# Official Journal C 78E/2004

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| Official Journal
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| English edition | Information and Notices | Volume 4727 March 2004 |

ISSN 1725-2423

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 78E

English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 4727 March 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 078E/1 | E-0465/01 by Antonios Trakatellis and Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Violation of Community environmental legislation and measures to protect the Loggerhead (Caretta Caretta) sea turtle | 1 |
| 2004/C 078E/2 | E-2369/02 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Directive 1999/74/EC on the protection of laying hens | 2 |
| 2004/C 078E/3 | E-3463/02 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Economic integration | 3 |
| 2004/C 078E/4 | E-3509/02 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Abolition of the arrangement whereby small-scale, occasional trading can be carried out on a cross-border basis using the cash-on-delivery system | 3 |
| 2004/C 078E/5 | E-3522/02 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Television rights relating to Champions League matches — dispute as to what constitutes news gathering and what is covered by copyright | 5 |
| 2004/C 078E/6 | E-3574/02 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Outermost regions and enlargement | 7 |
| 2004/C 078E/7 | E-3644/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Incarceration of Shaiboub | 8 |
| 2004/C 078E/8 | E-3645/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Imprisonment of Shakir | 8 |
| 2004/C 078E/9 | E-3652/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: El Kosheh retrial | 9 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3644/02, E-3645/02 and E-3652/02 | 9 |
| 2004/C 078E/10 | E-3675/02 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Europe and Palestinian terrorism | 10 |
| 2004/C 078E/11 | P-3803/02 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Catalan television broadcast on fraud against the ESF in Spain | 10 |
| 2004/C 078E/12 | E-3829/02 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Trade agreements between the EU and Mexico and safeguarding human rights | 11 |
| 2004/C 078E/13 | E-0072/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The dangers of selling thawed deep-frozen meat as fresh meat and a requirement to warn consumers against refreezing it | 12 |
| 2004/C 078E/14 | E-0201/03 by Emilio Menéndez del Valle to the CommissionSubject: Gibraltarian police violence (Supplementary Answer) | 13 |
| 2004/C 078E/15 | E-0219/03 by Alexandros Baltas to the CommissionSubject: Countries which have set in place essential elements of the Integrated Administration and Control System for certain Community aid schemes (IACS) | 14 |
| 2004/C 078E/16 | E-0293/03 by Struan Stevenson to the CommissionSubject: Animal welfare in Greek slaughterhouses | 16 |
| 2004/C 078E/17 | P-0439/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) draft proposal for an Independent Recourse Mechanism | 17 |
| 2004/C 078E/18 | P-0487/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: El Khosheh judgment | 18 |
| 2004/C 078E/19 | E-0559/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Horse identification documents | 19 |
| 2004/C 078E/20 | E-0622/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Combating cartels | 20 |
| 2004/C 078E/21 | E-0682/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Dam building project in Rivas de Tereso (La Rioja-Spain) | 20 |
| 2004/C 078E/22 | P-0733/03 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Air transport safety and use of passengers' mother tongue | 22 |
| 2004/C 078E/23 | E-0883/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Customs 2002 programme by the municipality of Fiumicino | 22 |
| 2004/C 078E/24 | E-1061/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Customs 2002 programme by the municipality of Ancona | 23 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0883/03 and E-1061/03 | 23 |
| 2004/C 078E/25 | P-0895/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Agro-business Bank of Georgia | 24 |
| 2004/C 078E/26 | E-0912/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Racism and racial attacks in candidate countries | 24 |
| 2004/C 078E/27 | E-0922/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Serbia; assassination of the Prime Minister; instability | 25 |
| 2004/C 078E/28 | E-1033/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Famine in Africa | 26 |
| 2004/C 078E/29 | E-1289/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Disruption of market access to the People's Republic of China for photographic products: specific import tariffs not complying with WTO agreements | 27 |
| 2004/C 078E/30 | E-1309/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Human rights abuses in Laos | 28 |
| 2004/C 078E/31 | P-1409/03 by Othmar Karas to the CommissionSubject: Reform of European corporate taxation policy | 29 |
| 2004/C 078E/32 | E-1431/03 by Pierre Jonckheer to the CommissionSubject: Open-cast coal mine in northern Leon (Valle de Laciana, Spain) | 32 |
| 2004/C 078E/33 | E-1432/03 by Pierre Jonckheer to the CommissionSubject: Open-cast coal mine in northern Leon (Valle de Laciana, Spain) | 32 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1431/03 and E-1432/03 | 33 |
| 2004/C 078E/34 | E-1435/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Increasing Third World dependence on emigration to work in rich countries and earnings transfers from rich countries | 34 |
| 2004/C 078E/35 | P-1483/03 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Protection of information concerning air passengers — Joint Declaration of 4 March 2003 | 35 |
| 2004/C 078E/36 | E-1550/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Uncontrolled flows of funds on the transfer of media ownership in Poland and possible preferential treatment for Poland as a new EU Member State | 36 |
| 2004/C 078E/37 | E-1551/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Labelling of products containing asbestos | 37 |
| 2004/C 078E/38 | E-1568/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Sharp cuts in passenger services on the Slovakian rail network as a result of secret conditions in a loan granted by the EIB in 1999 | 38 |
| 2004/C 078E/39 | P-1596/03 by Regina Bastos to the CommissionSubject: Closure of ‘Schuh-Union’ located in Ponte de Lima, Portugal (Supplementary Answer) | 40 |
| 2004/C 078E/40 | E-1670/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Authorisation by the Commission of projects harmful to the Natura 2000 network | 41 |
| 2004/C 078E/41 | E-1687/03 by Inger Schörling to the CommissionSubject: Botniabanan — Umea river delta, Sweden | 43 |
| 2004/C 078E/42 | E-1688/03 by Anders Wijkman to the CommissionSubject: The construction of the Ladia Galaska road in the province of Aceh, Indonesia | 44 |
| 2004/C 078E/43 | E-1726/03 by Mikko Pesälä to the CommissionSubject: Shooting noise abatement | 45 |
| 2004/C 078E/44 | E-1781/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: The EQUAL funding programme post-enlargement | 46 |
| 2004/C 078E/45 | E-1817/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Air pollution | 47 |
| 2004/C 078E/46 | E-1820/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Sausage meat | 48 |
| 2004/C 078E/47 | E-1831/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Statistics concerning poverty and unemployment in Greece | 49 |
| 2004/C 078E/48 | E-1836/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Particulates | 50 |
| 2004/C 078E/49 | E-1867/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Average cost of capital in the euro area | 51 |
| 2004/C 078E/50 | E-1868/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Equity culture | 52 |
| 2004/C 078E/51 | E-1900/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Nitrate pollution in the Valencia region | 53 |
| 2004/C 078E/52 | E-1906/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Credibility of televoting and its cost to the European public | 54 |
| 2004/C 078E/53 | E-1910/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Underground storage of nuclear waste | 55 |
| 2004/C 078E/54 | E-1927/03 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Bovine and porcine protein in chicken | 56 |
| 2004/C 078E/55 | E-1955/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Processing of chicken intended for human consumption | 56 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1927/03 and E-1955/03 | 56 |
| 2004/C 078E/56 | E-1937/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Corinth-Patras railway link | 57 |
| 2004/C 078E/57 | E-1946/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Investigations into subsidies paid by Spain to the Izar company and resumption of construction work on merchant vessels at the Izar-Fene shipyards in Galicia | 58 |
| 2004/C 078E/58 | P-1951/03 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Provisions banning traffic in Austria | 58 |
| 2004/C 078E/59 | E-1953/03 by Lissy Gröner to the CommissionSubject: Unused EU funding in Bavaria totalling EUR 17 million for 2002 | 59 |
| 2004/C 078E/60 | P-1961/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Ispra meeting to discuss the Spanish National Hydrological Plan | 60 |
| 2004/C 078E/61 | E-1970/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Recycling charges for household goods | 61 |
| 2004/C 078E/62 | E-1971/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Flying ultralight aircraft | 61 |
| 2004/C 078E/63 | E-1986/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Atmospheric pollution in Athens and Thessaloniki | 62 |
| 2004/C 078E/64 | E-1987/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi and Per-Arne Arvidsson to the CommissionSubject: Nuclear safety principles applied to the EU accession countries | 63 |
| 2004/C 078E/65 | E-1991/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Shedding of light on the circumstances relating to the organisation of the Commission that contributed to the death of Commission official Quatraro in 1993, and the secrecy surrounding the events | 65 |
| 2004/C 078E/66 | E-2001/03 by Jan Dhaene and Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Radioactive discharges from Sellafield | 66 |
| 2004/C 078E/67 | P-2031/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Community legislation on solid waste and the landfill of waste in Greece | 67 |
| 2004/C 078E/68 | E-2043/03 by Maurizio Turco, Emma Bonino, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Means of putting an end to violations of religious freedom | 69 |
| 2004/C 078E/69 | E-2045/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Serious and persistent violations of the fundamental human rights of the Uighur minority in the Chinese province of Xinjiang (eastern Turkestan) | 70 |
| 2004/C 078E/70 | E-2051/03 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: Essential oils and consumer protection | 71 |
| 2004/C 078E/71 | E-2056/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Ethylene | 72 |
| 2004/C 078E/72 | E-2059/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: One-year delay by the Spanish government in extracting fuel oil from the wreck of the ‘Prestige’ off the Galician coast | 73 |
| 2004/C 078E/73 | P-2080/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Summary of subsidies to undertakings | 74 |
| 2004/C 078E/74 | E-2084/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: 1970 Unesco Convention | 75 |
| 2004/C 078E/75 | E-2087/03 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of Finnish engineering qualifications in certain Mediterranean countries | 76 |
| 2004/C 078E/76 | E-2101/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Common agricultural policy reform — ‘capping’ | 78 |
| 2004/C 078E/77 | E-2111/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Comparative study of special needs teaching | 78 |
| 2004/C 078E/78 | E-2120/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the CommissionSubject: Development of renewable energy sources in Moldova | 79 |
| 2004/C 078E/79 | E-2127/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Guarantees as to the correctness of businesses' financial information | 80 |
| 2004/C 078E/80 | E-2166/03 by Giuseppe Di Lello Finuoli to the CommissionSubject: Update regarding of the Italian State and Campania Regional Government funding of the programme contract presented by Agrifuturo | 82 |
| 2004/C 078E/81 | E-2173/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Compliance with EU legislation on asbestos | 82 |
| 2004/C 078E/82 | E-2176/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Procurement | 83 |
| 2004/C 078E/83 | E-2180/03 by Samuli Pohjamo and Mikko Pesälä to the CommissionSubject: Damage caused by predators in the Finnish reindeer range | 84 |
| 2004/C 078E/84 | E-2186/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Need for better consumer protection against malicious or negligent practices in international e-commerce | 85 |
| 2004/C 078E/85 | E-2187/03 by Sérgio Marques to the CommissionSubject: Participation by the outermost regions in the RTD framework programmes | 87 |
| 2004/C 078E/86 | E-2191/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Funding for the IRENE organisation | 88 |
| 2004/C 078E/87 | P-2194/03 by Michael Cashman to the CommissionSubject: Counterfeiting and piracy | 89 |
| 2004/C 078E/88 | E-2196/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Civil protection | 90 |
| 2004/C 078E/89 | E-2197/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Cattle transport — CATRA findings | 90 |
| 2004/C 078E/90 | E-2206/03 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Action to confine marketing of specified products to the Czech Republic | 91 |
| 2004/C 078E/91 | E-2207/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Labelling of animal, including poultry, products and problems posed for members of religious minorities eating these products | 92 |
| 2004/C 078E/92 | P-2440/03 by Diana Wallis to the CommissionSubject: Addition of water and protein to chicken meat | 92 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2207/03 and P-2440/03 | 93 |
| 2004/C 078E/93 | E-2216/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Arrest of twelve members of an evangelical church in China | 93 |
| 2004/C 078E/94 | E-2221/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Situation of the High Flux Reactor in Petten | 94 |
| 2004/C 078E/95 | E-2236/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Disastrous environmental situation in Greece | 95 |
| 2004/C 078E/96 | E-2240/03 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up to an application for a driving licence in another EU Member State | 96 |
| 2004/C 078E/97 | E-2241/03 by Kathalijne Buitenweg and Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Funding of enforced return measures | 97 |
| 2004/C 078E/98 | E-2250/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in China. Arrest of Father Lu Xiaozhou of the ‘clandestine’ Catholic church | 99 |
| 2004/C 078E/99 | E-2251/03 by Joaquim Miranda to the CommissionSubject: Charter for Children in Hospital | 99 |
| 2004/C 078E/100 | E-2277/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Construction faults on the Ionian highway | 100 |
| 2004/C 078E/101 | E-2291/03 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Equal treatment of Member States in recruiting EU officials | 101 |
| 2004/C 078E/102 | P-2301/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Directive 1999/70/EC | 102 |
| 2004/C 078E/103 | E-2320/03 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: First aid at the scene of an accident | 103 |
| 2004/C 078E/104 | P-2340/03 by Giovanni Fava to the CommissionSubject: National site for radioactive waste in Sardinia | 104 |
| 2004/C 078E/105 | E-2348/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Measures to be taken in response to evidence that oil from the ‘Prestige’ is continuing to reach the coasts of Galicia and the Bay of Biscay | 105 |
| 2004/C 078E/106 | E-2349/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Galicia and CAP reform | 105 |
| 2004/C 078E/107 | E-2356/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Caroline Jackson, Johannes Blokland, Alexander de Roo and Karl-Heinz Florenz to the CommissionSubject: Interpretation of the RoHS Directive (2002/95/EC) | 106 |
| 2004/C 078E/108 | E-2380/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: New business formation | 108 |
| 2004/C 078E/109 | E-2381/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Single market | 109 |
| 2004/C 078E/110 | E-2382/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Single market | 109 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2381/03 and E-2382/03 | 109 |
| 2004/C 078E/111 | E-2391/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: Numbers of pigs and cattle in the EU 15 and the 10 accession countries | 110 |
| 2004/C 078E/112 | E-2408/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Watching an LCD screen whilst driving a motor vehicle | 111 |
| 2004/C 078E/113 | E-2422/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: In-car LCD screens | 111 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2408/03 and E-2422/03 | 112 |
| 2004/C 078E/114 | E-2436/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Support for fishermen unable to fish for biological reasons | 113 |
| 2004/C 078E/115 | E-2448/03 by Georges Berthu to the CommissionSubject: Inappropriate incentive to destroy hedgerows | 114 |
| 2004/C 078E/116 | E-2450/03 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Infringement by the Salerno Chamber of Commerce of legislation on fixed term employment contracts | 114 |
| 2004/C 078E/117 | E-2466/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Systematic provision of information to police forces, businessmen and holidaymakers with a view to ensuring that foreign tourists are not punished when they unwittingly break the law | 115 |
| 2004/C 078E/118 | E-2481/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Transferable fishing quotas | 117 |
| 2004/C 078E/119 | E-2484/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Galicia and CAP reform | 118 |
| 2004/C 078E/120 | E-2495/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Common agriculture policy | 119 |
| 2004/C 078E/121 | E-2497/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Foreign direct investment | 120 |
| 2004/C 078E/122 | E-2521/03 by Carles-Alfred Gasòliba i Böhm to the CommissionSubject: Linguistic plurality of Spain with regard to passports | 121 |
| 2004/C 078E/123 | E-2548/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Linguistic coexistence as reflected in Spanish passports | 121 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2521/03 and E-2548/03 | 121 |
| 2004/C 078E/124 | E-2535/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Farm incomes in Portugal | 122 |
| 2004/C 078E/125 | E-2540/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Agreements between the Spanish State and the Vatican State which violate fundamental rights | 123 |
| 2004/C 078E/126 | E-2541/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: The ‘Gescartera’ case and agreements between the Spanish State and the Holy See | 124 |
| 2004/C 078E/127 | E-2546/03 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Evaluation of tobacco products | 125 |
| 2004/C 078E/128 | E-2556/03 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Voting in Mallorcan elections | 126 |
| 2004/C 078E/129 | E-2565/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Residues of hormones, antibiotics and phthalic acid esters in drinking water | 127 |
| 2004/C 078E/130 | E-2566/03 by Markus Ferber to the CommissionSubject: EU aid for construction projects in Italy | 128 |
| 2004/C 078E/131 | E-2569/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Bioptic driving | 129 |
| 2004/C 078E/132 | E-2586/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: New information concerning the refunds for agricultural products exported from the Member States to the Vatican City State | 129 |
| 2004/C 078E/133 | P-2591/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: State of emergency due to the drought in the Region of Lazio | 131 |
| 2004/C 078E/134 | E-2597/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Natural disaster alert in Italy | 132 |
| 2004/C 078E/135 | E-2605/03 by Elizabeth Lynne to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of qualifications for language teachers (Supplementary Answer) | 133 |
| 2004/C 078E/136 | P-2606/03 by Armin Laschet to the CommissionSubject: Discontinuation of the infringement proceedings against the Federal Republic of Germany in connection with the Avantis cross-border business park | 134 |
| 2004/C 078E/137 | E-2610/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Charging consumers for returning waste household electrical equipment | 135 |
| 2004/C 078E/138 | E-2631/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of fresh and frozen beef (code 0201) for 1998. Inconsistencies between CATS and OECD data | 136 |
| 2004/C 078E/139 | E-2632/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of fresh and frozen beef (code 0201) for 1999. Inconsistencies between CATS and OECD data | 136 |
| 2004/C 078E/140 | E-2633/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of fresh and frozen beef (code 0201) for 2000. Inconsistencies between CATS and OECD data | 137 |
| 2004/C 078E/141 | E-2634/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of fresh and frozen beef (code 0201) for 2001. Inconsistencies between CATS and OECD data | 138 |
| 2004/C 078E/142 | E-2635/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, milk products (code 0405) for 1998 | 139 |
| 2004/C 078E/143 | E-2636/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, milk products (code 0405) for 1999 | 139 |
| 2004/C 078E/144 | E-2637/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, milk products (code 0405) for 2000 | 140 |
| 2004/C 078E/145 | E-2638/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, milk products (code 0405) for 2001 | 141 |
| 2004/C 078E/146 | E-2639/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form (code 1701) for 1998 | 142 |
| 2004/C 078E/147 | E-2640/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form (code 1701) for 1999 | 142 |
| 2004/C 078E/148 | E-2641/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form (code 1701) for 2000 | 143 |
| 2004/C 078E/149 | E-2642/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form (code 1701) for 2001 | 144 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2631/03, E-2632/03, E-2633/03, E-2634/03, E-2635/03, E-2636/03, E-2637/03, E-2638/03, E-2639/03, E-2640/03, E-2641/03 and E-2642/03 | 145 |
| 2004/C 078E/150 | E-2645/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Amendment of Article 25(1) of the Kyoto Protocol regarding entry into force | 145 |
| 2004/C 078E/151 | P-2647/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Use of synthetic prohormones for livestock fattening | 146 |
| 2004/C 078E/152 | E-2651/03 by Phillip Whitehead to the CommissionSubject: Consumer involvement in the common implementation strategy for the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC | 147 |
| 2004/C 078E/153 | E-2663/03 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances | 148 |
| 2004/C 078E/154 | E-2669/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: ELSA laboratory — transport safety (JRC Ispra) | 149 |
| 2004/C 078E/155 | E-2678/03 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: 1991 Nitrates Directive | 150 |
| 2004/C 078E/156 | P-2691/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: EURES expenditure | 151 |
| 2004/C 078E/157 | P-2693/03 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: GMOs | 152 |
| 2004/C 078E/158 | P-2695/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the Promise programme | 154 |
| 2004/C 078E/159 | E-2702/03 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Illegally-sourced timber | 155 |
| 2004/C 078E/160 | E-2705/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Renewable energies | 156 |
| 2004/C 078E/161 | E-2708/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: City-Res Network project | 157 |
| 2004/C 078E/162 | E-2732/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Possible conflict of interests at the Directorate-General for Competition | 158 |
| 2004/C 078E/163 | E-2736/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Monkfish quotas | 159 |
| 2004/C 078E/164 | E-2739/03 by Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Leader+: pre-financing by promoters | 160 |
| 2004/C 078E/165 | E-2745/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Environmental impact of the enlargement of Eivissa airport | 161 |
| 2004/C 078E/166 | E-2755/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Requirement for nationality to be listed on driving licences | 162 |
| 2004/C 078E/167 | E-2765/03 by Raffaele Lombardo and Francesco Musotto to the CommissionSubject: Amending Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 for the use of concentrated musts and rectified concentrated musts | 162 |
| 2004/C 078E/168 | E-2769/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor examinations | 163 |
| 2004/C 078E/169 | E-2770/03 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Personal injury awards | 164 |
| 2004/C 078E/170 | P-2776/03 by Hans Kronberger to the CommissionSubject: Conflict between the objectives of Directive 2001/77/EC on renewable energy and the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in Austria | 165 |
| 2004/C 078E/171 | P-2782/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: EIA report and the Habitats Directive | 167 |
| 2004/C 078E/172 | E-2788/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Use of peat for electricity generation | 168 |
| 2004/C 078E/173 | E-2802/03 by Pedro Marset Campos to the CommissionSubject: Special tolls in France and Germany for the transport of goods by road | 169 |
| 2004/C 078E/174 | E-2805/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Solar energy | 170 |
| 2004/C 078E/175 | E-2809/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Innovative actions in the fisheries sector, 2003/C 115/08 | 171 |
| 2004/C 078E/176 | P-2810/03 by Ari Vatanen to the CommissionSubject: Allowing longer truck combinations in Europe | 171 |
| 2004/C 078E/177 | P-2811/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Situation of the Mauritanian fishing ground | 172 |
| 2004/C 078E/178 | E-2812/03 by Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Revision of the Directive on driving licences — driving licences for light motorcycles | 174 |
| 2004/C 078E/179 | E-2813/03 by Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Revision of the Directive on driving licences — eyesight requirements | 174 |
| 2004/C 078E/180 | P-2823/03 by Françoise Grossetête to the CommissionSubject: Annex to Directive 90/435/EEC | 175 |
| 2004/C 078E/181 | E-2845/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the CommissionSubject: EU enlargement and air transport | 176 |
| 2004/C 078E/182 | E-2846/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the CommissionSubject: European directive on transport infrastructure charging | 176 |
| 2004/C 078E/183 | P-2847/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Plans to develop Salobrar de Campos — Es trenc | 177 |
| 2004/C 078E/184 | E-2849/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Complaints or infringements regarding the implementation of Greece of Community environmental legislation | 178 |
| 2004/C 078E/185 | E-2850/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Unsatisfactory performance by building and holiday home cooperatives in Greece | 179 |
| 2004/C 078E/186 | P-2855/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Biocidal Products Directive | 179 |
| 2004/C 078E/187 | E-2858/03 by Pierre Jonckheer to the CommissionSubject: Opencast mining in the north of León (Valle de Laciana district, Spain) | 180 |
| 2004/C 078E/188 | P-2864/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Data and sources indicating the role currently played by the Vatican's financial system in the payment of interest to natural persons | 182 |
| 2004/C 078E/189 | E-2865/03 by Elisabeth Schroedter and Inger Schörling to the CommissionSubject: Destruction of unique parts of the European natural heritage in Brandenburg, Federal Republic of Germany | 182 |
| 2004/C 078E/190 | E-2868/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: European electricity market | 184 |
| 2004/C 078E/191 | E-2886/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Difficulties encountered in the liberalisation of the European rail freight sector | 185 |
| 2004/C 078E/192 | E-2887/03 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Animal by-products | 186 |
| 2004/C 078E/193 | E-2907/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Expenditure on and structural indicators for research and innovation in the EU and Greece | 186 |
| 2004/C 078E/194 | P-2909/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Future status of Tibet | 187 |
| 2004/C 078E/195 | E-2921/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Cotton subsidies | 188 |
| 2004/C 078E/196 | E-2924/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: European Council to guarantee energy supplies | 190 |
| 2004/C 078E/197 | E-2927/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Urgent need to expand voluntary fire services | 190 |
| 2004/C 078E/198 | E-2935/03 by Monica Frassoni and Guido Sacconi to the CommissionSubject: Inclusion of waste among the energy sources coming under the arrangements applying to renewable energy sources | 191 |
| 2004/C 078E/199 | E-2943/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: European taxpayers' contribution to promoting and maintaining bullfighting and other local traditions involving cruelty to animals | 193 |
| 2004/C 078E/200 | E-2946/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Specific programme for research | 195 |
| 2004/C 078E/201 | P-2947/03 by Peter Liese to the CommissionSubject: Trupbach industrial estate | 195 |
| 2004/C 078E/202 | P-2948/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Whistleblowing provisions | 197 |
| 2004/C 078E/203 | P-2964/03 by Brigitte Langenhagen to the CommissionSubject: Digital recording equipment | 197 |
| 2004/C 078E/204 | E-2965/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Endometriosis research funding | 199 |
| 2004/C 078E/205 | E-2969/03 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Management of EUR 150 000 of Community funds — involvement of a Romanian government minister | 199 |
| 2004/C 078E/206 | P-2971/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Toxic ships | 200 |
| 2004/C 078E/207 | P-2973/03 by Jean-Louis Bernié to the CommissionSubject: Marais Breton site — September 2003 | 203 |
| 2004/C 078E/208 | E-2980/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Suspension of funding for public works studies in Greece from the Community budget | 204 |
| 2004/C 078E/209 | E-2982/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Stability pact | 205 |
| 2004/C 078E/210 | E-2983/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Instances of infringements of Community legislation on the environment | 206 |
| 2004/C 078E/211 | E-2984/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Building on seafronts | 207 |
| 2004/C 078E/212 | P-3010/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Blackout in Italy | 208 |
| 2004/C 078E/213 | P-3011/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Fisheries: national boundaries within the EU's EEZ | 209 |
| 2004/C 078E/214 | E-3018/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Promotions within the Commission | 209 |
| 2004/C 078E/215 | E-3039/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Allegations of bribery made against journalists without any basis in fact | 210 |
| 2004/C 078E/216 | E-3044/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Τ Pods | 211 |
| 2004/C 078E/217 | E-3048/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Coordinating the fight against paedophilia | 211 |
| 2004/C 078E/218 | P-3052/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Suspension of the payment of Community appropriations for public works studies in Greece | 213 |
| 2004/C 078E/219 | E-3054/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Replacement of the illegal waste dump at Kouroupitos | 214 |
| 2004/C 078E/220 | E-3055/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Accounting scandals and corporate governance | 215 |
| 2004/C 078E/221 | E-3058/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Contradictions and inconsistencies in Commission and OLAF statements about the Datashop case | 216 |
| 2004/C 078E/222 | E-3070/03 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: Distortions of competition caused by the German Foreign Trade Act | 217 |
| 2004/C 078E/223 | E-3072/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Provision of the ADSL service in Greece | 218 |
| 2004/C 078E/224 | E-3073/03 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Cost of bank transactions in Greece | 219 |
| 2004/C 078E/225 | E-3074/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Avermectin | 220 |
| 2004/C 078E/226 | E-3096/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Protection of monopolies and high fares by means of aviation agreements with third countries and attempts by potential competitors to break such monopolies | 222 |
| 2004/C 078E/227 | E-3113/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Classification of the codes for the units of measurement of quantities exported shown on the Commission's database CATS (Clearance Audit Trail System) | 223 |
| 2004/C 078E/228 | E-3124/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Working languages | 224 |
| 2004/C 078E/229 | E-3126/03 by Astrid Thors to the CommissionSubject: The cross-border provision of gaming services for humanitarian causes | 225 |
| 2004/C 078E/230 | E-3130/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Fisheries — OASIS — Oceanic Seamounts | 226 |
| 2004/C 078E/231 | E-3134/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Holland — ‘Ecstasy’ | 227 |
| 2004/C 078E/232 | E-3151/03 by Herman Schmid to the CommissionSubject: The perception of quality of life in the EU | 229 |
| 2004/C 078E/233 | E-3155/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Competition-distorting customs duties on fish imported from Norway to Denmark | 230 |
| 2004/C 078E/234 | P-3160/03 by Ioannis Averoff to the CommissionSubject: Authorisation for the construction of a landfill site in the prefecture of Ioannina | 231 |
| 2004/C 078E/235 | P-3165/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Spanish Hydrological Plan (Pyrenees) | 233 |
| 2004/C 078E/236 | E-3169/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Ban on dangerous dog breeds | 234 |
| 2004/C 078E/237 | E-3174/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: European film-making | 234 |
| 2004/C 078E/238 | P-3178/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Damage caused by the Prestige: fresh evaluation and the Solidarity Fund | 236 |
| 2004/C 078E/239 | E-3187/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Free movement of bankrupt persons in the EU | 237 |
| 2004/C 078E/240 | E-3192/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat: clarification of President Prodi's powers of intervention | 237 |
| 2004/C 078E/241 | E-3198/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Further camp closures and expulsions of refugees in Ingushetia | 239 |
| 2004/C 078E/242 | P-3201/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Search at the Ί1 Giornale' head office in Rome: violation of freedom of the press in Italy | 240 |
| 2004/C 078E/243 | E-3219/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of fire regulations in the EU | 240 |
| 2004/C 078E/244 | E-3231/03 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Allocation of subsidies under the fifth and sixth framework programmes | 241 |
| 2004/C 078E/245 | E-3255/03 by Marie Isler Béguin and Yves Piétrasanta to the CommissionSubject: Respect for rights and justice following the Bhopal tragedy in India | 243 |
| 2004/C 078E/246 | P-3258/03 by María Ayuso González to the CommissionSubject: Garlic import scheme | 244 |
| 2004/C 078E/247 | E-3260/03 by Michel Hansenne to the CommissionSubject: Approving the setting up of a driving school | 244 |
| 2004/C 078E/248 | E-3262/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Exclusion of persons who are nationals of another Member State from the right to purchase soft drugs or to be members of a users' association | 245 |
| 2004/C 078E/249 | E-3268/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Commission employees | 246 |
| 2004/C 078E/250 | E-3273/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Emissions of refrigerant gases from (Dutch) ships | 246 |
| 2004/C 078E/251 | E-3278/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Macao — Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation | 248 |
| 2004/C 078E/252 | P-3279/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Quality checks by the Commission on the Clearance Audit Trail System (CATS) database | 249 |
| 2004/C 078E/253 | E-3280/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Lack of specific monitoring of product quantities exported from Member States to the Vatican City State under the export refund system | 252 |
| 2004/C 078E/254 | E-3281/03 by Bartho Pronk, Maria Martens and Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up to question E-1740/02 on the free movement of captains | 253 |
| 2004/C 078E/255 | P-3283/03 by Francesco Speroni to the CommissionSubject: Bananas | 255 |
| 2004/C 078E/256 | E-3293/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Structural Funds | 255 |
| 2004/C 078E/257 | E-3304/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Monitoring racial and ethnic discrimination at border controls | 256 |
| 2004/C 078E/258 | E-3317/03 by Íñigo Méndez de Vigo to the CommissionSubject: Cross-border payments | 257 |
| 2004/C 078E/259 | E-3320/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Transit visas in the EU | 258 |
| 2004/C 078E/260 | P-3323/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Suspected infringement of the rules on public contracts by ATAC in Rome | 259 |
| 2004/C 078E/261 | E-3327/03 by Albert Maat and Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Histomoniasis (blackhead) | 260 |
| 2004/C 078E/262 | P-3332/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Export refunds for live cattle | 262 |
| 2004/C 078E/263 | P-3334/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Politically absurd opinion polls | 263 |
| 2004/C 078E/264 | E-3335/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Editorial offices of the daily newspaper Ί1 Giornale' searched | 264 |
| 2004/C 078E/265 | E-3336/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Suspected violation of the rights of the employees of Alcatel Italia S.p.A | 265 |
| 2004/C 078E/266 | E-3339/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Possibility of funding for the health authority of Fiumicino — Rome XIII | 266 |
| 2004/C 078E/267 | E-3342/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Financial aid to Danish immigrant associations | 267 |
| 2004/C 078E/268 | E-3348/03 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Project Gutenberg — making digital copies of books whose copyright has expired | 268 |
| 2004/C 078E/269 | E-3351/03 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: Obstacles to the free movement of workers in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg | 269 |
| 2004/C 078E/270 | E-3352/03 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Single Market rules | 270 |
| 2004/C 078E/271 | E-3353/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Equal treatment of men and women in sport | 271 |
| 2004/C 078E/272 | E-3360/03 by Jean-Maurice Dehousse to the CommissionSubject: Free movement of persons | 271 |
| 2004/C 078E/273 | E-3362/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Development of new nuclear power stations | 272 |
| 2004/C 078E/274 | E-3372/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Denmark's prospects of renegotiating Protocol 16 | 273 |
| 2004/C 078E/275 | E-3378/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: European financial assistance to European contact points | 274 |
| 2004/C 078E/276 | E-3381/03 by David Martin to the CommissionSubject: Transportation of horses from Romania to Italy | 275 |
| 2004/C 078E/277 | E-3385/03 by Karin Junker to the CommissionSubject: Use of metal detectors in archaeology | 275 |
| 2004/C 078E/278 | E-3388/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The gradual downgrading of the role played by national central banks following the establishment of the ECB and the implications for the prevention of the production and distribution of counterfeit money | 276 |
| 2004/C 078E/279 | E-3395/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Freedom of movement for Kosovo citizens in the EU and the final status of Kosovo | 278 |
| 2004/C 078E/280 | E-3397/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Dental instruments and risk of infections | 279 |
| 2004/C 078E/281 | E-3406/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Installation and operation of mobile telephone antennae in Chortiatis | 280 |
| 2004/C 078E/282 | E-3412/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: EU funding of independent NGO projects in Tunisia | 282 |
| 2004/C 078E/283 | E-3434/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Protection of the Bauhaus style of architecture | 283 |
| 2004/C 078E/284 | E-3438/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Renovation of the Berlaymont building | 284 |
| 2004/C 078E/285 | E-3445/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Support for non-autonomous handicapped people | 285 |
| 2004/C 078E/286 | E-3450/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Criteria for fisheries sector structural actions | 286 |
| 2004/C 078E/287 | E-3458/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The final destruction of tropical rainforests and measures to prevent overlogging and imports of timber without an ecolabel | 287 |
| 2004/C 078E/288 | E-3461/03 by Peder Wachtmeister to the CommissionSubject: Corruption scandal within the Swedish retail monopoly undertaking Systembolaget AB | 288 |
| 2004/C 078E/289 | E-3469/03 by Bart Staes, Phillip Whitehead, Catherine Stihler and Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Post-polio syndrome | 289 |
| 2004/C 078E/290 | E-3480/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Civil rights of disabled people | 290 |
| 2004/C 078E/291 | E-3483/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Use of documents as evidence of criminal activity | 291 |
| 2004/C 078E/292 | E-3489/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Stepping up supplies to the Sinaga's sugar production units — Azores Autonomous Region | 292 |
| 2004/C 078E/293 | P-3492/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Romano Prodi — Manifesto | 292 |
| 2004/C 078E/294 | E-3498/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Iran — nuclear energy | 293 |
| 2004/C 078E/295 | E-3503/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Stray dogs and the Olympic Games | 294 |
| 2004/C 078E/296 | P-3509/03 by Helmuth Markov to the CommissionSubject: Interreg IIIA: Future funding of Euroregion offices | 294 |
| 2004/C 078E/297 | E-3530/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Health and safety for the elderly and disabled | 295 |
| 2004/C 078E/298 | E-3534/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Portuguese workers abroad | 296 |
| 2004/C 078E/299 | E-3535/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Humana Milchunion — infant health | 297 |
| 2004/C 078E/300 | E-3545/03 by Alexander de Roo, Karl-Heinz Florenz and Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Transposition of the directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in France | 298 |
| 2004/C 078E/301 | E-3556/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Projects co-funded by the ERDF in Lobios in Ourense, Spain | 299 |
| 2004/C 078E/302 | E-3588/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Mozambique — elections | 300 |
| 2004/C 078E/303 | P-3595/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Disability | 301 |
| 2004/C 078E/304 | E-3610/03 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Circumvention of sugar import tariffs | 302 |
| 2004/C 078E/305 | P-3618/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Building cooperatives in Greece | 303 |
| 2004/C 078E/306 | E-3637/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Working environment for employees handling preservatives | 304 |
| 2004/C 078E/307 | E-3639/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Pollution in Wipp and Eisack valleys (Austria and Italy) | 305 |
| 2004/C 078E/308 | E-3642/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Eurobarometer poll | 306 |
| 2004/C 078E/309 | E-3658/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Ban Bullying Day — future action | 307 |
| 2004/C 078E/310 | E-3659/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Free movement of goods and services | 308 |
| 2004/C 078E/311 | E-3662/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Botswanan beef, wildlife and sustainable development | 309 |
| 2004/C 078E/312 | E-3664/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Women's reproductive health | 310 |
| 2004/C 078E/313 | P-3666/03 by Mario Mantovani to the CommissionSubject: Health services and free movement of patients | 311 |
| 2004/C 078E/314 | P-3693/03 by Armin Laschet to the CommissionSubject: Unpublished study on anti-Semitism drawn up by the EUMC | 313 |
| 2004/C 078E/315 | P-3696/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Balanced participation of women and men in the decision-making process | 314 |
| 2004/C 078E/316 | P-3761/03 by Astrid Thors to the CommissionSubject: Obligation to destroy horses where nandrolon has been used | 315 |
| 2004/C 078E/317 | E-3764/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Spanish Hydrological Plan: cost of water transferred, and the recovery of funding | 316 |
| 2004/C 078E/318 | E-3765/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Carrara municipality | 317 |
| 2004/C 078E/319 | E-3766/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Florence municipality | 317 |
| 2004/C 078E/320 | E-3767/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Livorno municipality | 318 |
| 2004/C 078E/321 | E-3768/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Macerata municipality | 318 |
| 2004/C 078E/322 | E-3769/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Massa municipality | 318 |
| 2004/C 078E/323 | E-3770/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Perugia municipality | 319 |
| 2004/C 078E/324 | E-3771/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Pistoia municipality | 319 |
| 2004/C 078E/325 | E-3772/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Prato municipality | 319 |
| 2004/C 078E/326 | E-3773/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Siena municipality | 320 |
| 2004/C 078E/327 | E-3774/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Terni municipality | 320 |
| 2004/C 078E/328 | E-3775/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Ancona municipality | 320 |
| 2004/C 078E/329 | E-3793/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the city of Pisa under the Leonardo programme | 321 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3765/03, E-3766/03, E-3767/03, E-3768/03, E-3769/03, E-3770/03, E-3771/03, E-3772/03, E-3773/03, E-3774/03, E-3775/03 and E-3793/03 | 321 |
| 2004/C 078E/330 | E-3794/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Fisheries certification | 321 |
| 2004/C 078E/331 | E-3798/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Ancona | 322 |
| 2004/C 078E/332 | E-3799/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Pisa | 322 |
| 2004/C 078E/333 | E-3800/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Pistoia | 322 |
| 2004/C 078E/334 | E-3801/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Prato | 323 |
| 2004/C 078E/335 | E-3802/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Siena | 323 |
| 2004/C 078E/336 | E-3803/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Terni | 323 |
| 2004/C 078E/337 | E-3804/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Perugia | 323 |
| 2004/C 078E/338 | E-3805/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Carrara | 324 |
| 2004/C 078E/339 | E-3806/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Florence | 324 |
| 2004/C 078E/340 | E-3807/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Livorno | 324 |
| 2004/C 078E/341 | E-3808/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Macerata | 324 |
| 2004/C 078E/342 | E-3809/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Massa | 325 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3798/03, E-3799/03, E-3800/03, E-3801/03, E-3802/03, E-3803/03, E-3804/03, E-3805/03, E-3806/03, E-3807/03, E-3808/03 and E-3809/03 | 325 |
| 2004/C 078E/343 | P-3810/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: EU rules on discarding healthy fish | 325 |
| 2004/C 078E/344 | P-3835/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Directive 89/48/EEC | 327 |
| 2004/C 078E/345 | E-3838/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Stray animals in Greece | 328 |
| 2004/C 078E/346 | E-3867/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Timeshare and holiday club study | 328 |
| 2004/C 078E/347 | E-3883/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel Italia: Community funding for telecommunications | 330 |
| 2004/C 078E/348 | E-3884/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel Italia: suspected infringement of rules on funding granted by the EU | 331 |
| 2004/C 078E/349 | E-3885/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel Italia: possible checks on funding granted by the EU | 331 |
| 2004/C 078E/350 | P-3890/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Recognition in Greece of diplomas of Community universities | 332 |
| 2004/C 078E/351 | P-3892/03 by Nicole Thomas-Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Opinion of AFSSA | 333 |
| 2004/C 078E/352 | E-3901/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: President Prodi's involvement in Italian politics | 334 |
| 2004/C 078E/353 | P-3911/03 by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against minors with regard to access to sporting federations in Spain | 335 |
| 2004/C 078E/354 | P-3925/03 by Raina Echerer to the CommissionSubject: Cat and dog furs — internal market | 336 |
| 2004/C 078E/355 | P-4008/03 by Fernando Fernández Martín to the CommissionSubject: Powerline Communications Systems | 337 |
| 2004/C 078E/356 | P-0001/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds for exports to the Vatican City State | 338 |
| | WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 2) |
| 2004/C 078E/357 | E-1653/01 by Professor Sir Neil MacCormick to the CommissionSubject: Restitution of property in the applicant countries | 340 |
| 2004/C 078E/358 | P-1721/01 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Net budget transfers | 340 |
| 2004/C 078E/359 | E-1746/01 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Completion of construction of hospitals at Katerini, Pyrgos and Corfu | 341 |
| 2004/C 078E/360 | E-1897/01 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: The legal basis for the Commission's proposals on the setting-up and funding of pan-European political parties | 342 |
| 2004/C 078E/361 | P-2120/01 by Hans Modrow to the CommissionSubject: Extradition of Milosevic to the Hague tribunal | 343 |
| 2004/C 078E/362 | E-3711/01 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: New trade agreement with the USA | 343 |
| 2004/C 078E/363 | E-0684/02 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Moldova — the poorest country in Europe — and the striking difference in its treatment by the EU in comparison with the Baltic States | 344 |
| 2004/C 078E/364 | E-0685/02 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Adverse impact on the EU Member States of constant discrimination against Moldova and its exceptional status | 345 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0684/02 and E-0685/02 | 345 |
| 2004/C 078E/365 | E-3467/02 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Effective treatment of tuberculosis — progress | 346 |
| 2004/C 078E/366 | E-3561/02 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Bush meat | 348 |
| 2004/C 078E/367 | E-3630/02 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Limit to the number of cigarettes one may take out of Spain | 350 |
| 2004/C 078E/368 | E-3647/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: UPDF prisoners in Uganda | 350 |
| 2004/C 078E/369 | P-3769/02 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: GATS | 351 |
| 2004/C 078E/370 | E-3863/02 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: North Korean refugees | 352 |
| 2004/C 078E/371 | E-3882/02 by Helle Thorning-Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Mexico's free-trade agreement and violation of human rights | 353 |
| 2004/C 078E/372 | E-3900/02 by Lennart Sacrédeus to the CommissionSubject: Treatment and life situation of girls and women in Afghanistan | 354 |
| 2004/C 078E/373 | P-0327/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Regulation (EC) No 2560/2001 on crossborder payments in euro | 354 |
| 2004/C 078E/374 | E-0426/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Violation of human rights in Chechnya | 355 |
| 2004/C 078E/375 | E-0521/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Women's rights in Pakistan | 356 |
| 2004/C 078E/376 | E-0586/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Reduction of VAT on CDs | 358 |
| 2004/C 078E/377 | E-0819/03 by Ole Krarup to the CommissionSubject: GM crops and liability | 358 |
| 2004/C 078E/378 | E-0906/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba; Cotonou Agreement; Human rights | 359 |
| 2004/C 078E/379 | E-1141/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Infrastructural damage caused by landslides in Greece | 360 |
| 2004/C 078E/380 | E-1143/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Accessibility of digital services for the visually impaired | 361 |
| 2004/C 078E/381 | E-1230/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Enhanced legal cooperation | 362 |
| 2004/C 078E/382 | E-1232/03 by Nicholas Clegg to the CommissionSubject: Member States' policies on airport expansion | 363 |
| 2004/C 078E/383 | E-1272/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination in the treatment of citizens of EU Member States by the Turkish government | 363 |
| 2004/C 078E/384 | E-1278/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Uniates in Romania | 364 |
| 2004/C 078E/385 | E-1322/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Zimbabwe: land, violence and nepotism | 365 |
| 2004/C 078E/386 | E-1364/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Exploitation of Community citizens by the Vatican City State | 367 |
| 2004/C 078E/387 | E-1416/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Bank sentenced to pay compensation to clients for having provided information to the tax authorities of their Member State | 367 |
| 2004/C 078E/388 | E-1418/03 by Maria Carrilho to the CommissionSubject: Revision of the Europe-Asia strategic framework | 368 |
| 2004/C 078E/389 | E-1451/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Cooperation with the Slovak Institute of Metrology | 369 |
| 2004/C 078E/390 | E-1517/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Economic Partnership Agreements | 370 |
| 2004/C 078E/391 | E-1526/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Failure to remove blue and brown asbestos from contaminated flats, workshops and other buildings in EU accession State Hungary | 371 |
| 2004/C 078E/392 | E-1540/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Trade in equipment which could be used for torture or capital punishment | 372 |
| 2004/C 078E/393 | E-1541/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Outlawing the production of equipment for capital punishment and torture | 373 |
| 2004/C 078E/394 | E-1542/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Control of trade in products that may be used to inflict torture | 373 |
| 2004/C 078E/395 | E-1543/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Production of equipment and products for capital punishment or torture | 373 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1540/03, E-1541/03, E-1542/03 and E-1543/03 | 373 |
| 2004/C 078E/396 | P-1594/03 by Emilio Menéndez del Valle to the CommissionSubject: EC-Israel trade agreement | 374 |
| 2004/C 078E/397 | P-1595/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: Cross-border payments in euro | 375 |
| 2004/C 078E/398 | P-1632/03 by Renato Brunetta to the CommissionSubject: Sale of the ‘Vittoriosa Gaming’ company by the ‘Casinò Municipale di Venezia’ | 375 |
| 2004/C 078E/399 | E-1636/03 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Sixth VAT Directive | 376 |
| 2004/C 078E/400 | E-1647/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Way in which EU funds for integrating Roma in Bulgaria and improving their living conditions are used and managed | 378 |
| 2004/C 078E/401 | P-1653/03 by Joost Lagendijk to the CommissionSubject: European Civil Peace Corps — current developments — mainstreaming of conflict prevention in external EU policies | 379 |
| 2004/C 078E/402 | P-1661/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Trial of Leyla Zana | 380 |
| 2004/C 078E/403 | E-1668/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Human rights abuses in the Western Sahara | 381 |
| 2004/C 078E/404 | E-1669/03 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Baku-Ceyhun oil pipeline | 382 |
| 2004/C 078E/405 | E-1689/03 by Anders Wijkman to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat | 383 |
| 2004/C 078E/406 | E-1739/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: European Union unit to work for the release of kidnapped European tourists | 384 |
| 2004/C 078E/407 | E-1763/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Legislation in the EU, the Member States and the applicant countries concerning horse-keeping | 385 |
| 2004/C 078E/408 | E-1777/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Veria Justice and Home Affairs Council | 386 |
| 2004/C 078E/409 | E-1827/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Reduced VAT on the rent or purchase of video cassettes and DVDs | 386 |
| 2004/C 078E/410 | E-1832/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Substandard workmanship in Greece | 387 |
| 2004/C 078E/411 | E-1838/03 by Roger Helmer, Charles Tannock, Sir Robert Atkins, Giles Chichester, Hartmut Nassauer and Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Free Trade Agreement between Singapore and the EU | 388 |
| 2004/C 078E/412 | P-1839/03 by Ilka Schröder to the CommissionSubject: EU relations with Syria and association agreement | 389 |
| 2004/C 078E/413 | E-1854/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Landslides in Greece and infrastructural damage | 390 |
| 2004/C 078E/414 | E-1869/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Pension losses | 391 |
| 2004/C 078E/415 | E-1873/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Listing requirements | 392 |
| 2004/C 078E/416 | E-1882/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Trade impact of euro | 393 |
| 2004/C 078E/417 | P-1979/03 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Synthetic progestins in contraceptive pills and Hormone Replacement Therapy | 394 |
| 2004/C 078E/418 | E-2121/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the CommissionSubject: Developing infrastructure and promoting employment in Madagascar | 395 |
| 2004/C 078E/419 | E-2123/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the CommissionSubject: Promotion of renewable energy sources and waste processing in Mauritius | 396 |
| 2004/C 078E/420 | E-2143/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Commission contracts with the Planistat Group | 397 |
| 2004/C 078E/421 | E-2173/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Compliance with EU legislation on asbestos (Supplementary Answer) | 399 |
| 2004/C 078E/422 | E-2211/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Progress on asylum at Thessaloniki | 400 |
| 2004/C 078E/423 | E-2212/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi to the CommissionSubject: Increasing EU citizens' opportunities for influence and participation through interactive information technology | 401 |
| 2004/C 078E/424 | E-2293/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Discontinuation of cross-border night-trains within the EU, in response to free market pressures, leading to high ticket prices for journeys using the rail networks of other Member States | 402 |
| 2004/C 078E/425 | E-2405/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Motor-vehicle insurance | 403 |
| 2004/C 078E/426 | E-2406/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Motor-vehicle insurance | 404 |
| 2004/C 078E/427 | E-2407/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Motor-vehicle insurance | 405 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2405/03, E-2406/03 and E-2407/03 | 405 |
| 2004/C 078E/428 | P-2460/03 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Anti-competitive actions of the Irish State in the electricity market | 407 |
| 2004/C 078E/429 | E-2537/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Net contribution to the common agricultural policy (Supplementary Answer) | 407 |
| 2004/C 078E/430 | E-2580/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Expectations of an increase in the production of counterfeit euro bank notes in thinly-populated countries where the euro is important as a parallel currency (Supplementary Answer) | 408 |
| 2004/C 078E/431 | E-2601/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Refurbishment of the historic town centre of Rieti | 410 |
| 2004/C 078E/432 | E-2649/03 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Comparison of electricity network tariffs in the Commission's second benchmarking report | 411 |
| 2004/C 078E/433 | E-2650/03 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Working Time Directive | 412 |
| 2004/C 078E/434 | E-2662/03 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Ozone-depleting substances | 413 |
| 2004/C 078E/435 | E-2666/03 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Recycling print catridges | 413 |
| 2004/C 078E/436 | E-2670/03 by Giovanni Pittella to the CommissionSubject: Ban on simultaneous enrolment at several institutes of higher education | 415 |
| 2004/C 078E/437 | P-2672/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Allocation of slots at airports | 416 |
| 2004/C 078E/438 | E-2689/03 by Toine Manders to the CommissionSubject: GSM roaming tariffs | 416 |
| 2004/C 078E/439 | E-2711/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Free-base nicotine | 418 |
| 2004/C 078E/440 | E-2716/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Radar detectors (Supplementary Answer) | 419 |
| 2004/C 078E/441 | P-2722/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2158 on protection of the Community's forests against fire | 420 |
| 2004/C 078E/442 | P-2746/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Infringements of European legislation on special conservation areas and sites of Community importance and the use of European funding for the reforestation of the Alta Murgia (Bari) | 421 |
| 2004/C 078E/443 | E-2771/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: European Project Funding for Enable project | 423 |
| 2004/C 078E/444 | E-2772/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Levels of professional indemnity cover for small insurance firms | 424 |
| 2004/C 078E/445 | E-2779/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Increase in the volume of mail and freight transported by rail in Germany and measures to promote a similar increase in other Member States | 425 |
| 2004/C 078E/446 | P-2780/03 by António Campos to the CommissionSubject: Forest fires in the Union | 426 |
| 2004/C 078E/447 | E-2789/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Banking rules in EU emissions trading: Member States' right to bank emission allowances | 428 |
| 2004/C 078E/448 | E-2790/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Banking rules in EU emissions trading: invariability of AAU (BSA) amounts | 429 |
| 2004/C 078E/449 | E-2791/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Problem of double accounting in emissions trading | 429 |
| 2004/C 078E/450 | E-2792/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Opportunities for aggressive speculation in emissions trading | 430 |
| 2004/C 078E/451 | E-2793/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Definition of hot air and ban under the Kyoto Protocol | 430 |
| 2004/C 078E/452 | E-2794/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Publication of the EU's Kyoto target as a five-year moving average | 431 |
| 2004/C 078E/453 | E-2795/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Emissions trading: problem of period-based allocation | 431 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2789/03, E-2790/03, E-2791/03, E-2792/03, E-2793/03, E-2794/03 and E-2795/03 | 431 |
| 2004/C 078E/454 | P-2799/03 by Domenico Mennitti to the CommissionSubject: Development of Pan-European corridors | 433 |
| 2004/C 078E/455 | E-2819/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Environmental impact assessments in Ireland | 434 |
| 2004/C 078E/456 | E-2826/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Eco-driving | 434 |
| 2004/C 078E/457 | E-2827/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Isolation units in hospitals | 435 |
| 2004/C 078E/458 | E-2832/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Compliance with of the Stability and Growth Pact | 436 |
| 2004/C 078E/459 | E-2851/03 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Building of a road without an environmental impact assessment in the proposed site of Community interest — the Triassic chalk outcrops in the Tuscan and Emilian Apennines (Villa Minozzo, RE, Italy) | 438 |
| 2004/C 078E/460 | E-2853/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Port Services Directive: attacks on Parliament by Commission official | 439 |
| 2004/C 078E/461 | E-2877/03 by Jan Dhaene to the CommissionSubject: The ‘Sentiers de l'Europe’ international architecture competition and Place Jean Rey | 440 |
| 2004/C 078E/462 | E-2895/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Irish sheep farmers | 440 |
| 2004/C 078E/463 | E-2903/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Suspension of cooperation agreements and postponement of their signature | 441 |
| 2004/C 078E/464 | P-2916/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Community financial assistance for transnational producer organisations | 442 |
| 2004/C 078E/465 | E-2959/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: Risks of electricity blackouts | 443 |
| 2004/C 078E/466 | E-2966/03 by Brian Simpson to the CommissionSubject: Spanish National Hydrological Plan: the impact of the La Brena dam project on the Iberian lynx and protected raptors | 444 |
| 2004/C 078E/467 | P-2975/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Contracts with CESD | 445 |
| 2004/C 078E/468 | E-2994/03 by Bernhard Rapkay to the CommissionSubject: EU funding for Nordrhein-Westfalen for the years 2001 and 2002 (Supplementary Answer) | 447 |
| 2004/C 078E/469 | E-2996/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Standardisation of computer dates | 447 |
| 2004/C 078E/470 | E-3007/03 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Role of the European Rural Carrefours in CAP information campaigns | 448 |
| 2004/C 078E/471 | P-3068/03 by Hugues Martin to the CommissionSubject: Funding of bodies which play host to an Info-Point Europe | 448 |
| 2004/C 078E/472 | E-3112/03 by Giacomo Santini, Elena Paciotti, Luciana Sbarbati, Giovanni Pittella, Generoso Andria, Enrico Ferri, Carlo Fatuzzo, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Roberta Angelilli, Stefano Zappalà, Paolo Pastorelli, Antonio Di Pietro, Mauro Nobilia, Sebastiano Musumeci, Michl Ebner, Roberto Bigliardo, Catherine Guy-Quint, Adriana Poli Bortone, Fiorella Ghilardotti, Monica Frassoni, Franz Turchi, Massimo Carraro, Guido Bodrato, Francesco Musotto, Vincenzo Lavarra, Vitaliano Gemelli and Giovanni Fava to the CommissionSubject: EU information policy — legal basis for the European ‘Carrefours ruraux’ and ‘Info-Points Europe’ — urgent need for operational subsidy for 2004 | 449 |
| 2004/C 078E/473 | P-3153/03 by Evelyne Gebhardt to the CommissionSubject: EU Info-Points | 450 |
| 2004/C 078E/474 | E-3240/03 by Thierry Cornillet to the CommissionSubject: Abolition of operating grants for Europe Info-Points | 450 |
| 2004/C 078E/475 | P-3265/03 by Maria Sanders-ten Holte to the CommissionSubject: Info-Points and Carrefours | 451 |
| 2004/C 078E/476 | E-3287/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Europe Houses | 451 |
| 2004/C 078E/477 | E-3301/03 by Nicole Thomas-Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Info-points Europe | 452 |
| 2004/C 078E/478 | Ρ-3389/03 by John Hume to the CommissionSubject: European Carrefours | 452 |
| 2004/C 078E/479 | P-3403/03 by John Cushnahan to the CommissionSubject: Funding for European Carrefour | 452 |
| Supplementary joint answer to Written Questions E-3007/03, P-3068/03, E-3112/03, P-3153/03, E-3240/03, P-3265/03, E-3287/03, E-3301/03, P-3389/03 and P-3403/03 | 453 |
| 2004/C 078E/480 | E-3012/03 by Jaime Valdivielso de Cué to the CommissionSubject: Wine | 454 |
| 2004/C 078E/481 | E-3030/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Use of hydraulic dredges in the EU | 454 |
| 2004/C 078E/482 | P-3037/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Breach of EU environmental legislation in the expansion of Frankfurt airport | 455 |
| 2004/C 078E/483 | E-3059/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: EU funding for marine conservation | 456 |
| 2004/C 078E/484 | E-3062/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Improving water networks | 457 |
| 2004/C 078E/485 | P-3069/03 by Luciana Sbarbati to the CommissionSubject: Adriatic Corridor | 459 |
| 2004/C 078E/486 | P-3077/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Failure to implement Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles | 460 |
| 2004/C 078E/487 | E-3086/03 by Bruno Gollnisch to the CommissionSubject: Tobacco trade/France | 461 |
| 2004/C 078E/488 | E-3087/03 by Bruno Gollnisch to the CommissionSubject: Commission criteria on concentrations | 462 |
| 2004/C 078E/489 | E-3099/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Aid for the farming of mussels | 464 |
| 2004/C 078E/490 | E-3106/03 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: The Júcar-Vinalopó water diversion project | 465 |
| 2004/C 078E/491 | E-3128/03 by Jaime Valdivielso de Cué to the CommissionSubject: Trade | 467 |
| 2004/C 078E/492 | E-3131/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: ‘Sorraia’ horses | 467 |
| 2004/C 078E/493 | P-3135/03 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Disposal of toxic ships | 469 |
| 2004/C 078E/494 | E-3138/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Atmospheric pollution in Thessaloniki | 470 |
| 2004/C 078E/495 | E-3140/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Death-penalty-related projects | 471 |
| 2004/C 078E/496 | E-3141/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: European week against cancer — scientific research | 472 |
| 2004/C 078E/497 | E-3144/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: EU funding for the Spanish National Hydrological Plan | 473 |
| 2004/C 078E/498 | P-3145/03 by W.G. van Velzen to the CommissionSubject: Batteries in exploding mobile phones | 474 |
| 2004/C 078E/499 | P-3152/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Exploding Nokia telephones | 476 |
| 2004/C 078E/500 | E-3156/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Residential building in the Serra de la Renegà and the Oropesa-Benicàssim SCI (Castellón, Spain) | 477 |
| 2004/C 078E/501 | E-3157/03 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement of a military base in the Natura 2000 site of La Maddalena, Sardinia | 478 |
| 2004/C 078E/502 | E-3173/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Voting rights for immigrants | 480 |
| 2004/C 078E/503 | E-3182/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: The air transport company SATA's failure to comply with Community legislation | 481 |
| 2004/C 078E/504 | E-3183/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Calculating the additional levy in the Azores Autonomous Region | 482 |
| 2004/C 078E/505 | E-3186/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Cross-border consumer goods transactions | 483 |
| 2004/C 078E/506 | E-3189/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Explosion of Nokia mobile phone batteries | 484 |
| 2004/C 078E/507 | E-3193/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Information on the former Director-General of Eurostat | 485 |
| 2004/C 078E/508 | E-3200/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Racial appearance as a criterion for police or customs checks on individuals crossing an internal EU border | 487 |
| 2004/C 078E/509 | E-3204/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Commercial exploitation of protected wildlife species in Greece | 487 |
| 2004/C 078E/510 | E-3207/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Peroxide in toothpaste | 488 |
| 2004/C 078E/511 | E-3212/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: British newspaper allegations regarding irregularities in connection with Commission funding | 489 |
| 2004/C 078E/512 | E-3216/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Disposal of hazardous waste in Greece and infringement of environmental legislation | 490 |
| 2004/C 078E/513 | E-3218/03 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Rare diseases: Evans syndrome | 492 |
| 2004/C 078E/514 | E-3222/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Missing persons | 493 |
| 2004/C 078E/515 | E-3226/03 by Felipe Camisón Asensio to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the tobacco sector | 494 |
| 2004/C 078E/516 | E-3227/03 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Indonesia | 495 |
| 2004/C 078E/517 | E-3230/03 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Allocation of subsidies under the Interreg and Urban programmes | 496 |
| 2004/C 078E/518 | P-3232/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Updated budget figures (Supplementary Answer) | 498 |
| 2004/C 078E/519 | E-3236/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Training for public servants in new technologies | 498 |
| 2004/C 078E/520 | E-3237/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Access to Internet for Greek households | 499 |
| 2004/C 078E/521 | E-3239/03 by Martin Callanan to the CommissionSubject: Bird killing in Malta | 500 |
| 2004/C 078E/522 | E-3243/03 by Jan Wiersma to the CommissionSubject: The ‘Buy American Act’ in the American defence budget | 500 |
| 2004/C 078E/523 | E-3250/03 by Ruth Hieronymi, Christa Prets, Karin Junker, Raina Echerer and Maria Sanders-ten Holte to the CommissionSubject: Assistance by the European Commission to Member States in encouraging the migration to an open interoperable standard in digital television | 502 |
| 2004/C 078E/524 | E-3259/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Unpleasant odours from waste disposal site in Ano Liosia | 504 |
| 2004/C 078E/525 | E-3274/03 by Inger Schörling to the CommissionSubject: Impact of the laying of artificial beaches in Caleta de la Guirra in the municipality of Antigua (Fuerteventura, Spain) | 505 |
| 2004/C 078E/526 | E-3275/03 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: Destruction of Russian forests | 506 |
| 2004/C 078E/527 | E-3276/03 by Brian Simpson to the CommissionSubject: Restrictions imposed on flights into Zurich airport | 507 |
| 2004/C 078E/528 | E-3284/03 by Lord Inglewood to the CommissionSubject: Overbooking on Air France's flights | 507 |
| 2004/C 078E/529 | E-3285/03 by Pierre Jonckheer to the CommissionSubject: Feixolín open-cast coal mine (Valle de Laciana district, Spain) | 508 |
| 2004/C 078E/530 | E-3286/03 by Anne André-Léonard to the CommissionSubject: Harmonisation of European legislation in respect of boatmasters' certificates for recreational craft | 510 |
| 2004/C 078E/531 | E-3288/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Establishment of businesses in the municipality of Losser | 510 |
| 2004/C 078E/532 | E-3289/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Portuguese workers without rights in the North Sea | 511 |
| 2004/C 078E/533 | P-3291/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: Enforcement of Community decisions in Portugal | 512 |
| 2004/C 078E/534 | E-3294/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: The European Commission's 5th Framework Project | 513 |
| 2004/C 078E/535 | E-3296/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Fees for residence permits | 514 |
| 2004/C 078E/536 | E-3300/03 by Robert Sturdy to the CommissionSubject: ‘Scam’ e-mails requesting bank details from Africa, etc | 515 |
| 2004/C 078E/537 | E-3302/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Noise abatement plans (Directive 2002/49/EC) | 517 |
| 2004/C 078E/538 | E-3306/03 by Gary Titley to the CommissionSubject: Fluoride in drinking water | 518 |
| 2004/C 078E/539 | E-3309/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: ‘Responsible shopping week’ in the Commission's buildings | 518 |
| 2004/C 078E/540 | E-3321/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Malta's temporary landfills | 519 |
| 2004/C 078E/541 | P-3322/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Vice-President Kinnock and indications of irregularities at Eurostat | 520 |
| 2004/C 078E/542 | E-3326/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Emoluments of Commissioners | 521 |
| 2004/C 078E/543 | E-3328/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Wilful neglect, to the point of destruction, of the former prison camp ‘Stammlager Χ Β Sandbostel’, an important memorial to the shared history of Europe | 522 |
| 2004/C 078E/544 | E-3329/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Eurobarometer poll according to which Israel is the greatest threat to world peace | 523 |
| 2004/C 078E/545 | E-3340/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Request for verification of information concerning President Prodi | 524 |
| 2004/C 078E/546 | E-3341/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Albania | 525 |
| 2004/C 078E/547 | E-3343/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: European Convention on Human Rights in relation to third countries | 526 |
| 2004/C 078E/548 | E-3345/03 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Villas of Palladio | 527 |
| 2004/C 078E/549 | P-3350/03 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Derrybrien wind-farm bog-slide | 528 |
| 2004/C 078E/550 | E-3361/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Ijzeren Rijn railway line | 529 |
| 2004/C 078E/551 | E-3367/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Laser technology and radiation emissions | 530 |
| 2004/C 078E/552 | E-3368/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Eurobarometer opinion poll on ‘Iraq and world peace’ | 530 |
| 2004/C 078E/553 | E-3370/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Mr Prodi's comments on the outcome of the Swedish referendum on EMU | 531 |
| 2004/C 078E/554 | E-3371/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Legal implications of ratification of EU draft Constitution | 532 |
| 2004/C 078E/555 | P-3376/03 by Christine De Veyrac to the CommissionSubject: Reduced rates of VAT — hairdressing | 533 |
| 2004/C 078E/556 | E-3379/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Expansion of petroleum installations in the Ambracian Gulf | 534 |
| 2004/C 078E/557 | E-3384/03 by Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Olivier Dupuis, Marco Pannella and Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Corridor 5 | 535 |
| 2004/C 078E/558 | P-3390/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: VAT on tailoring | 536 |
| 2004/C 078E/559 | E-3393/03 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Moped type-approval | 537 |
| 2004/C 078E/560 | E-3404/03 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Ireland and infringement cases for bad application of EU environmental legislation | 538 |
| 2004/C 078E/561 | E-3405/03 by Concepció Ferrer to the CommissionSubject: Management of the Structural Funds (Supplementary Answer) | 539 |
| 2004/C 078E/562 | E-3407/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cabinda — report on human rights | 541 |
| 2004/C 078E/563 | E-3413/03 by Olivier Duhamel to the CommissionSubject: Eurobarometer | 542 |
| 2004/C 078E/564 | E-3416/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 543 |
| 2004/C 078E/565 | E-3417/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 543 |
| 2004/C 078E/566 | E-3418/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 543 |
| 2004/C 078E/567 | E-3419/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 543 |
| 2004/C 078E/568 | E-3420/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 544 |
| 2004/C 078E/569 | E-3421/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 544 |
| 2004/C 078E/570 | E-3422/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 544 |
| 2004/C 078E/571 | E-3423/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 544 |
| 2004/C 078E/572 | E-3424/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 544 |
| 2004/C 078E/573 | E-3425/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 545 |
| 2004/C 078E/574 | E-3426/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 545 |
| 2004/C 078E/575 | E-3427/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 545 |
| 2004/C 078E/576 | E-3428/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 545 |
| 2004/C 078E/577 | E-3429/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 546 |
| 2004/C 078E/578 | E-3430/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 546 |
| 2004/C 078E/579 | E-3431/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 546 |
| 2004/C 078E/580 | E-3432/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 546 |
| 2004/C 078E/581 | E-3433/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions | 547 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3416/03, E-3417/03, E-3418/03, E-3419/03, E-3420/03, E-3421/03, E-3422/03, E-3423/03, E-3424/03, E-3425/03, E-3426/03, E-3427/03, E-3428/03, E-3429/03, E-3430/03, E-3431/03, E-3432/03 and E-3433/03 | 547 |
| 2004/C 078E/582 | E-3437/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Anti-Semitism among North African and other Islamic immigrants in Europe | 547 |
| 2004/C 078E/583 | E-3442/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination amongst athletes | 548 |
| 2004/C 078E/584 | P-3446/03 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Authorisation for aid in connection with a biological rest period in Sicily in 2002 | 549 |
| 2004/C 078E/585 | E-3447/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Marketing problems and imports in the wine sector | 550 |
| 2004/C 078E/586 | E-3453/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Political position adopted by EU officials' trade union TAO-AFI on night flights over outlying districts of Brussels | 551 |
| 2004/C 078E/587 | E-3455/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Community Action Plan to protect seabirds from longline fishing | 552 |
| 2004/C 078E/588 | E-3456/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Cofinancing of NGOs | 553 |
| 2004/C 078E/589 | E-3457/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the olive oil sector | 554 |
| 2004/C 078E/590 | E-3459/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Measures to prevent the breaking-up in Europe of old US warships contaminated with chemicals, asbestos and diesel | 554 |
| 2004/C 078E/591 | E-3460/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Foot-dragging by the future Member State Czech Republic in connection with efforts to stamp out child prostitution in areas close to its border with Germany | 556 |
| 2004/C 078E/592 | E-3466/03 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Animal welfare at abattoirs in Greece | 557 |
| 2004/C 078E/593 | E-3472/03 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: Conversion of the Landesbank Nordrhein-Westfalen into an investment bank | 558 |
| 2004/C 078E/594 | E-3474/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Contracts with management consultants in Commission offices | 559 |
| 2004/C 078E/595 | E-3477/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Women in prison | 560 |
| 2004/C 078E/596 | E-3479/03 by Christine De Veyrac to the CommissionSubject: Transposition of Directive 2002/46/EC seeking to harmonise Member State legislation on food supplements | 561 |
| 2004/C 078E/597 | E-3482/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Legal privilege of documents between companies and their law firms | 562 |
| 2004/C 078E/598 | E-3486/03 by Karl von Wogau to the CommissionSubject: Charges for bank transfers within the eurozone | 563 |
| 2004/C 078E/599 | E-3490/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Regulating the market and olive growers' incomes under the reform of the COM in olive oil | 564 |
| 2004/C 078E/600 | E-3494/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba — political prisoners | 565 |
| 2004/C 078E/601 | E-3502/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Air quality standards in areas of heavy traffic | 566 |
| 2004/C 078E/602 | E-3506/03 by Jorge Hernández Mollar to the CommissionSubject: Community legislation on DNA | 567 |
| 2004/C 078E/603 | P-3510/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Driving licences in the European Union | 568 |
| 2004/C 078E/604 | E-3516/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Commission staffing | 569 |
| 2004/C 078E/605 | P-3519/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Sudden unilateral decision by the Italian Council of Ministers to locate a national radioactive waste storage facility in the municipality of Scanzano Jonico | 570 |
| 2004/C 078E/606 | E-3520/03 by Rijk van Dam to the CommissionSubject: Court of Auditors Special Report No 4/2003 concerning rural development: support for less-favoured areas | 572 |
| 2004/C 078E/607 | P-3522/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Specific import tariffs on photographic products for the People's Republic of China | 573 |
| 2004/C 078E/608 | E-3523/03 by Struan Stevenson to the CommissionSubject: Proposed new livestock transport regulations | 574 |
| 2004/C 078E/609 | P-3527/03 by Rijk van Dam to the CommissionSubject: Court of Auditors Special Report No 4/2003 on rural development: support for less-favoured areas | 576 |
| 2004/C 078E/610 | E-3529/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Amnesty International and Oxfam report on arms control | 578 |
| 2004/C 078E/611 | E-3536/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Problems with the recognition of educational and professional qualifications in France | 578 |
| 2004/C 078E/612 | E-3542/03 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: GMOs | 579 |
| 2004/C 078E/613 | E-3543/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Free movement of Bulgarians | 580 |
| 2004/C 078E/614 | E-3544/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Eurobarometer survey on threats to peace | 580 |
| 2004/C 078E/615 | E-3546/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Using intelligent speed adaptation in road vehicles | 581 |
| 2004/C 078E/616 | P-3547/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Scot-free permanent oil slick along the Portuguese coast | 582 |
| 2004/C 078E/617 | E-3549/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cohesion Fund — Portugal | 583 |
| 2004/C 078E/618 | E-3552/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: EU funding for research programmes in Ukraine | 584 |
| 2004/C 078E/619 | E-3553/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Missing Cypriots | 585 |
| 2004/C 078E/620 | E-3554/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Development of artificial viruses and bacteria in America and possible resultant neglect of environmental protection in Europe | 586 |
| 2004/C 078E/621 | E-3555/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Development of artificial viruses and bacteria in America and its impact on biodiversity and biological warfare in Europe | 587 |
| 2004/C 078E/622 | E-3559/03 by Margrietus van den Berg and Jan Wiersma to the CommissionSubject: Groningen Rail Service Centre and non-use of cross-border railway line near Nieuweschans to Northern Germany | 589 |
| 2004/C 078E/623 | E-3561/03 by Jan Andersson to the CommissionSubject: ‘Parasubordinated’ workers and social dumping | 590 |
| 2004/C 078E/624 | E-3562/03 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Automatic renewal of concession for the Brenner motorway | 591 |
| 2004/C 078E/625 | E-3564/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: International telecommunication services and competition | 591 |
| 2004/C 078E/626 | E-3566/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Refund of budgetary resources | 593 |
| 2004/C 078E/627 | P-3568/03 by Herman Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Draft Constitution no solution to the EU's lack of democratic legitimacy | 593 |
| 2004/C 078E/628 | E-3571/03 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Threat to a water protection zone in one member State by a project in another | 594 |
| 2004/C 078E/629 | E-3576/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: EU Identity document for the disabled | 595 |
| 2004/C 078E/630 | E-3580/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: EU working time legislation | 596 |
| 2004/C 078E/631 | E-3582/03 by Yasmine Boudjenah to the CommissionSubject: Role of multinational corporations in conflict regions in Africa | 597 |
| 2004/C 078E/632 | E-3584/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Receipt of supplementary reply | 599 |
| 2004/C 078E/633 | E-3585/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: The EUMC's shelved report on Muslim anti-Semitism | 599 |
| 2004/C 078E/634 | E-3587/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Report on anti-Semitism by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia | 600 |
| 2004/C 078E/635 | E-3607/03 by Olivier Duhamel to the CommissionSubject: Vienna Observatory | 600 |
| 2004/C 078E/636 | E-3700/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Withholding of a study on anti-Semitism in Europe by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) | 601 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3585/03, E-3587/03, E-3607/03 and E-3700/03 | 602 |
| 2004/C 078E/637 | E-3590/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Ibero-American Summit — conclusions and prospects | 602 |
| 2004/C 078E/638 | E-3596/03 by Brigitte Langenhagen to the CommissionSubject: EU border controls | 603 |
| 2004/C 078E/639 | E-3601/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Buy American Act | 605 |
| 2004/C 078E/640 | E-3602/03 by Anne Van Lancker to the CommissionSubject: Article 51 of the European Constitution | 606 |
| 2004/C 078E/641 | E-3665/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Non-confessional organisations | 606 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3602/03 and E-3665/03 | 607 |
| 2004/C 078E/642 | E-3603/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Portuguese Overseas War veterans — disabilities | 607 |
| 2004/C 078E/643 | E-3604/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: East Timor — Emergency aid | 608 |
| 2004/C 078E/644 | E-3608/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Violation of the rights of the Çam minority | 610 |
| 2004/C 078E/645 | E-3611/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Legalising immigration | 611 |
| 2004/C 078E/646 | E-3620/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Use of a mathematical formula in awarding public contracts | 612 |
| 2004/C 078E/647 | E-3621/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Presence of chlophen in food produced in various regions of Greece | 613 |
| 2004/C 078E/648 | E-3622/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Cost of ‘free’ education in Greece | 614 |
| 2004/C 078E/649 | E-3626/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Opening up the labour markets in the Member States | 615 |
| 2004/C 078E/650 | E-3627/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Access to the labour market for new EU citizens and non-EU citizens | 616 |
| 2004/C 078E/651 | E-3631/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Consultation with charities with regard to the proposal relating to the imposition of VAT on postal services | 617 |
| 2004/C 078E/652 | E-3632/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Statements by André Sapir (adviser to the Commission President, Romano Prodi) concerning EU cohesion policy | 617 |
| 2004/C 078E/653 | E-3645/03 by Salvador Jové Peres and Pedro Marset Campos to the CommissionSubject: European Union/Morocco agreement | 618 |
| 2004/C 078E/654 | E-3646/03 by Salvador Jové Peres and Pedro Marset Campos to the CommissionSubject: European Union/Morocco agreement | 618 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3645/03 and E-3646/03 | 619 |
| 2004/C 078E/655 | E-3647/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Delay in deepening and widening the River Maas north of Maastricht due to objections to gravel quarrying under negotiated contracts | 619 |
| 2004/C 078E/656 | E-3648/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Desire of international rail freight operators to replace national rail safety systems with the European standard ECTS | 620 |
| 2004/C 078E/657 | E-3650/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Extinction of the Iberian lynx in the Sierra Morena nature reserve in Andalusia due to the construction of a large reservoir and lack of compensatory habitat | 622 |
| 2004/C 078E/658 | E-3651/03 by Cees Bremmer and Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Poor working conditions for au pairs in the Netherlands | 623 |
| 2004/C 078E/659 | P-3660/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Tragic state of health of children in Chechnya | 624 |
| 2004/C 078E/660 | E-3671/03 by Joost Lagendijk and Arie Oostlander to the CommissionSubject: Further cooperation in the fight against terrorism | 625 |
| 2004/C 078E/661 | E-3672/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Situation at the Sorefame company | 626 |
| 2004/C 078E/662 | E-3675/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Situation of micro-enterprises and SMEs in Portugal | 627 |
| 2004/C 078E/663 | E-3690/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Daphne programme by the municipality of Florence | 629 |
| 2004/C 078E/664 | E-3691/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Daphne programme by the municipality of Pesaro-Urbino | 629 |
| 2004/C 078E/665 | E-3692/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Daphne programme by the municipality of Siena | 629 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3690/03, E-3691/03 and E-3692/03 | 630 |
| 2004/C 078E/666 | P-3697/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Return to Turkey of refugees of Turkish origin | 630 |
| 2004/C 078E/667 | E-3699/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Objective 1 areas in Connacht/Ulster (Ireland) | 631 |
| 2004/C 078E/668 | E-3702/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EC-Macau Joint Committee — tenth meeting | 631 |
| 2004/C 078E/669 | P-3703/03 by Ulla Sandbæk to the CommissionSubject: HIV and Commission support for development of affordable microbicide | 632 |
| 2004/C 078E/670 | E-3718/03 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Eco-design requirements for energy-using products | 633 |
| 2004/C 078E/671 | E-3720/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Adapting Directive 97/24/EC to technical progress | 635 |
| 2004/C 078E/672 | P-3732/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Vietnam | 637 |
| 2004/C 078E/673 | E-3733/03 by Constanze Krehl to the CommissionSubject: Social partnerships for regional structural development in Saxony | 638 |
| 2004/C 078E/674 | E-3751/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Terni | 639 |
| 2004/C 078E/675 | E-3752/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Ancona | 640 |
| 2004/C 078E/676 | E-3753/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Florence | 640 |
| 2004/C 078E/677 | E-3754/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Livorno | 640 |
| 2004/C 078E/678 | E-3755/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Macerata | 641 |
| 2004/C 078E/679 | E-3756/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Perugia | 641 |
| 2004/C 078E/680 | E-3757/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Pesaro | 641 |
| 2004/C 078E/681 | E-3758/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Pisa | 642 |
| 2004/C 078E/682 | E-3759/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Pistoia | 642 |
| 2004/C 078E/683 | E-3760/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Siena | 642 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3751/03, E-3752/03, E-3753/03, E-3754/03, E-3755/03, E-3756/03, E-3757/03, E-3758/03, E-3759/03 and E-3760/03 | 643 |
| 2004/C 078E/684 | E-3763/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Clinical trials | 644 |
| 2004/C 078E/685 | E-3792/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Pesaro-Urbino under the Tempus III programme | 645 |
| 2004/C 078E/686 | E-3811/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: The spread of androgenetic alopecia | 645 |
| 2004/C 078E/687 | E-3813/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Judicial inquiry by the Venice Prosecutor's Office into use of Community funds for the agricultural sector | 647 |
| 2004/C 078E/688 | E-3814/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Judicial inquiry by the Palermo Prosecutor's Office into EUR 6,5 million fraud against the European Union | 647 |
| 2004/C 078E/689 | E-3815/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Judicial inquiry by the Salerno Prosecutor's Office into EUR 30 million fraud against the European Union | 648 |
| 2004/C 078E/690 | E-3816/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Judicial inquiry by the Lecce Prosecutor's Office into EUR 6 million fraud against the European Union | 649 |
| 2004/C 078E/691 | E-3818/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Conditions for awarding pensions in Greece | 650 |
| 2004/C 078E/692 | E-3820/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Connection to electricity and water supplies | 651 |
| 2004/C 078E/693 | E-3827/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Funding for the network of Carrefours and Info-Points | 651 |
| 2004/C 078E/694 | P-3830/03 by Juan Ferrández Lezaun to the CommissionSubject: Spanish NHP infrastructure tendering | 652 |
| 2004/C 078E/695 | E-3833/03 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Provincial authorities' involvement in the management of EU Structural Funds | 653 |
| 2004/C 078E/696 | E-3834/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against Portuguese workers abroad | 654 |
| 2004/C 078E/697 | P-3836/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: VAT for transport service providers | 655 |
| 2004/C 078E/698 | E-3839/03 by Monica Frassoni and Daniel Cohn-Bendit to the CommissionSubject: Marmara Earthquake Rehabilitation Programme (MERP): ‘An Integrated Intervention for the Rehabilitation of Düzce’ — Turkey | 656 |
| 2004/C 078E/699 | E-3843/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Censorship practised at the request of the Russian Consulate in Milan by the city authorities in connection with the Romano Cagnoni photography exhibition | 657 |
| 2004/C 078E/700 | E-3846/03 by Maj Theorin to the CommissionSubject: Women and conflict | 658 |
| 2004/C 078E/701 | E-3849/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Compilation of information on organ transplants in Europe | 658 |
| 2004/C 078E/702 | E-3850/03 by Jan Andersson to the CommissionSubject: Harmful isocyanates and the protection of workers | 659 |
| 2004/C 078E/703 | P-3853/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Funding for Spain's ‘National Water Plan’ | 660 |
| 2004/C 078E/704 | P-3861/03 by Heide Rühle to the CommissionSubject: Export guarantee by the German Federal Government for Finnish nuclear reactor | 661 |
| 2004/C 078E/705 | P-3862/03 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Community funding for the bridge over the Straits of Messina | 661 |
| 2004/C 078E/706 | E-3872/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Impact of EU investment in the Júcar-Vinalopó water transfer | 662 |
| 2004/C 078E/707 | E-3874/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Imports into the EU of uncertified active pharmaceutical ingredients | 663 |
| 2004/C 078E/708 | E-3877/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Breach of Community principles — Article 24 of Law 289/2002 | 664 |
| 2004/C 078E/709 | E-3878/03 by Johannes Blokland to the CommissionSubject: Research into the effects of medicinal products on children | 666 |
| 2004/C 078E/710 | E-3882/03 by Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Bernd Lange, Karl-Heinz Florenz and Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Inspire initiative | 667 |
| 2004/C 078E/711 | P-3893/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Health warnings on cigarette packs | 669 |
| 2004/C 078E/712 | P-3894/03 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Objective One status — Highlands and Islands of Scotland | 669 |
| 2004/C 078E/713 | E-3899/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Meeting of EU-Lao PDR Joint Committee | 670 |
| 2004/C 078E/714 | E-3903/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Disparities in the treatment of debts by banks in connection with Democratici di Sinistra's unpaid debts | 671 |
| 2004/C 078E/715 | P-3910/03 by Amalia Sartori to the CommissionSubject: Domestic accidents and workplaces | 671 |
| 2004/C 078E/716 | E-3913/03 by Ole Krarup to the CommissionSubject: Oil extraction agreement: granting of authorisations | 673 |
| 2004/C 078E/717 | E-3915/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Forced repatriation to Vietnam of Montagnard refugees by the Cambodian government and the repeated violation of the UN Convention on Refugees | 673 |
| 2004/C 078E/718 | P-3918/03 by Georges Berthu to the CommissionSubject: Reduced rates of VAT | 675 |
| 2004/C 078E/719 | E-3922/03 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Projects co-funded by the Commission as part of the National Hydrological Plan | 676 |
| 2004/C 078E/720 | E-3943/03 by Daniel Cohn-Bendit to the CommissionSubject: Temporary Nationality and Entry into Israel law | 676 |
| 2004/C 078E/721 | E-3951/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Genetically modified GloFish | 677 |
| 2004/C 078E/722 | E-3953/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Wheelchair design specifications | 678 |
| 2004/C 078E/723 | E-3960/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Angola — reintegration of ex-combatants and disarmament of civilians | 678 |
| 2004/C 078E/724 | P-3998/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Use of CSF funds to finance an advertising campaign in Greece | 680 |
| 2004/C 078E/725 | E-4001/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Transfers of students | 681 |
| 2004/C 078E/726 | E-4031/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Language programme for minority languages | 681 |
| 2004/C 078E/727 | P-4059/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Large families | 682 |
| 2004/C 078E/728 | P-4072/03 by John Cushnahan to the CommissionSubject: Application of the EC-Israel Association Agreement | 683 |
| 2004/C 078E/729 | P-4074/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Problems relating to the transposition into national law of Directive 2002/2/EC | 684 |
| 2004/C 078E/730 | P-0037/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Provisions made by acceeding 10 new EU member states following 1 May 2004 for freedom of movement and establishment of other EU member state nationals | 685 |
| 2004/C 078E/731 | E-0151/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Shortage of intensive care units in Greece | 686 |
| 2004/C 078E/732 | P-0230/04 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Utilisation of Community appropriations in the Member States at the close of 2003 | 686 |
| 2004/C 078E/733 | P-0417/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Sackings from the Finex Group factory | 687 |
| | WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 3) |
| 2004/C 078E/734 | E-1287/02 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: The planting of oilseed rape | 688 |
| 2004/C 078E/735 | E-2931/02 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Priority for EU funding for high-speed rail links in Spain that promote regional balance and economic and social cohesion | 688 |
| 2004/C 078E/736 | E-3340/02 by Astrid Thors to the CommissionSubject: Certification of organic cereals exported on the internal market | 690 |
| 2004/C 078E/737 | P-3636/02 by Niall Andrews to the CommissionSubject: Humanitarian aid and immigration controls | 691 |
| 2004/C 078E/738 | P-3857/02 by Mark Watts to the CommissionSubject: Slaughter of baby seal pups on the White Sea, Russia | 691 |
| 2004/C 078E/739 | E-3878/02 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Community-wide harmonisation of time limits for the writing-off of tax arrears | 692 |
| 2004/C 078E/740 | E-3908/02 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Malta | 693 |
| 2004/C 078E/741 | E-0064/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: European assistance for the raising of the Le Joola ferry which sank off the coast of Senegal | 693 |
| 2004/C 078E/742 | E-0075/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Regular rail transport in cities becoming unviable due to competition from minibuses offering expensive, unsafe and obscure services | 694 |
| 2004/C 078E/743 | E-0115/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Malta's accession to the EU: Wild Birds Directive (79/409/EEC) | 695 |
| 2004/C 078E/744 | E-0118/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Delineation of the European Union's final borders | 696 |
| 2004/C 078E/745 | E-0120/03 by Jorge Hernández Mollar to the CommissionSubject: Border fishing dispute at the mouth of the Guadiana | 697 |
| 2004/C 078E/746 | E-0192/03 by Lennart Sacrédeus to the CommissionSubject: Indian priest imprisoned without charge in Qatar | 697 |
| 2004/C 078E/747 | P-0281/03 by Ulpu Iivari to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the common fisheries policy and restoration of wild salmon stocks | 698 |
| 2004/C 078E/748 | E-0320/03 by Massimo Carraro and Vincenzo Lavarra to the CommissionSubject: Poultrymeat imports | 700 |
| 2004/C 078E/749 | E-0450/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Reception centres and ‘human traffickers’ | 701 |
| 2004/C 078E/750 | P-0557/03 by Anne Van Lancker to the CommissionSubject: Regulations governing milk quotas in cross-border farms | 703 |
| 2004/C 078E/751 | E-0736/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Building of ‘controlled tips’ | 704 |
| 2004/C 078E/752 | E-0751/03 by Mary Banotti to the CommissionSubject: National Irish Development Plan 2000-2006 | 704 |
| 2004/C 078E/753 | E-0790/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Legislation on waste incineration | 705 |
| 2004/C 078E/754 | E-0816/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Independent study on the use of inter-specific wine varieties | 706 |
| 2004/C 078E/755 | E-0926/03 by Peter Skinner to the CommissionSubject: Relocation of workforce from Eastleigh, United Kingdom to Battipaglia, Southern Italy by Pirelli | 707 |
| 2004/C 078E/756 | P-1237/03 by Diana Wallis to the CommissionSubject: EEA Agreement on enlargement of the EU | 707 |
| 2004/C 078E/757 | P-1266/03 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: TRIPs, UPOV and Farmers' Rights | 708 |
| 2004/C 078E/758 | E-1280/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Incorrect transposition into national law of Directive 2002/49/EC | 709 |
| 2004/C 078E/759 | E-1285/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: European Union action to ensure civil and respectful treatment for prisoners of war in Iraq | 710 |
| 2004/C 078E/760 | E-1318/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Concern about maintaining non-commercial services outside Europe following the EU's requests in the WTO GATS 2 negotiations | 711 |
| 2004/C 078E/761 | E-1330/03 by Sérgio Marques to the CommissionSubject: ‘Prestige’: Community aid | 713 |
| 2004/C 078E/762 | E-1340/03 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Funding of research into prion diseases in the 6th Research Framework Programme | 714 |
| 2004/C 078E/763 | E-1441/03 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: Tyres: application of the Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC | 715 |
| 2004/C 078E/764 | P-1450/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Need for urgent intervention — plan to extend the port of Altea (Spain) | 716 |
| 2004/C 078E/765 | E-1504/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Measurability of GMO material in food products | 717 |
| 2004/C 078E/766 | P-1531/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Importation of canned tuna from Thailand and the Philippines | 718 |
| 2004/C 078E/767 | E-1586/03 by Nuala Ahern to the CommissionSubject: Radioactive contamination from Sellafield | 719 |
| 2004/C 078E/768 | E-1587/03 by Nuala Ahern to the CommissionSubject: Basic nuclear safety standards | 719 |
| 2004/C 078E/769 | E-1588/03 by Nuala Ahern to the CommissionSubject: Precautionary principle | 720 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1586/03, E-1587/03 and E-1588/03 | 720 |
| 2004/C 078E/770 | E-1650/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Detention of Oscar E. Biscet in Cuba | 720 |
| 2004/C 078E/771 | E-1667/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: VAT on postal services | 721 |
| 2004/C 078E/772 | E-1720/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Joint EU and US bloc vis-à-vis the rest of the world by widening the remit of the TABD | 722 |
| 2004/C 078E/773 | E-1747/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Israel — removal of restriction on movement from and to the occupied territories | 723 |
| 2004/C 078E/774 | E-1764/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Arms transport and export bans | 724 |
| 2004/C 078E/775 | E-1795/03 by Terence Wynn to the CommissionSubject: Manufactured products from third countries | 725 |
| 2004/C 078E/776 | E-1815/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Information from Mrs Schreyer in connection with fraudulent financial dealings at Eurostat | 726 |
| 2004/C 078E/777 | P-1826/03 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: High-speed Italian transverse rail route: internal market, environmental impact and productivity of investment | 727 |
| 2004/C 078E/778 | P-1841/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: The Commission's view that terrorism is not a human rights abuse | 729 |
| 2004/C 078E/779 | E-1855/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in the EU — absence of common procedures for the reporting by Member States of human rights violations | 730 |
| 2004/C 078E/780 | E-1945/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Amendment of the Dutch Media Act | 731 |
| 2004/C 078E/781 | P-2154/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Delays in the disbursement of funding for SMU projects | 732 |
| 2004/C 078E/782 | E-2160/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Broadcasting licences, rules governing State aid for broadcasting and media advertising in Greece | 733 |
| 2004/C 078E/783 | E-2218/03 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: High-speed rail link between Milan and Genoa and Milan and Verona | 735 |
| 2004/C 078E/784 | E-2265/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Deployment of a fund and provision of misleading information in order to dissuade authorities and other large users from using cheaper software available from a competitor | 736 |
| 2004/C 078E/785 | E-2328/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Helicopter services to the Isles of Scilly | 737 |
| 2004/C 078E/786 | E-2428/03 by Niels Busk to the CouncilSubject: State aid to Italian milk producers | 738 |
| 2004/C 078E/787 | E-2429/03 by Niels Busk to the CouncilSubject: State aid to Italian farmers | 738 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2428/03 and E-2429/03 | 738 |
| 2004/C 078E/788 | E-2447/03 by Marie-Arlette Carlotti to the CommissionSubject: Detailed rules for the implementation of technical and financial assistance measures for traditional ACP suppliers of bananas | 739 |
| 2004/C 078E/789 | E-2452/03 by Erik Meijer to the CouncilSubject: Growing American pressure on future EU Member States to permanently cease their cooperation with the International Criminal Court | 740 |
| 2004/C 078E/790 | E-2464/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi to the CommissionSubject: Pricing of basic postal services | 741 |
| 2004/C 078E/791 | E-2485/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Double taxation conventions and Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 | 743 |
| 2004/C 078E/792 | E-2494/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Pensions | 744 |
| 2004/C 078E/793 | E-2553/03 by Marco Cappato to the CouncilSubject: The Tunisian journalist Abdallah Zouari | 745 |
| 2004/C 078E/794 | E-2584/03 by Graham Watson to the CouncilSubject: Import of timber from Indonesia | 747 |
| 2004/C 078E/795 | E-2614/03 by Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Planting of vineyards with the help of EU funds | 747 |
| 2004/C 078E/796 | P-2616/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Exclusion of feta cheese, ouzo and Kalamata olives from the list of products with geographical indications of origin to be negotiated at the WTO | 748 |
| 2004/C 078E/797 | E-2627/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Follow-up on the ‘Resolution on sexual violence against women, particularly Catholic nuns’ adopted by the European Parliament on 5 April 2001 | 749 |
| 2004/C 078E/798 | E-2652/03 by Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Olivier Dupuis, Marco Pannella and Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Infringements of legality in Lebanon | 750 |
| 2004/C 078E/799 | E-2706/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Daphne Programme | 752 |
| 2004/C 078E/800 | E-2737/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Vietnam | 752 |
| 2004/C 078E/801 | P-2751/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Criminal practices involved in the award of a contract to CESD-Roma | 753 |
| 2004/C 078E/802 | E-2753/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Amendment of the Dutch Media Act | 755 |
| 2004/C 078E/803 | P-2767/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: NGO funding | 756 |
| 2004/C 078E/804 | E-2797/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Combating legionnaires' disease | 756 |
| 2004/C 078E/805 | E-2801/03 by Pedro Marset Campos to the CouncilSubject: Special tolls in France and Germany for the transport of goods by road | 757 |
| 2004/C 078E/806 | E-2807/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The Vatican's crusade against homosexual marriages within the EU and the Vatican's right to acquire revenue by issuing euro coins | 758 |
| 2004/C 078E/807 | E-2839/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CouncilSubject: Place of Iraq in the UN and position of the EU | 760 |
| 2004/C 078E/808 | P-2875/03 by Hélène Flautre to the CouncilSubject: Situation of migrants and asylum-seekers in Malta | 760 |
| 2004/C 078E/809 | E-2878/03 by Jan Dhaene to the CouncilSubject: Technical inspection of the systems for indirect vision used on commercial vehicles | 761 |
| 2004/C 078E/810 | E-2880/03 by Jan Dhaene to the CouncilSubject: Bicycle theft | 762 |
| 2004/C 078E/811 | E-2885/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Application of the EU/Israel Association Agreement | 763 |
| 2004/C 078E/812 | E-2900/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CouncilSubject: Safeguarding jobs at the Alcatel plant in Rieti | 763 |
| 2004/C 078E/813 | E-2911/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CouncilSubject: Football-related violence | 764 |
| 2004/C 078E/814 | E-2917/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: 2 SDA, Camire, Marcom, World Systems, Ariane II Group and Sema Belgium | 765 |
| 2004/C 078E/815 | E-2918/03 by Marco Cappato and Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Case of Italian citizen Maurizio Trotta, imprisoned in Romania | 766 |
| 2004/C 078E/816 | E-2926/03 by Michl Ebner to the CouncilSubject: Urgent need to expand voluntary fire services | 766 |
| 2004/C 078E/817 | E-2929/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Situation of Thich Tri Luc, a Vietnamese citizen enjoying HCR refugee status, kidnapped in Cambodia and awaiting trial in Vietnam | 767 |
| 2004/C 078E/818 | E-2940/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CouncilSubject: Allocations from the Solidarity Fund | 768 |
| 2004/C 078E/819 | E-2944/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Cancellation of the special train carrying large numbers of officials and political group staff between the European Parliament's two meeting places | 769 |
| 2004/C 078E/820 | E-2960/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CouncilSubject: Middle East peace process | 770 |
| 2004/C 078E/821 | E-2962/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Damage to valuable works contained in the temple of St Sofia | 771 |
| 2004/C 078E/822 | P-3008/03 by Karin Riis-Jørgensen to the CommissionSubject: Unequal conditions of competition for the fish processing industry in the EU Member States | 772 |
| 2004/C 078E/823 | E-3061/03 by Elisabeth Schroedter to the CommissionSubject: Threat to the FFH protected area ‘Falkenseer Kuhlaake’ (No 537) from a road-building project to be carried out with assistance from the European Structural Funds | 773 |
| 2004/C 078E/824 | P-3066/03 by Alain Esclopé to the CommissionSubject: Breaking-up of decommissioned US warships | 774 |
| 2004/C 078E/825 | E-3088/03 by Bruno Gollnisch to the CommissionSubject: Pechiney-Alcan merger | 775 |
| 2004/C 078E/826 | E-3089/03 by Bruno Gollnisch to the CouncilSubject: Alstom | 777 |
| 2004/C 078E/827 | P-3090/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Declassification of forest land and forests and redefinition of the term ‘forest’ under new legislation proposed by the Greek Government | 777 |
| 2004/C 078E/828 | E-3098/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Margot Wallström and the EMU campaign | 779 |
| 2004/C 078E/829 | E-3100/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Commission's involvement in national campaigns | 779 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3098/03 and E-3100/03 | 779 |
| 2004/C 078E/830 | E-3101/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CouncilSubject: EMU referendum and location of agencies | 780 |
| 2004/C 078E/831 | P-3102/03 by Lissy Gröner to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against women in the Commission's new assessment system | 780 |
| 2004/C 078E/832 | E-3120/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Noise pollution | 782 |
| 2004/C 078E/833 | E-3137/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CouncilSubject: Right to apply for asylum | 783 |
| 2004/C 078E/834 | P-3167/03 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Working and health care in the accession countries | 783 |
| 2004/C 078E/835 | E-3168/03 by Michl Ebner to the CouncilSubject: Ban on dangerous dog breeds | 784 |
| 2004/C 078E/836 | P-3180/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Protection by the EU of its floriculture sector | 785 |
| 2004/C 078E/837 | E-3188/03 by Adeline Hazan to the CommissionSubject: Harmonisation of civil status records in Europe | 787 |
| 2004/C 078E/838 | E-3195/03 by Ursula Stenzel to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of the profession of (clinical) optometrist | 788 |
| 2004/C 078E/839 | E-3196/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Problems with construction activity, the protection of forests and building cooperatives in Greece | 788 |
| 2004/C 078E/840 | E-3203/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Treatment of hospital waste in Attica | 789 |
| 2004/C 078E/841 | E-3213/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Take-up of Community funding in the cultural sector in Greece | 790 |
| 2004/C 078E/842 | E-3217/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Monitoring of atmospheric pollution in Greece | 791 |
| 2004/C 078E/843 | E-3224/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: EC Commission proposal to replace Council Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85 on Drivers' Hours | 793 |
| 2004/C 078E/844 | E-3229/03 by Raffaele Costa and Jas Gawronski to the CommissionSubject: Funding for the Turin-Lyon rail link | 794 |
| 2004/C 078E/845 | E-3238/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: New arrangements regarding maritime cabotage in Greece | 795 |
| 2004/C 078E/846 | E-3254/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: List of priority projects — European Commission | 796 |
| 2004/C 078E/847 | E-3266/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Impact of genetically modified crops on nature | 797 |
| 2004/C 078E/848 | P-3298/03 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Effect of climatic change on cod stocks | 799 |
| 2004/C 078E/849 | E-3299/03 by Horst Schnellhardt to the CommissionSubject: Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (Flora, Fauna and Habitats Directive) | 800 |
| 2004/C 078E/850 | E-3316/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: EAGGF corrections | 801 |
| 2004/C 078E/851 | E-3318/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Issuing of EUR 1 banknotes | 802 |
| 2004/C 078E/852 | E-3338/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Environmental protection for the Peschiera springs | 802 |
| 2004/C 078E/853 | E-3346/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Amendments to the Majorca highway-planning programme | 804 |
| 2004/C 078E/854 | P-3364/03 by Christos Folias to the CommissionSubject: New regulatory framework for telecommunications | 805 |
| 2004/C 078E/855 | E-3365/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Regeneration of the Psyrri district | 806 |
| 2004/C 078E/856 | E-3373/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: September floods in Malta and town of Qormi | 807 |
| 2004/C 078E/857 | E-3392/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Economic monitoring | 808 |
| 2004/C 078E/858 | E-3398/03 by Stefano Zappalà to the CommissionSubject: Dumping by China on the world copper market | 809 |
| 2004/C 078E/859 | E-3408/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Illegal immigration — German Consular Services | 810 |
| 2004/C 078E/860 | E-3410/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: The NHP subsidies and environmental impact | 811 |
| 2004/C 078E/861 | E-3411/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Granting subsidies to the NHP and the Ródano water transfer | 812 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3410/03 and E-3411/03 | 812 |
| 2004/C 078E/862 | E-3436/03 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Harmonisation of the European energy market | 813 |
| 2004/C 078E/863 | E-3444/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Teaching Portuguese language and culture in the Netherlands | 814 |
| 2004/C 078E/864 | E-3452/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Exclusion of environmental NGOs from environmental education | 814 |
| 2004/C 078E/865 | E-3463/03 by Christos Folias to the CommissionSubject: Fixing maximum profit margins for sales of fresh produce | 815 |
| 2004/C 078E/866 | E-3465/03 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: Dichlofluanid | 816 |
| 2004/C 078E/867 | E-3475/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Protection of the Caretta caretta turtle | 817 |
| 2004/C 078E/868 | E-3507/03 by Paul Lannoye to the CommissionSubject: Protection of loggerhead turtles in Greece | 817 |
| 2004/C 078E/869 | E-3528/03 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Protection of the caretta — caretta turtle | 817 |
| 2004/C 078E/870 | E-3532/03 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Protection of the Caretta caretta tortoise | 818 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3475/03, E-3507/03, E-3528/03 and E-3532/03 | 818 |
| 2004/C 078E/871 | E-3481/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: ‘Valdastico Sud’ motorway | 819 |
| 2004/C 078E/872 | E-3488/03 by Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Statements by individual Commissioners against Commission policy | 820 |
| 2004/C 078E/873 | E-3505/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Information on the level of EU funding granted to Saarland between January 1997 and December 2002 (Supplementary Answer) | 820 |
| 2004/C 078E/874 | E-3513/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone and Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Water | 821 |
| 2004/C 078E/875 | E-3518/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Bioptic driving | 822 |
| 2004/C 078E/876 | E-3541/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: US ‘ghost ships’ moored in the UK | 822 |
| 2004/C 078E/877 | E-3548/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Public works in Greece: shortcomings and defects regarding the Port of Igoumenitsa and the Egnatia highway | 824 |
| 2004/C 078E/878 | E-3551/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Goatmeat subsidies — Application of Regulation 2550/2001 of 21 December 2001 to the Azores | 825 |
| 2004/C 078E/879 | E-3557/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Irregularities in DG Agriculture highlighted by the Court of Auditors | 826 |
| 2004/C 078E/880 | E-3558/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Right to vote for immigrants in EU Member States | 827 |
| 2004/C 078E/881 | E-3578/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Environmentally friendly diesel fuel | 828 |
| 2004/C 078E/882 | E-3579/03 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: Hunting season for carrion crows in the EU | 829 |
| 2004/C 078E/883 | E-3581/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Shrimp fishing in Svalbard | 830 |
| 2004/C 078E/884 | E-3592/03 by Karl-Heinz Florenz to the CommissionSubject: Deposits on disposable drinks packaging in Germany from an environmental point of view | 831 |
| 2004/C 078E/885 | E-3593/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Cost of passports across the European Union Member States | 832 |
| 2004/C 078E/886 | E-3600/03 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Overflying Brussels — extension of Zaventem airport | 832 |
| 2004/C 078E/887 | E-3606/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Special conditions for transport by heavy goods vehicles | 833 |
| 2004/C 078E/888 | E-3614/03 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Cultivation of sweet rowanberries | 835 |
| 2004/C 078E/889 | E-3615/03 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Fishing for migratory salmon | 835 |
| 2004/C 078E/890 | E-3616/03 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Setting fishing quotas for the new Member States | 836 |
| 2004/C 078E/891 | E-3630/03 by Carles-Alfred Gasòliba i Böhm to the CommissionSubject: Unspent Structural Fund resources | 837 |
| 2004/C 078E/892 | P-3636/03 by Salvador Jové Peres to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the CMO in olive oil | 838 |
| 2004/C 078E/893 | E-3640/03 by Herbert Bösch and Johannes Swoboda to the CommissionSubject: Withdrawal of direct cross-border rail connections | 839 |
| 2004/C 078E/894 | E-3641/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Definition of ‘forest’: divergence between the definition in a Greek bill and in the Forest Focus regulation | 840 |
| 2004/C 078E/895 | E-3644/03 by Salvador Jové Peres to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the COM in olive oil | 842 |
| 2004/C 078E/896 | E-3649/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Serious delays in payments by the International Organisation for Migration in Geneva relating to the German forced labour compensation programme | 843 |
| 2004/C 078E/897 | E-3971/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Failure by Germany to compensate former Italian military internees (IMIs) | 843 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3649/03 and E-3971/03 | 844 |
| 2004/C 078E/898 | P-3652/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Stem cells and stem-cell lines | 844 |
| 2004/C 078E/899 | E-3656/03 by Salvador Jové Peres to the CommissionSubject: High quality code NC 1003 00 barley imports | 845 |
| 2004/C 078E/900 | P-3657/03 by Giovanni Procacci to the CommissionSubject: Storage of nuclear waste | 846 |
| 2004/C 078E/901 | E-3663/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Undisclosed research on organic farming | 847 |
| 2004/C 078E/902 | P-3667/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Building of a dam in the lower Sabor | 849 |
| 2004/C 078E/903 | E-3698/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Contravention of ban on fishing with drift nets and of the habitats directive | 850 |
| 2004/C 078E/904 | E-3701/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Misappropriation of Community funds intended for the Palestinian National Authority | 851 |
| 2004/C 078E/905 | E-3734/03 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: High fees for residence cards | 853 |
| 2004/C 078E/906 | E-3749/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the LIFE III programme by the municipality of Massa | 854 |
| 2004/C 078E/907 | E-3750/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the LIFE III programme by the municipality of Florence | 854 |
| 2004/C 078E/908 | E-3762/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Commission proceedings against Greece for infringing Community legislation in the telecommunications sector | 855 |
| 2004/C 078E/909 | Ρ-3776/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: US GAAP | 856 |
| 2004/C 078E/910 | E-3795/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Meeting UN sustainable fishing targets | 857 |
| 2004/C 078E/911 | E-3796/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Maríne Stewardship Council | 858 |
| 2004/C 078E/912 | E-3797/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Sustainable fisheries | 859 |
| 2004/C 078E/913 | E-3821/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Environmental impact of the extension of the Eivissa Airport | 859 |
| 2004/C 078E/914 | E-3825/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Abandoned mines | 860 |
| 2004/C 078E/915 | E-3826/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Environmental problems caused by small and medium-sized dairy farms | 861 |
| 2004/C 078E/916 | E-3837/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Privatisation of the Post Office Savings Bank | 862 |
| 2004/C 078E/917 | E-3841/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Protection of the consumer interest under the new EU regulatory framework for electronic communications (Directives 2002/20/EC, 2002/21/EC) | 863 |
| 2004/C 078E/918 | P-3860/03 by Reimer Böge to the CommissionSubject: Designation of bird protection zones in Schleswig-Holstein | 864 |
| 2004/C 078E/919 | P-3863/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: European Evidence Warrant — a proposal threatening individual freedom? | 866 |
| 2004/C 078E/920 | E-3871/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Connection between the Ebro water transfer and the Júcar-Vinalopó water transfer | 866 |
| 2004/C 078E/921 | E-3873/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Motorway and high-speed rail routes — Corridor 5 and Friuli-Venezia Giulia region | 867 |
| 2004/C 078E/922 | E-3875/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the COM in tobacco | 869 |
| 2004/C 078E/923 | E-3879/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Rules governing eel fishing | 870 |
| 2004/C 078E/924 | E-3886/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel Italia and the seat of the European Satellite Agency | 871 |
| 2004/C 078E/925 | E-3888/03 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Winding-up of contracts in the Eurostat affair | 872 |
| 2004/C 078E/926 | P-3891/03 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Renewable energy in Ireland | 873 |
| 2004/C 078E/927 | E-3908/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Freedom of movement in the EU and risk of abuse of welfare systems | 874 |
| 2004/C 078E/928 | E-3916/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Unsatisfactory standards in Italy for checking that medical staff have the necessary professional qualifications | 875 |
| 2004/C 078E/929 | E-3917/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: European approval of government support for the livestock market in Leeuwarden | 876 |
| 2004/C 078E/930 | P-3926/03 by Jacqueline Foster to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the diamond industry | 877 |
| 2004/C 078E/931 | E-3927/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Modular road trains on European roads | 878 |
| 2004/C 078E/932 | E-3929/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Increase in inflation in Greece | 879 |
| 2004/C 078E/933 | E-3932/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Sexual exploitation of children | 881 |
| 2004/C 078E/934 | E-3933/03 by Samuli Pohjamo and Mikko Pesälä to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of the ergonomic saddle chair in the EU's chair classifications | 882 |
| 2004/C 078E/935 | E-3935/03 by Bert Doorn to the CommissionSubject: Court with jurisdiction in international civil and commercial matters under Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 | 883 |
| 2004/C 078E/936 | P-3937/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: European Regulation on yogurt | 885 |
| 2004/C 078E/937 | E-3950/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Incentives to halt the continuing cancellation of rapid and direct long-distance international train services | 886 |
| 2004/C 078E/938 | P-3954/03 by Gian Gobbo to the CommissionSubject: Issue of one-euro banknotes | 887 |
| 2004/C 078E/939 | E-3982/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Political rights of the Macedonian minority in Greece | 888 |
| 2004/C 078E/940 | E-3997/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Prince/Euro programme | 888 |
| 2004/C 078E/941 | E-4000/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Reforms at Eurostat | 890 |
| 2004/C 078E/942 | E-4005/03 by Anna Terrón i Cusí to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against Community children as regards access to sports federations in Spain | 891 |
| 2004/C 078E/943 | P-4009/03 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the tobacco CMO | 892 |
| 2004/C 078E/944 | E-4016/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Free movement of pharmaceutical products in the EU | 893 |
| 2004/C 078E/945 | P-4022/03 by Christos Folias to the CommissionSubject: Comparative data in the olive oil sector | 894 |
| 2004/C 078E/946 | P-4023/03 by Jean-Louis Bernié to the CommissionSubject: Natura 2000 | 895 |
| 2004/C 078E/947 | E-4024/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Free-standing ovens | 896 |
| 2004/C 078E/948 | E-4025/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: UN investigation in East Timor | 897 |
| 2004/C 078E/949 | E-4030/03 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: Under-utilisation of payment appropriations | 898 |
| 2004/C 078E/950 | E-4039/03 by Christos Folias to the CommissionSubject: Optometry in Greece | 899 |
| 2004/C 078E/951 | E-4040/03 by Glyn Ford, Kathalijne Buitenweg, Claude Moraes and Anna Terrón i Cusí to the CommissionSubject: MEDEA Programme and Article 13 of the Treaty | 900 |
| 2004/C 078E/952 | E-4041/03 by John Bowis and Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: The implementation of worker safety directives and protection of healthcare workers and their patients | 901 |
| 2004/C 078E/953 | E-4042/03 by Kathalijne Buitenweg to the CommissionSubject: Bullying at school | 902 |
| 2004/C 078E/954 | E-4044/03 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Free passes for local residents to the grounds of heritage and tourist sites | 903 |
| 2004/C 078E/955 | P-4049/03 by Francesco Speroni to the CommissionSubject: GM products | 904 |
| 2004/C 078E/956 | P-4050/03 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Proposal for a directive concerning credit for consumers | 904 |
| 2004/C 078E/957 | E-4052/03 by Christos Folias to the CommissionSubject: Support for the various Churches | 906 |
| 2004/C 078E/958 | P-4060/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: European citizenship | 906 |
| 2004/C 078E/959 | E-4062/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Health and safety of workers - complaint 00/4404, SG(2000) A/3828/2 | 907 |
| 2004/C 078E/960 | E-4063/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Workers on one-day contracts | 908 |
| 2004/C 078E/961 | P-4073/03 by Giovanni Fava to the CommissionSubject: Waste-to-energy plant | 909 |
| 2004/C 078E/962 | E-4080/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Pets' passports | 910 |
| 2004/C 078E/963 | E-4086/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Company-specific aid to Eftec in connection with relocation from Hässleholm in Sweden to Wales | 911 |
| 2004/C 078E/964 | E-4087/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Data Protection Supervisor | 912 |
| 2004/C 078E/965 | E-0005/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of Uighur Organisations based in the European Union | 912 |
| 2004/C 078E/966 | P-0014/04 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Relationship between cancelled flights and PNR | 914 |
| 2004/C 078E/967 | E-0024/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Financial support for an organisation facilitating the independence of people with disabilities | 915 |
| 2004/C 078E/968 | E-0025/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Possibility of ‘BSE’ (OSE?) in sheep | 916 |
| 2004/C 078E/969 | P-0028/04 by Philip Bushill-Matthews to the CommissionSubject: Age discrimination | 917 |
| 2004/C 078E/970 | P-0029/04 by Heinz Kindermann to the CommissionSubject: Closure of veterinary border control point at Pomellen, Germany | 917 |
| 2004/C 078E/971 | E-0036/04 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: SARS outbreak in China and the Philippines | 919 |
| 2004/C 078E/972 | E-0040/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Size of the Commission | 920 |
| 2004/C 078E/973 | E-0041/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Trade between Scotland and the rest of the European Union | 920 |
| 2004/C 078E/974 | E-0057/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Welfare expenditure in the Spanish state and the situation in the EU | 921 |
| 2004/C 078E/975 | P-0058/04 by Giuseppe Di Lello Finuoli to the CommissionSubject: Funding by the Italian State and the Region of Campania for the programme contract submitted by Agrifuturo S.c.a.r.l | 922 |
| 2004/C 078E/976 | E-0060/04 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Chromium (VI) in leather | 923 |
| 2004/C 078E/977 | E-0064/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Alarming rise in unemployment in Galicia: 7465 newly unemployed people in December 2003 out of a total of 23 419 for Spain as a whole, bringing the rate of unemployment in Galicia to 12,36 % | 924 |
| 2004/C 078E/978 | P-0065/04 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Post-60 flying in Europe | 925 |
| 2004/C 078E/979 | E-0067/04 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Retirement benefits | 926 |
| 2004/C 078E/980 | E-0069/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Support for cleaning lakes in the Cantanhede municipal district | 926 |
| 2004/C 078E/981 | E-0076/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 and blind and partially sighted registration | 927 |
| 2004/C 078E/982 | P-0083/04 by Dirk Sterckx to the CommissionSubject: Restrictions on freedom of movement for Flemish travel guides on trips abroad | 928 |
| 2004/C 078E/983 | E-0087/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Use by casinos of EU rules in support of their fight against the Netherlands government policy aimed at limiting compulsive gambling | 929 |
| 2004/C 078E/984 | E-0095/04 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Public hospital INMI L. Spallanzani in Italy | 930 |
| 2004/C 078E/985 | E-0106/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Use in shops of escalators which meet European safety standards but are apparently unsafe for children | 931 |
| 2004/C 078E/986 | E-0108/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Fiat in Italy acting in a joint venture in China providing vans to the People's Republic of China for the purposes of mobile exectution | 932 |
| 2004/C 078E/987 | P-0109/04 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Sikhs and the banning of religious articles of faith | 933 |
| 2004/C 078E/988 | P-0126/04 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Permits for capture, breeding and trading of protected species in Greece in violation of EU legislation | 933 |
| 2004/C 078E/989 | P-0147/04 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Combating the use of drugs in sport | 934 |
| 2004/C 078E/990 | P-0157/04 by Catherine Guy-Quint to the CommissionSubject: Twinnings with Bulgaria and Romania | 936 |
| 2004/C 078E/991 | P-0158/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Aviation safety | 937 |
| 2004/C 078E/992 | E-0178/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Funding from the Culture 2000 programme for the conservation of valuable cultural works stored in Aghia Sofia | 938 |
| 2004/C 078E/993 | P-0193/04 by Ward Beysen to the CommissionSubject: Parallel trade | 939 |
| 2004/C 078E/994 | P-0206/04 by Renato Brunetta to the CommissionSubject: Unlawful imposition of identification marks for sports craft in the Venice lagoon | 940 |
| 2004/C 078E/995 | P-0207/04 by Harald Ettl to the CommissionSubject: Further action by the Commission on the portability of supplementary pension rights | 941 |
| 2004/C 078E/996 | P-0208/04 by Ioannis Averoff to the CommissionSubject: Practical problems with town-twinning scheme | 942 |
| 2004/C 078E/997 | E-0223/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Unemployment rate in Greece | 943 |
| 2004/C 078E/998 | E-0224/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: ‘Militaria e Dintorni in Europa’ (Militaria Fair) | 943 |
| 2004/C 078E/999 | P-0231/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: EIB loan to Schiphol Airport | 944 |
| 2004/C 078E/1000 | E-0243/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Relocation and unemployment | 945 |
| 2004/C 078E/1001 | E-0249/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Private Eye | 946 |
| 2004/C 078E/1002 | P-0253/04 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: The Construction Products Directive | 947 |
| 2004/C 078E/1003 | E-0284/04 by Joachim Wuermeling to the CommissionSubject: BEUC | 948 |
| 2004/C 078E/1004 | E-0300/04 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Financing for the new Athens airport | 949 |
| 2004/C 078E/1005 | E-0310/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Further reduction of educational facilities for the long-established Sorbian-speaking community in Lausitz, eastern Germany | 950 |
| 2004/C 078E/1006 | P-0314/04 by Ulpu Iivari to the CommissionSubject: Effect of EU support on the shift of jobs within the EU | 951 |
| 2004/C 078E/1007 | E-0330/04 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Hospitals for ‘national defence’ in Italy | 953 |
| 2004/C 078E/1008 | P-0454/04 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Unemployment benefits in Greece | 953 |
| 2004/C 078E/1009 | P-0523/04 by Emmanouil Mastorakis to the CommissionSubject: Second and Third Community Support Frameworks | 954 |
| 2004/C 078E/1010 | E-0542/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Active publication of information about subsidies and ratios between payments to large and small farms under the CAP | 954 |
| 2004/C 078E/1011 | 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 | 955 |
| 2004/C 078E/1012 | 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 | 956 |
| 2004/C 078E/1013 | E-0545/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: CAP: consequences of the distribution of the reduction in income in agriculture and financing of techniques which promote animal welfare or are environmentally sound for use on small farms | 956 |
| 2004/C 078E/1014 | E-0616/04 by Klaus Hänsch to the CommissionSubject: Allocation of EU resources | 957 |

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 1)

2004/C 078E/1

E-0465/01 by Antonios Trakatellis and Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Violation of Community environmental legislation and measures to protect the Loggerhead (Caretta Caretta) sea turtle

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2004/C 078E/2

E-2369/02 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Directive 1999/74/EC on the protection of laying hens

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2004/C 078E/3

E-3463/02 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Economic integration

3

2004/C 078E/4

E-3509/02 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Abolition of the arrangement whereby small-scale, occasional trading can be carried out on a cross-border basis using the cash-on-delivery system

3

2004/C 078E/5

E-3522/02 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Television rights relating to Champions League matches — dispute as to what constitutes news gathering and what is covered by copyright

5

2004/C 078E/6

E-3574/02 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Outermost regions and enlargement

7

2004/C 078E/7

E-3644/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Incarceration of Shaiboub

8

2004/C 078E/8

E-3645/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Imprisonment of Shakir

8

2004/C 078E/9

E-3652/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: El Kosheh retrial

9

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3644/02, E-3645/02 and E-3652/02

9

2004/C 078E/10

E-3675/02 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Europe and Palestinian terrorism

10

2004/C 078E/11

P-3803/02 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Catalan television broadcast on fraud against the ESF in Spain

10

2004/C 078E/12

E-3829/02 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Trade agreements between the EU and Mexico and safeguarding human rights

11

2004/C 078E/13

E-0072/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The dangers of selling thawed deep-frozen meat as fresh meat and a requirement to warn consumers against refreezing it

12

2004/C 078E/14

E-0201/03 by Emilio Menéndez del Valle to the CommissionSubject: Gibraltarian police violence (Supplementary Answer)

13

2004/C 078E/15

E-0219/03 by Alexandros Baltas to the CommissionSubject: Countries which have set in place essential elements of the Integrated Administration and Control System for certain Community aid schemes (IACS)

14

2004/C 078E/16

E-0293/03 by Struan Stevenson to the CommissionSubject: Animal welfare in Greek slaughterhouses

16

2004/C 078E/17

P-0439/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) draft proposal for an Independent Recourse Mechanism

17

2004/C 078E/18

P-0487/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: El Khosheh judgment

18

2004/C 078E/19

E-0559/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Horse identification documents

19

2004/C 078E/20

E-0622/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Combating cartels

20

2004/C 078E/21

E-0682/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Dam building project in Rivas de Tereso (La Rioja-Spain)

20

2004/C 078E/22

P-0733/03 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Air transport safety and use of passengers' mother tongue

22

2004/C 078E/23

E-0883/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Customs 2002 programme by the municipality of Fiumicino

22

2004/C 078E/24

E-1061/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Customs 2002 programme by the municipality of Ancona

23

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0883/03 and E-1061/03

23

2004/C 078E/25

P-0895/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Agro-business Bank of Georgia

24

2004/C 078E/26

E-0912/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Racism and racial attacks in candidate countries

24

2004/C 078E/27

E-0922/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Serbia; assassination of the Prime Minister; instability

25

2004/C 078E/28

E-1033/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Famine in Africa

26

2004/C 078E/29

E-1289/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Disruption of market access to the People's Republic of China for photographic products: specific import tariffs not complying with WTO agreements

27

2004/C 078E/30

E-1309/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Human rights abuses in Laos

28

2004/C 078E/31

P-1409/03 by Othmar Karas to the CommissionSubject: Reform of European corporate taxation policy

29

2004/C 078E/32

E-1431/03 by Pierre Jonckheer to the CommissionSubject: Open-cast coal mine in northern Leon (Valle de Laciana, Spain)

32

2004/C 078E/33

E-1432/03 by Pierre Jonckheer to the CommissionSubject: Open-cast coal mine in northern Leon (Valle de Laciana, Spain)

32

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1431/03 and E-1432/03

33

2004/C 078E/34

E-1435/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Increasing Third World dependence on emigration to work in rich countries and earnings transfers from rich countries

34

2004/C 078E/35

P-1483/03 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Protection of information concerning air passengers — Joint Declaration of 4 March 2003

35

2004/C 078E/36

E-1550/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Uncontrolled flows of funds on the transfer of media ownership in Poland and possible preferential treatment for Poland as a new EU Member State

36

2004/C 078E/37

E-1551/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Labelling of products containing asbestos

37

2004/C 078E/38

E-1568/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Sharp cuts in passenger services on the Slovakian rail network as a result of secret conditions in a loan granted by the EIB in 1999

38

2004/C 078E/39

P-1596/03 by Regina Bastos to the CommissionSubject: Closure of ‘Schuh-Union’ located in Ponte de Lima, Portugal (Supplementary Answer)

40

2004/C 078E/40

E-1670/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Authorisation by the Commission of projects harmful to the Natura 2000 network

41

2004/C 078E/41

E-1687/03 by Inger Schörling to the CommissionSubject: Botniabanan — Umea river delta, Sweden

43

2004/C 078E/42

E-1688/03 by Anders Wijkman to the CommissionSubject: The construction of the Ladia Galaska road in the province of Aceh, Indonesia

44

2004/C 078E/43

E-1726/03 by Mikko Pesälä to the CommissionSubject: Shooting noise abatement

45

2004/C 078E/44

E-1781/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: The EQUAL funding programme post-enlargement

46

2004/C 078E/45

E-1817/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Air pollution

47

2004/C 078E/46

E-1820/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Sausage meat

48

2004/C 078E/47

E-1831/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Statistics concerning poverty and unemployment in Greece

49

2004/C 078E/48

E-1836/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Particulates

50

2004/C 078E/49

E-1867/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Average cost of capital in the euro area

51

2004/C 078E/50

E-1868/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Equity culture

52

2004/C 078E/51

E-1900/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Nitrate pollution in the Valencia region

53

2004/C 078E/52

E-1906/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Credibility of televoting and its cost to the European public

54

2004/C 078E/53

E-1910/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Underground storage of nuclear waste

55

2004/C 078E/54

E-1927/03 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Bovine and porcine protein in chicken

56

2004/C 078E/55

E-1955/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Processing of chicken intended for human consumption

56

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1927/03 and E-1955/03

56

2004/C 078E/56

E-1937/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Corinth-Patras railway link

57

2004/C 078E/57

E-1946/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Investigations into subsidies paid by Spain to the Izar company and resumption of construction work on merchant vessels at the Izar-Fene shipyards in Galicia

58

2004/C 078E/58

P-1951/03 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Provisions banning traffic in Austria

58

2004/C 078E/59

E-1953/03 by Lissy Gröner to the CommissionSubject: Unused EU funding in Bavaria totalling EUR 17 million for 2002

59

2004/C 078E/60

P-1961/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Ispra meeting to discuss the Spanish National Hydrological Plan

60

2004/C 078E/61

E-1970/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Recycling charges for household goods

61

2004/C 078E/62

E-1971/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Flying ultralight aircraft

61

2004/C 078E/63

E-1986/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Atmospheric pollution in Athens and Thessaloniki

62

2004/C 078E/64

E-1987/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi and Per-Arne Arvidsson to the CommissionSubject: Nuclear safety principles applied to the EU accession countries

63

2004/C 078E/65

E-1991/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Shedding of light on the circumstances relating to the organisation of the Commission that contributed to the death of Commission official Quatraro in 1993, and the secrecy surrounding the events

65

2004/C 078E/66

E-2001/03 by Jan Dhaene and Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Radioactive discharges from Sellafield

66

2004/C 078E/67

P-2031/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Community legislation on solid waste and the landfill of waste in Greece

67

2004/C 078E/68

E-2043/03 by Maurizio Turco, Emma Bonino, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Means of putting an end to violations of religious freedom

69

2004/C 078E/69

E-2045/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Serious and persistent violations of the fundamental human rights of the Uighur minority in the Chinese province of Xinjiang (eastern Turkestan)

70

2004/C 078E/70

E-2051/03 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: Essential oils and consumer protection

71

2004/C 078E/71

E-2056/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Ethylene

72

2004/C 078E/72

E-2059/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: One-year delay by the Spanish government in extracting fuel oil from the wreck of the ‘Prestige’ off the Galician coast

73

2004/C 078E/73

P-2080/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Summary of subsidies to undertakings

74

2004/C 078E/74

E-2084/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: 1970 Unesco Convention

75

2004/C 078E/75

E-2087/03 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of Finnish engineering qualifications in certain Mediterranean countries

76

2004/C 078E/76

E-2101/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Common agricultural policy reform — ‘capping’

78

2004/C 078E/77

E-2111/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Comparative study of special needs teaching

78

2004/C 078E/78

E-2120/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the CommissionSubject: Development of renewable energy sources in Moldova

79

2004/C 078E/79

E-2127/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Guarantees as to the correctness of businesses' financial information

80

2004/C 078E/80

E-2166/03 by Giuseppe Di Lello Finuoli to the CommissionSubject: Update regarding of the Italian State and Campania Regional Government funding of the programme contract presented by Agrifuturo

82

2004/C 078E/81

E-2173/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Compliance with EU legislation on asbestos

82

2004/C 078E/82

E-2176/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Procurement

83

2004/C 078E/83

E-2180/03 by Samuli Pohjamo and Mikko Pesälä to the CommissionSubject: Damage caused by predators in the Finnish reindeer range

84

2004/C 078E/84

E-2186/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Need for better consumer protection against malicious or negligent practices in international e-commerce

85

2004/C 078E/85

E-2187/03 by Sérgio Marques to the CommissionSubject: Participation by the outermost regions in the RTD framework programmes

87

2004/C 078E/86

E-2191/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Funding for the IRENE organisation

88

2004/C 078E/87

P-2194/03 by Michael Cashman to the CommissionSubject: Counterfeiting and piracy

89

2004/C 078E/88

E-2196/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Civil protection

90

2004/C 078E/89

E-2197/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Cattle transport — CATRA findings

90

2004/C 078E/90

E-2206/03 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Action to confine marketing of specified products to the Czech Republic

91

2004/C 078E/91

E-2207/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Labelling of animal, including poultry, products and problems posed for members of religious minorities eating these products

92

2004/C 078E/92

P-2440/03 by Diana Wallis to the CommissionSubject: Addition of water and protein to chicken meat

92

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2207/03 and P-2440/03

93

2004/C 078E/93

E-2216/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Arrest of twelve members of an evangelical church in China

93

2004/C 078E/94

E-2221/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Situation of the High Flux Reactor in Petten

94

2004/C 078E/95

E-2236/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Disastrous environmental situation in Greece

95

2004/C 078E/96

E-2240/03 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up to an application for a driving licence in another EU Member State

96

2004/C 078E/97

E-2241/03 by Kathalijne Buitenweg and Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Funding of enforced return measures

97

2004/C 078E/98

E-2250/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in China. Arrest of Father Lu Xiaozhou of the ‘clandestine’ Catholic church

99

2004/C 078E/99

E-2251/03 by Joaquim Miranda to the CommissionSubject: Charter for Children in Hospital

99

2004/C 078E/100

E-2277/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Construction faults on the Ionian highway

100

2004/C 078E/101

E-2291/03 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Equal treatment of Member States in recruiting EU officials

101

2004/C 078E/102

P-2301/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Directive 1999/70/EC

102

2004/C 078E/103

E-2320/03 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: First aid at the scene of an accident

103

2004/C 078E/104

P-2340/03 by Giovanni Fava to the CommissionSubject: National site for radioactive waste in Sardinia

104

2004/C 078E/105

E-2348/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Measures to be taken in response to evidence that oil from the ‘Prestige’ is continuing to reach the coasts of Galicia and the Bay of Biscay

105

2004/C 078E/106

E-2349/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Galicia and CAP reform

105

2004/C 078E/107

E-2356/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Caroline Jackson, Johannes Blokland, Alexander de Roo and Karl-Heinz Florenz to the CommissionSubject: Interpretation of the RoHS Directive (2002/95/EC)

106

2004/C 078E/108

E-2380/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: New business formation

108

2004/C 078E/109

E-2381/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Single market

109

2004/C 078E/110

E-2382/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Single market

109

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2381/03 and E-2382/03

109

2004/C 078E/111

E-2391/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: Numbers of pigs and cattle in the EU 15 and the 10 accession countries

110

2004/C 078E/112

E-2408/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Watching an LCD screen whilst driving a motor vehicle

111

2004/C 078E/113

E-2422/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: In-car LCD screens

111

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2408/03 and E-2422/03

112

2004/C 078E/114

E-2436/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Support for fishermen unable to fish for biological reasons

113

2004/C 078E/115

E-2448/03 by Georges Berthu to the CommissionSubject: Inappropriate incentive to destroy hedgerows

114

2004/C 078E/116

E-2450/03 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Infringement by the Salerno Chamber of Commerce of legislation on fixed term employment contracts

114

2004/C 078E/117

E-2466/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Systematic provision of information to police forces, businessmen and holidaymakers with a view to ensuring that foreign tourists are not punished when they unwittingly break the law

115

2004/C 078E/118

E-2481/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Transferable fishing quotas

117

2004/C 078E/119

E-2484/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Galicia and CAP reform

118

2004/C 078E/120

E-2495/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Common agriculture policy

119

2004/C 078E/121

E-2497/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Foreign direct investment

120

2004/C 078E/122

E-2521/03 by Carles-Alfred Gasòliba i Böhm to the CommissionSubject: Linguistic plurality of Spain with regard to passports

121

2004/C 078E/123

E-2548/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Linguistic coexistence as reflected in Spanish passports

121

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2521/03 and E-2548/03

121

2004/C 078E/124

E-2535/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Farm incomes in Portugal

122

2004/C 078E/125

E-2540/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Agreements between the Spanish State and the Vatican State which violate fundamental rights

123

2004/C 078E/126

E-2541/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: The ‘Gescartera’ case and agreements between the Spanish State and the Holy See

124

2004/C 078E/127

E-2546/03 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Evaluation of tobacco products

125

2004/C 078E/128

E-2556/03 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Voting in Mallorcan elections

126

2004/C 078E/129

E-2565/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Residues of hormones, antibiotics and phthalic acid esters in drinking water

127

2004/C 078E/130

E-2566/03 by Markus Ferber to the CommissionSubject: EU aid for construction projects in Italy

128

2004/C 078E/131

E-2569/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Bioptic driving

129

2004/C 078E/132

E-2586/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: New information concerning the refunds for agricultural products exported from the Member States to the Vatican City State

129

2004/C 078E/133

P-2591/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: State of emergency due to the drought in the Region of Lazio

131

2004/C 078E/134

E-2597/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Natural disaster alert in Italy

132

2004/C 078E/135

E-2605/03 by Elizabeth Lynne to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of qualifications for language teachers (Supplementary Answer)

133

2004/C 078E/136

P-2606/03 by Armin Laschet to the CommissionSubject: Discontinuation of the infringement proceedings against the Federal Republic of Germany in connection with the Avantis cross-border business park

134

2004/C 078E/137

E-2610/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Charging consumers for returning waste household electrical equipment

135

2004/C 078E/138

E-2631/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of fresh and frozen beef (code 0201) for 1998. Inconsistencies between CATS and OECD data

136

2004/C 078E/139

E-2632/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of fresh and frozen beef (code 0201) for 1999. Inconsistencies between CATS and OECD data

136

2004/C 078E/140

E-2633/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of fresh and frozen beef (code 0201) for 2000. Inconsistencies between CATS and OECD data

137

2004/C 078E/141

E-2634/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of fresh and frozen beef (code 0201) for 2001. Inconsistencies between CATS and OECD data

138

2004/C 078E/142

E-2635/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, milk products (code 0405) for 1998

139

2004/C 078E/143

E-2636/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, milk products (code 0405) for 1999

139

2004/C 078E/144

E-2637/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, milk products (code 0405) for 2000

140

2004/C 078E/145

E-2638/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, milk products (code 0405) for 2001

141

2004/C 078E/146

E-2639/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form (code 1701) for 1998

142

2004/C 078E/147

E-2640/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form (code 1701) for 1999

142

2004/C 078E/148

E-2641/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form (code 1701) for 2000

143

2004/C 078E/149

E-2642/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form (code 1701) for 2001

144

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2631/03, E-2632/03, E-2633/03, E-2634/03, E-2635/03, E-2636/03, E-2637/03, E-2638/03, E-2639/03, E-2640/03, E-2641/03 and E-2642/03

145

2004/C 078E/150

E-2645/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Amendment of Article 25(1) of the Kyoto Protocol regarding entry into force

145

2004/C 078E/151

P-2647/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Use of synthetic prohormones for livestock fattening

146

2004/C 078E/152

E-2651/03 by Phillip Whitehead to the CommissionSubject: Consumer involvement in the common implementation strategy for the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC

147

2004/C 078E/153

E-2663/03 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances

148

2004/C 078E/154

E-2669/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: ELSA laboratory — transport safety (JRC Ispra)

149

2004/C 078E/155

E-2678/03 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: 1991 Nitrates Directive

150

2004/C 078E/156

P-2691/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: EURES expenditure

151

2004/C 078E/157

P-2693/03 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: GMOs

152

2004/C 078E/158

P-2695/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the Promise programme

154

2004/C 078E/159

E-2702/03 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Illegally-sourced timber

155

2004/C 078E/160

E-2705/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Renewable energies

156

2004/C 078E/161

E-2708/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: City-Res Network project

157

2004/C 078E/162

E-2732/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Possible conflict of interests at the Directorate-General for Competition

158

2004/C 078E/163

E-2736/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Monkfish quotas

159

2004/C 078E/164

E-2739/03 by Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Leader+: pre-financing by promoters

160

2004/C 078E/165

E-2745/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Environmental impact of the enlargement of Eivissa airport

161

2004/C 078E/166

E-2755/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Requirement for nationality to be listed on driving licences

162

2004/C 078E/167

E-2765/03 by Raffaele Lombardo and Francesco Musotto to the CommissionSubject: Amending Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 for the use of concentrated musts and rectified concentrated musts

162

2004/C 078E/168

E-2769/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor examinations

163

2004/C 078E/169

E-2770/03 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Personal injury awards

164

2004/C 078E/170

P-2776/03 by Hans Kronberger to the CommissionSubject: Conflict between the objectives of Directive 2001/77/EC on renewable energy and the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in Austria

165

2004/C 078E/171

P-2782/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: EIA report and the Habitats Directive

167

2004/C 078E/172

E-2788/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Use of peat for electricity generation

168

2004/C 078E/173

E-2802/03 by Pedro Marset Campos to the CommissionSubject: Special tolls in France and Germany for the transport of goods by road

169

2004/C 078E/174

E-2805/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Solar energy

170

2004/C 078E/175

E-2809/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Innovative actions in the fisheries sector, 2003/C 115/08

171

2004/C 078E/176

P-2810/03 by Ari Vatanen to the CommissionSubject: Allowing longer truck combinations in Europe

171

2004/C 078E/177

P-2811/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Situation of the Mauritanian fishing ground

172

2004/C 078E/178

E-2812/03 by Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Revision of the Directive on driving licences — driving licences for light motorcycles

174

2004/C 078E/179

E-2813/03 by Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Revision of the Directive on driving licences — eyesight requirements

174

2004/C 078E/180

P-2823/03 by Françoise Grossetête to the CommissionSubject: Annex to Directive 90/435/EEC

175

2004/C 078E/181

E-2845/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the CommissionSubject: EU enlargement and air transport

176

2004/C 078E/182

E-2846/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the CommissionSubject: European directive on transport infrastructure charging

176

2004/C 078E/183

P-2847/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Plans to develop Salobrar de Campos — Es trenc

177

2004/C 078E/184

E-2849/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Complaints or infringements regarding the implementation of Greece of Community environmental legislation

178

2004/C 078E/185

E-2850/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Unsatisfactory performance by building and holiday home cooperatives in Greece

179

2004/C 078E/186

P-2855/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Biocidal Products Directive

179

2004/C 078E/187

E-2858/03 by Pierre Jonckheer to the CommissionSubject: Opencast mining in the north of León (Valle de Laciana district, Spain)

180

2004/C 078E/188

P-2864/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Data and sources indicating the role currently played by the Vatican's financial system in the payment of interest to natural persons

182

2004/C 078E/189

E-2865/03 by Elisabeth Schroedter and Inger Schörling to the CommissionSubject: Destruction of unique parts of the European natural heritage in Brandenburg, Federal Republic of Germany

182

2004/C 078E/190

E-2868/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: European electricity market

184

2004/C 078E/191

E-2886/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Difficulties encountered in the liberalisation of the European rail freight sector

185

2004/C 078E/192

E-2887/03 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Animal by-products

186

2004/C 078E/193

E-2907/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Expenditure on and structural indicators for research and innovation in the EU and Greece

186

2004/C 078E/194

P-2909/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Future status of Tibet

187

2004/C 078E/195

E-2921/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Cotton subsidies

188

2004/C 078E/196

E-2924/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: European Council to guarantee energy supplies

190

2004/C 078E/197

E-2927/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Urgent need to expand voluntary fire services

190

2004/C 078E/198

E-2935/03 by Monica Frassoni and Guido Sacconi to the CommissionSubject: Inclusion of waste among the energy sources coming under the arrangements applying to renewable energy sources

191

2004/C 078E/199

E-2943/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: European taxpayers' contribution to promoting and maintaining bullfighting and other local traditions involving cruelty to animals

193

2004/C 078E/200

E-2946/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Specific programme for research

195

2004/C 078E/201

P-2947/03 by Peter Liese to the CommissionSubject: Trupbach industrial estate

195

2004/C 078E/202

P-2948/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Whistleblowing provisions

197

2004/C 078E/203

P-2964/03 by Brigitte Langenhagen to the CommissionSubject: Digital recording equipment

197

2004/C 078E/204

E-2965/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Endometriosis research funding

199

2004/C 078E/205

E-2969/03 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Management of EUR 150 000 of Community funds — involvement of a Romanian government minister

199

2004/C 078E/206

P-2971/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Toxic ships

200

2004/C 078E/207

P-2973/03 by Jean-Louis Bernié to the CommissionSubject: Marais Breton site — September 2003

203

2004/C 078E/208

E-2980/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Suspension of funding for public works studies in Greece from the Community budget

204

2004/C 078E/209

E-2982/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Stability pact

205

2004/C 078E/210

E-2983/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Instances of infringements of Community legislation on the environment

206

2004/C 078E/211

E-2984/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Building on seafronts

207

2004/C 078E/212

P-3010/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Blackout in Italy

208

2004/C 078E/213

P-3011/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Fisheries: national boundaries within the EU's EEZ

209

2004/C 078E/214

E-3018/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Promotions within the Commission

209

2004/C 078E/215

E-3039/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Allegations of bribery made against journalists without any basis in fact

210

2004/C 078E/216

E-3044/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Τ Pods

211

2004/C 078E/217

E-3048/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Coordinating the fight against paedophilia

211

2004/C 078E/218

P-3052/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Suspension of the payment of Community appropriations for public works studies in Greece

213

2004/C 078E/219

E-3054/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Replacement of the illegal waste dump at Kouroupitos

214

2004/C 078E/220

E-3055/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Accounting scandals and corporate governance

215

2004/C 078E/221

E-3058/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Contradictions and inconsistencies in Commission and OLAF statements about the Datashop case

216

2004/C 078E/222

E-3070/03 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: Distortions of competition caused by the German Foreign Trade Act

217

2004/C 078E/223

E-3072/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Provision of the ADSL service in Greece

218

2004/C 078E/224

E-3073/03 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Cost of bank transactions in Greece

219

2004/C 078E/225

E-3074/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Avermectin

220

2004/C 078E/226

E-3096/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Protection of monopolies and high fares by means of aviation agreements with third countries and attempts by potential competitors to break such monopolies

222

2004/C 078E/227

E-3113/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Classification of the codes for the units of measurement of quantities exported shown on the Commission's database CATS (Clearance Audit Trail System)

223

2004/C 078E/228

E-3124/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Working languages

224

2004/C 078E/229

E-3126/03 by Astrid Thors to the CommissionSubject: The cross-border provision of gaming services for humanitarian causes

225

2004/C 078E/230

E-3130/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Fisheries — OASIS — Oceanic Seamounts

226

2004/C 078E/231

E-3134/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Holland — ‘Ecstasy’

227

2004/C 078E/232

E-3151/03 by Herman Schmid to the CommissionSubject: The perception of quality of life in the EU

229

2004/C 078E/233

E-3155/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Competition-distorting customs duties on fish imported from Norway to Denmark

230

2004/C 078E/234

P-3160/03 by Ioannis Averoff to the CommissionSubject: Authorisation for the construction of a landfill site in the prefecture of Ioannina

231

2004/C 078E/235

P-3165/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Spanish Hydrological Plan (Pyrenees)

233

2004/C 078E/236

E-3169/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Ban on dangerous dog breeds

234

2004/C 078E/237

E-3174/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: European film-making

234

2004/C 078E/238

P-3178/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Damage caused by the Prestige: fresh evaluation and the Solidarity Fund

236

2004/C 078E/239

E-3187/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Free movement of bankrupt persons in the EU

237

2004/C 078E/240

E-3192/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat: clarification of President Prodi's powers of intervention

237

2004/C 078E/241

E-3198/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Further camp closures and expulsions of refugees in Ingushetia

239

2004/C 078E/242

P-3201/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Search at the Ί1 Giornale' head office in Rome: violation of freedom of the press in Italy

240

2004/C 078E/243

E-3219/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of fire regulations in the EU

240

2004/C 078E/244

E-3231/03 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Allocation of subsidies under the fifth and sixth framework programmes

241

2004/C 078E/245

E-3255/03 by Marie Isler Béguin and Yves Piétrasanta to the CommissionSubject: Respect for rights and justice following the Bhopal tragedy in India

243

2004/C 078E/246

P-3258/03 by María Ayuso González to the CommissionSubject: Garlic import scheme

244

2004/C 078E/247

E-3260/03 by Michel Hansenne to the CommissionSubject: Approving the setting up of a driving school

244

2004/C 078E/248

E-3262/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Exclusion of persons who are nationals of another Member State from the right to purchase soft drugs or to be members of a users' association

245

2004/C 078E/249

E-3268/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Commission employees

246

2004/C 078E/250

E-3273/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Emissions of refrigerant gases from (Dutch) ships

246

2004/C 078E/251

E-3278/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Macao — Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation

248

2004/C 078E/252

P-3279/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Quality checks by the Commission on the Clearance Audit Trail System (CATS) database

249

2004/C 078E/253

E-3280/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Lack of specific monitoring of product quantities exported from Member States to the Vatican City State under the export refund system

252

2004/C 078E/254

E-3281/03 by Bartho Pronk, Maria Martens and Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up to question E-1740/02 on the free movement of captains

253

2004/C 078E/255

P-3283/03 by Francesco Speroni to the CommissionSubject: Bananas

255

2004/C 078E/256

E-3293/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Structural Funds

255

2004/C 078E/257

E-3304/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Monitoring racial and ethnic discrimination at border controls

256

2004/C 078E/258

E-3317/03 by Íñigo Méndez de Vigo to the CommissionSubject: Cross-border payments

257

2004/C 078E/259

E-3320/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Transit visas in the EU

258

2004/C 078E/260

P-3323/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Suspected infringement of the rules on public contracts by ATAC in Rome

259

2004/C 078E/261

E-3327/03 by Albert Maat and Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Histomoniasis (blackhead)

260

2004/C 078E/262

P-3332/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Export refunds for live cattle

262

2004/C 078E/263

P-3334/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Politically absurd opinion polls

263

2004/C 078E/264

E-3335/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Editorial offices of the daily newspaper Ί1 Giornale' searched

264

2004/C 078E/265

E-3336/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Suspected violation of the rights of the employees of Alcatel Italia S.p.A

265

2004/C 078E/266

E-3339/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Possibility of funding for the health authority of Fiumicino — Rome XIII

266

2004/C 078E/267

E-3342/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Financial aid to Danish immigrant associations

267

2004/C 078E/268

E-3348/03 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Project Gutenberg — making digital copies of books whose copyright has expired

268

2004/C 078E/269

E-3351/03 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: Obstacles to the free movement of workers in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

269

2004/C 078E/270

E-3352/03 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Single Market rules

270

2004/C 078E/271

E-3353/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Equal treatment of men and women in sport

271

2004/C 078E/272

E-3360/03 by Jean-Maurice Dehousse to the CommissionSubject: Free movement of persons

271

2004/C 078E/273

E-3362/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Development of new nuclear power stations

272

2004/C 078E/274

E-3372/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Denmark's prospects of renegotiating Protocol 16

273

2004/C 078E/275

E-3378/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: European financial assistance to European contact points

274

2004/C 078E/276

E-3381/03 by David Martin to the CommissionSubject: Transportation of horses from Romania to Italy

275

2004/C 078E/277

E-3385/03 by Karin Junker to the CommissionSubject: Use of metal detectors in archaeology

275

2004/C 078E/278

E-3388/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The gradual downgrading of the role played by national central banks following the establishment of the ECB and the implications for the prevention of the production and distribution of counterfeit money

276

2004/C 078E/279

E-3395/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Freedom of movement for Kosovo citizens in the EU and the final status of Kosovo

278

2004/C 078E/280

E-3397/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Dental instruments and risk of infections

279

2004/C 078E/281

E-3406/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Installation and operation of mobile telephone antennae in Chortiatis

280

2004/C 078E/282

E-3412/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: EU funding of independent NGO projects in Tunisia

282

2004/C 078E/283

E-3434/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Protection of the Bauhaus style of architecture

283

2004/C 078E/284

E-3438/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Renovation of the Berlaymont building

284

2004/C 078E/285

E-3445/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Support for non-autonomous handicapped people

285

2004/C 078E/286

E-3450/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Criteria for fisheries sector structural actions

286

2004/C 078E/287

E-3458/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The final destruction of tropical rainforests and measures to prevent overlogging and imports of timber without an ecolabel

287

2004/C 078E/288

E-3461/03 by Peder Wachtmeister to the CommissionSubject: Corruption scandal within the Swedish retail monopoly undertaking Systembolaget AB

288

2004/C 078E/289

E-3469/03 by Bart Staes, Phillip Whitehead, Catherine Stihler and Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Post-polio syndrome

289

2004/C 078E/290

E-3480/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Civil rights of disabled people

290

2004/C 078E/291

E-3483/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Use of documents as evidence of criminal activity

291

2004/C 078E/292

E-3489/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Stepping up supplies to the Sinaga's sugar production units — Azores Autonomous Region

292

2004/C 078E/293

P-3492/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Romano Prodi — Manifesto

292

2004/C 078E/294

E-3498/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Iran — nuclear energy

293

2004/C 078E/295

E-3503/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Stray dogs and the Olympic Games

294

2004/C 078E/296

P-3509/03 by Helmuth Markov to the CommissionSubject: Interreg IIIA: Future funding of Euroregion offices

294

2004/C 078E/297

E-3530/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Health and safety for the elderly and disabled

295

2004/C 078E/298

E-3534/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Portuguese workers abroad

296

2004/C 078E/299

E-3535/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Humana Milchunion — infant health

297

2004/C 078E/300

E-3545/03 by Alexander de Roo, Karl-Heinz Florenz and Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Transposition of the directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in France

298

2004/C 078E/301

E-3556/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Projects co-funded by the ERDF in Lobios in Ourense, Spain

299

2004/C 078E/302

E-3588/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Mozambique — elections

300

2004/C 078E/303

P-3595/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Disability

301

2004/C 078E/304

E-3610/03 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Circumvention of sugar import tariffs

302

2004/C 078E/305

P-3618/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Building cooperatives in Greece

303

2004/C 078E/306

E-3637/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Working environment for employees handling preservatives

304

2004/C 078E/307

E-3639/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Pollution in Wipp and Eisack valleys (Austria and Italy)

305

2004/C 078E/308

E-3642/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Eurobarometer poll

306

2004/C 078E/309

E-3658/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Ban Bullying Day — future action

307

2004/C 078E/310

E-3659/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Free movement of goods and services

308

2004/C 078E/311

E-3662/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Botswanan beef, wildlife and sustainable development

309

2004/C 078E/312

E-3664/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Women's reproductive health

310

2004/C 078E/313

P-3666/03 by Mario Mantovani to the CommissionSubject: Health services and free movement of patients

311

2004/C 078E/314

P-3693/03 by Armin Laschet to the CommissionSubject: Unpublished study on anti-Semitism drawn up by the EUMC

313

2004/C 078E/315

P-3696/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Balanced participation of women and men in the decision-making process

314

2004/C 078E/316

P-3761/03 by Astrid Thors to the CommissionSubject: Obligation to destroy horses where nandrolon has been used

315

2004/C 078E/317

E-3764/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Spanish Hydrological Plan: cost of water transferred, and the recovery of funding

316

2004/C 078E/318

E-3765/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Carrara municipality

317

2004/C 078E/319

E-3766/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Florence municipality

317

2004/C 078E/320

E-3767/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Livorno municipality

318

2004/C 078E/321

E-3768/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Macerata municipality

318

2004/C 078E/322

E-3769/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Massa municipality

318

2004/C 078E/323

E-3770/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Perugia municipality

319

2004/C 078E/324

E-3771/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Pistoia municipality

319

2004/C 078E/325

E-3772/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Prato municipality

319

2004/C 078E/326

E-3773/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Siena municipality

320

2004/C 078E/327

E-3774/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Terni municipality

320

2004/C 078E/328

E-3775/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Ancona municipality

320

2004/C 078E/329

E-3793/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the city of Pisa under the Leonardo programme

321

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3765/03, E-3766/03, E-3767/03, E-3768/03, E-3769/03, E-3770/03, E-3771/03, E-3772/03, E-3773/03, E-3774/03, E-3775/03 and E-3793/03

321

2004/C 078E/330

E-3794/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Fisheries certification

321

2004/C 078E/331

E-3798/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Ancona

322

2004/C 078E/332

E-3799/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Pisa

322

2004/C 078E/333

E-3800/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Pistoia

322

2004/C 078E/334

E-3801/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Prato

323

2004/C 078E/335

E-3802/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Siena

323

2004/C 078E/336

E-3803/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Terni

323

2004/C 078E/337

E-3804/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Perugia

323

2004/C 078E/338

E-3805/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Carrara

324

2004/C 078E/339

E-3806/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Florence

324

2004/C 078E/340

E-3807/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Livorno

324

2004/C 078E/341

E-3808/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Macerata

324

2004/C 078E/342

E-3809/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Massa

325

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3798/03, E-3799/03, E-3800/03, E-3801/03, E-3802/03, E-3803/03, E-3804/03, E-3805/03, E-3806/03, E-3807/03, E-3808/03 and E-3809/03

325

2004/C 078E/343

P-3810/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: EU rules on discarding healthy fish

325

2004/C 078E/344

P-3835/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Directive 89/48/EEC

327

2004/C 078E/345

E-3838/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Stray animals in Greece

328

2004/C 078E/346

E-3867/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Timeshare and holiday club study

328

2004/C 078E/347

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

330

2004/C 078E/348

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

331

2004/C 078E/349

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

331

2004/C 078E/350

P-3890/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Recognition in Greece of diplomas of Community universities

332

2004/C 078E/351

P-3892/03 by Nicole Thomas-Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Opinion of AFSSA

333

2004/C 078E/352

E-3901/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: President Prodi's involvement in Italian politics

334

2004/C 078E/353

P-3911/03 by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against minors with regard to access to sporting federations in Spain

335

2004/C 078E/354

P-3925/03 by Raina Echerer to the CommissionSubject: Cat and dog furs — internal market

336

2004/C 078E/355

P-4008/03 by Fernando Fernández Martín to the CommissionSubject: Powerline Communications Systems

337

2004/C 078E/356

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

338

WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 2)

2004/C 078E/357

E-1653/01 by Professor Sir Neil MacCormick to the CommissionSubject: Restitution of property in the applicant countries

340

2004/C 078E/358

P-1721/01 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Net budget transfers

340

2004/C 078E/359

E-1746/01 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Completion of construction of hospitals at Katerini, Pyrgos and Corfu

341

2004/C 078E/360

E-1897/01 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: The legal basis for the Commission's proposals on the setting-up and funding of pan-European political parties

342

2004/C 078E/361

P-2120/01 by Hans Modrow to the CommissionSubject: Extradition of Milosevic to the Hague tribunal

343

2004/C 078E/362

E-3711/01 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: New trade agreement with the USA

343

2004/C 078E/363

E-0684/02 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Moldova — the poorest country in Europe — and the striking difference in its treatment by the EU in comparison with the Baltic States

344

2004/C 078E/364

E-0685/02 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Adverse impact on the EU Member States of constant discrimination against Moldova and its exceptional status

345

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0684/02 and E-0685/02

345

2004/C 078E/365

E-3467/02 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Effective treatment of tuberculosis — progress

346

2004/C 078E/366

E-3561/02 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Bush meat

348

2004/C 078E/367

E-3630/02 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Limit to the number of cigarettes one may take out of Spain

350

2004/C 078E/368

E-3647/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: UPDF prisoners in Uganda

350

2004/C 078E/369

P-3769/02 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: GATS

351

2004/C 078E/370

E-3863/02 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: North Korean refugees

352

2004/C 078E/371

E-3882/02 by Helle Thorning-Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Mexico's free-trade agreement and violation of human rights

353

2004/C 078E/372

E-3900/02 by Lennart Sacrédeus to the CommissionSubject: Treatment and life situation of girls and women in Afghanistan

354

2004/C 078E/373

P-0327/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Regulation (EC) No 2560/2001 on crossborder payments in euro

354

2004/C 078E/374

E-0426/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Violation of human rights in Chechnya

355

2004/C 078E/375

E-0521/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Women's rights in Pakistan

356

2004/C 078E/376

E-0586/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Reduction of VAT on CDs

358

2004/C 078E/377

E-0819/03 by Ole Krarup to the CommissionSubject: GM crops and liability

358

2004/C 078E/378

E-0906/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba; Cotonou Agreement; Human rights

359

2004/C 078E/379

E-1141/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Infrastructural damage caused by landslides in Greece

360

2004/C 078E/380

E-1143/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Accessibility of digital services for the visually impaired

361

2004/C 078E/381

E-1230/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Enhanced legal cooperation

362

2004/C 078E/382

E-1232/03 by Nicholas Clegg to the CommissionSubject: Member States' policies on airport expansion

363

2004/C 078E/383

E-1272/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination in the treatment of citizens of EU Member States by the Turkish government

363

2004/C 078E/384

E-1278/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Uniates in Romania

364

2004/C 078E/385

E-1322/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Zimbabwe: land, violence and nepotism

365

2004/C 078E/386

E-1364/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Exploitation of Community citizens by the Vatican City State

367

2004/C 078E/387

E-1416/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Bank sentenced to pay compensation to clients for having provided information to the tax authorities of their Member State

367

2004/C 078E/388

E-1418/03 by Maria Carrilho to the CommissionSubject: Revision of the Europe-Asia strategic framework

368

2004/C 078E/389

E-1451/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Cooperation with the Slovak Institute of Metrology

369

2004/C 078E/390

E-1517/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Economic Partnership Agreements

370

2004/C 078E/391

E-1526/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Failure to remove blue and brown asbestos from contaminated flats, workshops and other buildings in EU accession State Hungary

371

2004/C 078E/392

E-1540/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Trade in equipment which could be used for torture or capital punishment

372

2004/C 078E/393

E-1541/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Outlawing the production of equipment for capital punishment and torture

373

2004/C 078E/394

E-1542/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Control of trade in products that may be used to inflict torture

373

2004/C 078E/395

E-1543/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Production of equipment and products for capital punishment or torture

373

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1540/03, E-1541/03, E-1542/03 and E-1543/03

373

2004/C 078E/396

P-1594/03 by Emilio Menéndez del Valle to the CommissionSubject: EC-Israel trade agreement

374

2004/C 078E/397

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

375

2004/C 078E/398

P-1632/03 by Renato Brunetta to the CommissionSubject: Sale of the ‘Vittoriosa Gaming’ company by the ‘Casinò Municipale di Venezia’

375

2004/C 078E/399

E-1636/03 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Sixth VAT Directive

376

2004/C 078E/400

E-1647/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Way in which EU funds for integrating Roma in Bulgaria and improving their living conditions are used and managed

378

2004/C 078E/401

P-1653/03 by Joost Lagendijk to the CommissionSubject: European Civil Peace Corps — current developments — mainstreaming of conflict prevention in external EU policies

379

2004/C 078E/402

P-1661/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Trial of Leyla Zana

380

2004/C 078E/403

E-1668/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Human rights abuses in the Western Sahara

381

2004/C 078E/404

E-1669/03 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Baku-Ceyhun oil pipeline

382

2004/C 078E/405

E-1689/03 by Anders Wijkman to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat

383

2004/C 078E/406

E-1739/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: European Union unit to work for the release of kidnapped European tourists

384

2004/C 078E/407

E-1763/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Legislation in the EU, the Member States and the applicant countries concerning horse-keeping

385

2004/C 078E/408

E-1777/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Veria Justice and Home Affairs Council

386

2004/C 078E/409

E-1827/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Reduced VAT on the rent or purchase of video cassettes and DVDs

386

2004/C 078E/410

E-1832/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Substandard workmanship in Greece

387

2004/C 078E/411

E-1838/03 by Roger Helmer, Charles Tannock, Sir Robert Atkins, Giles Chichester, Hartmut Nassauer and Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Free Trade Agreement between Singapore and the EU

388

2004/C 078E/412

P-1839/03 by Ilka Schröder to the CommissionSubject: EU relations with Syria and association agreement

389

2004/C 078E/413

E-1854/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Landslides in Greece and infrastructural damage

390

2004/C 078E/414

E-1869/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Pension losses

391

2004/C 078E/415

E-1873/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Listing requirements

392

2004/C 078E/416

E-1882/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Trade impact of euro

393

2004/C 078E/417

P-1979/03 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Synthetic progestins in contraceptive pills and Hormone Replacement Therapy

394

2004/C 078E/418

E-2121/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the CommissionSubject: Developing infrastructure and promoting employment in Madagascar

395

2004/C 078E/419

E-2123/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the CommissionSubject: Promotion of renewable energy sources and waste processing in Mauritius

396

2004/C 078E/420

E-2143/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Commission contracts with the Planistat Group

397

2004/C 078E/421

E-2173/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Compliance with EU legislation on asbestos (Supplementary Answer)

399

2004/C 078E/422

E-2211/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Progress on asylum at Thessaloniki

400

2004/C 078E/423

E-2212/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi to the CommissionSubject: Increasing EU citizens' opportunities for influence and participation through interactive information technology

401

2004/C 078E/424

E-2293/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Discontinuation of cross-border night-trains within the EU, in response to free market pressures, leading to high ticket prices for journeys using the rail networks of other Member States

402

2004/C 078E/425

E-2405/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Motor-vehicle insurance

403

2004/C 078E/426

E-2406/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Motor-vehicle insurance

404

2004/C 078E/427

E-2407/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Motor-vehicle insurance

405

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2405/03, E-2406/03 and E-2407/03

405

2004/C 078E/428

P-2460/03 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Anti-competitive actions of the Irish State in the electricity market

407

2004/C 078E/429

E-2537/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Net contribution to the common agricultural policy (Supplementary Answer)

407

2004/C 078E/430

E-2580/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Expectations of an increase in the production of counterfeit euro bank notes in thinly-populated countries where the euro is important as a parallel currency (Supplementary Answer)

408

2004/C 078E/431

E-2601/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Refurbishment of the historic town centre of Rieti

410

2004/C 078E/432

E-2649/03 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Comparison of electricity network tariffs in the Commission's second benchmarking report

411

2004/C 078E/433

E-2650/03 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Working Time Directive

412

2004/C 078E/434

E-2662/03 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Ozone-depleting substances

413

2004/C 078E/435

E-2666/03 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Recycling print catridges

413

2004/C 078E/436

E-2670/03 by Giovanni Pittella to the CommissionSubject: Ban on simultaneous enrolment at several institutes of higher education

415

2004/C 078E/437

P-2672/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Allocation of slots at airports

416

2004/C 078E/438

E-2689/03 by Toine Manders to the CommissionSubject: GSM roaming tariffs

416

2004/C 078E/439

E-2711/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Free-base nicotine

418

2004/C 078E/440

E-2716/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Radar detectors (Supplementary Answer)

419

2004/C 078E/441

P-2722/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2158 on protection of the Community's forests against fire

420

2004/C 078E/442

P-2746/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Infringements of European legislation on special conservation areas and sites of Community importance and the use of European funding for the reforestation of the Alta Murgia (Bari)

421

2004/C 078E/443

E-2771/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: European Project Funding for Enable project

423

2004/C 078E/444

E-2772/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Levels of professional indemnity cover for small insurance firms

424

2004/C 078E/445

E-2779/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Increase in the volume of mail and freight transported by rail in Germany and measures to promote a similar increase in other Member States

425

2004/C 078E/446

P-2780/03 by António Campos to the CommissionSubject: Forest fires in the Union

426

2004/C 078E/447

E-2789/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Banking rules in EU emissions trading: Member States' right to bank emission allowances

428

2004/C 078E/448

E-2790/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Banking rules in EU emissions trading: invariability of AAU (BSA) amounts

429

2004/C 078E/449

E-2791/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Problem of double accounting in emissions trading

429

2004/C 078E/450

E-2792/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Opportunities for aggressive speculation in emissions trading

430

2004/C 078E/451

E-2793/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Definition of hot air and ban under the Kyoto Protocol

430

2004/C 078E/452

E-2794/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Publication of the EU's Kyoto target as a five-year moving average

431

2004/C 078E/453

E-2795/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Emissions trading: problem of period-based allocation

431

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2789/03, E-2790/03, E-2791/03, E-2792/03, E-2793/03, E-2794/03 and E-2795/03

431

2004/C 078E/454

P-2799/03 by Domenico Mennitti to the CommissionSubject: Development of Pan-European corridors

433

2004/C 078E/455

E-2819/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Environmental impact assessments in Ireland

434

2004/C 078E/456

E-2826/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Eco-driving

434

2004/C 078E/457

E-2827/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Isolation units in hospitals

435

2004/C 078E/458

E-2832/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Compliance with of the Stability and Growth Pact

436

2004/C 078E/459

E-2851/03 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Building of a road without an environmental impact assessment in the proposed site of Community interest — the Triassic chalk outcrops in the Tuscan and Emilian Apennines (Villa Minozzo, RE, Italy)

438

2004/C 078E/460

E-2853/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Port Services Directive: attacks on Parliament by Commission official

439

2004/C 078E/461

E-2877/03 by Jan Dhaene to the CommissionSubject: The ‘Sentiers de l'Europe’ international architecture competition and Place Jean Rey

440

2004/C 078E/462

E-2895/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Irish sheep farmers

440

2004/C 078E/463

E-2903/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Suspension of cooperation agreements and postponement of their signature

441

2004/C 078E/464

P-2916/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Community financial assistance for transnational producer organisations

442

2004/C 078E/465

E-2959/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: Risks of electricity blackouts

443

2004/C 078E/466

E-2966/03 by Brian Simpson to the CommissionSubject: Spanish National Hydrological Plan: the impact of the La Brena dam project on the Iberian lynx and protected raptors

444

2004/C 078E/467

P-2975/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Contracts with CESD

445

2004/C 078E/468

E-2994/03 by Bernhard Rapkay to the CommissionSubject: EU funding for Nordrhein-Westfalen for the years 2001 and 2002 (Supplementary Answer)

447

2004/C 078E/469

E-2996/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Standardisation of computer dates

447

2004/C 078E/470

E-3007/03 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Role of the European Rural Carrefours in CAP information campaigns

448

2004/C 078E/471

P-3068/03 by Hugues Martin to the CommissionSubject: Funding of bodies which play host to an Info-Point Europe

448

2004/C 078E/472

E-3112/03 by Giacomo Santini, Elena Paciotti, Luciana Sbarbati, Giovanni Pittella, Generoso Andria, Enrico Ferri, Carlo Fatuzzo, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Roberta Angelilli, Stefano Zappalà, Paolo Pastorelli, Antonio Di Pietro, Mauro Nobilia, Sebastiano Musumeci, Michl Ebner, Roberto Bigliardo, Catherine Guy-Quint, Adriana Poli Bortone, Fiorella Ghilardotti, Monica Frassoni, Franz Turchi, Massimo Carraro, Guido Bodrato, Francesco Musotto, Vincenzo Lavarra, Vitaliano Gemelli and Giovanni Fava to the CommissionSubject: EU information policy — legal basis for the European ‘Carrefours ruraux’ and ‘Info-Points Europe’ — urgent need for operational subsidy for 2004

449

2004/C 078E/473

P-3153/03 by Evelyne Gebhardt to the CommissionSubject: EU Info-Points

450

2004/C 078E/474

E-3240/03 by Thierry Cornillet to the CommissionSubject: Abolition of operating grants for Europe Info-Points

450

2004/C 078E/475

P-3265/03 by Maria Sanders-ten Holte to the CommissionSubject: Info-Points and Carrefours

451

2004/C 078E/476

E-3287/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Europe Houses

451

2004/C 078E/477

E-3301/03 by Nicole Thomas-Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Info-points Europe

452

2004/C 078E/478

Ρ-3389/03 by John Hume to the CommissionSubject: European Carrefours

452

2004/C 078E/479

P-3403/03 by John Cushnahan to the CommissionSubject: Funding for European Carrefour

452

Supplementary joint answer to Written Questions E-3007/03, P-3068/03, E-3112/03, P-3153/03, E-3240/03, P-3265/03, E-3287/03, E-3301/03, P-3389/03 and P-3403/03

453

2004/C 078E/480

E-3012/03 by Jaime Valdivielso de Cué to the CommissionSubject: Wine

454

2004/C 078E/481

E-3030/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Use of hydraulic dredges in the EU

454

2004/C 078E/482

P-3037/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Breach of EU environmental legislation in the expansion of Frankfurt airport

455

2004/C 078E/483

E-3059/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: EU funding for marine conservation

456

2004/C 078E/484

E-3062/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Improving water networks

457

2004/C 078E/485

P-3069/03 by Luciana Sbarbati to the CommissionSubject: Adriatic Corridor

459

2004/C 078E/486

P-3077/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Failure to implement Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles

460

2004/C 078E/487

E-3086/03 by Bruno Gollnisch to the CommissionSubject: Tobacco trade/France

461

2004/C 078E/488

E-3087/03 by Bruno Gollnisch to the CommissionSubject: Commission criteria on concentrations

462

2004/C 078E/489

E-3099/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Aid for the farming of mussels

464

2004/C 078E/490

E-3106/03 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: The Júcar-Vinalopó water diversion project

465

2004/C 078E/491

E-3128/03 by Jaime Valdivielso de Cué to the CommissionSubject: Trade

467

2004/C 078E/492

E-3131/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: ‘Sorraia’ horses

467

2004/C 078E/493

P-3135/03 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Disposal of toxic ships

469

2004/C 078E/494

E-3138/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Atmospheric pollution in Thessaloniki

470

2004/C 078E/495

E-3140/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Death-penalty-related projects

471

2004/C 078E/496

E-3141/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: European week against cancer — scientific research

472

2004/C 078E/497

E-3144/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: EU funding for the Spanish National Hydrological Plan

473

2004/C 078E/498

P-3145/03 by W.G. van Velzen to the CommissionSubject: Batteries in exploding mobile phones

474

2004/C 078E/499

P-3152/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Exploding Nokia telephones

476

2004/C 078E/500

E-3156/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Residential building in the Serra de la Renegà and the Oropesa-Benicàssim SCI (Castellón, Spain)

477

2004/C 078E/501

E-3157/03 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement of a military base in the Natura 2000 site of La Maddalena, Sardinia

478

2004/C 078E/502

E-3173/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Voting rights for immigrants

480

2004/C 078E/503

E-3182/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: The air transport company SATA's failure to comply with Community legislation

481

2004/C 078E/504

E-3183/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Calculating the additional levy in the Azores Autonomous Region

482

2004/C 078E/505

E-3186/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Cross-border consumer goods transactions

483

2004/C 078E/506

E-3189/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Explosion of Nokia mobile phone batteries

484

2004/C 078E/507

E-3193/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Information on the former Director-General of Eurostat

485

2004/C 078E/508

E-3200/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Racial appearance as a criterion for police or customs checks on individuals crossing an internal EU border

487

2004/C 078E/509

E-3204/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Commercial exploitation of protected wildlife species in Greece

487

2004/C 078E/510

E-3207/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Peroxide in toothpaste

488

2004/C 078E/511

E-3212/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: British newspaper allegations regarding irregularities in connection with Commission funding

489

2004/C 078E/512

E-3216/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Disposal of hazardous waste in Greece and infringement of environmental legislation

490

2004/C 078E/513

E-3218/03 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Rare diseases: Evans syndrome

492

2004/C 078E/514

E-3222/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Missing persons

493

2004/C 078E/515

E-3226/03 by Felipe Camisón Asensio to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the tobacco sector

494

2004/C 078E/516

E-3227/03 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Indonesia

495

2004/C 078E/517

E-3230/03 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Allocation of subsidies under the Interreg and Urban programmes

496

2004/C 078E/518

P-3232/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Updated budget figures (Supplementary Answer)

498

2004/C 078E/519

E-3236/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Training for public servants in new technologies

498

2004/C 078E/520

E-3237/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Access to Internet for Greek households

499

2004/C 078E/521

E-3239/03 by Martin Callanan to the CommissionSubject: Bird killing in Malta

500

2004/C 078E/522

E-3243/03 by Jan Wiersma to the CommissionSubject: The ‘Buy American Act’ in the American defence budget

500

2004/C 078E/523

E-3250/03 by Ruth Hieronymi, Christa Prets, Karin Junker, Raina Echerer and Maria Sanders-ten Holte to the CommissionSubject: Assistance by the European Commission to Member States in encouraging the migration to an open interoperable standard in digital television

502

2004/C 078E/524

E-3259/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Unpleasant odours from waste disposal site in Ano Liosia

504

2004/C 078E/525

E-3274/03 by Inger Schörling to the CommissionSubject: Impact of the laying of artificial beaches in Caleta de la Guirra in the municipality of Antigua (Fuerteventura, Spain)

505

2004/C 078E/526

E-3275/03 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: Destruction of Russian forests

506

2004/C 078E/527

E-3276/03 by Brian Simpson to the CommissionSubject: Restrictions imposed on flights into Zurich airport

507

2004/C 078E/528

E-3284/03 by Lord Inglewood to the CommissionSubject: Overbooking on Air France's flights

507

2004/C 078E/529

E-3285/03 by Pierre Jonckheer to the CommissionSubject: Feixolín open-cast coal mine (Valle de Laciana district, Spain)

508

2004/C 078E/530

E-3286/03 by Anne André-Léonard to the CommissionSubject: Harmonisation of European legislation in respect of boatmasters' certificates for recreational craft

510

2004/C 078E/531

E-3288/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Establishment of businesses in the municipality of Losser

510

2004/C 078E/532

E-3289/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Portuguese workers without rights in the North Sea

511

2004/C 078E/533

P-3291/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: Enforcement of Community decisions in Portugal

512

2004/C 078E/534

E-3294/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: The European Commission's 5th Framework Project

513

2004/C 078E/535

E-3296/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Fees for residence permits

514

2004/C 078E/536

E-3300/03 by Robert Sturdy to the CommissionSubject: ‘Scam’ e-mails requesting bank details from Africa, etc

515

2004/C 078E/537

E-3302/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Noise abatement plans (Directive 2002/49/EC)

517

2004/C 078E/538

E-3306/03 by Gary Titley to the CommissionSubject: Fluoride in drinking water

518

2004/C 078E/539

E-3309/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: ‘Responsible shopping week’ in the Commission's buildings

518

2004/C 078E/540

E-3321/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Malta's temporary landfills

519

2004/C 078E/541

P-3322/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Vice-President Kinnock and indications of irregularities at Eurostat

520

2004/C 078E/542

E-3326/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Emoluments of Commissioners

521

2004/C 078E/543

E-3328/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Wilful neglect, to the point of destruction, of the former prison camp ‘Stammlager Χ Β Sandbostel’, an important memorial to the shared history of Europe

522

2004/C 078E/544

E-3329/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Eurobarometer poll according to which Israel is the greatest threat to world peace

523

2004/C 078E/545

E-3340/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Request for verification of information concerning President Prodi

524

2004/C 078E/546

E-3341/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Albania

525

2004/C 078E/547

E-3343/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: European Convention on Human Rights in relation to third countries

526

2004/C 078E/548

E-3345/03 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Villas of Palladio

527

2004/C 078E/549

P-3350/03 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Derrybrien wind-farm bog-slide

528

2004/C 078E/550

E-3361/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Ijzeren Rijn railway line

529

2004/C 078E/551

E-3367/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Laser technology and radiation emissions

530

2004/C 078E/552

E-3368/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Eurobarometer opinion poll on ‘Iraq and world peace’

530

2004/C 078E/553

E-3370/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Mr Prodi's comments on the outcome of the Swedish referendum on EMU

531

2004/C 078E/554

E-3371/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Legal implications of ratification of EU draft Constitution

532

2004/C 078E/555

P-3376/03 by Christine De Veyrac to the CommissionSubject: Reduced rates of VAT — hairdressing

533

2004/C 078E/556

E-3379/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Expansion of petroleum installations in the Ambracian Gulf

534

2004/C 078E/557

E-3384/03 by Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Olivier Dupuis, Marco Pannella and Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Corridor 5

535

2004/C 078E/558

P-3390/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: VAT on tailoring

536

2004/C 078E/559

E-3393/03 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Moped type-approval

537

2004/C 078E/560

E-3404/03 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Ireland and infringement cases for bad application of EU environmental legislation

538

2004/C 078E/561

E-3405/03 by Concepció Ferrer to the CommissionSubject: Management of the Structural Funds (Supplementary Answer)

539

2004/C 078E/562

E-3407/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cabinda — report on human rights

541

2004/C 078E/563

E-3413/03 by Olivier Duhamel to the CommissionSubject: Eurobarometer

542

2004/C 078E/564

E-3416/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

543

2004/C 078E/565

E-3417/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

543

2004/C 078E/566

E-3418/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

543

2004/C 078E/567

E-3419/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

543

2004/C 078E/568

E-3420/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

544

2004/C 078E/569

E-3421/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

544

2004/C 078E/570

E-3422/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

544

2004/C 078E/571

E-3423/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

544

2004/C 078E/572

E-3424/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

544

2004/C 078E/573

E-3425/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

545

2004/C 078E/574

E-3426/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

545

2004/C 078E/575

E-3427/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

545

2004/C 078E/576

E-3428/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

545

2004/C 078E/577

E-3429/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

546

2004/C 078E/578

E-3430/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

546

2004/C 078E/579

E-3431/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

546

2004/C 078E/580

E-3432/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

546

2004/C 078E/581

E-3433/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

547

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3416/03, E-3417/03, E-3418/03, E-3419/03, E-3420/03, E-3421/03, E-3422/03, E-3423/03, E-3424/03, E-3425/03, E-3426/03, E-3427/03, E-3428/03, E-3429/03, E-3430/03, E-3431/03, E-3432/03 and E-3433/03

547

2004/C 078E/582

E-3437/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Anti-Semitism among North African and other Islamic immigrants in Europe

547

2004/C 078E/583

E-3442/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination amongst athletes

548

2004/C 078E/584

P-3446/03 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Authorisation for aid in connection with a biological rest period in Sicily in 2002

549

2004/C 078E/585

E-3447/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Marketing problems and imports in the wine sector

550

2004/C 078E/586

E-3453/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Political position adopted by EU officials' trade union TAO-AFI on night flights over outlying districts of Brussels

551

2004/C 078E/587

E-3455/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Community Action Plan to protect seabirds from longline fishing

552

2004/C 078E/588

E-3456/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Cofinancing of NGOs

553

2004/C 078E/589

E-3457/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the olive oil sector

554

2004/C 078E/590

E-3459/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Measures to prevent the breaking-up in Europe of old US warships contaminated with chemicals, asbestos and diesel

554

2004/C 078E/591

E-3460/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Foot-dragging by the future Member State Czech Republic in connection with efforts to stamp out child prostitution in areas close to its border with Germany

556

2004/C 078E/592

E-3466/03 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Animal welfare at abattoirs in Greece

557

2004/C 078E/593

E-3472/03 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: Conversion of the Landesbank Nordrhein-Westfalen into an investment bank

558

2004/C 078E/594

E-3474/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Contracts with management consultants in Commission offices

559

2004/C 078E/595

E-3477/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Women in prison

560

2004/C 078E/596

E-3479/03 by Christine De Veyrac to the CommissionSubject: Transposition of Directive 2002/46/EC seeking to harmonise Member State legislation on food supplements

561

2004/C 078E/597

E-3482/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Legal privilege of documents between companies and their law firms

562

2004/C 078E/598

E-3486/03 by Karl von Wogau to the CommissionSubject: Charges for bank transfers within the eurozone

563

2004/C 078E/599

E-3490/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Regulating the market and olive growers' incomes under the reform of the COM in olive oil

564

2004/C 078E/600

E-3494/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba — political prisoners

565

2004/C 078E/601

E-3502/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Air quality standards in areas of heavy traffic

566

2004/C 078E/602

E-3506/03 by Jorge Hernández Mollar to the CommissionSubject: Community legislation on DNA

567

2004/C 078E/603

P-3510/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Driving licences in the European Union

568

2004/C 078E/604

E-3516/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Commission staffing

569

2004/C 078E/605

P-3519/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Sudden unilateral decision by the Italian Council of Ministers to locate a national radioactive waste storage facility in the municipality of Scanzano Jonico

570

2004/C 078E/606

E-3520/03 by Rijk van Dam to the CommissionSubject: Court of Auditors Special Report No 4/2003 concerning rural development: support for less-favoured areas

572

2004/C 078E/607

P-3522/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Specific import tariffs on photographic products for the People's Republic of China

573

2004/C 078E/608

E-3523/03 by Struan Stevenson to the CommissionSubject: Proposed new livestock transport regulations

574

2004/C 078E/609

P-3527/03 by Rijk van Dam to the CommissionSubject: Court of Auditors Special Report No 4/2003 on rural development: support for less-favoured areas

576

2004/C 078E/610

E-3529/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Amnesty International and Oxfam report on arms control

578

2004/C 078E/611

E-3536/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Problems with the recognition of educational and professional qualifications in France

578

2004/C 078E/612

E-3542/03 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: GMOs

579

2004/C 078E/613

E-3543/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Free movement of Bulgarians

580

2004/C 078E/614

E-3544/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Eurobarometer survey on threats to peace

580

2004/C 078E/615

E-3546/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Using intelligent speed adaptation in road vehicles

581

2004/C 078E/616

P-3547/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Scot-free permanent oil slick along the Portuguese coast

582

2004/C 078E/617

E-3549/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cohesion Fund — Portugal

583

2004/C 078E/618

E-3552/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: EU funding for research programmes in Ukraine

584

2004/C 078E/619

E-3553/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Missing Cypriots

585

2004/C 078E/620

E-3554/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Development of artificial viruses and bacteria in America and possible resultant neglect of environmental protection in Europe

586

2004/C 078E/621

E-3555/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Development of artificial viruses and bacteria in America and its impact on biodiversity and biological warfare in Europe

587

2004/C 078E/622

E-3559/03 by Margrietus van den Berg and Jan Wiersma to the CommissionSubject: Groningen Rail Service Centre and non-use of cross-border railway line near Nieuweschans to Northern Germany

589

2004/C 078E/623

E-3561/03 by Jan Andersson to the CommissionSubject: ‘Parasubordinated’ workers and social dumping

590

2004/C 078E/624

E-3562/03 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Automatic renewal of concession for the Brenner motorway

591

2004/C 078E/625

E-3564/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: International telecommunication services and competition

591

2004/C 078E/626

E-3566/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Refund of budgetary resources

593

2004/C 078E/627

P-3568/03 by Herman Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Draft Constitution no solution to the EU's lack of democratic legitimacy

593

2004/C 078E/628

E-3571/03 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Threat to a water protection zone in one member State by a project in another

594

2004/C 078E/629

E-3576/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: EU Identity document for the disabled

595

2004/C 078E/630

E-3580/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: EU working time legislation

596

2004/C 078E/631

E-3582/03 by Yasmine Boudjenah to the CommissionSubject: Role of multinational corporations in conflict regions in Africa

597

2004/C 078E/632

E-3584/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Receipt of supplementary reply

599

2004/C 078E/633

E-3585/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: The EUMC's shelved report on Muslim anti-Semitism

599

2004/C 078E/634

E-3587/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Report on anti-Semitism by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia

600

2004/C 078E/635

E-3607/03 by Olivier Duhamel to the CommissionSubject: Vienna Observatory

600

2004/C 078E/636

E-3700/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Withholding of a study on anti-Semitism in Europe by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)

601

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3585/03, E-3587/03, E-3607/03 and E-3700/03

602

2004/C 078E/637

E-3590/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Ibero-American Summit — conclusions and prospects

602

2004/C 078E/638

E-3596/03 by Brigitte Langenhagen to the CommissionSubject: EU border controls

603

2004/C 078E/639

E-3601/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Buy American Act

605

2004/C 078E/640

E-3602/03 by Anne Van Lancker to the CommissionSubject: Article 51 of the European Constitution

606

2004/C 078E/641

E-3665/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Non-confessional organisations

606

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3602/03 and E-3665/03

607

2004/C 078E/642

E-3603/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Portuguese Overseas War veterans — disabilities

607

2004/C 078E/643

E-3604/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: East Timor — Emergency aid

608

2004/C 078E/644

E-3608/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Violation of the rights of the Çam minority

610

2004/C 078E/645

E-3611/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Legalising immigration

611

2004/C 078E/646

E-3620/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Use of a mathematical formula in awarding public contracts

612

2004/C 078E/647

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

613

2004/C 078E/648

E-3622/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Cost of ‘free’ education in Greece

614

2004/C 078E/649

E-3626/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Opening up the labour markets in the Member States

615

2004/C 078E/650

E-3627/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Access to the labour market for new EU citizens and non-EU citizens

616

2004/C 078E/651

E-3631/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Consultation with charities with regard to the proposal relating to the imposition of VAT on postal services

617

2004/C 078E/652

E-3632/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Statements by André Sapir (adviser to the Commission President, Romano Prodi) concerning EU cohesion policy

617

2004/C 078E/653

E-3645/03 by Salvador Jové Peres and Pedro Marset Campos to the CommissionSubject: European Union/Morocco agreement

618

2004/C 078E/654

E-3646/03 by Salvador Jové Peres and Pedro Marset Campos to the CommissionSubject: European Union/Morocco agreement

618

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3645/03 and E-3646/03

619

2004/C 078E/655

E-3647/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Delay in deepening and widening the River Maas north of Maastricht due to objections to gravel quarrying under negotiated contracts

619

2004/C 078E/656

E-3648/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Desire of international rail freight operators to replace national rail safety systems with the European standard ECTS

620

2004/C 078E/657

E-3650/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Extinction of the Iberian lynx in the Sierra Morena nature reserve in Andalusia due to the construction of a large reservoir and lack of compensatory habitat

622

2004/C 078E/658

E-3651/03 by Cees Bremmer and Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Poor working conditions for au pairs in the Netherlands

623

2004/C 078E/659

P-3660/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Tragic state of health of children in Chechnya

624

2004/C 078E/660

E-3671/03 by Joost Lagendijk and Arie Oostlander to the CommissionSubject: Further cooperation in the fight against terrorism

625

2004/C 078E/661

E-3672/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Situation at the Sorefame company

626

2004/C 078E/662

E-3675/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Situation of micro-enterprises and SMEs in Portugal

627

2004/C 078E/663

E-3690/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Daphne programme by the municipality of Florence

629

2004/C 078E/664

E-3691/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Daphne programme by the municipality of Pesaro-Urbino

629

2004/C 078E/665

E-3692/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the Daphne programme by the municipality of Siena

629

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3690/03, E-3691/03 and E-3692/03

630

2004/C 078E/666

P-3697/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Return to Turkey of refugees of Turkish origin

630

2004/C 078E/667

E-3699/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Objective 1 areas in Connacht/Ulster (Ireland)

631

2004/C 078E/668

E-3702/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EC-Macau Joint Committee — tenth meeting

631

2004/C 078E/669

P-3703/03 by Ulla Sandbæk to the CommissionSubject: HIV and Commission support for development of affordable microbicide

632

2004/C 078E/670

E-3718/03 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Eco-design requirements for energy-using products

633

2004/C 078E/671

E-3720/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Adapting Directive 97/24/EC to technical progress

635

2004/C 078E/672

P-3732/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Vietnam

637

2004/C 078E/673

E-3733/03 by Constanze Krehl to the CommissionSubject: Social partnerships for regional structural development in Saxony

638

2004/C 078E/674

E-3751/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Terni

639

2004/C 078E/675

E-3752/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Ancona

640

2004/C 078E/676

E-3753/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Florence

640

2004/C 078E/677

E-3754/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Livorno

640

2004/C 078E/678

E-3755/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Macerata

641

2004/C 078E/679

E-3756/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Perugia

641

2004/C 078E/680

E-3757/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Pesaro

641

2004/C 078E/681

E-3758/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Pisa

642

2004/C 078E/682

E-3759/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Pistoia

642

2004/C 078E/683

E-3760/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Siena

642

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3751/03, E-3752/03, E-3753/03, E-3754/03, E-3755/03, E-3756/03, E-3757/03, E-3758/03, E-3759/03 and E-3760/03

643

2004/C 078E/684

E-3763/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Clinical trials

644

2004/C 078E/685

E-3792/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on funding for the municipality of Pesaro-Urbino under the Tempus III programme

645

2004/C 078E/686

E-3811/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: The spread of androgenetic alopecia

645

2004/C 078E/687

E-3813/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Judicial inquiry by the Venice Prosecutor's Office into use of Community funds for the agricultural sector

647

2004/C 078E/688

E-3814/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Judicial inquiry by the Palermo Prosecutor's Office into EUR 6,5 million fraud against the European Union

647

2004/C 078E/689

E-3815/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Judicial inquiry by the Salerno Prosecutor's Office into EUR 30 million fraud against the European Union

648

2004/C 078E/690

E-3816/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Judicial inquiry by the Lecce Prosecutor's Office into EUR 6 million fraud against the European Union

649

2004/C 078E/691

E-3818/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Conditions for awarding pensions in Greece

650

2004/C 078E/692

E-3820/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Connection to electricity and water supplies

651

2004/C 078E/693

E-3827/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Funding for the network of Carrefours and Info-Points

651

2004/C 078E/694

P-3830/03 by Juan Ferrández Lezaun to the CommissionSubject: Spanish NHP infrastructure tendering

652

2004/C 078E/695

E-3833/03 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Provincial authorities' involvement in the management of EU Structural Funds

653

2004/C 078E/696

E-3834/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against Portuguese workers abroad

654

2004/C 078E/697

P-3836/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: VAT for transport service providers

655

2004/C 078E/698

E-3839/03 by Monica Frassoni and Daniel Cohn-Bendit to the CommissionSubject: Marmara Earthquake Rehabilitation Programme (MERP): ‘An Integrated Intervention for the Rehabilitation of Düzce’ — Turkey

656

2004/C 078E/699

E-3843/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Censorship practised at the request of the Russian Consulate in Milan by the city authorities in connection with the Romano Cagnoni photography exhibition

657

2004/C 078E/700

E-3846/03 by Maj Theorin to the CommissionSubject: Women and conflict

658

2004/C 078E/701

E-3849/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Compilation of information on organ transplants in Europe

658

2004/C 078E/702

E-3850/03 by Jan Andersson to the CommissionSubject: Harmful isocyanates and the protection of workers

659

2004/C 078E/703

P-3853/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Funding for Spain's ‘National Water Plan’

660

2004/C 078E/704

P-3861/03 by Heide Rühle to the CommissionSubject: Export guarantee by the German Federal Government for Finnish nuclear reactor

661

2004/C 078E/705

P-3862/03 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the CommissionSubject: Community funding for the bridge over the Straits of Messina

661

2004/C 078E/706

E-3872/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Impact of EU investment in the Júcar-Vinalopó water transfer

662

2004/C 078E/707

E-3874/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Imports into the EU of uncertified active pharmaceutical ingredients

663

2004/C 078E/708

E-3877/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Breach of Community principles — Article 24 of Law 289/2002

664

2004/C 078E/709

E-3878/03 by Johannes Blokland to the CommissionSubject: Research into the effects of medicinal products on children

666

2004/C 078E/710

E-3882/03 by Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Bernd Lange, Karl-Heinz Florenz and Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Inspire initiative

667

2004/C 078E/711

P-3893/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Health warnings on cigarette packs

669

2004/C 078E/712

P-3894/03 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Objective One status — Highlands and Islands of Scotland

669

2004/C 078E/713

E-3899/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Meeting of EU-Lao PDR Joint Committee

670

2004/C 078E/714

E-3903/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Disparities in the treatment of debts by banks in connection with Democratici di Sinistra's unpaid debts

671

2004/C 078E/715

P-3910/03 by Amalia Sartori to the CommissionSubject: Domestic accidents and workplaces

671

2004/C 078E/716

E-3913/03 by Ole Krarup to the CommissionSubject: Oil extraction agreement: granting of authorisations

673

2004/C 078E/717

E-3915/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Forced repatriation to Vietnam of Montagnard refugees by the Cambodian government and the repeated violation of the UN Convention on Refugees

673

2004/C 078E/718

P-3918/03 by Georges Berthu to the CommissionSubject: Reduced rates of VAT

675

2004/C 078E/719

E-3922/03 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Projects co-funded by the Commission as part of the National Hydrological Plan

676

2004/C 078E/720

E-3943/03 by Daniel Cohn-Bendit to the CommissionSubject: Temporary Nationality and Entry into Israel law

676

2004/C 078E/721

E-3951/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Genetically modified GloFish

677

2004/C 078E/722

E-3953/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Wheelchair design specifications

678

2004/C 078E/723

E-3960/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Angola — reintegration of ex-combatants and disarmament of civilians

678

2004/C 078E/724

P-3998/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Use of CSF funds to finance an advertising campaign in Greece

680

2004/C 078E/725

E-4001/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Transfers of students

681

2004/C 078E/726

E-4031/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Language programme for minority languages

681

2004/C 078E/727

P-4059/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Large families

682

2004/C 078E/728

P-4072/03 by John Cushnahan to the CommissionSubject: Application of the EC-Israel Association Agreement

683

2004/C 078E/729

P-4074/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the CommissionSubject: Problems relating to the transposition into national law of Directive 2002/2/EC

684

2004/C 078E/730

P-0037/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Provisions made by acceeding 10 new EU member states following 1 May 2004 for freedom of movement and establishment of other EU member state nationals

685

2004/C 078E/731

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

686

2004/C 078E/732

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

686

2004/C 078E/733

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

687

WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 3)

2004/C 078E/734

E-1287/02 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: The planting of oilseed rape

688

2004/C 078E/735

E-2931/02 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Priority for EU funding for high-speed rail links in Spain that promote regional balance and economic and social cohesion

688

2004/C 078E/736

E-3340/02 by Astrid Thors to the CommissionSubject: Certification of organic cereals exported on the internal market

690

2004/C 078E/737

P-3636/02 by Niall Andrews to the CommissionSubject: Humanitarian aid and immigration controls

691

2004/C 078E/738

P-3857/02 by Mark Watts to the CommissionSubject: Slaughter of baby seal pups on the White Sea, Russia

691

2004/C 078E/739

E-3878/02 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Community-wide harmonisation of time limits for the writing-off of tax arrears

692

2004/C 078E/740

E-3908/02 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Malta

693

2004/C 078E/741

E-0064/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: European assistance for the raising of the Le Joola ferry which sank off the coast of Senegal

693

2004/C 078E/742

E-0075/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Regular rail transport in cities becoming unviable due to competition from minibuses offering expensive, unsafe and obscure services

694

2004/C 078E/743

E-0115/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Malta's accession to the EU: Wild Birds Directive (79/409/EEC)

695

2004/C 078E/744

E-0118/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Delineation of the European Union's final borders

696

2004/C 078E/745

E-0120/03 by Jorge Hernández Mollar to the CommissionSubject: Border fishing dispute at the mouth of the Guadiana

697

2004/C 078E/746

E-0192/03 by Lennart Sacrédeus to the CommissionSubject: Indian priest imprisoned without charge in Qatar

697

2004/C 078E/747

P-0281/03 by Ulpu Iivari to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the common fisheries policy and restoration of wild salmon stocks

698

2004/C 078E/748

E-0320/03 by Massimo Carraro and Vincenzo Lavarra to the CommissionSubject: Poultrymeat imports

700

2004/C 078E/749

E-0450/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Reception centres and ‘human traffickers’

701

2004/C 078E/750

P-0557/03 by Anne Van Lancker to the CommissionSubject: Regulations governing milk quotas in cross-border farms

703

2004/C 078E/751

E-0736/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Building of ‘controlled tips’

704

2004/C 078E/752

E-0751/03 by Mary Banotti to the CommissionSubject: National Irish Development Plan 2000-2006

704

2004/C 078E/753

E-0790/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Legislation on waste incineration

705

2004/C 078E/754

E-0816/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Independent study on the use of inter-specific wine varieties

706

2004/C 078E/755

E-0926/03 by Peter Skinner to the CommissionSubject: Relocation of workforce from Eastleigh, United Kingdom to Battipaglia, Southern Italy by Pirelli

707

2004/C 078E/756

P-1237/03 by Diana Wallis to the CommissionSubject: EEA Agreement on enlargement of the EU

707

2004/C 078E/757

P-1266/03 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: TRIPs, UPOV and Farmers' Rights

708

2004/C 078E/758

E-1280/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Incorrect transposition into national law of Directive 2002/49/EC

709

2004/C 078E/759

E-1285/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: European Union action to ensure civil and respectful treatment for prisoners of war in Iraq

710

2004/C 078E/760

E-1318/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Concern about maintaining non-commercial services outside Europe following the EU's requests in the WTO GATS 2 negotiations

711

2004/C 078E/761

E-1330/03 by Sérgio Marques to the CommissionSubject: ‘Prestige’: Community aid

713

2004/C 078E/762

E-1340/03 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Funding of research into prion diseases in the 6th Research Framework Programme

714

2004/C 078E/763

E-1441/03 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: Tyres: application of the Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC

715

2004/C 078E/764

P-1450/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Need for urgent intervention — plan to extend the port of Altea (Spain)

716

2004/C 078E/765

E-1504/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Measurability of GMO material in food products

717

2004/C 078E/766

P-1531/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Importation of canned tuna from Thailand and the Philippines

718

2004/C 078E/767

E-1586/03 by Nuala Ahern to the CommissionSubject: Radioactive contamination from Sellafield

719

2004/C 078E/768

E-1587/03 by Nuala Ahern to the CommissionSubject: Basic nuclear safety standards

719

2004/C 078E/769

E-1588/03 by Nuala Ahern to the CommissionSubject: Precautionary principle

720

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1586/03, E-1587/03 and E-1588/03

720

2004/C 078E/770

E-1650/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Detention of Oscar E. Biscet in Cuba

720

2004/C 078E/771

E-1667/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: VAT on postal services

721

2004/C 078E/772

E-1720/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Joint EU and US bloc vis-à-vis the rest of the world by widening the remit of the TABD

722

2004/C 078E/773

E-1747/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Israel — removal of restriction on movement from and to the occupied territories

723

2004/C 078E/774

E-1764/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Arms transport and export bans

724

2004/C 078E/775

E-1795/03 by Terence Wynn to the CommissionSubject: Manufactured products from third countries

725

2004/C 078E/776

E-1815/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Information from Mrs Schreyer in connection with fraudulent financial dealings at Eurostat

726

2004/C 078E/777

P-1826/03 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: High-speed Italian transverse rail route: internal market, environmental impact and productivity of investment

727

2004/C 078E/778

P-1841/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: The Commission's view that terrorism is not a human rights abuse

729

2004/C 078E/779

E-1855/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in the EU — absence of common procedures for the reporting by Member States of human rights violations

730

2004/C 078E/780

E-1945/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Amendment of the Dutch Media Act

731

2004/C 078E/781

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

732

2004/C 078E/782

E-2160/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Broadcasting licences, rules governing State aid for broadcasting and media advertising in Greece

733

2004/C 078E/783

E-2218/03 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: High-speed rail link between Milan and Genoa and Milan and Verona

735

2004/C 078E/784

E-2265/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Deployment of a fund and provision of misleading information in order to dissuade authorities and other large users from using cheaper software available from a competitor

736

2004/C 078E/785

E-2328/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Helicopter services to the Isles of Scilly

737

2004/C 078E/786

E-2428/03 by Niels Busk to the CouncilSubject: State aid to Italian milk producers

738

2004/C 078E/787

E-2429/03 by Niels Busk to the CouncilSubject: State aid to Italian farmers

738

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2428/03 and E-2429/03

738

2004/C 078E/788

E-2447/03 by Marie-Arlette Carlotti to the CommissionSubject: Detailed rules for the implementation of technical and financial assistance measures for traditional ACP suppliers of bananas

739

2004/C 078E/789

E-2452/03 by Erik Meijer to the CouncilSubject: Growing American pressure on future EU Member States to permanently cease their cooperation with the International Criminal Court

740

2004/C 078E/790

E-2464/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi to the CommissionSubject: Pricing of basic postal services

741

2004/C 078E/791

E-2485/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Double taxation conventions and Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71

743

2004/C 078E/792

E-2494/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Pensions

744

2004/C 078E/793

E-2553/03 by Marco Cappato to the CouncilSubject: The Tunisian journalist Abdallah Zouari

745

2004/C 078E/794

E-2584/03 by Graham Watson to the CouncilSubject: Import of timber from Indonesia

747

2004/C 078E/795

E-2614/03 by Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Planting of vineyards with the help of EU funds

747

2004/C 078E/796

P-2616/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Exclusion of feta cheese, ouzo and Kalamata olives from the list of products with geographical indications of origin to be negotiated at the WTO

748

2004/C 078E/797

E-2627/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Follow-up on the ‘Resolution on sexual violence against women, particularly Catholic nuns’ adopted by the European Parliament on 5 April 2001

749

2004/C 078E/798

E-2652/03 by Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Olivier Dupuis, Marco Pannella and Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Infringements of legality in Lebanon

750

2004/C 078E/799

E-2706/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Daphne Programme

752

2004/C 078E/800

E-2737/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Vietnam

752

2004/C 078E/801

P-2751/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Criminal practices involved in the award of a contract to CESD-Roma

753

2004/C 078E/802

E-2753/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the CommissionSubject: Amendment of the Dutch Media Act

755

2004/C 078E/803

P-2767/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: NGO funding

756

2004/C 078E/804

E-2797/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Combating legionnaires' disease

756

2004/C 078E/805

E-2801/03 by Pedro Marset Campos to the CouncilSubject: Special tolls in France and Germany for the transport of goods by road

757

2004/C 078E/806

E-2807/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: The Vatican's crusade against homosexual marriages within the EU and the Vatican's right to acquire revenue by issuing euro coins

758

2004/C 078E/807

E-2839/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CouncilSubject: Place of Iraq in the UN and position of the EU

760

2004/C 078E/808

P-2875/03 by Hélène Flautre to the CouncilSubject: Situation of migrants and asylum-seekers in Malta

760

2004/C 078E/809

E-2878/03 by Jan Dhaene to the CouncilSubject: Technical inspection of the systems for indirect vision used on commercial vehicles

761

2004/C 078E/810

E-2880/03 by Jan Dhaene to the CouncilSubject: Bicycle theft

762

2004/C 078E/811

E-2885/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Application of the EU/Israel Association Agreement

763

2004/C 078E/812

E-2900/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CouncilSubject: Safeguarding jobs at the Alcatel plant in Rieti

763

2004/C 078E/813

E-2911/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CouncilSubject: Football-related violence

764

2004/C 078E/814

E-2917/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: 2 SDA, Camire, Marcom, World Systems, Ariane II Group and Sema Belgium

765

2004/C 078E/815

E-2918/03 by Marco Cappato and Maurizio Turco to the CouncilSubject: Case of Italian citizen Maurizio Trotta, imprisoned in Romania

766

2004/C 078E/816

E-2926/03 by Michl Ebner to the CouncilSubject: Urgent need to expand voluntary fire services

766

2004/C 078E/817

E-2929/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Situation of Thich Tri Luc, a Vietnamese citizen enjoying HCR refugee status, kidnapped in Cambodia and awaiting trial in Vietnam

767

2004/C 078E/818

E-2940/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CouncilSubject: Allocations from the Solidarity Fund

768

2004/C 078E/819

E-2944/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Cancellation of the special train carrying large numbers of officials and political group staff between the European Parliament's two meeting places

769

2004/C 078E/820

E-2960/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CouncilSubject: Middle East peace process

770

2004/C 078E/821

E-2962/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Damage to valuable works contained in the temple of St Sofia

771

2004/C 078E/822

P-3008/03 by Karin Riis-Jørgensen to the CommissionSubject: Unequal conditions of competition for the fish processing industry in the EU Member States

772

2004/C 078E/823

E-3061/03 by Elisabeth Schroedter to the CommissionSubject: Threat to the FFH protected area ‘Falkenseer Kuhlaake’ (No 537) from a road-building project to be carried out with assistance from the European Structural Funds

773

2004/C 078E/824

P-3066/03 by Alain Esclopé to the CommissionSubject: Breaking-up of decommissioned US warships

774

2004/C 078E/825

E-3088/03 by Bruno Gollnisch to the CommissionSubject: Pechiney-Alcan merger

775

2004/C 078E/826

E-3089/03 by Bruno Gollnisch to the CouncilSubject: Alstom

777

2004/C 078E/827

P-3090/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Declassification of forest land and forests and redefinition of the term ‘forest’ under new legislation proposed by the Greek Government

777

2004/C 078E/828

E-3098/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Margot Wallström and the EMU campaign

779

2004/C 078E/829

E-3100/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Commission's involvement in national campaigns

779

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3098/03 and E-3100/03

779

2004/C 078E/830

E-3101/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CouncilSubject: EMU referendum and location of agencies

780

2004/C 078E/831

P-3102/03 by Lissy Gröner to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against women in the Commission's new assessment system

780

2004/C 078E/832

E-3120/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Noise pollution

782

2004/C 078E/833

E-3137/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CouncilSubject: Right to apply for asylum

783

2004/C 078E/834

P-3167/03 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Working and health care in the accession countries

783

2004/C 078E/835

E-3168/03 by Michl Ebner to the CouncilSubject: Ban on dangerous dog breeds

784

2004/C 078E/836

P-3180/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Protection by the EU of its floriculture sector

785

2004/C 078E/837

E-3188/03 by Adeline Hazan to the CommissionSubject: Harmonisation of civil status records in Europe

787

2004/C 078E/838

E-3195/03 by Ursula Stenzel to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of the profession of (clinical) optometrist

788

2004/C 078E/839

E-3196/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Problems with construction activity, the protection of forests and building cooperatives in Greece

788

2004/C 078E/840

E-3203/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Treatment of hospital waste in Attica

789

2004/C 078E/841

E-3213/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Take-up of Community funding in the cultural sector in Greece

790

2004/C 078E/842

E-3217/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Monitoring of atmospheric pollution in Greece

791

2004/C 078E/843

E-3224/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: EC Commission proposal to replace Council Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85 on Drivers' Hours

793

2004/C 078E/844

E-3229/03 by Raffaele Costa and Jas Gawronski to the CommissionSubject: Funding for the Turin-Lyon rail link

794

2004/C 078E/845

E-3238/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: New arrangements regarding maritime cabotage in Greece

795

2004/C 078E/846

E-3254/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: List of priority projects — European Commission

796

2004/C 078E/847

E-3266/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Impact of genetically modified crops on nature

797

2004/C 078E/848

P-3298/03 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Effect of climatic change on cod stocks

799

2004/C 078E/849

E-3299/03 by Horst Schnellhardt to the CommissionSubject: Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (Flora, Fauna and Habitats Directive)

800

2004/C 078E/850

E-3316/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: EAGGF corrections

801

2004/C 078E/851

E-3318/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Issuing of EUR 1 banknotes

802

2004/C 078E/852

E-3338/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Environmental protection for the Peschiera springs

802

2004/C 078E/853

E-3346/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Amendments to the Majorca highway-planning programme

804

2004/C 078E/854

P-3364/03 by Christos Folias to the CommissionSubject: New regulatory framework for telecommunications

805

2004/C 078E/855

E-3365/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Regeneration of the Psyrri district

806

2004/C 078E/856

E-3373/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: September floods in Malta and town of Qormi

807

2004/C 078E/857

E-3392/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Economic monitoring

808

2004/C 078E/858

E-3398/03 by Stefano Zappalà to the CommissionSubject: Dumping by China on the world copper market

809

2004/C 078E/859

E-3408/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Illegal immigration — German Consular Services

810

2004/C 078E/860

E-3410/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: The NHP subsidies and environmental impact

811

2004/C 078E/861

E-3411/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Granting subsidies to the NHP and the Ródano water transfer

812

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3410/03 and E-3411/03

812

2004/C 078E/862

E-3436/03 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Harmonisation of the European energy market

813

2004/C 078E/863

E-3444/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Teaching Portuguese language and culture in the Netherlands

814

2004/C 078E/864

E-3452/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Exclusion of environmental NGOs from environmental education

814

2004/C 078E/865

E-3463/03 by Christos Folias to the CommissionSubject: Fixing maximum profit margins for sales of fresh produce

815

2004/C 078E/866

E-3465/03 by Caroline Jackson to the CommissionSubject: Dichlofluanid

816

2004/C 078E/867

E-3475/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Protection of the Caretta caretta turtle

817

2004/C 078E/868

E-3507/03 by Paul Lannoye to the CommissionSubject: Protection of loggerhead turtles in Greece

817

2004/C 078E/869

E-3528/03 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Protection of the caretta — caretta turtle

817

2004/C 078E/870

E-3532/03 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Protection of the Caretta caretta tortoise

818

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3475/03, E-3507/03, E-3528/03 and E-3532/03

818

2004/C 078E/871

E-3481/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: ‘Valdastico Sud’ motorway

819

2004/C 078E/872

E-3488/03 by Albert Maat to the CommissionSubject: Statements by individual Commissioners against Commission policy

820

2004/C 078E/873

E-3505/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Information on the level of EU funding granted to Saarland between January 1997 and December 2002 (Supplementary Answer)

820

2004/C 078E/874

E-3513/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone and Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Water

821

2004/C 078E/875

E-3518/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Bioptic driving

822

2004/C 078E/876

E-3541/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: US ‘ghost ships’ moored in the UK

822

2004/C 078E/877

E-3548/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Public works in Greece: shortcomings and defects regarding the Port of Igoumenitsa and the Egnatia highway

824

2004/C 078E/878

E-3551/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Goatmeat subsidies — Application of Regulation 2550/2001 of 21 December 2001 to the Azores

825

2004/C 078E/879

E-3557/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Irregularities in DG Agriculture highlighted by the Court of Auditors

826

2004/C 078E/880

E-3558/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Right to vote for immigrants in EU Member States

827

2004/C 078E/881

E-3578/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Environmentally friendly diesel fuel

828

2004/C 078E/882

E-3579/03 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: Hunting season for carrion crows in the EU

829

2004/C 078E/883

E-3581/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Shrimp fishing in Svalbard

830

2004/C 078E/884

E-3592/03 by Karl-Heinz Florenz to the CommissionSubject: Deposits on disposable drinks packaging in Germany from an environmental point of view

831

2004/C 078E/885

E-3593/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Cost of passports across the European Union Member States

832

2004/C 078E/886

E-3600/03 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Overflying Brussels — extension of Zaventem airport

832

2004/C 078E/887

E-3606/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Special conditions for transport by heavy goods vehicles

833

2004/C 078E/888

E-3614/03 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Cultivation of sweet rowanberries

835

2004/C 078E/889

E-3615/03 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Fishing for migratory salmon

835

2004/C 078E/890

E-3616/03 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Setting fishing quotas for the new Member States

836

2004/C 078E/891

E-3630/03 by Carles-Alfred Gasòliba i Böhm to the CommissionSubject: Unspent Structural Fund resources

837

2004/C 078E/892

P-3636/03 by Salvador Jové Peres to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the CMO in olive oil

838

2004/C 078E/893

E-3640/03 by Herbert Bösch and Johannes Swoboda to the CommissionSubject: Withdrawal of direct cross-border rail connections

839

2004/C 078E/894

E-3641/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Definition of ‘forest’: divergence between the definition in a Greek bill and in the Forest Focus regulation

840

2004/C 078E/895

E-3644/03 by Salvador Jové Peres to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the COM in olive oil

842

2004/C 078E/896

E-3649/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Serious delays in payments by the International Organisation for Migration in Geneva relating to the German forced labour compensation programme

843

2004/C 078E/897

E-3971/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Failure by Germany to compensate former Italian military internees (IMIs)

843

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3649/03 and E-3971/03

844

2004/C 078E/898

P-3652/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Stem cells and stem-cell lines

844

2004/C 078E/899

E-3656/03 by Salvador Jové Peres to the CommissionSubject: High quality code NC 1003 00 barley imports

845

2004/C 078E/900

P-3657/03 by Giovanni Procacci to the CommissionSubject: Storage of nuclear waste

846

2004/C 078E/901

E-3663/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Undisclosed research on organic farming

847

2004/C 078E/902

P-3667/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Building of a dam in the lower Sabor

849

2004/C 078E/903

E-3698/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Contravention of ban on fishing with drift nets and of the habitats directive

850

2004/C 078E/904

E-3701/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Misappropriation of Community funds intended for the Palestinian National Authority

851

2004/C 078E/905

E-3734/03 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: High fees for residence cards

853

2004/C 078E/906

E-3749/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the LIFE III programme by the municipality of Massa

854

2004/C 078E/907

E-3750/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Update on use of funding from the LIFE III programme by the municipality of Florence

854

2004/C 078E/908

E-3762/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Commission proceedings against Greece for infringing Community legislation in the telecommunications sector

855

2004/C 078E/909

Ρ-3776/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: US GAAP

856

2004/C 078E/910

E-3795/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Meeting UN sustainable fishing targets

857

2004/C 078E/911

E-3796/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Maríne Stewardship Council

858

2004/C 078E/912

E-3797/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Sustainable fisheries

859

2004/C 078E/913

E-3821/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Environmental impact of the extension of the Eivissa Airport

859

2004/C 078E/914

E-3825/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Abandoned mines

860

2004/C 078E/915

E-3826/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Environmental problems caused by small and medium-sized dairy farms

861

2004/C 078E/916

E-3837/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Privatisation of the Post Office Savings Bank

862

2004/C 078E/917

E-3841/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Protection of the consumer interest under the new EU regulatory framework for electronic communications (Directives 2002/20/EC, 2002/21/EC)

863

2004/C 078E/918

P-3860/03 by Reimer Böge to the CommissionSubject: Designation of bird protection zones in Schleswig-Holstein

864

2004/C 078E/919

P-3863/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: European Evidence Warrant — a proposal threatening individual freedom?

866

2004/C 078E/920

E-3871/03 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Connection between the Ebro water transfer and the Júcar-Vinalopó water transfer

866

2004/C 078E/921

E-3873/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Motorway and high-speed rail routes — Corridor 5 and Friuli-Venezia Giulia region

867

2004/C 078E/922

E-3875/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the COM in tobacco

869

2004/C 078E/923

E-3879/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Rules governing eel fishing

870

2004/C 078E/924

E-3886/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Alcatel Italia and the seat of the European Satellite Agency

871

2004/C 078E/925

E-3888/03 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Winding-up of contracts in the Eurostat affair

872

2004/C 078E/926

P-3891/03 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Renewable energy in Ireland

873

2004/C 078E/927

E-3908/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Freedom of movement in the EU and risk of abuse of welfare systems

874

2004/C 078E/928

E-3916/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Unsatisfactory standards in Italy for checking that medical staff have the necessary professional qualifications

875

2004/C 078E/929

E-3917/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: European approval of government support for the livestock market in Leeuwarden

876

2004/C 078E/930

P-3926/03 by Jacqueline Foster to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition in the diamond industry

877

2004/C 078E/931

E-3927/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Modular road trains on European roads

878

2004/C 078E/932

E-3929/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Increase in inflation in Greece

879

2004/C 078E/933

E-3932/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Sexual exploitation of children

881

2004/C 078E/934

E-3933/03 by Samuli Pohjamo and Mikko Pesälä to the CommissionSubject: Recognition of the ergonomic saddle chair in the EU's chair classifications

882

2004/C 078E/935

E-3935/03 by Bert Doorn to the CommissionSubject: Court with jurisdiction in international civil and commercial matters under Regulation (EC) No 44/2001

883

2004/C 078E/936

P-3937/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: European Regulation on yogurt

885

2004/C 078E/937

E-3950/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Incentives to halt the continuing cancellation of rapid and direct long-distance international train services

886

2004/C 078E/938

P-3954/03 by Gian Gobbo to the CommissionSubject: Issue of one-euro banknotes

887

2004/C 078E/939

E-3982/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Political rights of the Macedonian minority in Greece

888

2004/C 078E/940

E-3997/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Prince/Euro programme

888

2004/C 078E/941

E-4000/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Reforms at Eurostat

890

2004/C 078E/942

E-4005/03 by Anna Terrón i Cusí to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against Community children as regards access to sports federations in Spain

891

2004/C 078E/943

P-4009/03 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the tobacco CMO

892

2004/C 078E/944

E-4016/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Free movement of pharmaceutical products in the EU

893

2004/C 078E/945

P-4022/03 by Christos Folias to the CommissionSubject: Comparative data in the olive oil sector

894

2004/C 078E/946

P-4023/03 by Jean-Louis Bernié to the CommissionSubject: Natura 2000

895

2004/C 078E/947

E-4024/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Free-standing ovens

896

2004/C 078E/948

E-4025/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: UN investigation in East Timor

897

2004/C 078E/949

E-4030/03 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: Under-utilisation of payment appropriations

898

2004/C 078E/950

E-4039/03 by Christos Folias to the CommissionSubject: Optometry in Greece

899

2004/C 078E/951

E-4040/03 by Glyn Ford, Kathalijne Buitenweg, Claude Moraes and Anna Terrón i Cusí to the CommissionSubject: MEDEA Programme and Article 13 of the Treaty

900

2004/C 078E/952

E-4041/03 by John Bowis and Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: The implementation of worker safety directives and protection of healthcare workers and their patients

901

2004/C 078E/953

E-4042/03 by Kathalijne Buitenweg to the CommissionSubject: Bullying at school

902

2004/C 078E/954

E-4044/03 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Free passes for local residents to the grounds of heritage and tourist sites

903

2004/C 078E/955

P-4049/03 by Francesco Speroni to the CommissionSubject: GM products

904

2004/C 078E/956

P-4050/03 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Proposal for a directive concerning credit for consumers

904

2004/C 078E/957

E-4052/03 by Christos Folias to the CommissionSubject: Support for the various Churches

906

2004/C 078E/958

P-4060/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: European citizenship

906

2004/C 078E/959

E-4062/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Health and safety of workers - complaint 00/4404, SG(2000) A/3828/2

907

2004/C 078E/960

E-4063/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Workers on one-day contracts

908

2004/C 078E/961

P-4073/03 by Giovanni Fava to the CommissionSubject: Waste-to-energy plant

909

2004/C 078E/962

E-4080/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Pets' passports

910

2004/C 078E/963

E-4086/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Company-specific aid to Eftec in connection with relocation from Hässleholm in Sweden to Wales

911

2004/C 078E/964

E-4087/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Data Protection Supervisor

912

2004/C 078E/965

E-0005/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of Uighur Organisations based in the European Union

912

2004/C 078E/966

P-0014/04 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Relationship between cancelled flights and PNR

914

2004/C 078E/967

E-0024/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Financial support for an organisation facilitating the independence of people with disabilities

915

2004/C 078E/968

E-0025/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Possibility of ‘BSE’ (OSE?) in sheep

916

2004/C 078E/969

P-0028/04 by Philip Bushill-Matthews to the CommissionSubject: Age discrimination

917

2004/C 078E/970

P-0029/04 by Heinz Kindermann to the CommissionSubject: Closure of veterinary border control point at Pomellen, Germany

917

2004/C 078E/971

E-0036/04 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: SARS outbreak in China and the Philippines

919

2004/C 078E/972

E-0040/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Size of the Commission

920

2004/C 078E/973

E-0041/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Trade between Scotland and the rest of the European Union

920

2004/C 078E/974

E-0057/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Welfare expenditure in the Spanish state and the situation in the EU

921

2004/C 078E/975

P-0058/04 by Giuseppe Di Lello Finuoli to the CommissionSubject: Funding by the Italian State and the Region of Campania for the programme contract submitted by Agrifuturo S.c.a.r.l

922

2004/C 078E/976

E-0060/04 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Chromium (VI) in leather

923

2004/C 078E/977

E-0064/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Alarming rise in unemployment in Galicia: 7465 newly unemployed people in December 2003 out of a total of 23 419 for Spain as a whole, bringing the rate of unemployment in Galicia to 12,36 %

924

2004/C 078E/978

P-0065/04 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Post-60 flying in Europe

925

2004/C 078E/979

E-0067/04 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Retirement benefits

926

2004/C 078E/980

E-0069/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Support for cleaning lakes in the Cantanhede municipal district

926

2004/C 078E/981

E-0076/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 and blind and partially sighted registration

o

927

2004/C 078E/982

P-0083/04 by Dirk Sterckx to the CommissionSubject: Restrictions on freedom of movement for Flemish travel guides on trips abroad

928

2004/C 078E/983

E-0087/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Use by casinos of EU rules in support of their fight against the Netherlands government policy aimed at limiting compulsive gambling

929

2004/C 078E/984

E-0095/04 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Public hospital INMI L. Spallanzani in Italy

930

2004/C 078E/985

E-0106/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Use in shops of escalators which meet European safety standards but are apparently unsafe for children

931

2004/C 078E/986

E-0108/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Fiat in Italy acting in a joint venture in China providing vans to the People's Republic of China for the purposes of mobile exectution

932

2004/C 078E/987

P-0109/04 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Sikhs and the banning of religious articles of faith

933

2004/C 078E/988

P-0126/04 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Permits for capture, breeding and trading of protected species in Greece in violation of EU legislation

933

2004/C 078E/989

P-0147/04 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Combating the use of drugs in sport

934

2004/C 078E/990

P-0157/04 by Catherine Guy-Quint to the CommissionSubject: Twinnings with Bulgaria and Romania

936

2004/C 078E/991

P-0158/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Aviation safety

937

2004/C 078E/992

E-0178/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Funding from the Culture 2000 programme for the conservation of valuable cultural works stored in Aghia Sofia

938

2004/C 078E/993

P-0193/04 by Ward Beysen to the CommissionSubject: Parallel trade

939

2004/C 078E/994

P-0206/04 by Renato Brunetta to the CommissionSubject: Unlawful imposition of identification marks for sports craft in the Venice lagoon

940

2004/C 078E/995

P-0207/04 by Harald Ettl to the CommissionSubject: Further action by the Commission on the portability of supplementary pension rights

941

2004/C 078E/996

P-0208/04 by Ioannis Averoff to the CommissionSubject: Practical problems with town-twinning scheme

942

2004/C 078E/997

E-0223/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Unemployment rate in Greece

943

2004/C 078E/998

E-0224/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: ‘Militaria e Dintorni in Europa’ (Militaria Fair)

943

2004/C 078E/999

P-0231/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: EIB loan to Schiphol Airport

944

2004/C 078E/1000

E-0243/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Relocation and unemployment

945

2004/C 078E/1001

E-0249/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Private Eye

946

2004/C 078E/1002

P-0253/04 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: The Construction Products Directive

947

2004/C 078E/1003

E-0284/04 by Joachim Wuermeling to the CommissionSubject: BEUC

948

2004/C 078E/1004

E-0300/04 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Financing for the new Athens airport

949

2004/C 078E/1005

E-0310/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Further reduction of educational facilities for the long-established Sorbian-speaking community in Lausitz, eastern Germany

950

2004/C 078E/1006

P-0314/04 by Ulpu Iivari to the CommissionSubject: Effect of EU support on the shift of jobs within the EU

951

2004/C 078E/1007

E-0330/04 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Hospitals for ‘national defence’ in Italy

953

2004/C 078E/1008

P-0454/04 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Unemployment benefits in Greece

953

2004/C 078E/1009

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

954

2004/C 078E/1010

E-0542/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Active publication of information about subsidies and ratios between payments to large and small farms under the CAP

954

2004/C 078E/1011

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

955

2004/C 078E/1012

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

956

2004/C 078E/1013

E-0545/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: CAP: consequences of the distribution of the reduction in income in agriculture and financing of techniques which promote animal welfare or are environmentally sound for use on small farms

956

2004/C 078E/1014

E-0616/04 by Klaus Hänsch to the CommissionSubject: Allocation of EU resources

957

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