004/C 084E/612

E-0105/04 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Curious approach adopted by the Greek government to the stock exchange

535

2004/C 084E/613

P-0111/04 by Minerva Malliori to the CommissionSubject: Dioxins in farm-raised salmon

536

2004/C 084E/614

E-0119/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Repression of Lao-Hmong communities in the Saysomboune region (Laos)

537

2004/C 084E/615

P-0127/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Community budget and the financial perspective

538

2004/C 084E/616

E-0129/04 by Lord Inglewood to the CommissionSubject: Invasive alien species

539

2004/C 084E/617

E-0130/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Fluoridation of drinking water

540

2004/C 084E/618

E-0152/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Collection of biometric data at ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’ airport, their processing by an external partner and the decision of the Greek Authority for the Protection of Personal Data

541

2004/C 084E/619

E-0186/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Infringement of religious freedom in Italy, Spain and Portugal

542

2004/C 084E/620

E-0189/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Tunisian regime’s repressive measures targeting human rights activists

543

2004/C 084E/621

E-0190/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Creating transparency regarding ownership of the company Italtrend (RE), beneficiary of consulting contracts from the European Commission worth millions of euro

544

2004/C 084E/622

E-0194/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Flight and duty time limitations for airline pilots

546

2004/C 084E/623

P-0198/04 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Creation of a Community body for the study of unexplained atmospheric phenomena

546

2004/C 084E/624

P-0199/04 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Ethnic census

547

2004/C 084E/625

E-0204/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Financial reporting

548

2004/C 084E/626

E-0205/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Protecting SMEs against multinationals: the case of Ford dealers in Italy

549

2004/C 084E/627

E-0209/04 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Selection procedures of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

550

2004/C 084E/628

E-0212/04 by Simon Murphy to the CommissionSubject: Driftnets

550

2004/C 084E/629

E-0220/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Threats to Po Valley producers as a result of the euro’s excessive rise against the dollar

552

2004/C 084E/630

P-0222/04 by María Ayuso González to the CommissionSubject: Cotton

552

2004/C 084E/631

P-0230/04 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Utilisation of Community appropriations in the Member States at the close of 2003 (Supplementary Answer)

553

2004/C 084E/632

E-0232/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Euro

554

2004/C 084E/633

E-0246/04 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Start of work on the Ebro Transfer

555

2004/C 084E/634

E-0247/04 by Elisabeth Jeggle and Peter Liese to the CommissionSubject: Revision of Regulation (EC) No 2571/97 on the sale of butter at reduced prices and the granting of aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for use in the manufacture of pastry products, ice-cream and other foodstuffs

556

2004/C 084E/635

E-0252/04 by Raquel Cardoso to the CommissionSubject: Financing of the Natura 2000 network

557

2004/C 084E/636

E-0255/04 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Highways plan for Majorca

557

2004/C 084E/637

E-0259/04 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Introduction of tolls on state highway 47, Valsugana

559

2004/C 084E/638

E-0271/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Counterfeit euro coins and banknotes

560

2004/C 084E/639

E-0273/04 by Stefano Zappalà to the CommissionSubject: Automar srl — concessionaire for Mercedes Benz motor vehicles

561

2004/C 084E/640

E-0275/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

563

2004/C 084E/641

E-0276/04 by Eluned Morgan to the CommissionSubject: Air pollution

564

2004/C 084E/642

E-0286/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: EU monkey experiments

565

2004/C 084E/643

E-0289/04 by Marco Cappato, Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Emma Bonino, Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Cultural genocide in China

565

2004/C 084E/644

E-0292/04 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Ship-building in Italy

567

2004/C 084E/645

E-0296/04 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Interim procedure on state aids paid in accession countries

567

2004/C 084E/646

E-0297/04 by Theodorus Bouwman to the CommissionSubject: Compliance with EU law of Spanish mining company Uminsa and possible frauds

569

2004/C 084E/647

E-0301/04 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Swedish nuclear power and the internal market

570

2004/C 084E/648

P-0305/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Request for PDO for ‘Sant Andrea Piemonte rice’

571

2004/C 084E/649

P-0323/04 by Werner Langen to the CommissionSubject: Stage reached in examining the territorial monopoly of German chimney-sweeps

572

2004/C 084E/650

E-0327/04 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: County Clare and Objective I of the Structural Fund

573

2004/C 084E/651

E-0348/04 by Robert Sturdy to the CommissionSubject: Offensive material on websites in Member States

574

2004/C 084E/652

E-0357/04 by Ewa Hedkvist Petersen to the CommissionSubject: Sparsely populated areas in future regional policy

575

2004/C 084E/653

E-0371/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Ireland’s failure to fix penalties for ozone-depleting substances

576

2004/C 084E/654

E-0373/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Ansaldo-Breda: infringement of environmental protection legislation

577

2004/C 084E/655

E-0389/04 by Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Olivier Dupuis, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco and Emma Bonino to the CommissionSubject: African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

579

2004/C 084E/656

E-0394/04 by Francesco Fiori, Giorgio Lisi and Georges Garot to the CommissionSubject: Measures against hunger in the EU

580

2004/C 084E/657

E-0398/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Child slavery networks

581

2004/C 084E/658

E-0399/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Secret detention in the USA of foreigners suspected of terrorist activities because their visa is not in order

582

2004/C 084E/659

E-0402/04 by Concepció Ferrer to the CommissionSubject: Crossborder hospital in La Cerdanya

582

2004/C 084E/660

P-0416/04 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Goose hunting in Zeeland

583

2004/C 084E/661

E-0420/04 by Brian Simpson to the CommissionSubject: Fluoridation of drinking water

584

2004/C 084E/662

E-0423/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the Brax factory in Portugal

585

2004/C 084E/663

E-0424/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Protecting wickerwork craftsmen in the Madeira Autonomous Region

587

2004/C 084E/664

E-0426/04 by Samuli Pohjamo and Mikko Pesälä to the CommissionSubject: Timetable for processing rural development projects

588

2004/C 084E/665

E-0444/04 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Compliance with legislation on health and safety at work

590

2004/C 084E/666

E-0451/04 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Food aid and food security programme

591

2004/C 084E/667

E-0457/04 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Strain on main roads

591

2004/C 084E/668

E-0469/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Aviation health warnings

592

2004/C 084E/669

E-0470/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: State aid to the Rome milk plant

592

2004/C 084E/670

P-0472/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Common External Tariffs

594

2004/C 084E/671

E-0473/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Pension adjustment

596

2004/C 084E/672

E-0474/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Closure of certain language sections of the European Schools

597

2004/C 084E/673

E-0477/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Banana trade

599

2004/C 084E/674

E-0482/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat

599

2004/C 084E/675

E-0483/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Rural development: young farmers

600

2004/C 084E/676

E-0484/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Rural development: less-favoured areas

601

2004/C 084E/677

E-0485/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: EU forest strategy: ‘Forest Focus’

602

2004/C 084E/678

E-0486/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: The new CAP and direct aid to the enlargement countries

603

2004/C 084E/679

E-0488/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: EU dairy sector: milk quotas and enlargement

604

2004/C 084E/680

E-0489/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Gender violence in the EU: need for European legislation

605

2004/C 084E/681

E-0491/04 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Land Use Plans Implementation Law in Valencia - LRAU

606

2004/C 084E/682

E-0499/04 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Reclaiming subsidies granted for setting up industrial activity

607

2004/C 084E/683

E-0509/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Venezuela - hunger and the Portuguese community

608

2004/C 084E/684

E-0512/04 by Sérgio Marques to the CommissionSubject: Daphne programme

609

2004/C 084E/685

E-0519/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Agreement between the EC and the Swiss Confederation on the free movement of persons

610

2004/C 084E/686

P-0520/04 by Giovanni Fava to the CommissionSubject: Proposal for a regulation on technical measures regarding fisheries in the Mediterranean

611

2004/C 084E/687

E-0522/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Prize draw mailing scams

612

2004/C 084E/688

P-0523/04 by Emmanouil Mastorakis to the CommissionSubject: Second and Third Community Support Frameworks (Supplementary Answer)

613

2004/C 084E/689

E-0528/04 by Guido Sacconi, Vincenzo Lavarra and Pasqualina Napoletano to the CommissionSubject: Amendment of Regulation 753/2002 on the description, designation, presentation and protection of certain wine sector products

614

2004/C 084E/690

E-0529/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Access to the waters of the Azores autonomous region

616

2004/C 084E/691

E-0533/04 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Horse passport

617

2004/C 084E/692

E-0540/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Post 2006 financial perspectives

617

2004/C 084E/693

E-0543/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: CAP: the declining contribution of EU funds to the survival of small farmers in a context of low consumer prices and low world market prices (Supplementary Answer)

618

2004/C 084E/694

E-0544/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: CAP: intended change in the ratio between payments to large and small farms, a ceiling for aid per farm and limiting the damage caused to third countries (Supplementary Answer)

620

2004/C 084E/695

E-0546/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Involvement of the EU in a development project in the Mexican federal state of Chiapas which is causing the resumption of an armed conflict

621

2004/C 084E/696

E-0547/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Continued levying of a tax in Germany which, pursuant to an EU directive, ought no longer to exist in 2004, and use of the revenue from it

623

2004/C 084E/697

P-0549/04 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Equal treatment in employment and occupation

624

2004/C 084E/698

P-0550/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Employment by the European Commission of the radical Islamic thinker Tariq Ramadan in the capacity of a ‘consultant’

625

2004/C 084E/699

E-0551/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive in Ireland

626

2004/C 084E/700

E-0552/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Right to collective action

626

2004/C 084E/701

E-0553/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Revision of pregnant workers directive

627

2004/C 084E/702

E-0554/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Paid paternity leave

627

2004/C 084E/703

E-0555/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Illiteracy and social exclusion

627

2004/C 084E/704

E-0556/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Definition of criteria for the recognition of disabilities

627

2004/C 084E/705

E-0557/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Directive on social protection on new forms of employment

628

2004/C 084E/706

E-0558/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Directive on individual dismissals

628

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0552/04, E-0553/04, E-0554/04, E-0555/04, E-0556/04, E-0557/04 and E-0558/04

628

2004/C 084E/707

E-0566/04 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Music censorship in China

629

2004/C 084E/708

E-0570/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Commission officials on leave

630

2004/C 084E/709

E-0576/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Electioneering activities of Romano Prodi

631

2004/C 084E/710

E-0581/04 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Relationships between the media and recording companies

632

2004/C 084E/711

E-0588/04 by Antonio Tajani, Giuseppe Gargani and Stefano Zappalà to the CommissionSubject: Appointment and promotion of senior Commission officials

633

2004/C 084E/712

E-0589/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement of an airport in the administrative and political capital of Spain: use of Cohesion Fund monies granted to Spain for extending infrastructure in Madrid

634

2004/C 084E/713

E-0592/04 by Helle Thorning-Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Aid to stud farms

635

2004/C 084E/714

E-0610/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Irish stud farms

635

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0592/04 and E-0610/04

635

2004/C 084E/715

E-0607/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Seasonal work

636

2004/C 084E/716

E-0612/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Support for Portuguese students studying for a master’s degree

636

2004/C 084E/717

E-0613/04 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Burma

637

2004/C 084E/718

E-0614/04 by Harlem Désir to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the 280-employee DHL site at Blanc Mesnil (France)

637

2004/C 084E/719

E-0619/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Damage caused by extreme weather conditions in Greece

639

2004/C 084E/720

E-0622/04 by Karin Riis-Jørgensen to the CommissionSubject: Ban on entering Russia for Danish journalist

640

2004/C 084E/721

E-0627/04 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Failure to comply with Community legislation during border veterinary checks in Spain

640

2004/C 084E/722

E-0628/04 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Documentary irregularities when authorising third-country products during Spanish border checks

641

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0627/04 and E-0628/04

642

2004/C 084E/723

E-0632/04 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Hunger strike by Tunisian journalist Abdallah Zouari

642

2004/C 084E/724

P-0634/04 by Giovanni Procacci to the CommissionSubject: Possible infringement by Italy

643

2004/C 084E/725

E-0636/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Europe and the future of young people

644

2004/C 084E/726

E-0642/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Threat to survival of Italian small communes

645

2004/C 084E/727

E-0643/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on suspected infringement of the rules on public contracts by ATAC in Rome

646

2004/C 084E/728

P-0646/04 by Mario Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Massacre in Lira (northern Uganda)

646

2004/C 084E/729

E-0650/04 by Mauro Nobilia to the CommissionSubject: Eliminating the distinction between ‘packaging/packaging waste’ and ‘goods/goods waste’

648

2004/C 084E/730

E-0651/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Position of the French language in the European institutions

649

2004/C 084E/731

E-0652/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Commission against elementary rules of safety at sea

649

2004/C 084E/732

E-0659/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: NGO and civil society funding - European Convention

650

2004/C 084E/733

E-0671/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Ireland’s failure to report on CO2 emissions from new passenger cars

2

651

2004/C 084E/734

E-0672/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of pharmacists’ professional qualifications

651

2004/C 084E/735

E-0673/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Third level education charges for EU citizens

652

2004/C 084E/736

E-0679/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat - border controls

653

2004/C 084E/737

E-0680/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat - disease transmission

653

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0679/04 and E-0680/04

654

2004/C 084E/738

P-0688/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Application of Regulation No 1788/2003 Article 10(3)

654

2004/C 084E/739

E-0691/04 by Dominique Souchet to the CommissionSubject: Systemic insecticides

655

2004/C 084E/740

E-0696/04 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Funding by the ‘Culture 2000’ programme of books or translations of books which extol nationalistic policies and their despotic practices

656

2004/C 084E/741

E-0700/04 by Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Use of European Social Fund resources in connection with the Edunet project

657

2004/C 084E/742

P-0702/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Greenland halibut recovery: extraordinary measures to be adopted by the Commission

658

2004/C 084E/743

P-0703/04 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: Member State contributions to the Community Budget

659

2004/C 084E/744

E-0707/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Creation of a waste disposal site in the Monte Catillo nature reserve at Tivoli

660

2004/C 084E/745

E-0711/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Specific characteristics of mountain regions and Community policy

661

2004/C 084E/746

E-0716/04 by Luis Berenguer Fuster and Anna Terrón i Cusí to the CommissionSubject: Radio alarms

662

2004/C 084E/747

E-0720/04 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Export subsidies for oats

663

2004/C 084E/748

P-0722/04 by María Herranz García to the CommissionSubject: COM in olive oil

664

2004/C 084E/749

E-0726/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Aid for producer organisations in the fisheries sector

665

2004/C 084E/750

E-0727/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Information on the performance reserve for the Lazio Region

665

2004/C 084E/751

E-0735/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Funding of projects designed to transfer water from the Ebro river basin to southern and eastern parts of Spain

666

2004/C 084E/752

E-0736/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Support for regions which will not be included in Structural Fund Objective 1 on account of the so-called ‘statistical effect’

667

2004/C 084E/753

E-0737/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Student participation in the Erasmus programme

667

2004/C 084E/754

E-0739/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: The EU’s future regional policy for the outermost Mediterranean regions

668

2004/C 084E/755

P-0766/04 by Giorgio Celli to the CommissionSubject: Financing of the Llubí-Crestaxt-Pollença watercourse (Balearic Islands)

669

2004/C 084E/756

P-0768/04 by Ole Sørensen to the CommissionSubject: Extradition of war criminals to Denmark

670

2004/C 084E/757

P-0770/04 by Seán Ó Neachtain to the CommissionSubject: EU citizenship

671

2004/C 084E/758

E-0792/04 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Return of property by Turkey

672

2004/C 084E/759

E-0796/04 by Michel Hansenne to the CommissionSubject: Lift safety

673

2004/C 084E/760

E-0802/04 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Unfair competition as a result of major differences in charges made for rendering

673

2004/C 084E/761

E-0803/04 by Markus Ferber to the CommissionSubject: Application for a grant by Mr Doriano Cataffo

674

2004/C 084E/762

P-0809/04 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Terrestrial trunked radio masts

675

2004/C 084E/763

E-0812/04 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Infringement of European legislation on phytosanitary products in the ‘Abac’ case (Valencia)

676

2004/C 084E/764

E-0827/04 by María Sornosa Martínez and Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop to the CommissionSubject: Extension of San Sebastián airport

678

2004/C 084E/765

P-0836/04 by Regina Bastos to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector

679

2004/C 084E/766

P-0837/04 by Joaquim Piscarreta to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector

680

2004/C 084E/767

P-0838/04 by Raquel Cardoso to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector

680

2004/C 084E/768

P-0839/04 by João Gouveia to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector

681

2004/C 084E/769

P-0840/04 by Sérgio Marques to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector

682

Joint answer to Written Questions P-0836/04, P-0837/04, P-0838/04, P-0839/04 and P-0840/04

683

2004/C 084E/770

E-0846/04 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Communitarisation of Article 2 of the Schengen Convention

684

2004/C 084E/771

P-0857/04 by Vasco Graça Moura to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector

685

2004/C 084E/772

P-0858/04 by Teresa Almeida Garrett to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector

685

Joint answer to Written Questions P-0857/04 and P-0858/04

686

2004/C 084E/773

P-0859/04 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Hair dyes and serious damage to health

687

2004/C 084E/774

P-0860/04 by Eluned Morgan to the CommissionSubject: The Constitution and funding

688

2004/C 084E/775

P-0870/04 by Wolfgang Ilgenfritz to the CommissionSubject: Work permits for workers contracted out in Italy

689

2004/C 084E/776

P-0871/04 by José Pacheco Pereira to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the wine sector

690

2004/C 084E/777

P-0872/04 by Giovanni Pittella to the CommissionSubject: Precautionary principle

692

2004/C 084E/778

E-0875/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Human rights violations in northern Uganda

693

2004/C 084E/779

E-0885/04 byPaulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: List of deep-sea, pelagic and demersal fish species

694

2004/C 084E/780

E-0887/04 by Bob van den Bos to the CommissionSubject: Health implications of pet bird imports

694

2004/C 084E/781

P-0892/04 by Véronique De Keyser to the CommissionSubject: European Super-Commissioner

695

2004/C 084E/782

E-0900/04 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Breastfeeding in public places

696

2004/C 084E/783

P-0928/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Equality of treatment in the written test for competition COM/A/3/02, sector 2

696

2004/C 084E/784

P-0934/04 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Breakdown of EU staff by grades A, B, C and D

697

2004/C 084E/785

P-0949/04 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Difficulties for the Italian steel industry

698

2004/C 084E/786

P-0957/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: The stated intention of deactivating Sorefame-Bombardier

699

2004/C 084E/787

P-0966/04 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Chimney sweep monopoly

700

2004/C 084E/788

P-0974/04 by Guido Sacconi to the CommissionSubject: EU-Switzerland agreements and implementation of Rönfeldt-Thévenon case law

702

2004/C 084E/789

P-1040/04 by Enrico Ferri to the CommissionSubject: Requirements for entry in the studbook, transposition of Community legislation

703

2004/C 084E/790

E-1222/04 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: River access

704

WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 4)

2004/C 084E/791

E-3150/02 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Application of the Stability Pact

705

2004/C 084E/792

P-3201/02 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Spanish National Hydrological Plan: Júcar-Vinalopó interbasin diversion

706

2004/C 084E/793

P-3821/02 by Elena Paciotti to the CommissionSubject: Violation of asylum rights in the EU

707

2004/C 084E/794

P-3826/02 by Giuseppe Di Lello Finuoli to the CommissionSubject: Expulsion from Italy of the Al-Shari family

707

Joint answer to Written Questions P-3821/02 and P-3826/02

708

2004/C 084E/795

E-3867/02 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Salvage of the ferry ‘Le Joola’

708

2004/C 084E/796

E-3868/02 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten and Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Netherlands Student Grants Act

709

2004/C 084E/797

E-0797/04 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Student grants and free movement of persons

710

Supplementary joint answer to Written Questions E-3868/02 and E-0797/04

710

2004/C 084E/798

E-0017/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Support for Afghanistan

711

2004/C 084E/799

E-0093/03 by Peter Skinner to the CommissionSubject: German capital gains tax

712

2004/C 084E/800

E-0129/03 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Suspension of Voice of America and Radio Free Asia programme in Phnom Penh

712

2004/C 084E/801

E-0182/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Women’s rights in Iran

713

2004/C 084E/802

E-0199/03 by Margot Keßler to the CommissionSubject: Western Sahara — Visit of European Parliament Ad Hoc Delegation — Human Rights

714

2004/C 084E/803

E-0243/03 by Nirj Deva to the CommissionSubject: Kenya Westlands-St Austins road scheme

715

2004/C 084E/804

E-0453/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Boris Shikhmuradov

716

2004/C 084E/805

E-0562/03 by Juan Ojeda Sanz to the CommissionSubject: Arrest of journalists in Gibraltar

717

2004/C 084E/806

E-0587/03 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Balkan sugar

717

2004/C 084E/807

E-1040/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Leader+ programme by the municipality of Perugia

719

2004/C 084E/808

E-1046/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Leader+ programme by the municipality of Terni

719

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1040/03 and E-1046/03

720

2004/C 084E/809

E-1163/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund by the municipality of Terni

720

2004/C 084E/810

P-1396/03 by Margie Sudre to the CommissionSubject: Uniform application of a reduced rate of VAT in the restaurant sector

721

2004/C 084E/811

P-1398/03 by Arie Oostlander to the CommissionSubject: Publication of the fortnightly newsletter Europa van Morgen

722

2004/C 084E/812

P-1437/03 by Armin Laschet to the CommissionSubject: Direct payments of EUR 10 million per month in EU aid to the Palestinian Authority

723

2004/C 084E/813

E-1457/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Euratom/Distortions in the electricity market

724

2004/C 084E/814

E-1500/03 by Florence Kuntz to the CommissionSubject: Safeguarding the Iraqi archaeological heritage

724

2004/C 084E/815

P-1509/03 by Lucio Manisco to the CommissionSubject: Sacking of Iraq’s cultural and artistic heritage — the role of the European Union

725

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1500/03 and P-1509/03

725

2004/C 084E/816

P-1510/03 by Franz Turchi to the CommissionSubject: Direct financial assistance to the Palestine National Authority

726

2004/C 084E/817

E-1525/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Privatisation of art treasures as a result of widespread thefts from museums and inadequate checks on the international art trade

726

2004/C 084E/818

E-1939/03 by Giles Chichester to the CommissionSubject: Commission quarterly briefings and Small Business Europe: the participation of government-funded national bodies in Commission briefings

727

2004/C 084E/819

E-1983/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Establishment of a secondary school in the small town of Rizokarpaso in Turkish-occupied Cyprus

728

2004/C 084E/820

E-2033/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Re-opening of Greek secondary school at Rizokarpasso

729

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1983/03 and E-2033/03

729

2004/C 084E/821

P-2376/03 by Lucio Manisco to the CommissionSubject: Al Sahri deported by Italy and executed in Syria

729

2004/C 084E/822

E-2748/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Rizokarpasso primary school

730

2004/C 084E/823

E-3129/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Guinea-Bissau, Commission support

731

2004/C 084E/824

P-3142/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Career movements of Directors-General

732

2004/C 084E/825

E-3311/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Rotation principle in Directorates-General

732

Joint answer to Written Questions P-3142/03 and E-3311/03

732

2004/C 084E/826

P-3154/03 by Michael Cashman to the CommissionSubject: Mobile telephone safety (Supplementary Answer)

733

2004/C 084E/827

E-3325/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Community expenditure

734

2004/C 084E/828

E-3464/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: The use of Tetrapol technology in the EU

735

2004/C 084E/829

E-3470/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Health risk reports relating to Tetrapol use

736

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3464/03 and E-3470/03

736

2004/C 084E/830

E-3471/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Buildings in ‘Es Trenc-Salobrar de Campos’

736

2004/C 084E/831

E-3514/03 by Giovanni Pittella to the CommissionSubject: Course financed by means of the Structural Funds (Supplementary Answer)

737

2004/C 084E/832

E-3574/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: European Agreement on the transmission of applications for Legal Aid

738

2004/C 084E/833

E-3625/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Standardisation of national identity documents

738

2004/C 084E/834

E-3748/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Life III programme by the municipality of Prato

739

2004/C 084E/835

E-3832/03 by Nicholas Clegg to the CommissionSubject: Global Drug Facility

740

2004/C 084E/836

E-3840/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Race Directive (2000/43/EC)

741

2004/C 084E/837

E-3870/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Ecological volume of the river Júcar and the Júcar-Vinalopó water transfer

741

2004/C 084E/838

P-3924/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Seaworthiness of the Geroi Sevastopolya

742

2004/C 084E/839

E-3948/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Moves by the USA or other countries to make EU Member States comply with their wishes by rewarding or penalising European companies depending on the Member State in which the company is based

744

2004/C 084E/840

E-3980/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Yukos affair

745

2004/C 084E/841

E-4055/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Renewable energy

746

2004/C 084E/842

E-4056/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the environmental acquis

747

2004/C 084E/843

E-4066/03 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: Biometric passports

748

2004/C 084E/844

E-4068/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Unlawful toll demanded for the Turin-Milan motorway

749

2004/C 084E/845

E-0003/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Trade in wild birds

750

2004/C 084E/846

E-0023/04 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Inadequate information to the Commission concerning the Bothnia Line

751

2004/C 084E/847

E-0030/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Landfill and gravel extraction sites

752

2004/C 084E/848

E-0044/04 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Val Jumela

752

2004/C 084E/849

E-0050/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Conflict over pollution — between the Celulosas de Pontevedra woodpulp factory (Ence, Galicia) and the people and municipal authorities of Pontevedra

753

2004/C 084E/850

E-0053/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: The suspension of work at the Inzar shipyard (Fene, Galicia) arising from the ban on building merchant vessels: action of the Commission and the Spanish government

755

2004/C 084E/851

E-0054/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Compliance with the Kyoto protocol by the Spanish state

756

2004/C 084E/852

E-0068/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: International Convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families

757

2004/C 084E/853

E-0071/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: The Spanish National Hydrological Plan dam on the River Narla in Lugo (Galicia) a scheduled Site of Community Importance within the Natura 2000 network

758

2004/C 084E/854

E-0077/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Waste water treatment in Ireland

759

2004/C 084E/855

E-0080/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Rheumatism and Biomed programme

759

2004/C 084E/856

E-0081/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of IPPC Directive in Ireland

760

2004/C 084E/857

E-0092/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Evolution of electricity prices, investment in the energy sector

760

2004/C 084E/858

E-0101/04 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Position of SMUs in the system for the funding of the EU’s research activities

761

2004/C 084E/859

P-0110/04 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Legality of certain EU decisions should the Kyoto Protocol founder

764

2004/C 084E/860

E-0181/04 by Charlotte Cederschiöld to the CommissionSubject: Network and information security

765

2004/C 084E/861

E-0182/04 by Charlotte Cederschiöld to the CommissionSubject: Network and information security

766

2004/C 084E/862

E-0183/04 by Charlotte Cederschiöld to the CommissionSubject: Network and information security

766

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0181/04, E-0182/04 and E-0183/04

766

2004/C 084E/863

E-0267/04 by Juan Ferrández Lezaun to the CommissionSubject: Projects offering alternatives to the Spanish National Hydrological Plan (SNHP)

767

2004/C 084E/864

E-0300/04 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Financing for the new Athens airport (Supplementary Answer)

768

2004/C 084E/865

E-0309/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Extension of TAEIX’s area of activity to the Western Balkans

769

2004/C 084E/866

P-0313/04 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Galway incinerator

770

2004/C 084E/867

E-0319/04 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Funding of research with embryonic stem cells

771

2004/C 084E/868

E-0326/04 by Willi Piecyk to the CommissionSubject: Subsidies for new fishing nets

772

2004/C 084E/869

E-0328/04 by Marco Cappato, Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova, Olivier Dupuis and Emma Bonino to the CommissionSubject: Chinese New Year parade in Paris

773

2004/C 084E/870

E-0331/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Setting up of a regional coordination centre for social policy for the Balkans

773

2004/C 084E/871

E-0334/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The unchanged human rights and democracy situation in China and Hong Kong, the threat to Taiwan and the need for the arms embargo

774

2004/C 084E/872

E-0335/04 by Astrid Thors to the CommissionSubject: Extension of operating licence for Sosnovy Bor nuclear power plant

775

2004/C 084E/873

P-0337/04 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Subsidies for Parmalat

776

2004/C 084E/874

E-0347/04 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Use of ACT in treatment of malaria

777

2004/C 084E/875

E-0350/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Travel agencies: repercussions of the Alitalia crisis on employment

779

2004/C 084E/876

E-0351/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Travel agencies: serious difficulties for operators and customers

779

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0350/04 and E-0351/04

780

2004/C 084E/877

P-0358/04 by Werner Langen to the CommissionSubject: Proceedings concerning the German deposit on drinks cans

781

2004/C 084E/878

P-0377/04 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Sustainable management of fisheries resources in the Mediterranean and measures to combat illegal fishing

781

2004/C 084E/879

E-0396/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Guantánamo-on-Thames?

783

2004/C 084E/880

E-0397/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Legalising irregular migrants working in the Union

783

2004/C 084E/881

P-0407/04 by Hugues Martin to the CommissionSubject: CRAFT Community programmes

784

2004/C 084E/882

P-0408/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the Environmental Noise Directive in the Netherlands

786

2004/C 084E/883

E-0410/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Aer Rianta

787

2004/C 084E/884

E-0412/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: The regulation of exportation of timber from Indonesia

787

2004/C 084E/885

E-0414/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: The treatment of North Korean refugees in the People’s Republic of China

788

2004/C 084E/886

E-0418/04 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Security of EC cards

789

2004/C 084E/887

E-0447/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Exports of peat to Italy

790

2004/C 084E/888

E-0448/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Research on non-human primates in Münster, Germany

791

2004/C 084E/889

E-0450/04 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Counterfeit banknotes

792

2004/C 084E/890

E-0452/04 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: INFO 2000 programme

793

2004/C 084E/891

E-0462/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Guinea-Bissau - Commission support

794

2004/C 084E/892

E-0463/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Europe - terrorism

795

2004/C 084E/893

E-0468/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Competition in the glass sector

797

2004/C 084E/894

E-0479/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Commission open competitions

798

2004/C 084E/895

E-0481/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Blue Dragon

800

2004/C 084E/896

E-0487/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: EU dairy sector: Argentina and the WTO ‘peace clause’

800

2004/C 084E/897

E-0498/04 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Community warning on Spanish productivity

801

2004/C 084E/898

E-0508/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Portugal - nuclear waste

802

2004/C 084E/899

E-0511/04 by Sérgio Marques to the CommissionSubject: Provision of aid to South Africa

804

2004/C 084E/900

P-0525/04 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Potato ring rot

805

2004/C 084E/901

E-0541/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Yielding to the USA’s pressure on airlines to supply unlimited quantities of data concerning passengers in advance of a possible agreement

806

2004/C 084E/902

E-0548/04 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Requirement to keep poultry indoors

808

2004/C 084E/903

E-0562/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Incidence of ‘blue-baby syndrome’ in EU Member States

809

2004/C 084E/904

E-0564/04 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: Ship-to-ship oil transfers

810

2004/C 084E/905

P-0568/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Final report concerning Eurostat

811

2004/C 084E/906

E-0573/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Start of construction work on the Brenner base tunnel

811

2004/C 084E/907

E-0575/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Electioneering activities of Mrs Diamantopoulou

812

2004/C 084E/908

E-0579/04 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Vasova lagoon

813

2004/C 084E/909

E-0582/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Application of Accounting Standard IAS 32 to co-operatives

814

2004/C 084E/910

E-0595/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Horse racing prizes in Greece

815

2004/C 084E/911

P-0600/04 by Generoso Andria to the CommissionSubject: Remuneration of amateur football managers

816

2004/C 084E/912

E-0602/04 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Global assessment of the major Ebro water transfer project

817

2004/C 084E/913

P-0608/04 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: The Commission’s political intentions re GMOs

818

2004/C 084E/914

E-0611/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Terrorism: drawing up a European directive providing for the presence of air marshals on board aircraft.

819

2004/C 084E/915

P-0615/04 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Role of certificates in rules of origin

820

2004/C 084E/916

E-0618/04 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Decision by the Dutch parliament to expel thousands of immigrants

822

2004/C 084E/917

P-0621/04 by Karin Riis-Jørgensen to the CommissionSubject: Revision of TEN-T

822

2004/C 084E/918

E-0623/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Schedules of airlines from third countries

823

2004/C 084E/919

E-0629/04 by Willi Piecyk, Gerhard Schmid and Johannes Swoboda to the CommissionSubject: Trans-European Networks - development of the Danube

824

2004/C 084E/920

E-0630/04 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Official Development Assistance (ODA) of the Union: funding by Member States, actions in the Balkans and application of conditionality and Community rules

825

2004/C 084E/921

E-0631/04 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Abolition of the interest rate subsidy for border regions in Greece

826

2004/C 084E/922

E-0637/04 by Toine Manders to the CommissionSubject: Inconsistencies in the Community Customs Code (CCC)

827

2004/C 084E/923

E-0639/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: The Torrentes de Mácara on the river Ulha (Galicia): three priceless rapids threatened with destruction by the building of a dam

829

2004/C 084E/924

E-0647/04 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Urban waste water treatment in Benidorm, (Alicante province) Spain

830

2004/C 084E/925

E-0648/04 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Incorrect transposition of Directive 89/391/EEC into Spanish law

831

2004/C 084E/926

P-0654/04 by Reinhold Messner to the CommissionSubject: Brenner axis

832

2004/C 084E/927

E-0655/04 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Algeria

833

2004/C 084E/928

E-0657/04 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Misfuelling of motor vehicles

834

2004/C 084E/929

E-0662/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Efforts to adopt uniform and transparent rules on valuing the assets of financial institutions and the resistance of the EFR to the IASB

835

2004/C 084E/930

P-0663/04 by Samuli Pohjamo to the CommissionSubject: Measures against concentrations of wolves in Finland

837

2004/C 084E/931

P-0664/04 by Encarnación Redondo Jiménez to the CommissionSubject: Legislation on yoghurt

838

2004/C 084E/932

E-0668/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Irish Government’s failure to cooperate with Lough Ree investigation

839

2004/C 084E/933

E-0683/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Medical certificates

840

2004/C 084E/934

E-0685/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Contrast between a common foreign policy and the varying treatment of EU Member States by countries such as America and Russia

840

2004/C 084E/935

E-0689/04 by Harald Ettl to the CommissionSubject: Transposition of Directive 2003/41/EC — competence of Member States to define occupational retirement provision

842

2004/C 084E/936

E-0690/04 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Complaints about the infringement of the property rights of building cooperatives in Greece

843

2004/C 084E/937

E-0692/04 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Invasion of privacy at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

844

2004/C 084E/938

E-0693/04 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak, Ieke van den Burg and Joke Swiebel to the CommissionSubject: Proposal COM(2003) 657 and Directive 86/378/EEC

845

2004/C 084E/939

E-0694/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Auditing the Commission’s external activity

846

2004/C 084E/940

E-0697/04 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: State aid to credit unions

846

2004/C 084E/941

E-0698/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Tinned food and olive oil

847

2004/C 084E/942

E-0699/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Preserves and olive oil

848

2004/C 084E/943

E-0701/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Use of the appellations ‘vintage’ and ‘tawny’ by third countries

848

2004/C 084E/944

P-0705/04 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Creation of an observatory to study the phenomenon of organised mafia-type crime and similar forms of criminality in the EU

850

2004/C 084E/945

E-0706/04 by Jaime Valdivielso de Cué to the CommissionSubject: Wine

852

2004/C 084E/946

E-0712/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Increasing the Portuguese annual sugar quota

854

2004/C 084E/947

P-0713/04 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Management of the risk assessment process on zinc

855

2004/C 084E/948

P-0714/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Conversion of ENEL’s ‘Valdaliga Nord’ power station at Civitavecchia

856

2004/C 084E/949

E-0719/04 by Ieke van den Burg to the CommissionSubject: Training and development funds in the Netherlands as a contribution to the Lisbon strategy

857

2004/C 084E/950

E-0729/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Professional recognition for the police

859

2004/C 084E/951

E-0731/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Social and family assistance for the police

860

2004/C 084E/952

E-0732/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Dam-building on the international stretch of the river Minho

861

2004/C 084E/953

E-0738/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Regions which are to lose their Structural Fund Objective 1 status

861

2004/C 084E/954

E-0741/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Fiscal incentives to encourage job creation

862

2004/C 084E/955

E-0743/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: MEDA programme and regions

863

2004/C 084E/956

E-0745/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Facilitating access by SMEs to risk capital

864

2004/C 084E/957

E-0746/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Reform in the fruit and vegetable sector

865

2004/C 084E/958

E-0748/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Synergy in EU funding programmes

866

2004/C 084E/959

E-0750/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Possibility of registering rating agencies in Europe

867

2004/C 084E/960

E-0751/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Streamlining the Commission’s coordination of Member States’ economic policies

868

2004/C 084E/961

E-0752/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Enhancing the image of the euro and the European Union in non-member countries

868

2004/C 084E/962

E-0753/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Promotion of the international role of the euro in transactions between eurozone countries and third countries

869

2004/C 084E/963

E-0754/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Establishment of a European legal framework for hedge funds

870

2004/C 084E/964

E-0755/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Statistics relating to the harmonised consumer price index in Europe

871

2004/C 084E/965

E-0757/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Strengthening the role of market operators in the integration of European financial markets

872

2004/C 084E/966

E-0758/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Loss of investor confidence following recent financial scandals

873

2004/C 084E/967

E-0759/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: General framework for ensuring European financial market stability

874

2004/C 084E/968

E-0761/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: European passport and the sale of financial products in Europe

874

2004/C 084E/969

P-0767/04 by Brian Crowley to the CommissionSubject: eEurope 2005 Action Plan

875

2004/C 084E/970

P-0771/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: La Breña II dam - compensation measures

876

2004/C 084E/971

E-0780/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in the United Kingdom

877

2004/C 084E/972

E-0781/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Liberalisation of the electricity market — licences for river diversions

878

2004/C 084E/973

E-0782/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Liberalisation of the electricity market — special protective provisions

879

2004/C 084E/974

E-0785/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Deportation of parents of Irish/EU citizens

880

2004/C 084E/975

E-0791/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Encroachments on Ria Formosa Nature Reserve (Natura 2000)

881

2004/C 084E/976

E-0807/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Invalidity of a civil aviation pilot’s licence if use is made of it in another Member State or after revision of the rules governing Air Transport Pilot Licences (ATPL)

882

2004/C 084E/977

E-0816/04 by Stefano Zappalà to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of diplomas

883

2004/C 084E/978

E-0818/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Sludge storage in Ingensche Waarden

884

2004/C 084E/979

E-0819/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: The European School in Amsterdam

886

2004/C 084E/980

P-0825/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Opinion of the Council’s Legal Service challenged by the Commission

886

2004/C 084E/981

E-0829/04 by Mario Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Parmatour: tourism concern owned by the Tanzi family, involved in the Parmalat crisis

888

2004/C 084E/982

E-0831/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Radar installation on Pico do Areeiro — Environmental impact study

889

2004/C 084E/983

E-0832/04 by Anne Ferreira, Ioannis Souladakis and Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Theatrical signers and audience members with hearing difficulties

889

2004/C 084E/984

E-0834/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Nine years’ imprisonment for supplying 0,5 grams of methadone in Russia

890

2004/C 084E/985

P-0842/04 by Daniela Raschhofer to the CommissionSubject: Basis for economic growth

891

2004/C 084E/986

P-0843/04 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Approval by the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of the Ronchi south-Trieste high-speed rail link as part of Corridor 5

892

2004/C 084E/987

P-0844/04 by Ulpu Iivari to the CommissionSubject: Aid to shipbuilding in breach of EU legislation

894

2004/C 084E/988

P-0851/04 by Gianni Vattimo to the CommissionSubject: Animal welfare

895

2004/C 084E/989

E-0855/04 by Jean-Maurice Dehousse to the CommissionSubject: Security in Brussels

896

2004/C 084E/990

E-0856/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Protecting traditional industries

896

2004/C 084E/991

E-0866/04 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: European subsidies for the Flemish Community

897

2004/C 084E/992

E-0869/04 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: ECHO and Chechnya

898

2004/C 084E/993

E-0879/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Romano Prodi - new centre party

899

2004/C 084E/994

E-0880/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003, Article 5

900

2004/C 084E/995

E-0886/04 by Piia-Noora Kauppi to the CommissionSubject: Road toll system

901

2004/C 084E/996

E-0888/04 by Bob van den Bos to the CommissionSubject: Slaughterhouses in Greece

901

2004/C 084E/997

E-0890/04 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Authorisation for flying instructors to give instruction

902

2004/C 084E/998

E-0891/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the Valeo factory in Portugal

903

2004/C 084E/999

E-0893/04 by Werner Langen to the CommissionSubject: Costs of cross-border transfer payments

904

2004/C 084E/1000

P-0895/04 by Jan Andersson to the CommissionSubject: Dispute concerning port dues in Helsingborg

905

2004/C 084E/1001

E-0897/04 by Monica Frassoni, Caroline Lucas, Jean Lambert, Patricia McKenna, Giorgio Celli, Kathalijne Buitenweg, Pasqualina Napoletano, Marco Cappato, Giovanni Procacci and Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Incorrect implementation in Italy of directives 1999/74/EC and 2002/4/EC for the protection of laying hens

906

2004/C 084E/1002

E-0898/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Intimidation of well-known Israeli conscientious objectors who oppose the occupation of Palestinian territory by subjecting them to lengthy and repeated imprisonment

907

2004/C 084E/1003

P-0903/04 by Ingo Friedrich to the CommissionSubject: Termination of European Documentation Centres’ (EDCs) preferential subscription to the EC/EU Official Journal (printed edition)

908

2004/C 084E/1004

E-0906/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: The Threshold for British teachers in the European Schools

909

2004/C 084E/1005

E-0907/04 by Franz Turchi to the CommissionSubject: Safeguarding the profession of optometrist

910

2004/C 084E/1006

E-0909/04 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: To Serve and Protect - Netherlands Railways

911

2004/C 084E/1007

E-0910/04 by Ingo Friedrich to the CommissionSubject: Aid for olive production; common organisation of the market in olives

911

2004/C 084E/1008

E-0912/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Directive 2001/83/EC and Braille requirements

912

2004/C 084E/1009

E-0915/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Directive 2001/83/EC and ‘borderline products’

913

2004/C 084E/1010

E-0923/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allowance Trading Scheme

914

2004/C 084E/1011

E-0925/04 by Franz Turchi to the CommissionSubject: Medical treatment for haemophilia sufferers

914

2004/C 084E/1012

E-0926/04 by Claude Turmes to the CommissionSubject: Health and safety in the European institutions

915

2004/C 084E/1013

E-0927/04 by Claude Turmes to the CommissionSubject: Practice of ‘prototypes’ at Eur-OP

916

2004/C 084E/1014

E-0931/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Standards on portable liquid oxygen devices

918

2004/C 084E/1015

E-0932/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Contribution to EU economy by fisheries

919

2004/C 084E/1016

P-0936/04 by Jens-Peter Bonde to the CommissionSubject: EU Economic EU support for positive publicity

919

2004/C 084E/1017

E-0944/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Components of small toys in food products

920

2004/C 084E/1018

E-0951/04 by Angelika Niebler to the CommissionSubject: Interpretative notes relating to the transposition into national law of the Directives on the electricity and gas markets in the European Union

921

2004/C 084E/1019

E-0952/04 by Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Procedure under Article 24 of Community Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88

922

2004/C 084E/1020

E-0953/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Discriminatory practices by Romania

923

2004/C 084E/1021

E-0960/04 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Language discrimination in recruitment procedures for European institutions

924

2004/C 084E/1022

E-0962/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The increasing dangers to public health and the environment caused by the increase in emissions of small particulate matter from motor vehicle engines

925

2004/C 084E/1023

E-0963/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The Euro 4 standard and consequent restrictions on the fitting of particle traps to prevent the emission of small particulate matter from motor vehicle engines

925

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0962/04 and E-0963/04

926

2004/C 084E/1024

E-0968/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Electromagnetic Compliance Standard

927

2004/C 084E/1025

P-1001/04 by Ulla Sandbæk to the CommissionSubject: Critical dialogue with Iranian theocracy on minorities

928

2004/C 084E/1026

E-1011/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Extremely grave human rights situation in Vietnam and Laos

929

2004/C 084E/1027

E-1020/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Emergency on the ferrous metals market

929

2004/C 084E/1028

E-1024/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Olympic Airways

930

2004/C 084E/1029

P-1026/04 by Joachim Wuermeling to the CommissionSubject: Axle weighing of HGVs at the German-Czech border

931

2004/C 084E/1030

E-1033/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Safeguarding the public lending right in Portuguese libraries

932

2004/C 084E/1031

E-1034/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Irregularities in competitions organised by the Commission

933

2004/C 084E/1032

P-1041/04 by W.G. van Velzen to the CommissionSubject: Number portability in connection with mobile telephony

934

2004/C 084E/1033

E-1042/04 by Roger Helmer and Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Pensions: discrimination against private pensions

935

2004/C 084E/1034

E-1057/04 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Implications for the Community textile sector of certain trade practices on the part of China

936

2004/C 084E/1035

P-1062/04 by Christine De Veyrac to the CommissionSubject: Economic impact of migration following enlargement of the European Union

937

2004/C 084E/1036

P-1063/04 by Marie-Françoise Duthu to the CommissionSubject: Russo-Chechen conflict — mediation by the European Union between the governments of Vladimir Putin and Aslan Maskhadov

938

2004/C 084E/1037

E-1072/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Commemoration in the town of Greccio of the first crib featuring live animals

939

2004/C 084E/1038

P-1082/04 by Adeline Hazan to the CommissionSubject: Decision taken by the Netherlands to expel more than 26 000 whose applications for asylum have been rejected

940

2004/C 084E/1039

P-1084/04 by Richard Howitt to the CommissionSubject: Possible breach of the European Works Council Directive in respect to redundancies announced by FLS Aerospace

941

2004/C 084E/1040

P-1088/04 by Arlene McCarthy to the CommissionSubject: Possible breach of the European Works Council Directive with respect to redundancies announced by FLS Aerospace

941

Joint answer to Written Questions P-1084/04 and P-1088/04

942

2004/C 084E/1041

P-1085/04 by Paul Lannoye to the CommissionSubject: Evaluation of plant health products under Directive 91/414/EEC

942

2004/C 084E/1042

P-1087/04 by Kyösti Virrankoski to the CommissionSubject: Uncertainties regarding Finland’s Natura 2000 network

944

2004/C 084E/1043

P-1093/04 by Armin Laschet to the CommissionSubject: Staging of football matches between TSV Alemannia Aachen, a German football club, and foreign opponents at the Kerkrade Stadium in the Netherlands

944

2004/C 084E/1044

P-1106/04 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Vaccination against bluetongue

945

2004/C 084E/1045

P-1107/04 by Dirk Sterckx to the CommissionSubject: Administrative work involved in preparing a subsidy application

946

2004/C 084E/1046

P-1108/04 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Drilling for gas in the Waddenzee

947

2004/C 084E/1047

E-1109/04 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Restriction on allowances in connection with foreign income

948

2004/C 084E/1048

E-1115/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Work Discrimination Directive 2000/78/EC in Ireland

949

2004/C 084E/1049

P-1116/04 by Uma Aaltonen to the CommissionSubject: Sex education for children and young people in the enlarging Union

950

2004/C 084E/1050

P-1127/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Drilling for gas a significant threat to the Waddenzee

951

2004/C 084E/1051

E-1136/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Restrictions on the right to vote in European elections in Northern Ireland that have so far disenfranchised 16,5 % of the population because of a complicated system of annual individual voter registration

952

2004/C 084E/1052

P-1151/04 by Elizabeth Lynne to the CommissionSubject: Commissioning medical treatment abroad

952

2004/C 084E/1053

P-1167/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Regulation No 1954/2003: fishing activity in the Azores EEZ

953

2004/C 084E/1054

P-1170/04 by Manuel dos Santos to the CommissionSubject: Construction of the Amoreiras tunnel in Lisbon

955

2004/C 084E/1055

P-1203/04 by Gianfranco Dell’Alba to the CommissionSubject: Suspected irregularities in the management of European Development Fund (EDF) resources for Project 8.ACP.PNG.003

956

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