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| 13.3.2004 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | CE 65/232 |
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(2004/C 65 E/248)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2852/03

by Raffaele Costa (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(26 September 2003)

Subject:   Italian projects submitted in the context of the Community action programme for public health

Data supplied by the Commission concerning the projects funded by the Community action programme for public health reveal that 171 projects worth a total of approximately EUR 37 million were approved and financed between 1996 and 2002. Only two of these were Italian projects and they accounted for only about EUR 500 000.

Can the Commission say how many Italian projected were submitted under this programme, in order to show whether few Italian projects were submitted or whether there were reasons for repeatedly considering the projects unsuitable?

Answer given by Mr Byrne on behalf of the Commission

(29 October 2003)

As shown in the table attached to the answer to the Honourable Member's Written Question E-2386/03( 1 ), funding was indeed provided for two Italian projects under the health promotion programme in the period 1996-2002:

| — | EUR 92 387,00 to the interuniversity Experimental Centre for Health Education for the project The contribution of Southern European Countries in the elaboration of a European multilingual thesaurus for Health Promotion and Education', in 1996; |
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| — | EUR 364 945,91 to the IRCCS Burlo Garofolo for the project ‘Breastfeeding Promotion in Europe’, in 2002. |
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Fifteen out of the 78 projects submitted under this programme in 2002 were Italian (In all, 18 projects were approved.).

Following calls for proposals, projects are selected solely on the basis of project quality, in accordance with strict criteria set out in the calls for proposals published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Nationality plays no part in the project evaluation.

However, the Commission would like to draw the Honourable Member's attention to two points:

| — | the coordinators for the above two projects were of Italian nationality. However, since most of the projects selected were Community-wide, it is very likely that some of the partners in other projects under the programme were Italian, though the Commission does not have details of the funding allocated to all partners in all projects; |
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| — | during the planning period 1996-2002, the Commission funded some 104 other public health projects with Italian coordinators, in addition to the two projects under the health promotion programme as mentioned above:
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four projects under the programme ‘Health monitoring (1998-2002)’; —
four projects under ‘Injury prevention (1999-2002)’; —
33 projects under ‘AIDS and communicable diseases (1996-2002)’; —
44 projects under ‘Cancer (1996-2002)’; —
four projects under ‘Rare diseases (2000-2002)’; —
three projects under ‘Pollution related diseases (1999-2002)’; —
12 projects under ‘Drug prevention (1996-2002)’. | — | four projects under the programme ‘Health monitoring (1998-2002)’; | — | four projects under ‘Injury prevention (1999-2002)’; | — | 33 projects under ‘AIDS and communicable diseases (1996-2002)’; | — | 44 projects under ‘Cancer (1996-2002)’; | — | four projects under ‘Rare diseases (2000-2002)’; | — | three projects under ‘Pollution related diseases (1999-2002)’; | — | 12 projects under ‘Drug prevention (1996-2002)’. |
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| — | four projects under the programme ‘Health monitoring (1998-2002)’; | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| — | four projects under ‘Injury prevention (1999-2002)’; | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| — | 33 projects under ‘AIDS and communicable diseases (1996-2002)’; | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| — | 44 projects under ‘Cancer (1996-2002)’; | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| — | four projects under ‘Rare diseases (2000-2002)’; | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| — | three projects under ‘Pollution related diseases (1999-2002)’; | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| — | 12 projects under ‘Drug prevention (1996-2002)’. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

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( 1 )  OJ C 33 E, 6.2.2004, p. 259.

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