# Official Journal C 88E/2004

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| Official Journal
  of the European Union | C 88E |
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| English edition | Information and Notices | Volume 478 April 2004 |

ISSN 1725-2423

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 88E

English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 478 April 2004

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| Notice No | Contents | page |
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| | I   (Information) |
| | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT |
| | WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 1) |
| 2004/C 088E/1 | E-2236/02 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Award of Commission contracts to audit firms (Supplementary Answer) | 1 |
| 2004/C 088E/2 | P-0043/03 by Gian Gobbo to the CommissionSubject: Introduction of a minimum rate of excise duty on wine | 2 |
| 2004/C 088E/3 | E-0052/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Human rights situation in Vietnam | 3 |
| 2004/C 088E/4 | E-0084/03 by Carlos Bautista Ojeda to the CommissionSubject: EU/Morocco policies | 4 |
| 2004/C 088E/5 | E-0086/03 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Killing of children in Honduras | 5 |
| 2004/C 088E/6 | E-0097/03 by Phillip Whitehead to the CommissionSubject: The rights of street children in Honduras and Guatemala | 5 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0086/03 and E-0097/03 | 5 |
| 2004/C 088E/7 | E-0238/03 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Clarification of the status of the Northern Dimension in the EU budget | 6 |
| 2004/C 088E/8 | E-0258/03 by Bob van den Bos to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement and development cooperation | 7 |
| 2004/C 088E/9 | E-0278/03 by Gianfranco Dell’Alba to the CommissionSubject: Irregularities in the election process in Cambodia | 8 |
| 2004/C 088E/10 | P-0325/03 by Marco Pannella to the CommissionSubject: Increasing violations of fundamental human rights of Montagnard population in the Vietnamese highlands | 10 |
| 2004/C 088E/11 | E-0356/03 by Bill Newton Dunn and Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Human rights abuses in Honduras | 11 |
| 2004/C 088E/12 | E-0434/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Sterilisation of young Roma women in Slovakia on the basis of misleading information or without their consent | 12 |
| 2004/C 088E/13 | E-0569/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Refund of registration fee in respect of exports from Denmark (Supplementary Answer) | 13 |
| 2004/C 088E/14 | E-0609/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU/East Timor 1999-2003: cooperation, development, human rights, assistance, etc | 14 |
| 2004/C 088E/15 | E-0824/03 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Restrictions on the transfer of securities in the Czech Republic | 16 |
| 2004/C 088E/16 | E-0904/03 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Use of agricultural diesel in border areas | 17 |
| 2004/C 088E/17 | P-1139/03 by Joke Swiebel to the CommissionSubject: Extortion against holidaymakers travelling through Bulgaria | 18 |
| 2004/C 088E/18 | E-1142/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Protection of archaeological museum exhibits in Iraq | 19 |
| 2004/C 088E/19 | E-1148/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Seychelles | 20 |
| 2004/C 088E/20 | E-1150/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Seychelles | 20 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1148/03 and E-1150/03 | 21 |
| 2004/C 088E/21 | E-1282/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Red diesel in agricultural vehicles | 21 |
| 2004/C 088E/22 | E-1295/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - political prisoners | 22 |
| 2004/C 088E/23 | E-1311/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: The imprisonment of Dr Oscar Ellis Biscet by the Cuban authorities | 22 |
| 2004/C 088E/24 | E-1347/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Human rights abuses in Cuba | 22 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1295/03, E-1311/03 and E-1347/03 | 23 |
| 2004/C 088E/25 | E-1312/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: The situation of Mrs Siham Qandah, a Jordanian Christian | 23 |
| 2004/C 088E/26 | E-1334/03 by Luigi Cocilovo to the CommissionSubject: VAT on books | 24 |
| 2004/C 088E/27 | E-1339/03 by Maurizio Turco and Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of homosexuals in the Palestinian Authority territories and Israeli expulsions of Palestinian homosexuals | 25 |
| 2004/C 088E/28 | P-1345/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: EU penalties for collusion by European banks with the Baghdad regime | 26 |
| 2004/C 088E/29 | E-1382/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Consequences of the Copenhagen criteria for suppressing oppositions, restricting free expression of opinion, banning organisations and increasing the prison population | 27 |
| 2004/C 088E/30 | P-1384/03 by Gian Gobbo to the CommissionSubject: Turkish occupation of Iraqi Kurdistan | 28 |
| 2004/C 088E/31 | E-1414/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Burma refugee acceptance into Thailand | 29 |
| 2004/C 088E/32 | E-1417/03 by Bob van den Bos, Margrietus van den Berg, Maria Martens and Joost Lagendijk to the CommissionSubject: Situation of religious minorities in Gujarat, India | 30 |
| 2004/C 088E/33 | E-1467/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Killing of Street Children in Guatemala and Honduras | 31 |
| 2004/C 088E/34 | E-1469/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Wave of arrests in Cuba | 32 |
| 2004/C 088E/35 | E-1471/03 by Herman Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay | 33 |
| 2004/C 088E/36 | E-1484/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Graduation of General Sector Preferences Sector V imports with respect to employment alternatives to illegal drug production in Colombia | 34 |
| 2004/C 088E/37 | E-1492/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Coffee negotiations | 35 |
| 2004/C 088E/38 | E-1497/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Destruction of EU property in Palestine | 35 |
| 2004/C 088E/39 | E-1559/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: The situation in Somalia | 36 |
| 2004/C 088E/40 | P-1630/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Forced sterilisation of Roma women | 37 |
| 2004/C 088E/41 | E-1665/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Kurdish language teaching in Turkey | 38 |
| 2004/C 088E/42 | E-1678/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Angola - ‘child soldiers’ | 39 |
| 2004/C 088E/43 | E-1693/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Underhand method of awarding contracts for reconstruction and management in Iraq to US firms by the US Army | 40 |
| 2004/C 088E/44 | E-1694/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Ongoing and permanent take-over of the Iraqi economy and oil reserves by US firms | 41 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1693/03 and E-1694/03 | 41 |
| 2004/C 088E/45 | E-1695/03 by Mario Mantovani and Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Humanitarian emergency in Iraq: the plight of children, disabled people and the elderly in hospitals. | 42 |
| 2004/C 088E/46 | E-1732/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Discriminatory Danish excise duty on beer | 44 |
| 2004/C 088E/47 | E-1833/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Iraq — serious danger to civilians from unexploded landmines and looting activities | 45 |
| 2004/C 088E/48 | P-1840/03 by Michael Cashman to the CommissionSubject: Post-Iraq-War aid | 45 |
| 2004/C 088E/49 | E-1844/03 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Treatment of gays, lesbians and transsexuals in Poland | 46 |
| 2004/C 088E/50 | E-1848/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Investigation into the chairman of the Diyarbakir Human Rights Association | 47 |
| 2004/C 088E/51 | E-1858/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: EU funding for rehabilitation of torture survivors | 48 |
| 2004/C 088E/52 | E-1897/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Food aid for Zimbabwe | 49 |
| 2004/C 088E/53 | P-1923/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: EU funds for the Caribbean tourism sector (follow-up to the reply given by Mr Nielson on behalf of the Commission to Written Question P-0743/03) | 50 |
| 2004/C 088E/54 | E-1928/03 by Maria Carrilho to the CommissionSubject: Aid to uprooted people in Asia and Latin America: revision of Regulation (EC) No 2130/2001 of 29 October 2001 | 51 |
| 2004/C 088E/55 | E-1949/03 by Christa Randzio-Plath to the CommissionSubject: TEKEL alcohol monopoly | 52 |
| 2004/C 088E/56 | E-1954/03 by Jannis Sakellariou to the CommissionSubject: Human rights situation facing Yezidi in Georgia | 53 |
| 2004/C 088E/57 | E-1984/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Turkish violations of Greek airspace | 54 |
| 2004/C 088E/58 | E-2050/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Harassment of a Greek passenger plane by Turkish warplanes | 54 |
| 2004/C 088E/59 | E-2083/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Violations of Greek air space by Turkish aircraft and security of the inhabitants of the Aegean | 55 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1984/03, E-2050/03 and E-2083/03 | 55 |
| 2004/C 088E/60 | E-1985/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Scandal involving illegal sterilisations in Slovakia | 55 |
| 2004/C 088E/61 | E-2004/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: World Medicines Bank for poor countries | 56 |
| 2004/C 088E/62 | E-2019/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Anti-dumping duty on bicycles imported from China | 57 |
| 2004/C 088E/63 | E-2022/03 by Lennart Sacrédeus to the CommissionSubject: Arrest of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi | 58 |
| 2004/C 088E/64 | E-2024/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of freedom of worship in Turkmenistan | 59 |
| 2004/C 088E/65 | E-2028/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Greek customs authorities’ unnecessarily lengthy procedure of collecting up EU citizens’ passports at the border with Macedonia, a procedure that is also open to fraud (Supplementary Answer) | 60 |
| 2004/C 088E/66 | E-2055/03 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Trade union rights for police officers in Latvia | 61 |
| 2004/C 088E/67 | E-2058/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: ACP bananas | 62 |
| 2004/C 088E/68 | E-2091/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Rules for calculating aid for tropical products from ACP countries | 62 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2058/03 and E-2091/03 | 63 |
| 2004/C 088E/69 | E-2066/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Republic of Italy: application of the directive on VAT in connection with intra-Community supplies | 64 |
| 2004/C 088E/70 | P-2078/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Portuguese milk quota | 65 |
| 2004/C 088E/71 | E-2086/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Situation of Christians in Egypt | 65 |
| 2004/C 088E/72 | E-2089/03 by José Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado to the CommissionSubject: Clarification concerning the budget line for non-governmental organisations involved in combating torture | 66 |
| 2004/C 088E/73 | P-2104/03 by Bob van den Bos to the CommissionSubject: Burmese Rohingya refugees | 67 |
| 2004/C 088E/74 | P-2155/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Position of the Rohingya in Bangladesh | 68 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions P-2104/03 and P-2155/03 | 68 |
| 2004/C 088E/75 | E-2116/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: The situation in Sudan | 69 |
| 2004/C 088E/76 | E-2130/03 by Markus Ferber to the CommissionSubject: Commission support for NGOs | 69 |
| 2004/C 088E/77 | E-2162/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Budget line B7-7010: no call for proposals in 2003 and its consequences for addressing the human rights of disabled people | 70 |
| 2004/C 088E/78 | E-2184/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Further violations of religious freedom in Turkmenistan | 71 |
| 2004/C 088E/79 | P-2198/03 by Niall Andrews to the CommissionSubject: Safeguarding human rights in Mexico | 72 |
| 2004/C 088E/80 | E-2223/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Secret European Union agreements with third parties on nuclear power | 73 |
| 2004/C 088E/81 | E-2229/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Oil revenue, Angola, transparency | 74 |
| 2004/C 088E/82 | E-2244/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Wild birds directive in Malta | 75 |
| 2004/C 088E/83 | P-2303/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - European Commission delegation - human rights | 76 |
| 2004/C 088E/84 | E-2304/03 by Emma Bonino to the CommissionSubject: Opening of a European Commission delegation in Yemen | 76 |
| 2004/C 088E/85 | E-2308/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Africa - oil - poverty | 77 |
| 2004/C 088E/86 | E-2321/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Number of Commission officials dealing with external relations | 78 |
| 2004/C 088E/87 | E-2345/03 by Erik Meijer and Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Protection of unspoiled natural and cultural landscapes with a potential for ecotourism in the mountain region in the Polish province of Dolnoslaœkie, Lower Silesia | 79 |
| 2004/C 088E/88 | E-2346/03 by Erik Meijer and Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Devastation of previously unspoiled natural and cultural landscapes and destruction of ecotourism due to the increase in opencast mining and quarrying in the Polish province of Dolnoslaœkie, Lower Silesia | 79 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2345/03 and E-2346/03 | 80 |
| 2004/C 088E/89 | E-2354/03 by Mary Honeyball to the CommissionSubject: Local government in ACP countries | 82 |
| 2004/C 088E/90 | E-2363/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Research by a Turkish vessel in Greek territorial waters in the Aegean | 83 |
| 2004/C 088E/91 | E-2392/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Stoning of Semsiye Allak in the village of Yalim, Turkey | 84 |
| 2004/C 088E/92 | E-2402/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Turkey: book-burning and State jobs for 15 000 imams | 85 |
| 2004/C 088E/93 | E-2442/03 by Jürgen Zimmerling to the CommissionSubject: Help for Madagascar | 85 |
| 2004/C 088E/94 | E-2490/03 by Bob van den Bos and Bashir Khanbhai to the CommissionSubject: Food aid to Ethiopia | 87 |
| 2004/C 088E/95 | E-2504/03 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Double taxation of returning migrants | 88 |
| 2004/C 088E/96 | E-2512/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Support for victims of the crisis in the Palestinian territories | 88 |
| 2004/C 088E/97 | P-2514/03 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Medicinal products: specific exception to patent rights | 90 |
| 2004/C 088E/98 | E-2531/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Carpetbaggers and thieves in Kosovo | 91 |
| 2004/C 088E/99 | E-2542/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Russia | 93 |
| 2004/C 088E/100 | E-2551/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: EU failure to disburse overseas aid | 94 |
| 2004/C 088E/101 | E-2552/03 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: The case of Vinh Binh Trinh in Vietnam | 96 |
| 2004/C 088E/102 | E-2558/03 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Peru | 97 |
| 2004/C 088E/103 | E-2563/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Compatibility between the violence perpetrated by the Sudanese dictatorial regime and the agreement initialled by the European Union and Sudan | 98 |
| 2004/C 088E/104 | E-2574/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Violation of international directives by a Dutch company in the DRC | 99 |
| 2004/C 088E/105 | E-2579/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Confiscation of euro bank notes belonging to, and robbery of, families of Turkish origin from EU Member States during their annual journey home through Bulgaria | 100 |
| 2004/C 088E/106 | E-2585/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Taxation of low-proof alcoholic beverages | 102 |
| 2004/C 088E/107 | E-2588/03 by Marco Pannella to the CommissionSubject: Execution of Faramaz Mohammadi, the 19-year-old leader of the student movement at Tabriz University (Iran) | 103 |
| 2004/C 088E/108 | E-2593/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of Christians in Pakistan | 104 |
| 2004/C 088E/109 | E-2594/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of Christians | 104 |
| 2004/C 088E/110 | E-2604/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Protection of excavations at ancient Salamis, Cyprus | 105 |
| 2004/C 088E/111 | E-2613/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato and Gianfranco Dell’Alba to the CommissionSubject: Crimen Sollicitationis Instruction issued by the Supreme and Holy Congregation of the Holy Office of the Holy See to cover up sexual abuse by clergy | 106 |
| 2004/C 088E/112 | E-2615/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: New responsibilities for Commissioner Verheugen | 107 |
| 2004/C 088E/113 | E-2664/03 by Terence Wynn to the CommissionSubject: Manufactured products from third countries | 108 |
| 2004/C 088E/114 | E-2703/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: The sociologist Mehmet Bercet and the head of the Goc-Der refugee organisation, Sefika Gurbuz, on trial in Turkey for inciting racial hatred | 109 |
| 2004/C 088E/115 | E-2725/03 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Corruption at the Bulgarian border | 110 |
| 2004/C 088E/116 | E-2742/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Slovakia | 111 |
| 2004/C 088E/117 | E-2743/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Slovakia | 112 |
| 2004/C 088E/118 | E-2744/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Slovakia | 112 |
| 2004/C 088E/119 | E-2759/03 by Fernando Fernández Martín to the CommissionSubject: Method of calculating financial assistance to traditional ACP banana suppliers | 113 |
| 2004/C 088E/120 | E-2775/03 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Unlawful detention of an EU citizen in Thailand | 114 |
| 2004/C 088E/121 | E-2784/03 by Cristiana Muscardini, Antonio Mussa and Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Elections in Albania | 115 |
| 2004/C 088E/122 | E-2804/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: Urbs Asia Contract No Ala/95-21-b7-3010/39 | 116 |
| 2004/C 088E/123 | E-2815/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Arrest and detention of Rev. Rinaldy Damanik in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia | 117 |
| 2004/C 088E/124 | P-2854/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: The MEDA Programme and women | 117 |
| 2004/C 088E/125 | E-2884/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of Christians in Egypt | 118 |
| 2004/C 088E/126 | E-2889/03 by Samuli Pohjamo and Mikko Pesälä to the CommissionSubject: Need for a minimum import price for, and import duty on, Norwegian salmon and rainbow trout | 118 |
| 2004/C 088E/127 | E-2919/03 by Marco Cappato and Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Case of Italian citizen Maurizio Trotta, imprisoned in Romania | 120 |
| 2004/C 088E/128 | E-2922/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Commercial sanctions against Burma | 121 |
| 2004/C 088E/129 | E-2934/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - Spanish Cultural Centre | 122 |
| 2004/C 088E/130 | E-2953/03 by Maurizio Turco and Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Sentence of death by stoning in Nigeria | 123 |
| 2004/C 088E/131 | E-2955/03 by Maurizio Turco and Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Yet another case of persecution of homosexuals in Egypt | 123 |
| 2004/C 088E/132 | E-2988/03 by Bart Staes and Jan Dhaene to the CommissionSubject: Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Action Plan | 124 |
| 2004/C 088E/133 | E-2995/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Damage to valuable relics contained in the temple of St Sophia | 125 |
| 2004/C 088E/134 | E-3013/03 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: The case of the Tunisian journalist Néziha Rejiba | 126 |
| 2004/C 088E/135 | E-3025/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Human rights violations against Greeks on the island of Imbros through the Turkish national land register | 127 |
| 2004/C 088E/136 | E-3032/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Denigration by Turkey of its ethnic minorities | 128 |
| 2004/C 088E/137 | E-3045/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Child labour | 129 |
| 2004/C 088E/138 | E-3133/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Angola - Falcone | 130 |
| 2004/C 088E/139 | E-3143/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Automobile prices in Greece and ban on diesel motors in Athens and Thessaloniki | 131 |
| 2004/C 088E/140 | E-3159/03 by Dirk Sterckx to the CommissionSubject: Unequal treatment of professional removal firms importing loads into the EU from non-Member States as a result of differing interpretations of Regulation (EEC) 918/83 | 132 |
| 2004/C 088E/141 | E-3163/03 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Regional policy in Hungary | 134 |
| 2004/C 088E/142 | E-3185/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Duty free allowances in the Canary Islands | 135 |
| 2004/C 088E/143 | E-3223/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Children sentenced to death in the Philippines | 136 |
| 2004/C 088E/144 | E-3244/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Policy Coherence for Development Network | 137 |
| 2004/C 088E/145 | E-3252/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: International Criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) | 137 |
| 2004/C 088E/146 | E-3263/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Powers of the region of Wallonia to approve arms exports, and the use of such weapons to repress the people of Nepal | 138 |
| 2004/C 088E/147 | E-3292/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Shariah Law | 139 |
| 2004/C 088E/148 | P-3303/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Turkey and latest report of the Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD) | 140 |
| 2004/C 088E/149 | P-3375/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Nuclear safety: plant decommissioning and incorporation of costs | 141 |
| 2004/C 088E/150 | E-3382/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Kidnapping of a Médecins Sans Frontières volunteer | 142 |
| 2004/C 088E/151 | E-3399/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Azerbaijan | 143 |
| 2004/C 088E/152 | P-3402/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: ‘Cross amputation’ of sixteen-year-old in Sudan | 144 |
| 2004/C 088E/153 | E-3435/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Act of provocation by Bulgaria towards a Member State | 144 |
| 2004/C 088E/154 | E-3443/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Palestinian authority - diversion of funds | 145 |
| 2004/C 088E/155 | E-3449/03 by Peter Skinner to the CommissionSubject: Smokes Direct, Spain | 146 |
| 2004/C 088E/156 | E-3462/03 by Helmuth Markov to the CommissionSubject: Plans for weight restrictions at the Guben-Gubinek border crossing and EU funds | 147 |
| 2004/C 088E/157 | E-3478/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Colombian flower imports and GSP | 148 |
| 2004/C 088E/158 | E-3484/03 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up to Written Question E-2055/03 on the Latvian Police Law prohibiting police officers from forming trade unions | 149 |
| 2004/C 088E/159 | P-3485/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: EEA, Norway and taxation of EU workers | 150 |
| 2004/C 088E/160 | E-3565/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement preparations in EU border regions | 150 |
| 2004/C 088E/161 | E-3589/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Syria - US sanctions | 151 |
| 2004/C 088E/162 | E-3609/03 by Giovanni Pittella, Marco Cappato, Giovanni Fava, Glyn Ford, Sérgio Marques and Emilio Menéndez del Valle to the CommissionSubject: Sending EU observers to Venezuela | 152 |
| 2004/C 088E/163 | E-3623/03 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Discriminatory policy against the Greek inhabitants of Imbros and Tenedos in Turkey | 153 |
| 2004/C 088E/164 | E-3635/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cabo Verde - special status vis-à-vis the EU | 154 |
| 2004/C 088E/165 | P-3695/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: MTR of CSPs in Asia and Latin America | 155 |
| 2004/C 088E/166 | E-3819/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Circulation in Greece of private vehicles fitted with Community numberplates | 156 |
| 2004/C 088E/167 | E-3824/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Labels of origin for imports | 158 |
| 2004/C 088E/168 | E-3902/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: ‘Made in Europe’ label for goods made in the Member States | 159 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3824/03 and E-3902/03 | 159 |
| 2004/C 088E/169 | E-3958/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Russia - parliamentary elections | 160 |
| 2004/C 088E/170 | E-3965/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Measures against China for abusive use of the EC symbol | 161 |
| 2004/C 088E/171 | E-3975/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Respect for equal treatment for staff at the Commission delegation in Brazil | 162 |
| 2004/C 088E/172 | E-3989/03 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: EU rules on sales and servicing | 163 |
| 2004/C 088E/173 | E-4004/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Disabled children in Russia | 165 |
| 2004/C 088E/174 | E-0012/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU-India Summit - closer relations | 166 |
| 2004/C 088E/175 | E-0049/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: EU aid to Iran to tackle the tragic consequences of the Bam earthquake | 167 |
| 2004/C 088E/176 | E-0072/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Suspected traffic in human organs - Mozambique | 168 |
| 2004/C 088E/177 | E-0143/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Trafficking in human organs - Mozambique | 169 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0072/04 and E-0143/04 | 169 |
| 2004/C 088E/178 | E-0154/04 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: ‘Kleptocrat tax’ | 170 |
| 2004/C 088E/179 | E-0187/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Auditing of company accounts | 171 |
| 2004/C 088E/180 | E-0214/04 by Giles Chichester to the CommissionSubject: Details of EU funding to the Palestinian Authority | 172 |
| 2004/C 088E/181 | E-0270/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up to regulation on cross-border payments | 173 |
| 2004/C 088E/182 | E-0272/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Timisoara international port | 174 |
| 2004/C 088E/183 | E-0288/04 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Drug eradication programme in Colombia | 174 |
| 2004/C 088E/184 | E-0320/04 by Gary Titley to the CommissionSubject: Illegal logging and timber trade | 175 |
| 2004/C 088E/185 | E-0362/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Latvian passport names | 176 |
| 2004/C 088E/186 | E-0378/04 by Hartmut Nassauer and Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Planned draft second directive on limit values providing for the establishment of an indicative occupational exposure limit value, ‘inter alia’ for nitrogen monoxide (NO) | 177 |
| 2004/C 088E/187 | E-0382/04 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Free movement between Greece and the rest of the EU | 179 |
| 2004/C 088E/188 | E-0384/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Ansaldo-Breda: infringement of laws protecting workers from exposure to asbestos | 181 |
| 2004/C 088E/189 | E-0411/04 by Charles Tannock and John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Bangladesh | 183 |
| 2004/C 088E/190 | E-0413/04 by Charles Tannock and Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Migrating birds and Habitat Directives with regard to the republic of Malta | 183 |
| 2004/C 088E/191 | E-0419/04 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Bride burning in Pakistan | 184 |
| 2004/C 088E/192 | E-0429/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: The case of Rev. Rinaldy Damanik, Indonesia | 186 |
| 2004/C 088E/193 | E-0465/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Establishing the ‘Made in EU’ label | 186 |
| 2004/C 088E/194 | E-0501/04 by Jorge Hernández Mollar to the CommissionSubject: Measures to tackle the Ulysses syndrome | 188 |
| 2004/C 088E/195 | E-0510/04 by Sérgio Marques to the CommissionSubject: Stage reached in the implementation of aid to Venezuela | 188 |
| 2004/C 088E/196 | E-0517/04 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Release of toxic waste by a fire at an industrial plant in Thessaloniki and non-compliance by Greece with ECJ judgment on hazardous waste | 190 |
| 2004/C 088E/197 | 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 (Supplementary Answer) | 191 |
| 2004/C 088E/198 | E-0559/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: EU subsidises First Lady Suha Arafat’s high life in Paris | 193 |
| 2004/C 088E/199 | E-0574/04 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Garigliano nuclear power station | 194 |
| 2004/C 088E/200 | E-0583/04 by Nirj Deva to the CommissionSubject: EU aid money to Zimbabwe | 195 |
| 2004/C 088E/201 | E-0585/04 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: WTO talks Cancun and Geneva | 196 |
| 2004/C 088E/202 | E-0624/04 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Dumping of imported Norwegian and Faeroese rainbow trout | 197 |
| 2004/C 088E/203 | E-0640/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Surprising presence of names of Union bodies such as OLAF in confused news from Israeli institutions with regard to the use of EU funds by the Palestinian President | 197 |
| 2004/C 088E/204 | E-0649/04 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Roma people in Slovakia | 198 |
| 2004/C 088E/205 | E-0660/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: NGO funding | 199 |
| 2004/C 088E/206 | E-0665/04 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Safety standards for image editing of scanned banknotes | 199 |
| 2004/C 088E/207 | E-0666/04 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Breach of environmental legislation | 200 |
| 2004/C 088E/208 | E-0667/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Reopening of western rail corridor between Sligo and Cork in Ireland | 201 |
| 2004/C 088E/209 | E-0674/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Iarnrod Eireann’s rail freight operations | 202 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0667/04 and E-0674/04 | 202 |
| 2004/C 088E/210 | E-0670/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Commission investigation into discharges of oil at Poolbeg Peninsula, Dublin | 203 |
| 2004/C 088E/211 | E-0675/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Transfrontier Shipments of Waste Regulation | 203 |
| 2004/C 088E/212 | E-0684/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Parmalat and incentives arising from poor tax legislation in the Netherlands for foreign businesses with dishonest intentions | 204 |
| 2004/C 088E/213 | E-0686/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: European hydrogen platform | 205 |
| 2004/C 088E/214 | E-0724/04 by María Herranz García to the CommissionSubject: Rules on labelling wines | 206 |
| 2004/C 088E/215 | E-0749/04 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Introduction of the sector approach in EU development cooperation | 207 |
| 2004/C 088E/216 | E-0762/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Commission proposals for follow-up to the financial services action plan | 208 |
| 2004/C 088E/217 | E-0763/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Role of the public authorities in the follow-up period to the financial services action plan | 209 |
| 2004/C 088E/218 | E-0764/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Use of pre-accession funds | 210 |
| 2004/C 088E/219 | E-0765/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Rating agencies and access to privileged information | 212 |
| 2004/C 088E/220 | E-0773/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Belgium | 213 |
| 2004/C 088E/221 | E-0774/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Cyprus | 214 |
| 2004/C 088E/222 | E-0777/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Hungary | 215 |
| 2004/C 088E/223 | E-0778/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Lithuania | 216 |
| 2004/C 088E/224 | E-0779/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Poland | 217 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0774/04, E-0777/04, E-0778/04 and E-0779/04 | 218 |
| 2004/C 088E/225 | E-0784/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Family reunification | 220 |
| 2004/C 088E/226 | E-0789/04 by Cristiana Muscardini, Sergio Berlato, Roberta Angelilli, Roberto Bigliardo, Antonio Mussa, Sebastiano Musumeci, Mauro Nobilia, Adriana Poli Bortone and Franz Turchi to the CommissionSubject: International wine piracy — amendment of Regulation (EC) No 753/2002 | 221 |
| 2004/C 088E/227 | E-0790/04 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Presence of dangerous dioxin in the town of Acerra (Na), Italy | 223 |
| 2004/C 088E/228 | E-0794/04 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Regulation (EC) No 141/2000 on orphan medicinal products | 224 |
| 2004/C 088E/229 | E-0795/04 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Derrybrien wind farm bogslide | 226 |
| 2004/C 088E/230 | E-0798/04 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Amfilokhia and the Ramsar Convention | 226 |
| 2004/C 088E/231 | E-0800/04 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Dr Moliner de Serra Hospital (Valencia, Spain) and waste-water treatment | 227 |
| 2004/C 088E/232 | E-0801/04 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Exceptional hunting and wild bird conservation - Sardinia | 228 |
| 2004/C 088E/233 | E-0808/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Guarantees, with a view to enjoying equal rights, for persons who have suffered discrimination or neglect in the appraisal of qualifications obtained in other Member States | 229 |
| 2004/C 088E/234 | E-0817/04 by Stefano Zappalà to the CommissionSubject: Finnish customs duties | 230 |
| 2004/C 088E/235 | E-0820/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Agriculture - negotiations in the context of the WTO | 232 |
| 2004/C 088E/236 | E-0835/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Amendment of rules on wine labelling | 233 |
| 2004/C 088E/237 | E-0845/04 by Giorgio Celli to the CommissionSubject: Construction of a ‘health and wellness centre’ in the wetland of Es Salobrar — Es Trenc, Mallorca, Balearics | 234 |
| 2004/C 088E/238 | E-0847/04 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Mineral water extraction plant at Padernello di Paese (Treviso) | 235 |
| 2004/C 088E/239 | P-0850/04 by Salvador Jové Peres to the CommissionSubject: Correction for irregular grant of supplementary processed tomato quotas | 237 |
| 2004/C 088E/240 | E-0864/04 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Linguistic diversity | 238 |
| 2004/C 088E/241 | E-0868/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Large families | 238 |
| 2004/C 088E/242 | E-0876/04 by Struan Stevenson to the CommissionSubject: Illegal fishing in waters around the Azores | 240 |
| 2004/C 088E/243 | E-0881/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Incinerator installation in the Central Region (Portugal) | 241 |
| 2004/C 088E/244 | P-0902/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Talks for a settlement in Cyprus | 242 |
| 2004/C 088E/245 | E-0904/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Mercedes-Benz car warranties | 242 |
| 2004/C 088E/246 | E-0905/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Bicycle helmets | 243 |
| 2004/C 088E/247 | E-0908/04 by Paolo Bartolozzi to the CommissionSubject: Services of general interest | 244 |
| 2004/C 088E/248 | P-0913/04 by Philip Bradbourn to the CommissionSubject: Driver attestation checks | 245 |
| 2004/C 088E/249 | E-0914/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Illegal bird-trapping in Cyprus | 246 |
| 2004/C 088E/250 | E-0916/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Ireland and maritime safety legislation | 247 |
| 2004/C 088E/251 | E-0917/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Ireland’s compliance with the Waste Framework Directive in relation to the treatment of urban waste water | 247 |
| 2004/C 088E/252 | E-0920/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Treatment of waste oils in Ireland | 248 |
| 2004/C 088E/253 | E-0929/04 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Promotion of dairy products | 249 |
| 2004/C 088E/254 | E-0933/04 by John Purvis to the CommissionSubject: Energy from the Commonwealth of Independent States | 250 |
| 2004/C 088E/255 | P-0935/04 by Hans Kronberger to the CommissionSubject: European environment and health strategy - SCALE | 250 |
| 2004/C 088E/256 | E-0938/04 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Religious minorities in Gujarat | 251 |
| 2004/C 088E/257 | E-0940/04 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Churches in Indonesia | 252 |
| 2004/C 088E/258 | E-0941/04 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: GMOs | 253 |
| 2004/C 088E/259 | E-0943/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Research programme and multiple sclerosis | 254 |
| 2004/C 088E/260 | E-0950/04 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Hindrances to traffic on the River Danube | 255 |
| 2004/C 088E/261 | P-0958/04 by Manuel dos Santos to the CommissionSubject: Risk transfer in the loan establishment operation carried out by the Portuguese Government | 256 |
| 2004/C 088E/262 | E-0971/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Venezuela - referendum | 257 |
| 2004/C 088E/263 | E-0972/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Natura Network - funding | 258 |
| 2004/C 088E/264 | E-0977/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Health insurance in the Czech Republic | 259 |
| 2004/C 088E/265 | E-0978/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Ingredients in food products | 260 |
| 2004/C 088E/266 | E-0980/04 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Instructions from the Army High Command in Turkey | 261 |
| 2004/C 088E/267 | E-0981/04 by Giovanni Pittella and Guido Sacconi to the CommissionSubject: Protection and conservation of the marine environment | 262 |
| 2004/C 088E/268 | E-0984/04 by Piia-Noora Kauppi to the CommissionSubject: The role of tiredness in road accidents | 263 |
| 2004/C 088E/269 | P-0992/04 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Telecommunications | 264 |
| 2004/C 088E/270 | E-0994/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Child protection and future EU programmes aimed at young people | 265 |
| 2004/C 088E/271 | E-0995/04 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Restrictive measures planned by some EU Member States contrary to the right of equal treatment granted by the EU | 266 |
| 2004/C 088E/272 | P-0999/04 by Daniel Hannan to the CommissionSubject: Connection of high tension pylon lines in the Municipality of Civitella Paganico | 267 |
| 2004/C 088E/273 | E-1008/04 by Albert Maat and Neil Parish to the CommissionSubject: OIE conference on vaccination against animal diseases | 268 |
| 2004/C 088E/274 | P-1009/04 by Johannes Voggenhuber to the CommissionSubject: Lobau motorway | 269 |
| 2004/C 088E/275 | E-1010/04 by Johannes Voggenhuber to the CommissionSubject: Lobau motorway | 270 |
| 2004/C 088E/276 | E-1015/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Shrimp fishing in Svalbard | 271 |
| 2004/C 088E/277 | E-1023/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Modernisation of the Portuguese fishing fleet | 272 |
| 2004/C 088E/278 | P-1027/04 by Marie Isler Béguin to the CommissionSubject: Respect for Community environmental legislation | 273 |
| 2004/C 088E/279 | P-1028/04 by Nicole Thomas-Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Tension in the steel markets | 275 |
| 2004/C 088E/280 | P-1038/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Proposed directive to inspect Sellafield nuclear facilities | 276 |
| 2004/C 088E/281 | P-1039/04 by Daniel Cohn-Bendit to the CommissionSubject: Commissioner Reding standing in the European elections | 277 |
| 2004/C 088E/282 | E-1051/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Reaffirmation of the Commission’s position on the validity of Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003 | 277 |
| 2004/C 088E/283 | E-1076/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Cockle and mussel fishermen | 278 |
| 2004/C 088E/284 | P-1078/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Political neutrality of the Info-Point Europe of the Province of Flemish Brabant | 279 |
| 2004/C 088E/285 | P-1083/04 by Rolf Linkohr to the CommissionSubject: Project-related mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol | 280 |
| 2004/C 088E/286 | P-1105/04 by Massimo Carraro to the CommissionSubject: Raw materials | 280 |
| 2004/C 088E/287 | P-1148/04 by Renato Brunetta to the CommissionSubject: Availability of ferrous metal scrap on the Union market | 281 |
| 2004/C 088E/288 | E-1161/04 by Mario Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Foundry sector: shortages of raw materials | 281 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions P-1105/04, P-1148/04 and E-1161/04 | 282 |
| 2004/C 088E/289 | E-1110/04 by Christine De Veyrac to the CommissionSubject: Transeuropean transport networks | 282 |
| 2004/C 088E/290 | E-1114/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Civil protection | 283 |
| 2004/C 088E/291 | P-1181/04 by Salvador Jové Peres to the CommissionSubject: Correction for irregular grant of supplementary processed tomato quotas | 284 |
| 2004/C 088E/292 | P-1199/04 by Helmuth Markov to the CommissionSubject: VAT levy on EU aid | 285 |
| 2004/C 088E/293 | P-1202/04 by Françoise Grossetête to the CommissionSubject: Definitions of waste and waste management and treatment methods | 286 |
| | WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 2) |
| 2004/C 088E/294 | E-0811/02 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Harmonisation of rules on motor vehicles | 288 |
| 2004/C 088E/295 | E-1776/02 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against visually impaired people | 289 |
| 2004/C 088E/296 | P-2081/02 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: Use of Objective 2 funding in North-Rhine-Westphalia | 289 |
| 2004/C 088E/297 | E-2280/02 by Emilia Müller to the CommissionSubject: Relaxing of the ban on the use of bonemeal in animal feed | 290 |
| 2004/C 088E/298 | E-2677/02 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Fire safety | 291 |
| 2004/C 088E/299 | E-2970/02 by Christa Prets to the CommissionSubject: Culture 2000 programme — closing date for submitting projects for ‘St Petersburg 2003’ | 292 |
| 2004/C 088E/300 | E-3331/02 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Community Information Society Programme | 293 |
| 2004/C 088E/301 | E-3361/02 by Maria Sanders-ten Holte to the CommissionSubject: Insurance | 294 |
| 2004/C 088E/302 | P-3496/02 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: State aid for small-scale coastal shipping on the Azores | 295 |
| 2004/C 088E/303 | E-3540/02 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Health inequalities | 297 |
| 2004/C 088E/304 | E-3566/02 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Contracts between Eurostat and Eurogramme | 297 |
| 2004/C 088E/305 | E-3607/02 by Mary Banotti to the CommissionSubject: Interchangeability of postage stamps of the euro zone | 298 |
| 2004/C 088E/306 | P-3626/02 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Implementation by Greece of Directive 1999/70/EC | 299 |
| 2004/C 088E/307 | P-3650/02 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: More SME-friendly structuring of tendering conditions for EU third-state assistance programmes | 300 |
| 2004/C 088E/308 | E-3676/02 by Toine Manders to the CommissionSubject: Incapacity for work | 301 |
| 2004/C 088E/309 | E-3737/02 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: ABEJ - Solidarités’ | 303 |
| 2004/C 088E/310 | E-3780/02 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999: reports by the Member States concerning environmental measures and aid schemes in agriculture | 303 |
| 2004/C 088E/311 | E-3817/02 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Effective measures to render it impossible once and for all for EU residents to benefit from child labour elsewhere | 305 |
| 2004/C 088E/312 | P-3824/02 by Jan Wiersma to the CommissionSubject: Roma citizens - Buhusi | 306 |
| 2004/C 088E/313 | P-3906/02 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Problem of malnutrition in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank | 307 |
| 2004/C 088E/314 | P-3907/02 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Economic and social consequences of EU enlargement | 308 |
| 2004/C 088E/315 | E-3916/02 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: Gambling on the Net | 310 |
| 2004/C 088E/316 | E-3917/02 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: Border regions | 310 |
| 2004/C 088E/317 | E-0046/03 by Pasqualina Napoletano and Giovanni Pittella to the CommissionSubject: Crisis in Venezuela | 312 |
| 2004/C 088E/318 | E-0070/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Rise of fuel-inefficient and unsafe off-road vehicles in the United States and measures to prevent similar developments in the EU | 313 |
| 2004/C 088E/319 | E-0106/03 by Luciano Caveri to the CommissionSubject: Fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel | 314 |
| 2004/C 088E/320 | P-0110/03 by Peter Liese to the CommissionSubject: Vaccination against smallpox in the Member States | 315 |
| 2004/C 088E/321 | E-0131/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of budget heading B2-1411 (Support for regions bordering candidate countries) | 316 |
| 2004/C 088E/322 | E-0141/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: EU-Guinea-Bissau international fisheries agreement and development cooperation | 317 |
| 2004/C 088E/323 | P-0215/03 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Drug-related escalation of violence in Bolivia | 318 |
| 2004/C 088E/324 | E-0226/03 by Guido Podestà and Amalia Sartori to the CommissionSubject: Regulatory obstacles to intra-Community trade in gold products — breach of Article 28 of the EC Treaty | 319 |
| 2004/C 088E/325 | E-0230/03 by Helle Thorning-Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Implications of enlargement for jobs of customs agents | 320 |
| 2004/C 088E/326 | E-0267/03 by Laura González Álvarez to the CommissionSubject: Abuse of a dominant position and misleading advertising by the airlines Spanair and Iberia (Spain) | 321 |
| 2004/C 088E/327 | E-0303/03 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Malta’s accession to the EU | 322 |
| 2004/C 088E/328 | P-0370/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the Clarks factory in Portugal — Community aid — Relocation | 323 |
| 2004/C 088E/329 | E-0430/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: ‘Prestige’: State aid | 324 |
| 2004/C 088E/330 | E-0432/03 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Air pollution: exceeding of threshold values for particulate matter | 325 |
| 2004/C 088E/331 | P-0547/03 by Struan Stevenson to the CommissionSubject: Beef and live cattle exports to the Lebanon and Egypt | 326 |
| 2004/C 088E/332 | E-0570/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Punitive charges on imported vehicles | 327 |
| 2004/C 088E/333 | E-0610/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU/São Tomé and Príncipe 1999-2003: cooperation, development, human rights, assistance, etc | 328 |
| 2004/C 088E/334 | E-0611/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU/Guinea-Bissau 1999-2003: cooperation, development, human rights, assistance, etc | 329 |
| 2004/C 088E/335 | E-0612/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU/Cape Verde 1999-2003: cooperation, development, human rights, assistance, etc | 329 |
| 2004/C 088E/336 | E-0613/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU/Mozambique 1999-2003: cooperation, development, human rights, assistance, etc | 329 |
| 2004/C 088E/337 | E-0614/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU/Angola 1999-2003: cooperation, development, human rights, assistance, etc | 329 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0610/03, E-0611/03, E-0612/03, E-0613/03 and E-0614/03 | 330 |
| 2004/C 088E/338 | E-0697/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Harmonising size labelling systems | 331 |
| 2004/C 088E/339 | E-0761/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: EU requirements relating to the erection of mobile telephone masts | 332 |
| 2004/C 088E/340 | E-0867/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Economic crisis in Venezuela | 333 |
| 2004/C 088E/341 | E-0937/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Support for EU citizens living in Venezuela | 334 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0867/03 and E-0937/03 | 335 |
| 2004/C 088E/342 | E-0896/03 by Klaus-Heiner Lehne to the CommissionSubject: The German tax authorities’ practices with regard to turnover tax | 335 |
| 2004/C 088E/343 | E-0900/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Internal market restrictions | 336 |
| 2004/C 088E/344 | E-0921/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: East Timor — 1999 massacres; trial of those responsible; Indonesia; human rights | 337 |
| 2004/C 088E/345 | E-1180/03 by Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell’Alba and Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Secret Vietnamese prison set up next to the Cambodian border for the detention of Montagnards repatriated after having requested asylum; cases of arrest, torture and disappearance | 339 |
| 2004/C 088E/346 | E-1181/03 by Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell’Alba and Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Arrest by the Vietnamese authorities of Montagnards suspected of supporting the Montagnard Foundation, of being Christians and of recruiting members for the Transnational Radical Party | 340 |
| 2004/C 088E/347 | E-1182/03 by Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell’Alba and Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Individual cases of arbitrary arrest and torture of Montagnards (Degar) by the Vietnamese authorities. | 341 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1180/03, E-1181/03 and E-1182/03 | 341 |
| 2004/C 088E/348 | E-1209/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Distribution of infant milk in African countries | 342 |
| 2004/C 088E/349 | E-1247/03 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Burmese refugees | 343 |
| 2004/C 088E/350 | P-1251/03 by Carlos Bautista Ojeda to the CommissionSubject: Crisis in the European tourist industry | 343 |
| 2004/C 088E/351 | P-1287/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Macabre electoral farce in Chechnya | 344 |
| 2004/C 088E/352 | E-1290/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Anti-dumping measures applicable to the import of ferroalloys; the problem of the firm Ferroatlántica, located in Cee and Dumbria on the Costa da Morte in Galicia | 345 |
| 2004/C 088E/353 | E-1294/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Venezuela - democratic solution to the crisis | 346 |
| 2004/C 088E/354 | E-1296/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Clashes in southern Nigeria | 347 |
| 2004/C 088E/355 | E-1310/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: The situation of the Nigerian national, Mr Abubakir, a practising Christian | 349 |
| 2004/C 088E/356 | E-1316/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Autonomy of the Indonesian province of Papua | 349 |
| 2004/C 088E/357 | E-1317/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Community programmes in Slovakia | 350 |
| 2004/C 088E/358 | E-1321/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Angola - return of refugees | 352 |
| 2004/C 088E/359 | P-1336/03 by Ilka Schröder to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of homosexuals in the Palestinian autonomous areas | 353 |
| 2004/C 088E/360 | E-1400/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Seat of the European Food Safety Authority | 354 |
| 2004/C 088E/361 | E-1576/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: EU-wide energy taxation | 356 |
| 2004/C 088E/362 | E-1580/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Data analyses of illegal drugs in the EU | 356 |
| 2004/C 088E/363 | P-1607/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Repeated violations of human rights in Cuba | 357 |
| 2004/C 088E/364 | E-1629/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Promoting fair-trade products in the EU | 358 |
| 2004/C 088E/365 | P-1631/03 by Carlos Coelho to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination on grounds of nationality | 359 |
| 2004/C 088E/366 | E-1640/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Lack of money for maintaining infrastructure and for cofinancing projects in Member States which use tax cuts to gain a competitive advantage | 360 |
| 2004/C 088E/367 | E-1641/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Failure to grant Slovene nationality to persons who in 1991 were residents of the then Yugoslav republic of Slovenia and had Yugoslav nationality | 362 |
| 2004/C 088E/368 | E-1646/03 by María Rodríguez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Application of the safeguard clause in respect of imports into the EU of tinned mandarin-orange segments from China | 363 |
| 2004/C 088E/369 | E-1920/03 by Carlos Bautista Ojeda to the CommissionSubject: Imports of preserved mandarin segments from China | 363 |
| 2004/C 088E/370 | E-1921/03 by Carlos Bautista Ojeda to the CommissionSubject: Preserved mandarin segments from China | 364 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-1646/03, E-1920/03 and E-1921/03 | 364 |
| 2004/C 088E/371 | E-1677/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - Cotonou | 365 |
| 2004/C 088E/372 | P-1680/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Torture and inhuman treatment of women in Turkish jails | 366 |
| 2004/C 088E/373 | P-1708/03 by Emma Bonino to the CommissionSubject: Murder of Joyce Miamuna Katai, State Commissioner for women’s affairs and social development of the Nigerian State of Nasarawa | 367 |
| 2004/C 088E/374 | P-1746/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Carrickmines Castle archeological finds (Supplementary Answer) | 368 |
| 2004/C 088E/375 | E-1750/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cooperation with Angola: stability — demobilisation of UNITA | 369 |
| 2004/C 088E/376 | E-1751/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Venezuela - unemployment and referendum | 370 |
| 2004/C 088E/377 | E-1767/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of Christians in Indonesia | 372 |
| 2004/C 088E/378 | E-1776/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Child asthma and allergic diseases | 373 |
| 2004/C 088E/379 | E-1800/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: SARS and airline air recycling | 373 |
| 2004/C 088E/380 | P-1806/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Settlement of payments to EU Member States under the second CSF | 375 |
| 2004/C 088E/381 | E-1821/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Sausage meat | 375 |
| 2004/C 088E/382 | P-1931/03 by Horst Schnellhardt to the CommissionSubject: Introduction of European food standards legislation in the accession countries | 376 |
| 2004/C 088E/383 | P-1933/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Social development | 377 |
| 2004/C 088E/384 | E-1948/03 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Lithuanian referendum | 378 |
| 2004/C 088E/385 | E-1960/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Road transport managers | 379 |
| 2004/C 088E/386 | E-2011/03 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Application of the Community ‘acquis’ in Cyprus | 380 |
| 2004/C 088E/387 | E-2029/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Increase in charges for transit visas authorising people travelling between present and future Members States of the EU to enter Serbia | 381 |
| 2004/C 088E/388 | E-2077/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Community support for torture victims | 382 |
| 2004/C 088E/389 | E-2131/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Re-opening of mineral extraction plant at Pergamon (Bergama) | 383 |
| 2004/C 088E/390 | E-2139/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom and legal restrictions on the exercising of religious activity in Belarus. | 383 |
| 2004/C 088E/391 | E-2183/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Further violations of religious freedom and legal restrictions on religious practice in Belarus | 384 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2139/03 and E-2183/03 | 385 |
| 2004/C 088E/392 | E-2140/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of freedom of religion in Uzbekistan | 385 |
| 2004/C 088E/393 | E-2146/03 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Commission response to Council Conclusions on health matters | 387 |
| 2004/C 088E/394 | E-2161/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Support for accession and ACP countries | 388 |
| 2004/C 088E/395 | E-2177/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Procurement | 389 |
| 2004/C 088E/396 | P-2199/03 by Marco Pannella to the CommissionSubject: Imprisonment in Cuba, in inhuman and degrading conditions, of 75 opposition figures sentenced by show trial in April 2003, and the particular case of Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello | 390 |
| 2004/C 088E/397 | E-2217/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Slovenia | 391 |
| 2004/C 088E/398 | E-2227/03 by Michael Cashman to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Western Sahara | 392 |
| 2004/C 088E/399 | E-2231/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Human rights abuses in Burma | 393 |
| 2004/C 088E/400 | P-2252/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Uncommitted and unspent EC funds in South Africa | 394 |
| 2004/C 088E/401 | E-2256/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violations of religious freedom with regard to Pentecostal Church evangelists in Belarus | 395 |
| 2004/C 088E/402 | P-2262/03 by Mario Mastella to the CommissionSubject: Serious political, social and economic crisis in Venezuela | 396 |
| 2004/C 088E/403 | P-2286/03 by Ozan Ceyhun to the CommissionSubject: Customs regulations at the Serbia and Montenegro (former Yugoslavia) border | 397 |
| 2004/C 088E/404 | E-2296/03 by Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca to the CommissionSubject: Autonomous Community levy on the premises occupied by large commercial enterprises | 398 |
| 2004/C 088E/405 | E-2307/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Timor — 1999 massacres; trial of those responsible; Indonesia — human rights | 399 |
| 2004/C 088E/406 | P-2310/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: EU nationals imprisoned in Japan | 400 |
| 2004/C 088E/407 | E-2317/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: European citizens’ right to privacy | 401 |
| 2004/C 088E/408 | E-2357/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom against Muslims in Uzbekistan | 402 |
| 2004/C 088E/409 | E-2359/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Kosovo | 403 |
| 2004/C 088E/410 | E-2360/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom and legal restrictions on religious activity in Slovakia | 404 |
| 2004/C 088E/411 | E-2361/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Belarus by means of a new concordat conferring greater power on the Orthodox Church | 405 |
| 2004/C 088E/412 | P-2370/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Gang rape of women by British troops in Kenya | 406 |
| 2004/C 088E/413 | P-2371/03 by Michael Cashman to the CommissionSubject: EU-Egypt Association Agreement | 407 |
| 2004/C 088E/414 | P-2372/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Transfer of EU citizens being held prisoner to prisons in their home countries | 408 |
| 2004/C 088E/415 | E-2401/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Exemption from VAT on postage for charities | 409 |
| 2004/C 088E/416 | E-2420/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Repeated Israeli accusations against Palestinian media and school textbooks and the consequent continued campaign against payments from the EU | 410 |
| 2004/C 088E/417 | E-2471/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Italy and compliance with animal welfare regulation | 411 |
| 2004/C 088E/418 | E-2476/03 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: Reduced VAT for hotels, restaurants and cafés in the European Union | 412 |
| 2004/C 088E/419 | E-2478/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Women’s rights in Afghanistan | 413 |
| 2004/C 088E/420 | E-2486/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Uzbekistan with respect to Adventists and members of the Asia Protestant Church | 414 |
| 2004/C 088E/421 | E-2487/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violations of religious freedom in Turkmenistan and protection of Muslim and Russian Orthodox communities | 414 |
| 2004/C 088E/422 | E-2543/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Armenia | 415 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-2486/03, E-2487/03 and E-2543/03 | 416 |
| 2004/C 088E/423 | E-2500/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Beef exports | 416 |
| 2004/C 088E/424 | E-2507/03 by Paolo Bartolozzi to the CommissionSubject: Charges in the tourist industry | 417 |
| 2004/C 088E/425 | E-2571/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violations of freedom of religion in Azerbaijan | 418 |
| 2004/C 088E/426 | E-2576/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: ‘Enlargement Weekly’ only in English | 419 |
| 2004/C 088E/427 | P-2590/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Situation in Liberia | 420 |
| 2004/C 088E/428 | P-2617/03 by Emma Bonino to the CommissionSubject: Infringements of legality in Lebanon | 420 |
| 2004/C 088E/429 | E-2620/03 by Richard Howitt to the CommissionSubject: Human rights abuses in Colombia | 422 |
| 2004/C 088E/430 | E-2621/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi to the CommissionSubject: Enhanced consumer safety through additional private certification marks | 423 |
| 2004/C 088E/431 | P-2646/03 by Elizabeth Lynne to the CommissionSubject: Customs classification of ostomy appliances | 425 |
| 2004/C 088E/432 | E-2661/03 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Missing persons in Cyprus | 426 |
| 2004/C 088E/433 | E-2667/03 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Illegal timber trade (Indonesia) and the FLEGT | 427 |
| 2004/C 088E/434 | E-2674/03 by María Rodríguez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Application of the safeguard clause in respect of EU imports of tinned satsuma segments from China | 428 |
| 2004/C 088E/435 | E-2676/03 by Ulrich Stockmann to the CommissionSubject: US market access for DHL Airways | 429 |
| 2004/C 088E/436 | E-2677/03 by Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Circumventing more stringent exhaust emission values by unsuitable categorisation | 431 |
| 2004/C 088E/437 | E-2690/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Freedom of cantons in Switzerland to turn themselves into a tax haven for international companies. | 432 |
| 2004/C 088E/438 | E-2700/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Inquiry into the kidnapping of Peter Shaw | 433 |
| 2004/C 088E/439 | E-2701/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Child protection funding in Bulgaria | 434 |
| 2004/C 088E/440 | P-2723/03 by Francisca Sauquillo Pérez del Arco to the CommissionSubject: European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights and indigenous peoples | 435 |
| 2004/C 088E/441 | P-2726/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Russian minority’s schools in Latvia | 435 |
| 2004/C 088E/442 | P-2727/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Telekom Serbia | 437 |
| 2004/C 088E/443 | E-2741/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Croatia | 438 |
| 2004/C 088E/444 | E-2796/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Uncertainties regarding the need for financial compensation by national authorities for regional projects no longer receiving EU regional funding after 2006 | 438 |
| 2004/C 088E/445 | E-2843/03 by Astrid Thors to the CommissionSubject: Placement of children in institutions in Latvia | 439 |
| 2004/C 088E/446 | E-2856/03 by Jens-Peter Bonde to the CommissionSubject: Status of the Turkish language | 440 |
| 2004/C 088E/447 | E-2857/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Seychelles | 441 |
| 2004/C 088E/448 | E-2859/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Quantity of European funding for the Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organisation Hamas | 441 |
| 2004/C 088E/449 | E-2904/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: CARDS Programme | 441 |
| 2004/C 088E/450 | E-2956/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Increased financial support for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) | 442 |
| 2004/C 088E/451 | P-2972/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: EU funding in Kenya | 443 |
| 2004/C 088E/452 | P-2990/03 by Professor Sir Neil MacCormick to the CommissionSubject: Benes Decrees (October 2002) | 444 |
| 2004/C 088E/453 | E-2997/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Double taxation in Finland and UK | 445 |
| 2004/C 088E/454 | E-3006/03 by Joachim Wuermeling to the CommissionSubject: Tax exemptions in the Czech Republic | 446 |
| 2004/C 088E/455 | P-3020/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Romania — underage marriages in the gypsy community | 446 |
| 2004/C 088E/456 | P-3023/03 by Anders Wijkman to the CommissionSubject: Combating meningitis in Africa | 447 |
| 2004/C 088E/457 | P-3057/03 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Human rights situation in Guatemala, particularly the situation of Mr Rogoberto Dueñas Morales | 448 |
| 2004/C 088E/458 | E-3080/03 by David Bowe to the CommissionSubject: Water supply in Palestine | 449 |
| 2004/C 088E/459 | E-3081/03 by David Bowe to the CommissionSubject: Sewage systems in Palestine | 450 |
| 2004/C 088E/460 | E-3082/03 by David Bowe to the CommissionSubject: Alleged Israeli dumping of toxic waste in Palestine | 450 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3080/03, e-3081/03 and E-3082/03 | 450 |
| 2004/C 088E/461 | P-3110/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Withdrawal of Community funding for the Juan XXIII project in Alicante (Spain) | 451 |
| 2004/C 088E/462 | P-3132/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - Sakharov Initiative | 451 |
| 2004/C 088E/463 | E-3147/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Recent escalation of Israeli aggression in the Middle East | 452 |
| 2004/C 088E/464 | P-3179/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Cambodian deadlock | 453 |
| 2004/C 088E/465 | E-3181/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Sending EU representatives to observe the referendum on Chavez | 454 |
| 2004/C 088E/466 | E-3190/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Promotion of the pilot responsible for the Cermis tragedy | 455 |
| 2004/C 088E/467 | P-3247/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Annual report on Turkey | 456 |
| 2004/C 088E/468 | E-3249/03 by Richard Howitt, Jean Lambert and Renate Sommer to the CommissionSubject: Annual report on Turkey | 456 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions P-3247/03 and E-3249/03 | 457 |
| 2004/C 088E/469 | E-3253/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Somalia: internal situation, refugees and terrorism | 457 |
| 2004/C 088E/470 | E-3270/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Progress in Cameroon | 458 |
| 2004/C 088E/471 | E-3277/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: New relations with Libya | 459 |
| 2004/C 088E/472 | E-3319/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Mines and migrants on the Greek-Turkish border | 460 |
| 2004/C 088E/473 | E-3347/03 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement and social security advantages | 461 |
| 2004/C 088E/474 | E-3369/03 by Cees Bremmer to the CommissionSubject: Detention of EU citizen in Thailand | 462 |
| 2004/C 088E/475 | E-3476/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Disappearance of Ethiopian, a former coordinator for EU Aid | 463 |
| 2004/C 088E/476 | E-3496/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Colombia - ELN hostages | 463 |
| 2004/C 088E/477 | E-3497/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Georgia - parliamentary elections | 464 |
| 2004/C 088E/478 | E-3500/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Accession of Croatia to the EU | 465 |
| 2004/C 088E/479 | E-3517/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Fair trade | 466 |
| 2004/C 088E/480 | E-3521/03 by Anne Van Lancker to the CommissionSubject: Human rights violations in the USA | 466 |
| 2004/C 088E/481 | E-3550/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Zimbabwe - Censorship and repression | 467 |
| 2004/C 088E/482 | E-3560/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Al-Qa’ida - international funding networks | 468 |
| 2004/C 088E/483 | E-3567/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Water for Life | 470 |
| 2004/C 088E/484 | E-3570/03 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Setting-up of mobile customs control units in the Federal Republic of Germany after the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union | 472 |
| 2004/C 088E/485 | E-3591/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Côte d’Ivoire - the war breaks out again | 473 |
| 2004/C 088E/486 | E-3674/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Textile and clothing industry | 474 |
| 2004/C 088E/487 | E-3851/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Ratification of international conventions in the field of human rights | 475 |
| 2004/C 088E/488 | E-3859/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Funding of small Tacis Programme projects | 476 |
| 2004/C 088E/489 | E-3881/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Encroachment on the Almyra wetlands in the prefecture of Xanthi | 477 |
| 2004/C 088E/490 | E-3967/03 by Gian Gobbo to the CommissionSubject: Compensation for expropriated property of Istrian refugees in Croatia | 478 |
| 2004/C 088E/491 | E-3977/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Mediation in Nepal | 478 |
| 2004/C 088E/492 | E-3982/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Political rights of the Macedonian minority in Greece (Supplementary Answer) | 479 |
| 2004/C 088E/493 | E-4010/03 by Reino Paasilinna to the CommissionSubject: Safeguarding electricity supplies | 480 |
| 2004/C 088E/494 | E-4027/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Capital gains tax deductions | 481 |
| 2004/C 088E/495 | E-0008/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Accession of Cyprus, immigration | 482 |
| 2004/C 088E/496 | P-0027/04 by Marco Pannella to the CommissionSubject: Ongoing campaign of murder and torture by Vietnamese Government officials: arrest of Mr Nih, 41 years old, Christian and TRP supporter, on 13 December 2003 in Dak Doa | 483 |
| 2004/C 088E/497 | E-0089/04 by Astrid Thors to the CommissionSubject: Management of nuclear waste in Russia | 484 |
| 2004/C 088E/498 | E-0091/04 by Ilka Schröder to the CommissionSubject: Effects of including Hamas on the list of terrorist organisations | 485 |
| 2004/C 088E/499 | E-0097/04 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Saint Lucia environmental aid | 486 |
| 2004/C 088E/500 | E-0113/04 by Raina Echerer and Eurig Wyn to the CommissionSubject: Maltese language for the next parliamentary term | 487 |
| 2004/C 088E/501 | E-0202/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Lack of clarity in the rules excluding firms from applying for projects funded by the EU | 488 |
| 2004/C 088E/502 | E-0226/04 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Starch factories and developing countries | 490 |
| 2004/C 088E/503 | E-0254/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Global TB Drug Facility | 491 |
| 2004/C 088E/504 | E-0266/04 by John McCartin to the CommissionSubject: Imports of poultry meat into the EU | 492 |
| 2004/C 088E/505 | P-0302/04 by Christa Randzio-Plath to the CommissionSubject: Working conditions for female flower workers in Africa, Asia and Latin America | 492 |
| 2004/C 088E/506 | E-0306/04 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Use of sky marshals | 494 |
| 2004/C 088E/507 | E-0318/04 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: People with mental disabilities in Russia | 495 |
| 2004/C 088E/508 | P-0341/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Introduction of a ‘Made in the EU’ label | 496 |
| 2004/C 088E/509 | E-0352/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: The Parmalat case and its repercussions on milk and cheese production in Lazio | 497 |
| 2004/C 088E/510 | E-0403/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition to the detriment of the environment and of working conditions in the cheap production of the semi-finished product primary aluminium in Iceland | 498 |
| 2004/C 088E/511 | E-0406/04 by Jules Maaten and Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against a Netherlands onion farmer in Poland | 500 |
| 2004/C 088E/512 | E-0446/04 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Freedom of the press in Russia | 501 |
| 2004/C 088E/513 | E-0449/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Monolithic rock-hewn churches in Lilibela, Ethiopia | 502 |
| 2004/C 088E/514 | E-0461/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Zimbabwe - EP resolution | 502 |
| 2004/C 088E/515 | E-0492/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Mozambique — possible trafficking in human organs — threats to EU citizens | 503 |
| 2004/C 088E/516 | E-0493/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the Panasqueira mines in Portugal | 505 |
| 2004/C 088E/517 | E-0500/04 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Protecting the dignity of Arab women | 506 |
| 2004/C 088E/518 | E-0516/04 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Illegal transplantation of children’s organs in Albania intended for patients in EU countries | 506 |
| 2004/C 088E/519 | E-0518/04 by Elena Paciotti to the CommissionSubject: Violation of the fundamental rights of an EU citizen by the USA | 507 |
| 2004/C 088E/520 | E-0536/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Colombia | 508 |
| 2004/C 088E/521 | E-0539/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the Structural Funds in Portugal | 509 |
| 2004/C 088E/522 | E-0571/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Addressing the needs of disabled people in development cooperation funded by the EU | 510 |
| 2004/C 088E/523 | E-0572/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Czech psychiatric hospitals | 512 |
| 2004/C 088E/524 | E-0577/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - Sakharov Initiative | 512 |
| 2004/C 088E/525 | E-0584/04 by Nirj Deva to the CommissionSubject: EU aid money to Zimbabwe | 513 |
| 2004/C 088E/526 | E-0606/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: The Spanish Government’s respect for the principle of additionality in the funding of the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund | 515 |
| 2004/C 088E/527 | E-0609/04 by Ulrich Stockmann to the CommissionSubject: Customs and enlargement | 515 |
| 2004/C 088E/528 | E-0616/04 by Klaus Hänsch to the CommissionSubject: Allocation of EU resources (Supplementary Answer) | 516 |
| 2004/C 088E/529 | E-0620/04 by Concepció Ferrer to the CommissionSubject: Export of military ammunition to African countries as hunting ammunition | 517 |
| 2004/C 088E/530 | P-0626/04 by Juan Ferrández Lezaun to the CommissionSubject: The Spanish NHP alternatives | 518 |
| 2004/C 088E/531 | E-0627/04 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Failure to comply with Community legislation during border veterinary checks in Spain | 518 |
| 2004/C 088E/532 | E-0628/04 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Documentary irregularities when authorising third-country products during Spanish border checks | 519 |
| Supplementary joint answer to Written Questions E-0627/04 and E-0628/04 | 520 |
| 2004/C 088E/533 | E-0715/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Polish VAT increase for citrus fruit | 520 |
| 2004/C 088E/534 | P-0822/04 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition by Poland in respect of other EU products | 521 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0715/04 and P-0822/04 | 521 |
| 2004/C 088E/535 | E-0725/04 by Daniela Raschhofer to the CommissionSubject: Accession of Latvia | 522 |
| 2004/C 088E/536 | E-0728/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Ansaldo-Breda: possible monitoring of EU funding (Supplementary Answer) | 523 |
| 2004/C 088E/537 | P-0733/04 by Giuseppe Di Lello Finuoli to the CommissionSubject: European cofinancing of the Gazzi-Annunziata tramline in Messina under the Multifund Operational Programme 1994-1999 | 524 |
| 2004/C 088E/538 | E-0740/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Agency to combat tax fraud | 525 |
| 2004/C 088E/539 | E-0742/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Regional impact of the Growth Initiative | 526 |
| 2004/C 088E/540 | E-0744/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Encouraging the participation of SMEs in innovative and R&D projects | 527 |
| 2004/C 088E/541 | E-0747/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Safeguard clause relating to satsuma imports | 528 |
| 2004/C 088E/542 | E-0760/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the financial services action plan (FSAP) in the new Member States | 529 |
| 2004/C 088E/543 | E-0772/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Austria | 529 |
| 2004/C 088E/544 | E-0775/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Germany | 531 |
| 2004/C 088E/545 | E-0776/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Greece | 532 |
| 2004/C 088E/546 | E-0786/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Police cooperation and human rights | 534 |
| 2004/C 088E/547 | P-0788/04 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Importation of ‘dumped’ copper sulphate | 535 |
| 2004/C 088E/548 | E-0806/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Tremonti Law - Mediaset | 536 |
| 2004/C 088E/549 | P-0810/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Mozambique - Nampula - murder of a missionary | 537 |
| 2004/C 088E/550 | E-0813/04 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Agri-environmental payments | 538 |
| 2004/C 088E/551 | E-0815/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: The mass detention of Eritrean evangelical Christians | 539 |
| 2004/C 088E/552 | E-0821/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Signing of the Agadir Agreement | 540 |
| 2004/C 088E/553 | E-0833/04 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: VAT rating of 0 % or 5 % on all audio-books | 541 |
| 2004/C 088E/554 | E-0852/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Building projects in East Africa | 542 |
| 2004/C 088E/555 | E-0854/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Common external tariffs | 543 |
| 2004/C 088E/556 | E-0874/04 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Boycott of polio vaccinations by Nigerian fundamentalists | 546 |
| 2004/C 088E/557 | E-0878/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: The Acque Albule water company of Tivoli (Italy) | 547 |
| 2004/C 088E/558 | E-0889/04 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Elections in Iran | 548 |
| 2004/C 088E/559 | E-0899/04 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Larger Member State representation on the ECB board | 549 |
| 2004/C 088E/560 | E-0918/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Random motor insurance checks in Ireland on vehicles from other Member States | 549 |
| 2004/C 088E/561 | E-0919/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Trafficking in human beings | 550 |
| 2004/C 088E/562 | E-0922/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: VAT on postal services | 551 |
| 2004/C 088E/563 | E-0939/04 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Ethiopia | 552 |
| 2004/C 088E/564 | E-0946/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: School milk in Portugal | 553 |
| 2004/C 088E/565 | E-0955/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Statements by Commissioner Verheugen concerning Turkey’s possible accession to the Union | 554 |
| 2004/C 088E/566 | E-0986/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Blood diamonds | 554 |
| 2004/C 088E/567 | E-0990/04 by Jan Wiersma to the CommissionSubject: The recent clashes between Syrian Kurds and the Syrian authorities (March 2004) | 555 |
| 2004/C 088E/568 | E-0997/04 by Dominique Souchet to the CommissionSubject: Placing on the market of plant protection products | 556 |
| 2004/C 088E/569 | E-1003/04 by Daniel Hannan to the CommissionSubject: Romanian motorway project | 558 |
| 2004/C 088E/570 | E-1004/04 by Daniel Hannan to the CommissionSubject: Threat to peace and democracy in Adjara | 559 |
| 2004/C 088E/571 | E-1012/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Who is trying to block the investigations into fraud in Euroland? | 560 |
| 2004/C 088E/572 | E-1021/04 by Paolo Bartolozzi to the CommissionSubject: Imported goods in transit held up by customs | 560 |
| 2004/C 088E/573 | E-1054/04 by Franz Turchi to the CommissionSubject: Increase in European School fees | 562 |
| 2004/C 088E/574 | E-1065/04 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: ‘Legal’ operation of paedophile networks in Europe — new Dutroux? | 562 |
| 2004/C 088E/575 | E-1069/04 by Nicole Thomas-Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Inconsistency of the Commission’s position on wine | 564 |
| 2004/C 088E/576 | E-1073/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Architectural quality in urban and rural environments | 565 |
| 2004/C 088E/577 | E-1074/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Human rights and the Cotonou Agreement | 566 |
| 2004/C 088E/578 | E-1080/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Human rights defenders | 567 |
| 2004/C 088E/579 | P-1092/04 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Caste discrimination | 567 |
| 2004/C 088E/580 | E-1097/04 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Regulation (EC) No 2331/2003 | 569 |
| 2004/C 088E/581 | P-1104/04 by Francesco Speroni to the CommissionSubject: Fig bananas | 570 |
| 2004/C 088E/582 | P-1123/04 by Roy Perry to the CommissionSubject: Recourse to civil courts | 571 |
| 2004/C 088E/583 | P-1124/04 by Professor Sir Neil MacCormick to the CommissionSubject: Tax concessions for stud farms | 572 |
| 2004/C 088E/584 | P-1126/04 by Véronique De Keyser to the CommissionSubject: Use of structural funds | 572 |
| 2004/C 088E/585 | P-1141/04 by Göran Färm to the CommissionSubject: European patent rights in the USA | 573 |
| 2004/C 088E/586 | E-1145/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Establishment of a Community inspection body | 573 |
| 2004/C 088E/587 | P-1154/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Fight against terrorism | 574 |
| 2004/C 088E/588 | P-1155/04 by Marco Formentini to the CommissionSubject: Request for the Commission to intervene in the dispute between the company Invesmart bv and the Czech Republic regarding the bankrupt Union Banka | 575 |
| 2004/C 088E/589 | P-1201/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Municipality of Rome — failure to comply with Commission Decision 2000/628/EC in relation to State aid granted to ACCL | 576 |
| | WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 3) |
| 2004/C 088E/590 | E-3077/01 by Luis Berenguer Fuster to the CommissionSubject: The case concerning State aid for the ‘Terra Mítica’ theme park (Alicante) | 578 |
| 2004/C 088E/591 | P-2951/02 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Allocation of structural funds (Supplementary Answer) | 579 |
| 2004/C 088E/592 | E-3207/02 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Nicotine sweets (Supplementary Answer) | 579 |
| 2004/C 088E/593 | P-3445/02 by Wolfgang Ilgenfritz to the CommissionSubject: Vehicle leasing abroad — transfer of the place where the service is supplied to the home Member State — amendment of the VAT Directive | 580 |
| 2004/C 088E/594 | E-3512/02 by Herman Vermeer to the CommissionSubject: Problem of mutual recognition in the port of Antwerp involving a visa issued by a Schengen state (Supplementary Answer) | 581 |
| 2004/C 088E/595 | E-3753/02 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Kerosene tax | 582 |
| 2004/C 088E/596 | E-3801/02 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Tobacco excise on medicinal herbal cigarettes | 583 |
| 2004/C 088E/597 | P-3926/02 by Niels Busk to the CommissionSubject: Production levy in France (Supplementary Answer) | 584 |
| 2004/C 088E/598 | P-0020/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Caste-based discrimination in India | 585 |
| 2004/C 088E/599 | E-0079/03 by Margot Keßler to the CommissionSubject: The situation of people with mental disabilities in applicant countries | 586 |
| 2004/C 088E/600 | E-0113/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Migrant workers from the new Member States | 587 |
| 2004/C 088E/601 | E-0130/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Implementing paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and public health | 589 |
| 2004/C 088E/602 | E-0170/03 by Bob van den Bos to the CommissionSubject: Bangladesh | 590 |
| 2004/C 088E/603 | E-0242/03 by Nirj Deva to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Bangladesh | 590 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0170/03 and E-0242/03 | 591 |
| 2004/C 088E/604 | P-0176/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Consequences of the liberalisation of agriculture worldwide | 591 |
| 2004/C 088E/605 | P-0207/03 by Daniel Hannan to the CommissionSubject: Maltese referendum | 592 |
| 2004/C 088E/606 | E-0208/03 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: General Agreement on Trade in Services | 593 |
| 2004/C 088E/607 | E-0247/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Potential abuse of the EU Association Agreement | 594 |
| 2004/C 088E/608 | P-0264/03 by Joachim Wuermeling to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against EU investors in the Czech Republic | 595 |
| 2004/C 088E/609 | E-0277/03 by Brian Simpson to the CommissionSubject: Soda ash imports | 596 |
| 2004/C 088E/610 | P-0306/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Human rights situation in Zimbabwe | 597 |
| 2004/C 088E/611 | E-0401/03 by Roy Perry to the CommissionSubject: Transparency in the application of broadcasting legislation in the Czech Republic | 598 |
| 2004/C 088E/612 | E-0796/03 by Concepció Ferrer to the CommissionSubject: Bureaucracy and the EDF | 599 |
| 2004/C 088E/613 | E-0830/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the City of Frosinone | 600 |
| 2004/C 088E/614 | E-0892/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Fiumicino | 600 |
| 2004/C 088E/615 | E-0978/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Ancona | 601 |
| 2004/C 088E/616 | E-0979/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Carrara | 601 |
| 2004/C 088E/617 | E-0980/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Firenze | 602 |
| 2004/C 088E/618 | E-0981/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Livorno | 602 |
| 2004/C 088E/619 | E-0982/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Macerata | 603 |
| 2004/C 088E/620 | E-0983/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Massa | 603 |
| 2004/C 088E/621 | E-0984/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Perugia | 604 |
| 2004/C 088E/622 | E-0985/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Pesaro | 604 |
| 2004/C 088E/623 | E-0986/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Pisa | 605 |
| 2004/C 088E/624 | E-0987/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Pistoia | 605 |
| 2004/C 088E/625 | E-0988/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Prato | 606 |
| 2004/C 088E/626 | E-0989/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Siena | 606 |
| 2004/C 088E/627 | E-0990/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Terni | 607 |
| Supplementary joint answer to Written Questions E-0830/03, E-0892/03, E-0978/03, E-0979/03, E-0980/03, E-0981/03, E-0982/03, E-0983/03, E-0984/03, E-0985/03, E-0986/03, E-0987/03, E-0988/03, E-0989/03 and E-0990/03 | 607 |
| 2004/C 088E/628 | E-0915/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: EU/UN World Food Programme figures | 608 |
| 2004/C 088E/629 | E-1117/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Labelling of foodstuffs after enlargement | 609 |
| 2004/C 088E/630 | E-1297/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Massacres in Kashmir | 610 |
| 2004/C 088E/631 | E-1342/03 by Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: The right to religious freedom in India | 611 |
| 2004/C 088E/632 | E-1507/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Bankruptcy of Grundig AG and how to safeguard jobs in Portugal (Supplementary Answer) | 612 |
| 2004/C 088E/633 | P-1555/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Averting alcohol-related harm in Finland | 613 |
| 2004/C 088E/634 | E-1690/03 by Anders Wijkman to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat | 614 |
| 2004/C 088E/635 | E-1706/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Medstat and Medstat II programmes | 615 |
| 2004/C 088E/636 | E-1716/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Poul Nielsen’s statements on the USA’s presence in Iraq | 617 |
| 2004/C 088E/637 | E-1768/03 by John Cushnahan to the CommissionSubject: Rehabilitation of torture victims | 618 |
| 2004/C 088E/638 | E-1891/03 by Margrietus van den Berg and Jan Wiersma to the CommissionSubject: Iran’s nuclear activities | 619 |
| 2004/C 088E/639 | E-1902/03 by Lord Inglewood to the CommissionSubject: VAT and the European art market | 620 |
| 2004/C 088E/640 | E-2041/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Russia through exclusive cooperation agreements with the Russian Orthodox Church | 620 |
| 2004/C 088E/641 | E-2224/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Additional Protocol for Nuclear Material Safeguards | 621 |
| 2004/C 088E/642 | E-2266/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Financing of, and agreements with the EU concerning, construction in future EU Member States of camps to accommodate refugees seeking admission to the present Member States | 622 |
| 2004/C 088E/643 | E-2527/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Rum | 625 |
| 2004/C 088E/644 | P-2622/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Relations with Libya | 626 |
| 2004/C 088E/645 | E-2660/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: Checks on invalid MOT (road worthiness inspection) disks in EU Member States | 627 |
| 2004/C 088E/646 | P-2697/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Anomalies in the customs treatment of, and health requirements applied to, imported chicken and turkey | 628 |
| 2004/C 088E/647 | E-2910/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Difficulties at the German-Polish border | 629 |
| 2004/C 088E/648 | E-2957/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s proposed amendment of Directive 94/35/EC (Supplementary Answer) | 630 |
| 2004/C 088E/649 | P-2992/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Drugs production in Afghanistan | 631 |
| 2004/C 088E/650 | E-3021/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Child trafficking in Afghanistan | 633 |
| 2004/C 088E/651 | E-3031/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Community subsidies in the cultural sphere (Supplementary Answer) | 634 |
| 2004/C 088E/652 | P-3091/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Peter Shaw/Georgia | 636 |
| 2004/C 088E/653 | E-3117/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Illegal imports of textile products from China | 636 |
| 2004/C 088E/654 | E-3220/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Financial Regulations and DG Enlargement | 637 |
| 2004/C 088E/655 | E-3221/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Financial Regulations and DG Development and Humanitarian Aid | 638 |
| 2004/C 088E/656 | E-3257/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: VAT - recycling firms | 639 |
| 2004/C 088E/657 | E-3305/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Tunisia | 641 |
| 2004/C 088E/658 | E-3310/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline; violations of the ‘acquis communautaire’ by Turkey | 642 |
| 2004/C 088E/659 | P-3331/03 by Anne Van Lancker to the CommissionSubject: Defunding HIV/AIDS prevention programmes for refugees | 642 |
| 2004/C 088E/660 | E-3357/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Affront to the church of Ayia Sofia in Istanbul | 643 |
| 2004/C 088E/661 | E-3366/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Human rights situation in Chechnya | 644 |
| 2004/C 088E/662 | E-3377/03 by Elisabeth Schroedter and Inger Schörling to the CommissionSubject: Oil extraction by Russia in the Baltic Sea, near the Curonian Spit (D6 oil deposit) | 645 |
| 2004/C 088E/663 | E-3380/03 by Christos Zacharakis and Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Representations to the Egyptian authorities to implement the principles of democracy and the protection of human rights | 647 |
| 2004/C 088E/664 | P-3391/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Negotiations between Turkey and the Commission on the case against Leyla Zana | 648 |
| 2004/C 088E/665 | E-3396/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Failure to pay compensation to Italian exiles in former Yugoslavia | 648 |
| 2004/C 088E/666 | P-3401/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: The Loizidou case | 649 |
| 2004/C 088E/667 | E-3467/03 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Chad-Cameroon pipeline | 650 |
| 2004/C 088E/668 | E-3676/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Petition by CNASTI (Portugal) | 651 |
| 2004/C 088E/669 | E-3857/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Development aid programme for India | 652 |
| 2004/C 088E/670 | E-3868/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi, Riitta Myller, Samuli Pohjamo and Ari Vatanen to the CommissionSubject: Taxation temperature of fuel | 653 |
| 2004/C 088E/671 | E-3880/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Pet passports | 654 |
| 2004/C 088E/672 | E-3920/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: ECHO | 655 |
| 2004/C 088E/673 | P-3936/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Italtrend | 656 |
| 2004/C 088E/674 | E-3959/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Africa - food shortage and security of food supply | 656 |
| 2004/C 088E/675 | E-3972/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Campaign in Bulgaria against distribution and management of funds for civil society development by the EU delegation in Sofia and ways of assuaging the associated annoyance | 659 |
| 2004/C 088E/676 | E-3973/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: National Council for Ethnic and Demographic Issues (NCEDI) ignored when allocating EU funds for social participation in Bulgaria | 659 |
| 2004/C 088E/677 | E-4011/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of PHARE project BG 0102.06 in Bulgaria: major disparities between the proposals drafted and the actual allocation of funding | 660 |
| 2004/C 088E/678 | E-4012/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of PHARE project BG 0102.06 in Bulgaria: late announcement of decisions and controversial payment arrangements | 660 |
| 2004/C 088E/679 | E-4013/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of PHARE project BG 0102.06 in Bulgaria: lack of information as to who is responsible for management, decision-making and assessment | 661 |
| 2004/C 088E/680 | E-4014/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of PHARE project BG 0102.06 in Bulgaria: delays in implementation and uncertainty regarding the disbursement of the resulting outstanding appropriations | 661 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3972/03, E-3973/02, E-4011/03, E-4012/03, E-4013/03 and E-4014/03 | 662 |
| 2004/C 088E/681 | E-3974/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the support system for ACP banana producers | 663 |
| 2004/C 088E/682 | E-3992/03 by Giles Chichester and Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Presentation of the peer review on the Kozloduy nuclear power plant | 664 |
| 2004/C 088E/683 | E-3993/03 by Giles Chichester and Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Review of the closure dates for the Kozloduy nuclear power plant units | 664 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-3992/03 and E-3993/03 | 665 |
| 2004/C 088E/684 | E-4019/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Burma Forum | 666 |
| 2004/C 088E/685 | E-4038/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Processing of radioactive waste in Ukraine | 666 |
| 2004/C 088E/686 | E-4051/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Export of nuclear facilities to the People’s Republic of China | 667 |
| 2004/C 088E/687 | E-4058/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Gun laws in Turkey | 669 |
| 2004/C 088E/688 | E-4077/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: NGOs | 669 |
| 2004/C 088E/689 | E-4081/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Tuberculosis | 670 |
| 2004/C 088E/690 | E-4083/03 by Bob van den Bos and Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Burma | 671 |
| 2004/C 088E/691 | E-4084/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Suspension of cooperation agreements and postponement in signing cooperation agreements | 672 |
| 2004/C 088E/692 | P-4088/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Reproductive health definition | 675 |
| 2004/C 088E/693 | P-0002/04 by Bernd Posselt to the CommissionSubject: Definition of sexual and reproductive health | 675 |
| 2004/C 088E/694 | E-0007/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Accession of Cyprus, official languages | 676 |
| 2004/C 088E/695 | E-0032/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Long-term stateless-person status of one category of permanent residents of the three future EU Member States that were internal states of the Soviet Union until 1991 | 676 |
| 2004/C 088E/696 | E-0034/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Duty-free cigarettes sold over the Internet at half price in Romania and sent by private individuals | 678 |
| 2004/C 088E/697 | E-0085/04 by Matti Wuori to the CommissionSubject: Missing NGO legal framework in Malta | 679 |
| 2004/C 088E/698 | E-0096/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Israeli arms for Turkey in exchange for water | 679 |
| 2004/C 088E/699 | E-0104/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Namibia - Farms threatened with occupation | 680 |
| 2004/C 088E/700 | E-0116/04 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Leader II projects - Blue Dragon case | 681 |
| 2004/C 088E/701 | E-0118/04 by Monica Frassoni and Daniel Cohn-Bendit to the CommissionSubject: Elimination of voters from Maltese electoral lists | 682 |
| 2004/C 088E/702 | E-0120/04 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Death of 20 Albanian nationals | 683 |
| 2004/C 088E/703 | E-0137/04 by Jillian Evans to the CommissionSubject: The case of Mrs Siham Qandah, Jordan | 684 |
| 2004/C 088E/704 | E-0144/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - Commission delegation | 685 |
| 2004/C 088E/705 | E-0146/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Venezuela referendum | 686 |
| 2004/C 088E/706 | E-0148/04 by Cees Bremmer to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Burma | 687 |
| 2004/C 088E/707 | E-0188/04 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Abduction of two Ivorians | 688 |
| 2004/C 088E/708 | E-0213/04 by Sir Robert Atkins to the CommissionSubject: The Pharmaceutical Tariff Elimination Agreement (Zero for Zero) | 689 |
| 2004/C 088E/709 | E-0216/04 by Marco Pannella to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Vietnam | 690 |
| 2004/C 088E/710 | E-0218/04 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Practical measures under the EU’s policy on Chechnya | 692 |
| 2004/C 088E/711 | E-0221/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Investigations by the Milan public prosecutor into the auditors Grant Thornton and Deloitte in connection with the Parmalat scandal | 693 |
| 2004/C 088E/712 | E-0248/04 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Roma children in Bulgaria | 693 |
| 2004/C 088E/713 | P-0312/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Development aid | 694 |
| 2004/C 088E/714 | E-0401/04 by Concepció Ferrer to the CommissionSubject: River Ebro water transfer | 695 |
| 2004/C 088E/715 | P-0409/04 by Carlos Coelho to the CommissionSubject: Rights inherent in European citizenship | 696 |
| 2004/C 088E/716 | E-0427/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Residence of nationals in another Member State | 697 |
| 2004/C 088E/717 | E-0496/04 by María Sornosa Martínez and María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the CommissionSubject: Research into Spanish Labour Ministry bursaries (Supplementary Answer) | 698 |
| 2004/C 088E/718 | E-0526/04 by Matti Wuori to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement of Arinaga port (Gran Canaria, Spain) | 699 |
| 2004/C 088E/719 | E-0527/04 by Matti Wuori to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement of Arinaga port (Gran Canaria, Spain) | 699 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0526/04 and E-0527/04 | 700 |
| 2004/C 088E/720 | E-0569/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Leonardo da Vinci programme (Supplementary Answer) | 700 |
| 2004/C 088E/721 | E-0661/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Public procurement for the Júcar-Vinalopó water transfer | 702 |
| 2004/C 088E/722 | E-0669/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Professional qualifications | 703 |
| 2004/C 088E/723 | E-0676/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat - resource allocation | 703 |
| 2004/C 088E/724 | E-0677/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat: timber concession wildlife management | 704 |
| 2004/C 088E/725 | E-0678/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat - Biodiversity Action Plan | 704 |
| 2004/C 088E/726 | E-0681/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat - poverty assessments | 704 |
| Joint answer to Written Questions E-0676/04, E-0677/04, E-0678/04 and E-0681/04 | 704 |
| 2004/C 088E/727 | E-0682/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat: Development Strategies | 705 |
| 2004/C 088E/728 | P-0687/04 by Marcelino Oreja Arburúa to the CommissionSubject: Infringement of the principle of the freedom of movement of goods | 706 |
| 2004/C 088E/729 | E-0708/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Disappearance of last-remaining sources of income for Roma population in eastern Slovakia and resultant looting, violent clashes and migration | 707 |
| 2004/C 088E/730 | P-0721/04 by Daniela Raschhofer to the CommissionSubject: Benes Decree No 33/1945: the case of Hugo Salm | 709 |
| 2004/C 088E/731 | E-0756/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Repercussions of European financial market integration at national and regional level | 710 |
| 2004/C 088E/732 | E-0811/04 by Enrique Monsonís Domingo and Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Pests affecting citrus fruit | 711 |
| 2004/C 088E/733 | P-0841/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Female sexual mutilation | 712 |
| 2004/C 088E/734 | E-0853/04 by Terence Wynn to the CommissionSubject: New Regulation on sugar export and dispatch from outermost regions | 714 |
| 2004/C 088E/735 | E-0877/04 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Conflict resolution in Sudan | 715 |
| 2004/C 088E/736 | E-0901/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: The treatment of animals in livestock markets | 716 |
| 2004/C 088E/737 | E-0921/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Israeli nuclear arms | 717 |
| 2004/C 088E/738 | P-0956/04 by Brian Crowley to the CommissionSubject: Decoupling, farm retirement and families | 718 |
| 2004/C 088E/739 | P-0985/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Disappearance of children in Mozambique | 718 |
| 2004/C 088E/740 | P-1000/04 by Michiel van Hulten to the CommissionSubject: Publication by Commissioner Bolkestein of a book entitled ‘De grenzen van Europa’ | 720 |
| 2004/C 088E/741 | P-1007/04 by Manuel Medina Ortega to the CommissionSubject: Breakdown of the POSEI item in the 2004 Budget | 721 |
| 2004/C 088E/742 | E-1064/04 by André Brie to the CommissionSubject: Inconsistencies relating to the reconstruction of the road S 282 A in the Free State of Saxony (Supplementary Answer) | 721 |
| 2004/C 088E/743 | E-1081/04 by Maria Sanders-ten Holte to the CommissionSubject: The smaller European Schools | 722 |
| 2004/C 088E/744 | P-1125/04 by Daniela Raschhofer to the CommissionSubject: EU programmes with Turkey — potential consequences of full membership | 724 |
| 2004/C 088E/745 | P-1190/04 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Forum of Cultures 2004 | 724 |
| 2004/C 088E/746 | P-1200/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: The progress in Ukraine being recognised by the EU as having Market Economy Status (MES) | 725 |
| 2004/C 088E/747 | P-1203/04 by Gianfranco Dell’Alba to the CommissionSubject: Suspected irregularities in the management of European Development Fund (EDF) resources for Project 8.ACP.PNG.003 (Supplementary Answer) | 726 |
| | Corrigenda |
| 2004/C 088E/748 | Corrigendum to the answer to Written Question P-2323/03 by Mrs Schreyer on behalf of the Commission | 728 |

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 1)

2004/C 088E/1

E-2236/02 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Award of Commission contracts to audit firms (Supplementary Answer)

1

2004/C 088E/2

P-0043/03 by Gian Gobbo to the CommissionSubject: Introduction of a minimum rate of excise duty on wine

2

2004/C 088E/3

E-0052/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Human rights situation in Vietnam

3

2004/C 088E/4

E-0084/03 by Carlos Bautista Ojeda to the CommissionSubject: EU/Morocco policies

4

2004/C 088E/5

E-0086/03 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Killing of children in Honduras

5

2004/C 088E/6

E-0097/03 by Phillip Whitehead to the CommissionSubject: The rights of street children in Honduras and Guatemala

5

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0086/03 and E-0097/03

5

2004/C 088E/7

E-0238/03 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Clarification of the status of the Northern Dimension in the EU budget

6

2004/C 088E/8

E-0258/03 by Bob van den Bos to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement and development cooperation

7

2004/C 088E/9

E-0278/03 by Gianfranco Dell’Alba to the CommissionSubject: Irregularities in the election process in Cambodia

8

2004/C 088E/10

P-0325/03 by Marco Pannella to the CommissionSubject: Increasing violations of fundamental human rights of Montagnard population in the Vietnamese highlands

10

2004/C 088E/11

E-0356/03 by Bill Newton Dunn and Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Human rights abuses in Honduras

11

2004/C 088E/12

E-0434/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Sterilisation of young Roma women in Slovakia on the basis of misleading information or without their consent

12

2004/C 088E/13

E-0569/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Refund of registration fee in respect of exports from Denmark (Supplementary Answer)

13

2004/C 088E/14

E-0609/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU/East Timor 1999-2003: cooperation, development, human rights, assistance, etc

14

2004/C 088E/15

E-0824/03 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Restrictions on the transfer of securities in the Czech Republic

16

2004/C 088E/16

E-0904/03 by Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Use of agricultural diesel in border areas

17

2004/C 088E/17

P-1139/03 by Joke Swiebel to the CommissionSubject: Extortion against holidaymakers travelling through Bulgaria

18

2004/C 088E/18

E-1142/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Protection of archaeological museum exhibits in Iraq

19

2004/C 088E/19

E-1148/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Seychelles

20

2004/C 088E/20

E-1150/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Seychelles

20

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1148/03 and E-1150/03

21

2004/C 088E/21

E-1282/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the CommissionSubject: Red diesel in agricultural vehicles

21

2004/C 088E/22

E-1295/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - political prisoners

22

2004/C 088E/23

E-1311/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: The imprisonment of Dr Oscar Ellis Biscet by the Cuban authorities

22

2004/C 088E/24

E-1347/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Human rights abuses in Cuba

22

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1295/03, E-1311/03 and E-1347/03

23

2004/C 088E/25

E-1312/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: The situation of Mrs Siham Qandah, a Jordanian Christian

23

2004/C 088E/26

E-1334/03 by Luigi Cocilovo to the CommissionSubject: VAT on books

24

2004/C 088E/27

E-1339/03 by Maurizio Turco and Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of homosexuals in the Palestinian Authority territories and Israeli expulsions of Palestinian homosexuals

25

2004/C 088E/28

P-1345/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: EU penalties for collusion by European banks with the Baghdad regime

26

2004/C 088E/29

E-1382/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Consequences of the Copenhagen criteria for suppressing oppositions, restricting free expression of opinion, banning organisations and increasing the prison population

27

2004/C 088E/30

P-1384/03 by Gian Gobbo to the CommissionSubject: Turkish occupation of Iraqi Kurdistan

28

2004/C 088E/31

E-1414/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Burma refugee acceptance into Thailand

29

2004/C 088E/32

E-1417/03 by Bob van den Bos, Margrietus van den Berg, Maria Martens and Joost Lagendijk to the CommissionSubject: Situation of religious minorities in Gujarat, India

30

2004/C 088E/33

E-1467/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Killing of Street Children in Guatemala and Honduras

31

2004/C 088E/34

E-1469/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Wave of arrests in Cuba

32

2004/C 088E/35

E-1471/03 by Herman Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay

33

2004/C 088E/36

E-1484/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Graduation of General Sector Preferences Sector V imports with respect to employment alternatives to illegal drug production in Colombia

34

2004/C 088E/37

E-1492/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Coffee negotiations

35

2004/C 088E/38

E-1497/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Destruction of EU property in Palestine

35

2004/C 088E/39

E-1559/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: The situation in Somalia

36

2004/C 088E/40

P-1630/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Forced sterilisation of Roma women

37

2004/C 088E/41

E-1665/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Kurdish language teaching in Turkey

38

2004/C 088E/42

E-1678/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Angola - ‘child soldiers’

39

2004/C 088E/43

E-1693/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Underhand method of awarding contracts for reconstruction and management in Iraq to US firms by the US Army

40

2004/C 088E/44

E-1694/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Ongoing and permanent take-over of the Iraqi economy and oil reserves by US firms

41

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1693/03 and E-1694/03

41

2004/C 088E/45

E-1695/03 by Mario Mantovani and Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Humanitarian emergency in Iraq: the plight of children, disabled people and the elderly in hospitals.

42

2004/C 088E/46

E-1732/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Discriminatory Danish excise duty on beer

44

2004/C 088E/47

E-1833/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Iraq — serious danger to civilians from unexploded landmines and looting activities

45

2004/C 088E/48

P-1840/03 by Michael Cashman to the CommissionSubject: Post-Iraq-War aid

45

2004/C 088E/49

E-1844/03 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Treatment of gays, lesbians and transsexuals in Poland

46

2004/C 088E/50

E-1848/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Investigation into the chairman of the Diyarbakir Human Rights Association

47

2004/C 088E/51

E-1858/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: EU funding for rehabilitation of torture survivors

48

2004/C 088E/52

E-1897/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Food aid for Zimbabwe

49

2004/C 088E/53

P-1923/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the CommissionSubject: EU funds for the Caribbean tourism sector (follow-up to the reply given by Mr Nielson on behalf of the Commission to Written Question P-0743/03)

50

2004/C 088E/54

E-1928/03 by Maria Carrilho to the CommissionSubject: Aid to uprooted people in Asia and Latin America: revision of Regulation (EC) No 2130/2001 of 29 October 2001

51

2004/C 088E/55

E-1949/03 by Christa Randzio-Plath to the CommissionSubject: TEKEL alcohol monopoly

52

2004/C 088E/56

E-1954/03 by Jannis Sakellariou to the CommissionSubject: Human rights situation facing Yezidi in Georgia

53

2004/C 088E/57

E-1984/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Turkish violations of Greek airspace

54

2004/C 088E/58

E-2050/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Harassment of a Greek passenger plane by Turkish warplanes

54

2004/C 088E/59

E-2083/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Violations of Greek air space by Turkish aircraft and security of the inhabitants of the Aegean

55

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1984/03, E-2050/03 and E-2083/03

55

2004/C 088E/60

E-1985/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Scandal involving illegal sterilisations in Slovakia

55

2004/C 088E/61

E-2004/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: World Medicines Bank for poor countries

56

2004/C 088E/62

E-2019/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Anti-dumping duty on bicycles imported from China

57

2004/C 088E/63

E-2022/03 by Lennart Sacrédeus to the CommissionSubject: Arrest of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi

58

2004/C 088E/64

E-2024/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of freedom of worship in Turkmenistan

59

2004/C 088E/65

E-2028/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Greek customs authorities’ unnecessarily lengthy procedure of collecting up EU citizens’ passports at the border with Macedonia, a procedure that is also open to fraud (Supplementary Answer)

60

2004/C 088E/66

E-2055/03 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Trade union rights for police officers in Latvia

61

2004/C 088E/67

E-2058/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: ACP bananas

62

2004/C 088E/68

E-2091/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Rules for calculating aid for tropical products from ACP countries

62

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2058/03 and E-2091/03

63

2004/C 088E/69

E-2066/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Republic of Italy: application of the directive on VAT in connection with intra-Community supplies

64

2004/C 088E/70

P-2078/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Portuguese milk quota

65

2004/C 088E/71

E-2086/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Situation of Christians in Egypt

65

2004/C 088E/72

E-2089/03 by José Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado to the CommissionSubject: Clarification concerning the budget line for non-governmental organisations involved in combating torture

66

2004/C 088E/73

P-2104/03 by Bob van den Bos to the CommissionSubject: Burmese Rohingya refugees

67

2004/C 088E/74

P-2155/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Position of the Rohingya in Bangladesh

68

Joint answer to Written Questions P-2104/03 and P-2155/03

68

2004/C 088E/75

E-2116/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: The situation in Sudan

69

2004/C 088E/76

E-2130/03 by Markus Ferber to the CommissionSubject: Commission support for NGOs

69

2004/C 088E/77

E-2162/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Budget line B7-7010: no call for proposals in 2003 and its consequences for addressing the human rights of disabled people

70

2004/C 088E/78

E-2184/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Further violations of religious freedom in Turkmenistan

71

2004/C 088E/79

P-2198/03 by Niall Andrews to the CommissionSubject: Safeguarding human rights in Mexico

72

2004/C 088E/80

E-2223/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Secret European Union agreements with third parties on nuclear power

73

2004/C 088E/81

E-2229/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Oil revenue, Angola, transparency

74

2004/C 088E/82

E-2244/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Wild birds directive in Malta

75

2004/C 088E/83

P-2303/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - European Commission delegation - human rights

76

2004/C 088E/84

E-2304/03 by Emma Bonino to the CommissionSubject: Opening of a European Commission delegation in Yemen

76

2004/C 088E/85

E-2308/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Africa - oil - poverty

77

2004/C 088E/86

E-2321/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Number of Commission officials dealing with external relations

78

2004/C 088E/87

E-2345/03 by Erik Meijer and Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Protection of unspoiled natural and cultural landscapes with a potential for ecotourism in the mountain region in the Polish province of Dolnoslaœkie, Lower Silesia

79

2004/C 088E/88

E-2346/03 by Erik Meijer and Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Devastation of previously unspoiled natural and cultural landscapes and destruction of ecotourism due to the increase in opencast mining and quarrying in the Polish province of Dolnoslaœkie, Lower Silesia

79

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2345/03 and E-2346/03

80

2004/C 088E/89

E-2354/03 by Mary Honeyball to the CommissionSubject: Local government in ACP countries

82

2004/C 088E/90

E-2363/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Research by a Turkish vessel in Greek territorial waters in the Aegean

83

2004/C 088E/91

E-2392/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Stoning of Semsiye Allak in the village of Yalim, Turkey

84

2004/C 088E/92

E-2402/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Turkey: book-burning and State jobs for 15 000 imams

85

2004/C 088E/93

E-2442/03 by Jürgen Zimmerling to the CommissionSubject: Help for Madagascar

85

2004/C 088E/94

E-2490/03 by Bob van den Bos and Bashir Khanbhai to the CommissionSubject: Food aid to Ethiopia

87

2004/C 088E/95

E-2504/03 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Double taxation of returning migrants

88

2004/C 088E/96

E-2512/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the CommissionSubject: Support for victims of the crisis in the Palestinian territories

88

2004/C 088E/97

P-2514/03 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Medicinal products: specific exception to patent rights

90

2004/C 088E/98

E-2531/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Carpetbaggers and thieves in Kosovo

91

2004/C 088E/99

E-2542/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Russia

93

2004/C 088E/100

E-2551/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: EU failure to disburse overseas aid

94

2004/C 088E/101

E-2552/03 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: The case of Vinh Binh Trinh in Vietnam

96

2004/C 088E/102

E-2558/03 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Peru

97

2004/C 088E/103

E-2563/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Compatibility between the violence perpetrated by the Sudanese dictatorial regime and the agreement initialled by the European Union and Sudan

98

2004/C 088E/104

E-2574/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Violation of international directives by a Dutch company in the DRC

99

2004/C 088E/105

E-2579/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Confiscation of euro bank notes belonging to, and robbery of, families of Turkish origin from EU Member States during their annual journey home through Bulgaria

100

2004/C 088E/106

E-2585/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Taxation of low-proof alcoholic beverages

102

2004/C 088E/107

E-2588/03 by Marco Pannella to the CommissionSubject: Execution of Faramaz Mohammadi, the 19-year-old leader of the student movement at Tabriz University (Iran)

103

2004/C 088E/108

E-2593/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of Christians in Pakistan

104

2004/C 088E/109

E-2594/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of Christians

104

2004/C 088E/110

E-2604/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Protection of excavations at ancient Salamis, Cyprus

105

2004/C 088E/111

E-2613/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato and Gianfranco Dell’Alba to the CommissionSubject: Crimen Sollicitationis Instruction issued by the Supreme and Holy Congregation of the Holy Office of the Holy See to cover up sexual abuse by clergy

106

2004/C 088E/112

E-2615/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: New responsibilities for Commissioner Verheugen

107

2004/C 088E/113

E-2664/03 by Terence Wynn to the CommissionSubject: Manufactured products from third countries

108

2004/C 088E/114

E-2703/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: The sociologist Mehmet Bercet and the head of the Goc-Der refugee organisation, Sefika Gurbuz, on trial in Turkey for inciting racial hatred

109

2004/C 088E/115

E-2725/03 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Corruption at the Bulgarian border

110

2004/C 088E/116

E-2742/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Slovakia

111

2004/C 088E/117

E-2743/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Slovakia

112

2004/C 088E/118

E-2744/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Slovakia

112

2004/C 088E/119

E-2759/03 by Fernando Fernández Martín to the CommissionSubject: Method of calculating financial assistance to traditional ACP banana suppliers

113

2004/C 088E/120

E-2775/03 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Unlawful detention of an EU citizen in Thailand

114

2004/C 088E/121

E-2784/03 by Cristiana Muscardini, Antonio Mussa and Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Elections in Albania

115

2004/C 088E/122

E-2804/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: Urbs Asia Contract No Ala/95-21-b7-3010/39

116

2004/C 088E/123

E-2815/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Arrest and detention of Rev. Rinaldy Damanik in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

117

2004/C 088E/124

P-2854/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: The MEDA Programme and women

117

2004/C 088E/125

E-2884/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of Christians in Egypt

118

2004/C 088E/126

E-2889/03 by Samuli Pohjamo and Mikko Pesälä to the CommissionSubject: Need for a minimum import price for, and import duty on, Norwegian salmon and rainbow trout

118

2004/C 088E/127

E-2919/03 by Marco Cappato and Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Case of Italian citizen Maurizio Trotta, imprisoned in Romania

120

2004/C 088E/128

E-2922/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Commercial sanctions against Burma

121

2004/C 088E/129

E-2934/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - Spanish Cultural Centre

122

2004/C 088E/130

E-2953/03 by Maurizio Turco and Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Sentence of death by stoning in Nigeria

123

2004/C 088E/131

E-2955/03 by Maurizio Turco and Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Yet another case of persecution of homosexuals in Egypt

123

2004/C 088E/132

E-2988/03 by Bart Staes and Jan Dhaene to the CommissionSubject: Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Action Plan

124

2004/C 088E/133

E-2995/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Damage to valuable relics contained in the temple of St Sophia

125

2004/C 088E/134

E-3013/03 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: The case of the Tunisian journalist Néziha Rejiba

126

2004/C 088E/135

E-3025/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Human rights violations against Greeks on the island of Imbros through the Turkish national land register

127

2004/C 088E/136

E-3032/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the CommissionSubject: Denigration by Turkey of its ethnic minorities

128

2004/C 088E/137

E-3045/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Child labour

129

2004/C 088E/138

E-3133/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Angola - Falcone

130

2004/C 088E/139

E-3143/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Automobile prices in Greece and ban on diesel motors in Athens and Thessaloniki

131

2004/C 088E/140

E-3159/03 by Dirk Sterckx to the CommissionSubject: Unequal treatment of professional removal firms importing loads into the EU from non-Member States as a result of differing interpretations of Regulation (EEC) 918/83

132

2004/C 088E/141

E-3163/03 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: Regional policy in Hungary

134

2004/C 088E/142

E-3185/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Duty free allowances in the Canary Islands

135

2004/C 088E/143

E-3223/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Children sentenced to death in the Philippines

136

2004/C 088E/144

E-3244/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Policy Coherence for Development Network

137

2004/C 088E/145

E-3252/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: International Criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

137

2004/C 088E/146

E-3263/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Powers of the region of Wallonia to approve arms exports, and the use of such weapons to repress the people of Nepal

138

2004/C 088E/147

E-3292/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Shariah Law

139

2004/C 088E/148

P-3303/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Turkey and latest report of the Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD)

140

2004/C 088E/149

P-3375/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Nuclear safety: plant decommissioning and incorporation of costs

141

2004/C 088E/150

E-3382/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Kidnapping of a Médecins Sans Frontières volunteer

142

2004/C 088E/151

E-3399/03 by Olle Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Azerbaijan

143

2004/C 088E/152

P-3402/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: ‘Cross amputation’ of sixteen-year-old in Sudan

144

2004/C 088E/153

E-3435/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Act of provocation by Bulgaria towards a Member State

144

2004/C 088E/154

E-3443/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Palestinian authority - diversion of funds

145

2004/C 088E/155

E-3449/03 by Peter Skinner to the CommissionSubject: Smokes Direct, Spain

146

2004/C 088E/156

E-3462/03 by Helmuth Markov to the CommissionSubject: Plans for weight restrictions at the Guben-Gubinek border crossing and EU funds

147

2004/C 088E/157

E-3478/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Colombian flower imports and GSP

148

2004/C 088E/158

E-3484/03 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up to Written Question E-2055/03 on the Latvian Police Law prohibiting police officers from forming trade unions

149

2004/C 088E/159

P-3485/03 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: EEA, Norway and taxation of EU workers

150

2004/C 088E/160

E-3565/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement preparations in EU border regions

150

2004/C 088E/161

E-3589/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Syria - US sanctions

151

2004/C 088E/162

E-3609/03 by Giovanni Pittella, Marco Cappato, Giovanni Fava, Glyn Ford, Sérgio Marques and Emilio Menéndez del Valle to the CommissionSubject: Sending EU observers to Venezuela

152

2004/C 088E/163

E-3623/03 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Discriminatory policy against the Greek inhabitants of Imbros and Tenedos in Turkey

153

2004/C 088E/164

E-3635/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cabo Verde - special status vis-à-vis the EU

154

2004/C 088E/165

P-3695/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: MTR of CSPs in Asia and Latin America

155

2004/C 088E/166

E-3819/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Circulation in Greece of private vehicles fitted with Community numberplates

156

2004/C 088E/167

E-3824/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Labels of origin for imports

158

2004/C 088E/168

E-3902/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: ‘Made in Europe’ label for goods made in the Member States

159

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3824/03 and E-3902/03

159

2004/C 088E/169

E-3958/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Russia - parliamentary elections

160

2004/C 088E/170

E-3965/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Measures against China for abusive use of the EC symbol

161

2004/C 088E/171

E-3975/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Respect for equal treatment for staff at the Commission delegation in Brazil

162

2004/C 088E/172

E-3989/03 by Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: EU rules on sales and servicing

163

2004/C 088E/173

E-4004/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Disabled children in Russia

165

2004/C 088E/174

E-0012/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU-India Summit - closer relations

166

2004/C 088E/175

E-0049/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: EU aid to Iran to tackle the tragic consequences of the Bam earthquake

167

2004/C 088E/176

E-0072/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Suspected traffic in human organs - Mozambique

168

2004/C 088E/177

E-0143/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Trafficking in human organs - Mozambique

169

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0072/04 and E-0143/04

169

2004/C 088E/178

E-0154/04 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: ‘Kleptocrat tax’

170

2004/C 088E/179

E-0187/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Auditing of company accounts

171

2004/C 088E/180

E-0214/04 by Giles Chichester to the CommissionSubject: Details of EU funding to the Palestinian Authority

172

2004/C 088E/181

E-0270/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Follow-up to regulation on cross-border payments

173

2004/C 088E/182

E-0272/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Timisoara international port

174

2004/C 088E/183

E-0288/04 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Drug eradication programme in Colombia

174

2004/C 088E/184

E-0320/04 by Gary Titley to the CommissionSubject: Illegal logging and timber trade

175

2004/C 088E/185

E-0362/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Latvian passport names

176

2004/C 088E/186

E-0378/04 by Hartmut Nassauer and Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Planned draft second directive on limit values providing for the establishment of an indicative occupational exposure limit value, ‘inter alia’ for nitrogen monoxide (NO)

177

2004/C 088E/187

E-0382/04 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Free movement between Greece and the rest of the EU

179

2004/C 088E/188

E-0384/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Ansaldo-Breda: infringement of laws protecting workers from exposure to asbestos

181

2004/C 088E/189

E-0411/04 by Charles Tannock and John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Bangladesh

183

2004/C 088E/190

E-0413/04 by Charles Tannock and Theresa Villiers to the CommissionSubject: Migrating birds and Habitat Directives with regard to the republic of Malta

183

2004/C 088E/191

E-0419/04 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Bride burning in Pakistan

184

2004/C 088E/192

E-0429/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: The case of Rev. Rinaldy Damanik, Indonesia

186

2004/C 088E/193

E-0465/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Establishing the ‘Made in EU’ label

186

2004/C 088E/194

E-0501/04 by Jorge Hernández Mollar to the CommissionSubject: Measures to tackle the Ulysses syndrome

188

2004/C 088E/195

E-0510/04 by Sérgio Marques to the CommissionSubject: Stage reached in the implementation of aid to Venezuela

188

2004/C 088E/196

E-0517/04 by Antonios Trakatellis to the CommissionSubject: Release of toxic waste by a fire at an industrial plant in Thessaloniki and non-compliance by Greece with ECJ judgment on hazardous waste

190

2004/C 088E/197

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 (Supplementary Answer)

191

2004/C 088E/198

E-0559/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: EU subsidises First Lady Suha Arafat’s high life in Paris

193

2004/C 088E/199

E-0574/04 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Garigliano nuclear power station

194

2004/C 088E/200

E-0583/04 by Nirj Deva to the CommissionSubject: EU aid money to Zimbabwe

195

2004/C 088E/201

E-0585/04 by Bill Miller to the CommissionSubject: WTO talks Cancun and Geneva

196

2004/C 088E/202

E-0624/04 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the CommissionSubject: Dumping of imported Norwegian and Faeroese rainbow trout

197

2004/C 088E/203

E-0640/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Surprising presence of names of Union bodies such as OLAF in confused news from Israeli institutions with regard to the use of EU funds by the Palestinian President

197

2004/C 088E/204

E-0649/04 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Roma people in Slovakia

198

2004/C 088E/205

E-0660/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: NGO funding

199

2004/C 088E/206

E-0665/04 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Safety standards for image editing of scanned banknotes

199

2004/C 088E/207

E-0666/04 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Breach of environmental legislation

200

2004/C 088E/208

E-0667/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Reopening of western rail corridor between Sligo and Cork in Ireland

201

2004/C 088E/209

E-0674/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Iarnrod Eireann’s rail freight operations

202

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0667/04 and E-0674/04

202

2004/C 088E/210

E-0670/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Commission investigation into discharges of oil at Poolbeg Peninsula, Dublin

203

2004/C 088E/211

E-0675/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Transfrontier Shipments of Waste Regulation

203

2004/C 088E/212

E-0684/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Parmalat and incentives arising from poor tax legislation in the Netherlands for foreign businesses with dishonest intentions

204

2004/C 088E/213

E-0686/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: European hydrogen platform

205

2004/C 088E/214

E-0724/04 by María Herranz García to the CommissionSubject: Rules on labelling wines

206

2004/C 088E/215

E-0749/04 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Introduction of the sector approach in EU development cooperation

207

2004/C 088E/216

E-0762/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Commission proposals for follow-up to the financial services action plan

208

2004/C 088E/217

E-0763/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Role of the public authorities in the follow-up period to the financial services action plan

209

2004/C 088E/218

E-0764/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Use of pre-accession funds

210

2004/C 088E/219

E-0765/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Rating agencies and access to privileged information

212

2004/C 088E/220

E-0773/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Belgium

213

2004/C 088E/221

E-0774/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Cyprus

214

2004/C 088E/222

E-0777/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Hungary

215

2004/C 088E/223

E-0778/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Lithuania

216

2004/C 088E/224

E-0779/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Poland

217

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0774/04, E-0777/04, E-0778/04 and E-0779/04

218

2004/C 088E/225

E-0784/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Family reunification

220

2004/C 088E/226

E-0789/04 by Cristiana Muscardini, Sergio Berlato, Roberta Angelilli, Roberto Bigliardo, Antonio Mussa, Sebastiano Musumeci, Mauro Nobilia, Adriana Poli Bortone and Franz Turchi to the CommissionSubject: International wine piracy — amendment of Regulation (EC) No 753/2002

221

2004/C 088E/227

E-0790/04 by Roberto Bigliardo to the CommissionSubject: Presence of dangerous dioxin in the town of Acerra (Na), Italy

223

2004/C 088E/228

E-0794/04 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Regulation (EC) No 141/2000 on orphan medicinal products

224

2004/C 088E/229

E-0795/04 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Derrybrien wind farm bogslide

226

2004/C 088E/230

E-0798/04 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Amfilokhia and the Ramsar Convention

226

2004/C 088E/231

E-0800/04 by María Bergaz Conesa to the CommissionSubject: Dr Moliner de Serra Hospital (Valencia, Spain) and waste-water treatment

227

2004/C 088E/232

E-0801/04 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Exceptional hunting and wild bird conservation - Sardinia

228

2004/C 088E/233

E-0808/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Guarantees, with a view to enjoying equal rights, for persons who have suffered discrimination or neglect in the appraisal of qualifications obtained in other Member States

229

2004/C 088E/234

E-0817/04 by Stefano Zappalà to the CommissionSubject: Finnish customs duties

230

2004/C 088E/235

E-0820/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Agriculture - negotiations in the context of the WTO

232

2004/C 088E/236

E-0835/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Amendment of rules on wine labelling

233

2004/C 088E/237

E-0845/04 by Giorgio Celli to the CommissionSubject: Construction of a ‘health and wellness centre’ in the wetland of Es Salobrar — Es Trenc, Mallorca, Balearics

234

2004/C 088E/238

E-0847/04 by Monica Frassoni to the CommissionSubject: Mineral water extraction plant at Padernello di Paese (Treviso)

235

2004/C 088E/239

P-0850/04 by Salvador Jové Peres to the CommissionSubject: Correction for irregular grant of supplementary processed tomato quotas

237

2004/C 088E/240

E-0864/04 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Linguistic diversity

238

2004/C 088E/241

E-0868/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Large families

238

2004/C 088E/242

E-0876/04 by Struan Stevenson to the CommissionSubject: Illegal fishing in waters around the Azores

240

2004/C 088E/243

E-0881/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Incinerator installation in the Central Region (Portugal)

241

2004/C 088E/244

P-0902/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Talks for a settlement in Cyprus

242

2004/C 088E/245

E-0904/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Mercedes-Benz car warranties

242

2004/C 088E/246

E-0905/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Bicycle helmets

243

2004/C 088E/247

E-0908/04 by Paolo Bartolozzi to the CommissionSubject: Services of general interest

244

2004/C 088E/248

P-0913/04 by Philip Bradbourn to the CommissionSubject: Driver attestation checks

245

2004/C 088E/249

E-0914/04 by Caroline Lucas to the CommissionSubject: Illegal bird-trapping in Cyprus

246

2004/C 088E/250

E-0916/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Ireland and maritime safety legislation

247

2004/C 088E/251

E-0917/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Ireland’s compliance with the Waste Framework Directive in relation to the treatment of urban waste water

247

2004/C 088E/252

E-0920/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Treatment of waste oils in Ireland

248

2004/C 088E/253

E-0929/04 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Promotion of dairy products

249

2004/C 088E/254

E-0933/04 by John Purvis to the CommissionSubject: Energy from the Commonwealth of Independent States

250

2004/C 088E/255

P-0935/04 by Hans Kronberger to the CommissionSubject: European environment and health strategy - SCALE

250

2004/C 088E/256

E-0938/04 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Religious minorities in Gujarat

251

2004/C 088E/257

E-0940/04 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Churches in Indonesia

252

2004/C 088E/258

E-0941/04 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: GMOs

253

2004/C 088E/259

E-0943/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Research programme and multiple sclerosis

254

2004/C 088E/260

E-0950/04 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: Hindrances to traffic on the River Danube

255

2004/C 088E/261

P-0958/04 by Manuel dos Santos to the CommissionSubject: Risk transfer in the loan establishment operation carried out by the Portuguese Government

256

2004/C 088E/262

E-0971/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Venezuela - referendum

257

2004/C 088E/263

E-0972/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Natura Network - funding

258

2004/C 088E/264

E-0977/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Health insurance in the Czech Republic

259

2004/C 088E/265

E-0978/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Ingredients in food products

260

2004/C 088E/266

E-0980/04 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Instructions from the Army High Command in Turkey

261

2004/C 088E/267

E-0981/04 by Giovanni Pittella and Guido Sacconi to the CommissionSubject: Protection and conservation of the marine environment

262

2004/C 088E/268

E-0984/04 by Piia-Noora Kauppi to the CommissionSubject: The role of tiredness in road accidents

263

2004/C 088E/269

P-0992/04 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Telecommunications

264

2004/C 088E/270

E-0994/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Child protection and future EU programmes aimed at young people

265

2004/C 088E/271

E-0995/04 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Restrictive measures planned by some EU Member States contrary to the right of equal treatment granted by the EU

266

2004/C 088E/272

P-0999/04 by Daniel Hannan to the CommissionSubject: Connection of high tension pylon lines in the Municipality of Civitella Paganico

267

2004/C 088E/273

E-1008/04 by Albert Maat and Neil Parish to the CommissionSubject: OIE conference on vaccination against animal diseases

268

2004/C 088E/274

P-1009/04 by Johannes Voggenhuber to the CommissionSubject: Lobau motorway

269

2004/C 088E/275

E-1010/04 by Johannes Voggenhuber to the CommissionSubject: Lobau motorway

270

2004/C 088E/276

E-1015/04 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: Shrimp fishing in Svalbard

271

2004/C 088E/277

E-1023/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Modernisation of the Portuguese fishing fleet

272

2004/C 088E/278

P-1027/04 by Marie Isler Béguin to the CommissionSubject: Respect for Community environmental legislation

273

2004/C 088E/279

P-1028/04 by Nicole Thomas-Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Tension in the steel markets

275

2004/C 088E/280

P-1038/04 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Proposed directive to inspect Sellafield nuclear facilities

276

2004/C 088E/281

P-1039/04 by Daniel Cohn-Bendit to the CommissionSubject: Commissioner Reding standing in the European elections

277

2004/C 088E/282

E-1051/04 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Reaffirmation of the Commission’s position on the validity of Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003

277

2004/C 088E/283

E-1076/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Cockle and mussel fishermen

278

2004/C 088E/284

P-1078/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Political neutrality of the Info-Point Europe of the Province of Flemish Brabant

279

2004/C 088E/285

P-1083/04 by Rolf Linkohr to the CommissionSubject: Project-related mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol

280

2004/C 088E/286

P-1105/04 by Massimo Carraro to the CommissionSubject: Raw materials

280

2004/C 088E/287

P-1148/04 by Renato Brunetta to the CommissionSubject: Availability of ferrous metal scrap on the Union market

281

2004/C 088E/288

E-1161/04 by Mario Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Foundry sector: shortages of raw materials

281

Joint answer to Written Questions P-1105/04, P-1148/04 and E-1161/04

282

2004/C 088E/289

E-1110/04 by Christine De Veyrac to the CommissionSubject: Transeuropean transport networks

282

2004/C 088E/290

E-1114/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Civil protection

283

2004/C 088E/291

P-1181/04 by Salvador Jové Peres to the CommissionSubject: Correction for irregular grant of supplementary processed tomato quotas

284

2004/C 088E/292

P-1199/04 by Helmuth Markov to the CommissionSubject: VAT levy on EU aid

285

2004/C 088E/293

P-1202/04 by Françoise Grossetête to the CommissionSubject: Definitions of waste and waste management and treatment methods

286

WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 2)

2004/C 088E/294

E-0811/02 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Harmonisation of rules on motor vehicles

288

2004/C 088E/295

E-1776/02 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against visually impaired people

289

2004/C 088E/296

P-2081/02 by Christoph Konrad to the CommissionSubject: Use of Objective 2 funding in North-Rhine-Westphalia

289

2004/C 088E/297

E-2280/02 by Emilia Müller to the CommissionSubject: Relaxing of the ban on the use of bonemeal in animal feed

290

2004/C 088E/298

E-2677/02 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Fire safety

291

2004/C 088E/299

E-2970/02 by Christa Prets to the CommissionSubject: Culture 2000 programme — closing date for submitting projects for ‘St Petersburg 2003’

292

2004/C 088E/300

E-3331/02 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Community Information Society Programme

293

2004/C 088E/301

E-3361/02 by Maria Sanders-ten Holte to the CommissionSubject: Insurance

294

2004/C 088E/302

P-3496/02 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: State aid for small-scale coastal shipping on the Azores

295

2004/C 088E/303

E-3540/02 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Health inequalities

297

2004/C 088E/304

E-3566/02 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Contracts between Eurostat and Eurogramme

297

2004/C 088E/305

E-3607/02 by Mary Banotti to the CommissionSubject: Interchangeability of postage stamps of the euro zone

298

2004/C 088E/306

P-3626/02 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Implementation by Greece of Directive 1999/70/EC

299

2004/C 088E/307

P-3650/02 by Paul Rübig to the CommissionSubject: More SME-friendly structuring of tendering conditions for EU third-state assistance programmes

300

2004/C 088E/308

E-3676/02 by Toine Manders to the CommissionSubject: Incapacity for work

301

2004/C 088E/309

E-3737/02 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: ABEJ - Solidarités’

303

2004/C 088E/310

E-3780/02 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999: reports by the Member States concerning environmental measures and aid schemes in agriculture

303

2004/C 088E/311

E-3817/02 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Effective measures to render it impossible once and for all for EU residents to benefit from child labour elsewhere

305

2004/C 088E/312

P-3824/02 by Jan Wiersma to the CommissionSubject: Roma citizens - Buhusi

306

2004/C 088E/313

P-3906/02 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Problem of malnutrition in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

307

2004/C 088E/314

P-3907/02 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Economic and social consequences of EU enlargement

308

2004/C 088E/315

E-3916/02 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: Gambling on the Net

310

2004/C 088E/316

E-3917/02 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: Border regions

310

2004/C 088E/317

E-0046/03 by Pasqualina Napoletano and Giovanni Pittella to the CommissionSubject: Crisis in Venezuela

312

2004/C 088E/318

E-0070/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Rise of fuel-inefficient and unsafe off-road vehicles in the United States and measures to prevent similar developments in the EU

313

2004/C 088E/319

E-0106/03 by Luciano Caveri to the CommissionSubject: Fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel

314

2004/C 088E/320

P-0110/03 by Peter Liese to the CommissionSubject: Vaccination against smallpox in the Member States

315

2004/C 088E/321

E-0131/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of budget heading B2-1411 (Support for regions bordering candidate countries)

316

2004/C 088E/322

E-0141/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the CommissionSubject: EU-Guinea-Bissau international fisheries agreement and development cooperation

317

2004/C 088E/323

P-0215/03 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Drug-related escalation of violence in Bolivia

318

2004/C 088E/324

E-0226/03 by Guido Podestà and Amalia Sartori to the CommissionSubject: Regulatory obstacles to intra-Community trade in gold products — breach of Article 28 of the EC Treaty

319

2004/C 088E/325

E-0230/03 by Helle Thorning-Schmidt to the CommissionSubject: Implications of enlargement for jobs of customs agents

320

2004/C 088E/326

E-0267/03 by Laura González Álvarez to the CommissionSubject: Abuse of a dominant position and misleading advertising by the airlines Spanair and Iberia (Spain)

321

2004/C 088E/327

E-0303/03 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Malta’s accession to the EU

322

2004/C 088E/328

P-0370/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the Clarks factory in Portugal — Community aid — Relocation

323

2004/C 088E/329

E-0430/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: ‘Prestige’: State aid

324

2004/C 088E/330

E-0432/03 by Dorette Corbey to the CommissionSubject: Air pollution: exceeding of threshold values for particulate matter

325

2004/C 088E/331

P-0547/03 by Struan Stevenson to the CommissionSubject: Beef and live cattle exports to the Lebanon and Egypt

326

2004/C 088E/332

E-0570/03 by Freddy Blak to the CommissionSubject: Punitive charges on imported vehicles

327

2004/C 088E/333

E-0610/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU/São Tomé and Príncipe 1999-2003: cooperation, development, human rights, assistance, etc

328

2004/C 088E/334

E-0611/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU/Guinea-Bissau 1999-2003: cooperation, development, human rights, assistance, etc

329

2004/C 088E/335

E-0612/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU/Cape Verde 1999-2003: cooperation, development, human rights, assistance, etc

329

2004/C 088E/336

E-0613/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU/Mozambique 1999-2003: cooperation, development, human rights, assistance, etc

329

2004/C 088E/337

E-0614/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: EU/Angola 1999-2003: cooperation, development, human rights, assistance, etc

329

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0610/03, E-0611/03, E-0612/03, E-0613/03 and E-0614/03

330

2004/C 088E/338

E-0697/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Harmonising size labelling systems

331

2004/C 088E/339

E-0761/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: EU requirements relating to the erection of mobile telephone masts

332

2004/C 088E/340

E-0867/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Economic crisis in Venezuela

333

2004/C 088E/341

E-0937/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Support for EU citizens living in Venezuela

334

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0867/03 and E-0937/03

335

2004/C 088E/342

E-0896/03 by Klaus-Heiner Lehne to the CommissionSubject: The German tax authorities’ practices with regard to turnover tax

335

2004/C 088E/343

E-0900/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Internal market restrictions

336

2004/C 088E/344

E-0921/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: East Timor — 1999 massacres; trial of those responsible; Indonesia; human rights

337

2004/C 088E/345

E-1180/03 by Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell’Alba and Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Secret Vietnamese prison set up next to the Cambodian border for the detention of Montagnards repatriated after having requested asylum; cases of arrest, torture and disappearance

339

2004/C 088E/346

E-1181/03 by Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell’Alba and Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Arrest by the Vietnamese authorities of Montagnards suspected of supporting the Montagnard Foundation, of being Christians and of recruiting members for the Transnational Radical Party

340

2004/C 088E/347

E-1182/03 by Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell’Alba and Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: Individual cases of arbitrary arrest and torture of Montagnards (Degar) by the Vietnamese authorities.

341

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1180/03, E-1181/03 and E-1182/03

341

2004/C 088E/348

E-1209/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Distribution of infant milk in African countries

342

2004/C 088E/349

E-1247/03 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Burmese refugees

343

2004/C 088E/350

P-1251/03 by Carlos Bautista Ojeda to the CommissionSubject: Crisis in the European tourist industry

343

2004/C 088E/351

P-1287/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the CommissionSubject: Macabre electoral farce in Chechnya

344

2004/C 088E/352

E-1290/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: Anti-dumping measures applicable to the import of ferroalloys; the problem of the firm Ferroatlántica, located in Cee and Dumbria on the Costa da Morte in Galicia

345

2004/C 088E/353

E-1294/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Venezuela - democratic solution to the crisis

346

2004/C 088E/354

E-1296/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Clashes in southern Nigeria

347

2004/C 088E/355

E-1310/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: The situation of the Nigerian national, Mr Abubakir, a practising Christian

349

2004/C 088E/356

E-1316/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Autonomy of the Indonesian province of Papua

349

2004/C 088E/357

E-1317/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of Community programmes in Slovakia

350

2004/C 088E/358

E-1321/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Angola - return of refugees

352

2004/C 088E/359

P-1336/03 by Ilka Schröder to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of homosexuals in the Palestinian autonomous areas

353

2004/C 088E/360

E-1400/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Seat of the European Food Safety Authority

354

2004/C 088E/361

E-1576/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: EU-wide energy taxation

356

2004/C 088E/362

E-1580/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Data analyses of illegal drugs in the EU

356

2004/C 088E/363

P-1607/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Repeated violations of human rights in Cuba

357

2004/C 088E/364

E-1629/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Promoting fair-trade products in the EU

358

2004/C 088E/365

P-1631/03 by Carlos Coelho to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination on grounds of nationality

359

2004/C 088E/366

E-1640/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Lack of money for maintaining infrastructure and for cofinancing projects in Member States which use tax cuts to gain a competitive advantage

360

2004/C 088E/367

E-1641/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Failure to grant Slovene nationality to persons who in 1991 were residents of the then Yugoslav republic of Slovenia and had Yugoslav nationality

362

2004/C 088E/368

E-1646/03 by María Rodríguez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Application of the safeguard clause in respect of imports into the EU of tinned mandarin-orange segments from China

363

2004/C 088E/369

E-1920/03 by Carlos Bautista Ojeda to the CommissionSubject: Imports of preserved mandarin segments from China

363

2004/C 088E/370

E-1921/03 by Carlos Bautista Ojeda to the CommissionSubject: Preserved mandarin segments from China

364

Joint answer to Written Questions E-1646/03, E-1920/03 and E-1921/03

364

2004/C 088E/371

E-1677/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - Cotonou

365

2004/C 088E/372

P-1680/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Torture and inhuman treatment of women in Turkish jails

366

2004/C 088E/373

P-1708/03 by Emma Bonino to the CommissionSubject: Murder of Joyce Miamuna Katai, State Commissioner for women’s affairs and social development of the Nigerian State of Nasarawa

367

2004/C 088E/374

P-1746/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Carrickmines Castle archeological finds (Supplementary Answer)

368

2004/C 088E/375

E-1750/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cooperation with Angola: stability — demobilisation of UNITA

369

2004/C 088E/376

E-1751/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Venezuela - unemployment and referendum

370

2004/C 088E/377

E-1767/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Persecution of Christians in Indonesia

372

2004/C 088E/378

E-1776/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Child asthma and allergic diseases

373

2004/C 088E/379

E-1800/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: SARS and airline air recycling

373

2004/C 088E/380

P-1806/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Settlement of payments to EU Member States under the second CSF

375

2004/C 088E/381

E-1821/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Sausage meat

375

2004/C 088E/382

P-1931/03 by Horst Schnellhardt to the CommissionSubject: Introduction of European food standards legislation in the accession countries

376

2004/C 088E/383

P-1933/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Social development

377

2004/C 088E/384

E-1948/03 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Lithuanian referendum

378

2004/C 088E/385

E-1960/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Road transport managers

379

2004/C 088E/386

E-2011/03 by Ioannis Marínos to the CommissionSubject: Application of the Community ‘acquis’ in Cyprus

380

2004/C 088E/387

E-2029/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Increase in charges for transit visas authorising people travelling between present and future Members States of the EU to enter Serbia

381

2004/C 088E/388

E-2077/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Community support for torture victims

382

2004/C 088E/389

E-2131/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the CommissionSubject: Re-opening of mineral extraction plant at Pergamon (Bergama)

383

2004/C 088E/390

E-2139/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom and legal restrictions on the exercising of religious activity in Belarus.

383

2004/C 088E/391

E-2183/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Further violations of religious freedom and legal restrictions on religious practice in Belarus

384

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2139/03 and E-2183/03

385

2004/C 088E/392

E-2140/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of freedom of religion in Uzbekistan

385

2004/C 088E/393

E-2146/03 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Commission response to Council Conclusions on health matters

387

2004/C 088E/394

E-2161/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Support for accession and ACP countries

388

2004/C 088E/395

E-2177/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Procurement

389

2004/C 088E/396

P-2199/03 by Marco Pannella to the CommissionSubject: Imprisonment in Cuba, in inhuman and degrading conditions, of 75 opposition figures sentenced by show trial in April 2003, and the particular case of Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello

75

390

2004/C 088E/397

E-2217/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Slovenia

391

2004/C 088E/398

E-2227/03 by Michael Cashman to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Western Sahara

392

2004/C 088E/399

E-2231/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Human rights abuses in Burma

393

2004/C 088E/400

P-2252/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Uncommitted and unspent EC funds in South Africa

394

2004/C 088E/401

E-2256/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violations of religious freedom with regard to Pentecostal Church evangelists in Belarus

395

2004/C 088E/402

P-2262/03 by Mario Mastella to the CommissionSubject: Serious political, social and economic crisis in Venezuela

396

2004/C 088E/403

P-2286/03 by Ozan Ceyhun to the CommissionSubject: Customs regulations at the Serbia and Montenegro (former Yugoslavia) border

397

2004/C 088E/404

E-2296/03 by Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca to the CommissionSubject: Autonomous Community levy on the premises occupied by large commercial enterprises

398

2004/C 088E/405

E-2307/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Timor — 1999 massacres; trial of those responsible; Indonesia — human rights

399

2004/C 088E/406

P-2310/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: EU nationals imprisoned in Japan

400

2004/C 088E/407

E-2317/03 by Armando Cossutta to the CommissionSubject: European citizens’ right to privacy

401

2004/C 088E/408

E-2357/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom against Muslims in Uzbekistan

402

2004/C 088E/409

E-2359/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Kosovo

403

2004/C 088E/410

E-2360/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom and legal restrictions on religious activity in Slovakia

404

2004/C 088E/411

E-2361/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Belarus by means of a new concordat conferring greater power on the Orthodox Church

405

2004/C 088E/412

P-2370/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Gang rape of women by British troops in Kenya

406

2004/C 088E/413

P-2371/03 by Michael Cashman to the CommissionSubject: EU-Egypt Association Agreement

407

2004/C 088E/414

P-2372/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Transfer of EU citizens being held prisoner to prisons in their home countries

408

2004/C 088E/415

E-2401/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Exemption from VAT on postage for charities

409

2004/C 088E/416

E-2420/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Repeated Israeli accusations against Palestinian media and school textbooks and the consequent continued campaign against payments from the EU

410

2004/C 088E/417

E-2471/03 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: Italy and compliance with animal welfare regulation

411

2004/C 088E/418

E-2476/03 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the CommissionSubject: Reduced VAT for hotels, restaurants and cafés in the European Union

412

2004/C 088E/419

E-2478/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Women’s rights in Afghanistan

413

2004/C 088E/420

E-2486/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Uzbekistan with respect to Adventists and members of the Asia Protestant Church

414

2004/C 088E/421

E-2487/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violations of religious freedom in Turkmenistan and protection of Muslim and Russian Orthodox communities

414

2004/C 088E/422

E-2543/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Armenia

415

Joint answer to Written Questions E-2486/03, E-2487/03 and E-2543/03

416

2004/C 088E/423

E-2500/03 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Beef exports

416

2004/C 088E/424

E-2507/03 by Paolo Bartolozzi to the CommissionSubject: Charges in the tourist industry

417

2004/C 088E/425

E-2571/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violations of freedom of religion in Azerbaijan

418

2004/C 088E/426

E-2576/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: ‘Enlargement Weekly’ only in English

419

2004/C 088E/427

P-2590/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Situation in Liberia

420

2004/C 088E/428

P-2617/03 by Emma Bonino to the CommissionSubject: Infringements of legality in Lebanon

420

2004/C 088E/429

E-2620/03 by Richard Howitt to the CommissionSubject: Human rights abuses in Colombia

422

2004/C 088E/430

E-2621/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi to the CommissionSubject: Enhanced consumer safety through additional private certification marks

423

2004/C 088E/431

P-2646/03 by Elizabeth Lynne to the CommissionSubject: Customs classification of ostomy appliances

425

2004/C 088E/432

E-2661/03 by Ian Hudghton to the CommissionSubject: Missing persons in Cyprus

426

2004/C 088E/433

E-2667/03 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Illegal timber trade (Indonesia) and the FLEGT

427

2004/C 088E/434

E-2674/03 by María Rodríguez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Application of the safeguard clause in respect of EU imports of tinned satsuma segments from China

428

2004/C 088E/435

E-2676/03 by Ulrich Stockmann to the CommissionSubject: US market access for DHL Airways

429

2004/C 088E/436

E-2677/03 by Bernd Lange to the CommissionSubject: Circumventing more stringent exhaust emission values by unsuitable categorisation

431

2004/C 088E/437

E-2690/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Freedom of cantons in Switzerland to turn themselves into a tax haven for international companies.

432

2004/C 088E/438

E-2700/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Inquiry into the kidnapping of Peter Shaw

433

2004/C 088E/439

E-2701/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Child protection funding in Bulgaria

434

2004/C 088E/440

P-2723/03 by Francisca Sauquillo Pérez del Arco to the CommissionSubject: European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights and indigenous peoples

435

2004/C 088E/441

P-2726/03 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Russian minority’s schools in Latvia

435

2004/C 088E/442

P-2727/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Telekom Serbia

437

2004/C 088E/443

E-2741/03 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Croatia

438

2004/C 088E/444

E-2796/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Uncertainties regarding the need for financial compensation by national authorities for regional projects no longer receiving EU regional funding after 2006

438

2004/C 088E/445

E-2843/03 by Astrid Thors to the CommissionSubject: Placement of children in institutions in Latvia

439

2004/C 088E/446

E-2856/03 by Jens-Peter Bonde to the CommissionSubject: Status of the Turkish language

440

2004/C 088E/447

E-2857/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Seychelles

441

2004/C 088E/448

E-2859/03 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Quantity of European funding for the Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organisation Hamas

441

2004/C 088E/449

E-2904/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: CARDS Programme

441

2004/C 088E/450

E-2956/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Increased financial support for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

442

2004/C 088E/451

P-2972/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: EU funding in Kenya

443

2004/C 088E/452

P-2990/03 by Professor Sir Neil MacCormick to the CommissionSubject: Benes Decrees (October 2002)

444

2004/C 088E/453

E-2997/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the CommissionSubject: Double taxation in Finland and UK

445

2004/C 088E/454

E-3006/03 by Joachim Wuermeling to the CommissionSubject: Tax exemptions in the Czech Republic

446

2004/C 088E/455

P-3020/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Romania — underage marriages in the gypsy community

446

2004/C 088E/456

P-3023/03 by Anders Wijkman to the CommissionSubject: Combating meningitis in Africa

447

2004/C 088E/457

P-3057/03 by Bartho Pronk to the CommissionSubject: Human rights situation in Guatemala, particularly the situation of Mr Rogoberto Dueñas Morales

448

2004/C 088E/458

E-3080/03 by David Bowe to the CommissionSubject: Water supply in Palestine

449

2004/C 088E/459

E-3081/03 by David Bowe to the CommissionSubject: Sewage systems in Palestine

450

2004/C 088E/460

E-3082/03 by David Bowe to the CommissionSubject: Alleged Israeli dumping of toxic waste in Palestine

450

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3080/03, e-3081/03 and E-3082/03

450

2004/C 088E/461

P-3110/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Withdrawal of Community funding for the Juan XXIII project in Alicante (Spain)

451

2004/C 088E/462

P-3132/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - Sakharov Initiative

451

2004/C 088E/463

E-3147/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Recent escalation of Israeli aggression in the Middle East

452

2004/C 088E/464

P-3179/03 by Glyn Ford to the CommissionSubject: Cambodian deadlock

453

2004/C 088E/465

E-3181/03 by Antonio Tajani to the CommissionSubject: Sending EU representatives to observe the referendum on Chavez

454

2004/C 088E/466

E-3190/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Promotion of the pilot responsible for the Cermis tragedy

455

2004/C 088E/467

P-3247/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Annual report on Turkey

456

2004/C 088E/468

E-3249/03 by Richard Howitt, Jean Lambert and Renate Sommer to the CommissionSubject: Annual report on Turkey

456

Joint answer to Written Questions P-3247/03 and E-3249/03

457

2004/C 088E/469

E-3253/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Somalia: internal situation, refugees and terrorism

457

2004/C 088E/470

E-3270/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Progress in Cameroon

458

2004/C 088E/471

E-3277/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: New relations with Libya

459

2004/C 088E/472

E-3319/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Mines and migrants on the Greek-Turkish border

460

2004/C 088E/473

E-3347/03 by Esko Seppänen to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement and social security advantages

461

2004/C 088E/474

E-3369/03 by Cees Bremmer to the CommissionSubject: Detention of EU citizen in Thailand

462

2004/C 088E/475

E-3476/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Disappearance of Ethiopian, a former coordinator for EU Aid

463

2004/C 088E/476

E-3496/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Colombia - ELN hostages

463

2004/C 088E/477

E-3497/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Georgia - parliamentary elections

464

2004/C 088E/478

E-3500/03 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Accession of Croatia to the EU

465

2004/C 088E/479

E-3517/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Fair trade

466

2004/C 088E/480

E-3521/03 by Anne Van Lancker to the CommissionSubject: Human rights violations in the USA

466

2004/C 088E/481

E-3550/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Zimbabwe - Censorship and repression

467

2004/C 088E/482

E-3560/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Al-Qa’ida - international funding networks

468

2004/C 088E/483

E-3567/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Water for Life

470

2004/C 088E/484

E-3570/03 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Setting-up of mobile customs control units in the Federal Republic of Germany after the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union

472

2004/C 088E/485

E-3591/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Côte d’Ivoire - the war breaks out again

473

2004/C 088E/486

E-3674/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Textile and clothing industry

474

2004/C 088E/487

E-3851/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the CommissionSubject: Ratification of international conventions in the field of human rights

475

2004/C 088E/488

E-3859/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Funding of small Tacis Programme projects

476

2004/C 088E/489

E-3881/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Encroachment on the Almyra wetlands in the prefecture of Xanthi

477

2004/C 088E/490

E-3967/03 by Gian Gobbo to the CommissionSubject: Compensation for expropriated property of Istrian refugees in Croatia

478

2004/C 088E/491

E-3977/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Mediation in Nepal

478

2004/C 088E/492

E-3982/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the CommissionSubject: Political rights of the Macedonian minority in Greece (Supplementary Answer)

479

2004/C 088E/493

E-4010/03 by Reino Paasilinna to the CommissionSubject: Safeguarding electricity supplies

480

2004/C 088E/494

E-4027/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Capital gains tax deductions

481

2004/C 088E/495

E-0008/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Accession of Cyprus, immigration

482

2004/C 088E/496

P-0027/04 by Marco Pannella to the CommissionSubject: Ongoing campaign of murder and torture by Vietnamese Government officials: arrest of Mr Nih, 41 years old, Christian and TRP supporter, on 13 December 2003 in Dak Doa

483

2004/C 088E/497

E-0089/04 by Astrid Thors to the CommissionSubject: Management of nuclear waste in Russia

484

2004/C 088E/498

E-0091/04 by Ilka Schröder to the CommissionSubject: Effects of including Hamas on the list of terrorist organisations

485

2004/C 088E/499

E-0097/04 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Saint Lucia environmental aid

486

2004/C 088E/500

E-0113/04 by Raina Echerer and Eurig Wyn to the CommissionSubject: Maltese language for the next parliamentary term

487

2004/C 088E/501

E-0202/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Lack of clarity in the rules excluding firms from applying for projects funded by the EU

488

2004/C 088E/502

E-0226/04 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Starch factories and developing countries

490

2004/C 088E/503

E-0254/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Global TB Drug Facility

491

2004/C 088E/504

E-0266/04 by John McCartin to the CommissionSubject: Imports of poultry meat into the EU

492

2004/C 088E/505

P-0302/04 by Christa Randzio-Plath to the CommissionSubject: Working conditions for female flower workers in Africa, Asia and Latin America

492

2004/C 088E/506

E-0306/04 by Gerhard Schmid to the CommissionSubject: Use of sky marshals

494

2004/C 088E/507

E-0318/04 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: People with mental disabilities in Russia

495

2004/C 088E/508

P-0341/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Introduction of a ‘Made in the EU’ label

496

2004/C 088E/509

E-0352/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: The Parmalat case and its repercussions on milk and cheese production in Lazio

497

2004/C 088E/510

E-0403/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition to the detriment of the environment and of working conditions in the cheap production of the semi-finished product primary aluminium in Iceland

498

2004/C 088E/511

E-0406/04 by Jules Maaten and Jan Mulder to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against a Netherlands onion farmer in Poland

500

2004/C 088E/512

E-0446/04 by Torben Lund to the CommissionSubject: Freedom of the press in Russia

501

2004/C 088E/513

E-0449/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Monolithic rock-hewn churches in Lilibela, Ethiopia

502

2004/C 088E/514

E-0461/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Zimbabwe - EP resolution

502

2004/C 088E/515

E-0492/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Mozambique — possible trafficking in human organs — threats to EU citizens

503

2004/C 088E/516

E-0493/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Closure of the Panasqueira mines in Portugal

505

2004/C 088E/517

E-0500/04 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Protecting the dignity of Arab women

506

2004/C 088E/518

E-0516/04 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Illegal transplantation of children’s organs in Albania intended for patients in EU countries

506

2004/C 088E/519

E-0518/04 by Elena Paciotti to the CommissionSubject: Violation of the fundamental rights of an EU citizen by the USA

507

2004/C 088E/520

E-0536/04 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Colombia

508

2004/C 088E/521

E-0539/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the Structural Funds in Portugal

509

2004/C 088E/522

E-0571/04 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Addressing the needs of disabled people in development cooperation funded by the EU

510

2004/C 088E/523

E-0572/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: Czech psychiatric hospitals

512

2004/C 088E/524

E-0577/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - Sakharov Initiative

512

2004/C 088E/525

E-0584/04 by Nirj Deva to the CommissionSubject: EU aid money to Zimbabwe

513

2004/C 088E/526

E-0606/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the CommissionSubject: The Spanish Government’s respect for the principle of additionality in the funding of the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund

515

2004/C 088E/527

E-0609/04 by Ulrich Stockmann to the CommissionSubject: Customs and enlargement

515

2004/C 088E/528

E-0616/04 by Klaus Hänsch to the CommissionSubject: Allocation of EU resources (Supplementary Answer)

516

2004/C 088E/529

E-0620/04 by Concepció Ferrer to the CommissionSubject: Export of military ammunition to African countries as hunting ammunition

517

2004/C 088E/530

P-0626/04 by Juan Ferrández Lezaun to the CommissionSubject: The Spanish NHP alternatives

518

2004/C 088E/531

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

518

2004/C 088E/532

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

519

Supplementary joint answer to Written Questions E-0627/04 and E-0628/04

520

2004/C 088E/533

E-0715/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Polish VAT increase for citrus fruit

520

2004/C 088E/534

P-0822/04 by María Sornosa Martínez to the CommissionSubject: Distortion of competition by Poland in respect of other EU products

521

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0715/04 and P-0822/04

521

2004/C 088E/535

E-0725/04 by Daniela Raschhofer to the CommissionSubject: Accession of Latvia

522

2004/C 088E/536

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

523

2004/C 088E/537

P-0733/04 by Giuseppe Di Lello Finuoli to the CommissionSubject: European cofinancing of the Gazzi-Annunziata tramline in Messina under the Multifund Operational Programme 1994-1999

524

2004/C 088E/538

E-0740/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Agency to combat tax fraud

525

2004/C 088E/539

E-0742/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Regional impact of the Growth Initiative

526

2004/C 088E/540

E-0744/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Encouraging the participation of SMEs in innovative and R&D projects

527

2004/C 088E/541

E-0747/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Safeguard clause relating to satsuma imports

528

2004/C 088E/542

E-0760/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of the financial services action plan (FSAP) in the new Member States

529

2004/C 088E/543

E-0772/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Austria

529

2004/C 088E/544

E-0775/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Germany

531

2004/C 088E/545

E-0776/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Greece

532

2004/C 088E/546

E-0786/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Police cooperation and human rights

534

2004/C 088E/547

P-0788/04 by Giacomo Santini to the CommissionSubject: Importation of ‘dumped’ copper sulphate

535

2004/C 088E/548

E-0806/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Tremonti Law - Mediaset

536

2004/C 088E/549

P-0810/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Mozambique - Nampula - murder of a missionary

537

2004/C 088E/550

E-0813/04 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Agri-environmental payments

538

2004/C 088E/551

E-0815/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: The mass detention of Eritrean evangelical Christians

539

2004/C 088E/552

E-0821/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Signing of the Agadir Agreement

540

2004/C 088E/553

E-0833/04 by Catherine Stihler to the CommissionSubject: VAT rating of 0 % or 5 % on all audio-books

541

2004/C 088E/554

E-0852/04 by Michl Ebner to the CommissionSubject: Building projects in East Africa

542

2004/C 088E/555

E-0854/04 by Roger Helmer to the CommissionSubject: Common external tariffs

543

2004/C 088E/556

E-0874/04 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the CommissionSubject: Boycott of polio vaccinations by Nigerian fundamentalists

546

2004/C 088E/557

E-0878/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: The Acque Albule water company of Tivoli (Italy)

547

2004/C 088E/558

E-0889/04 by Nelly Maes to the CommissionSubject: Elections in Iran

548

2004/C 088E/559

E-0899/04 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Larger Member State representation on the ECB board

549

2004/C 088E/560

E-0918/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Random motor insurance checks in Ireland on vehicles from other Member States

549

2004/C 088E/561

E-0919/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Trafficking in human beings

550

2004/C 088E/562

E-0922/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: VAT on postal services

551

2004/C 088E/563

E-0939/04 by Robert Evans to the CommissionSubject: Ethiopia

552

2004/C 088E/564

E-0946/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: School milk in Portugal

553

2004/C 088E/565

E-0955/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Statements by Commissioner Verheugen concerning Turkey’s possible accession to the Union

554

2004/C 088E/566

E-0986/04 by Richard Corbett to the CommissionSubject: Blood diamonds

554

2004/C 088E/567

E-0990/04 by Jan Wiersma to the CommissionSubject: The recent clashes between Syrian Kurds and the Syrian authorities (March 2004)

555

2004/C 088E/568

E-0997/04 by Dominique Souchet to the CommissionSubject: Placing on the market of plant protection products

556

2004/C 088E/569

E-1003/04 by Daniel Hannan to the CommissionSubject: Romanian motorway project

558

2004/C 088E/570

E-1004/04 by Daniel Hannan to the CommissionSubject: Threat to peace and democracy in Adjara

559

2004/C 088E/571

E-1012/04 by Mario Borghezio to the CommissionSubject: Who is trying to block the investigations into fraud in Euroland?

560

2004/C 088E/572

E-1021/04 by Paolo Bartolozzi to the CommissionSubject: Imported goods in transit held up by customs

560

2004/C 088E/573

E-1054/04 by Franz Turchi to the CommissionSubject: Increase in European School fees

562

2004/C 088E/574

E-1065/04 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: ‘Legal’ operation of paedophile networks in Europe — new Dutroux?

562

2004/C 088E/575

E-1069/04 by Nicole Thomas-Mauro to the CommissionSubject: Inconsistency of the Commission’s position on wine

564

2004/C 088E/576

E-1073/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Architectural quality in urban and rural environments

565

2004/C 088E/577

E-1074/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Human rights and the Cotonou Agreement

566

2004/C 088E/578

E-1080/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Human rights defenders

567

2004/C 088E/579

P-1092/04 by Jean Lambert to the CommissionSubject: Caste discrimination

567

2004/C 088E/580

E-1097/04 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Regulation (EC) No 2331/2003

569

2004/C 088E/581

P-1104/04 by Francesco Speroni to the CommissionSubject: Fig bananas

570

2004/C 088E/582

P-1123/04 by Roy Perry to the CommissionSubject: Recourse to civil courts

571

2004/C 088E/583

P-1124/04 by Professor Sir Neil MacCormick to the CommissionSubject: Tax concessions for stud farms

572

2004/C 088E/584

P-1126/04 by Véronique De Keyser to the CommissionSubject: Use of structural funds

572

2004/C 088E/585

P-1141/04 by Göran Färm to the CommissionSubject: European patent rights in the USA

573

2004/C 088E/586

E-1145/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Establishment of a Community inspection body

573

2004/C 088E/587

P-1154/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the CommissionSubject: Fight against terrorism

574

2004/C 088E/588

P-1155/04 by Marco Formentini to the CommissionSubject: Request for the Commission to intervene in the dispute between the company Invesmart bv and the Czech Republic regarding the bankrupt Union Banka

575

2004/C 088E/589

P-1201/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Municipality of Rome — failure to comply with Commission Decision 2000/628/EC in relation to State aid granted to ACCL

576

WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 3)

2004/C 088E/590

E-3077/01 by Luis Berenguer Fuster to the CommissionSubject: The case concerning State aid for the ‘Terra Mítica’ theme park (Alicante)

578

2004/C 088E/591

P-2951/02 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the CommissionSubject: Allocation of structural funds (Supplementary Answer)

579

2004/C 088E/592

E-3207/02 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Nicotine sweets (Supplementary Answer)

579

2004/C 088E/593

P-3445/02 by Wolfgang Ilgenfritz to the CommissionSubject: Vehicle leasing abroad — transfer of the place where the service is supplied to the home Member State — amendment of the VAT Directive

580

2004/C 088E/594

E-3512/02 by Herman Vermeer to the CommissionSubject: Problem of mutual recognition in the port of Antwerp involving a visa issued by a Schengen state (Supplementary Answer)

581

2004/C 088E/595

E-3753/02 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the CommissionSubject: Kerosene tax

582

2004/C 088E/596

E-3801/02 by Jules Maaten to the CommissionSubject: Tobacco excise on medicinal herbal cigarettes

583

2004/C 088E/597

P-3926/02 by Niels Busk to the CommissionSubject: Production levy in France (Supplementary Answer)

584

2004/C 088E/598

P-0020/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Caste-based discrimination in India

585

2004/C 088E/599

E-0079/03 by Margot Keßler to the CommissionSubject: The situation of people with mental disabilities in applicant countries

586

2004/C 088E/600

E-0113/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Migrant workers from the new Member States

587

2004/C 088E/601

E-0130/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Implementing paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and public health

589

2004/C 088E/602

E-0170/03 by Bob van den Bos to the CommissionSubject: Bangladesh

590

2004/C 088E/603

E-0242/03 by Nirj Deva to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Bangladesh

590

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0170/03 and E-0242/03

591

2004/C 088E/604

P-0176/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Consequences of the liberalisation of agriculture worldwide

591

2004/C 088E/605

P-0207/03 by Daniel Hannan to the CommissionSubject: Maltese referendum

592

2004/C 088E/606

E-0208/03 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: General Agreement on Trade in Services

593

2004/C 088E/607

E-0247/03 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: Potential abuse of the EU Association Agreement

594

2004/C 088E/608

P-0264/03 by Joachim Wuermeling to the CommissionSubject: Discrimination against EU investors in the Czech Republic

595

2004/C 088E/609

E-0277/03 by Brian Simpson to the CommissionSubject: Soda ash imports

596

2004/C 088E/610

P-0306/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the CommissionSubject: Human rights situation in Zimbabwe

597

2004/C 088E/611

E-0401/03 by Roy Perry to the CommissionSubject: Transparency in the application of broadcasting legislation in the Czech Republic

598

2004/C 088E/612

E-0796/03 by Concepció Ferrer to the CommissionSubject: Bureaucracy and the EDF

599

2004/C 088E/613

E-0830/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the City of Frosinone

600

2004/C 088E/614

E-0892/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Fiumicino

600

2004/C 088E/615

E-0978/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Ancona

601

2004/C 088E/616

E-0979/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Carrara

601

2004/C 088E/617

E-0980/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Firenze

602

2004/C 088E/618

E-0981/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Livorno

602

2004/C 088E/619

E-0982/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Macerata

603

2004/C 088E/620

E-0983/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Massa

603

2004/C 088E/621

E-0984/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Perugia

604

2004/C 088E/622

E-0985/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Pesaro

604

2004/C 088E/623

E-0986/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Pisa

605

2004/C 088E/624

E-0987/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Pistoia

605

2004/C 088E/625

E-0988/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Prato

606

2004/C 088E/626

E-0989/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Siena

606

2004/C 088E/627

E-0990/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Use of funds from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Terni

607

Supplementary joint answer to Written Questions E-0830/03, E-0892/03, E-0978/03, E-0979/03, E-0980/03, E-0981/03, E-0982/03, E-0983/03, E-0984/03, E-0985/03, E-0986/03, E-0987/03, E-0988/03, E-0989/03 and E-0990/03

607

2004/C 088E/628

E-0915/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: EU/UN World Food Programme figures

608

2004/C 088E/629

E-1117/03 by Bart Staes to the CommissionSubject: Labelling of foodstuffs after enlargement

609

2004/C 088E/630

E-1297/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Massacres in Kashmir

610

2004/C 088E/631

E-1342/03 by Benedetto Della Vedova to the CommissionSubject: The right to religious freedom in India

611

2004/C 088E/632

E-1507/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Bankruptcy of Grundig AG and how to safeguard jobs in Portugal (Supplementary Answer)

612

2004/C 088E/633

P-1555/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Averting alcohol-related harm in Finland

613

2004/C 088E/634

E-1690/03 by Anders Wijkman to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat

614

2004/C 088E/635

E-1706/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the CommissionSubject: Medstat and Medstat II programmes

615

2004/C 088E/636

E-1716/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Poul Nielsen’s statements on the USA’s presence in Iraq

617

2004/C 088E/637

E-1768/03 by John Cushnahan to the CommissionSubject: Rehabilitation of torture victims

618

2004/C 088E/638

E-1891/03 by Margrietus van den Berg and Jan Wiersma to the CommissionSubject: Iran’s nuclear activities

619

2004/C 088E/639

E-1902/03 by Lord Inglewood to the CommissionSubject: VAT and the European art market

620

2004/C 088E/640

E-2041/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Russia through exclusive cooperation agreements with the Russian Orthodox Church

620

2004/C 088E/641

E-2224/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Additional Protocol for Nuclear Material Safeguards

621

2004/C 088E/642

E-2266/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Financing of, and agreements with the EU concerning, construction in future EU Member States of camps to accommodate refugees seeking admission to the present Member States

622

2004/C 088E/643

E-2527/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Rum

625

2004/C 088E/644

P-2622/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Relations with Libya

626

2004/C 088E/645

E-2660/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the CommissionSubject: Checks on invalid MOT (road worthiness inspection) disks in EU Member States

627

2004/C 088E/646

P-2697/03 by Francesco Fiori to the CommissionSubject: Anomalies in the customs treatment of, and health requirements applied to, imported chicken and turkey

628

2004/C 088E/647

E-2910/03 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Difficulties at the German-Polish border

629

2004/C 088E/648

E-2957/03 by Mogens Camre to the CommissionSubject: Commission’s proposed amendment of Directive 94/35/EC (Supplementary Answer)

630

2004/C 088E/649

P-2992/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the CommissionSubject: Drugs production in Afghanistan

631

2004/C 088E/650

E-3021/03 by Anna Karamanou to the CommissionSubject: Child trafficking in Afghanistan

633

2004/C 088E/651

E-3031/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Community subsidies in the cultural sphere (Supplementary Answer)

634

2004/C 088E/652

P-3091/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Peter Shaw/Georgia

636

2004/C 088E/653

E-3117/03 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Illegal imports of textile products from China

636

2004/C 088E/654

E-3220/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Financial Regulations and DG Enlargement

637

2004/C 088E/655

E-3221/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Financial Regulations and DG Development and Humanitarian Aid

638

2004/C 088E/656

E-3257/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: VAT - recycling firms

639

2004/C 088E/657

E-3305/03 by Claude Moraes to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Tunisia

641

2004/C 088E/658

E-3310/03 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline; violations of the ‘acquis communautaire’ by Turkey

642

2004/C 088E/659

P-3331/03 by Anne Van Lancker to the CommissionSubject: Defunding HIV/AIDS prevention programmes for refugees

642

2004/C 088E/660

E-3357/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the CommissionSubject: Affront to the church of Ayia Sofia in Istanbul

643

2004/C 088E/661

E-3366/03 by Avril Doyle to the CommissionSubject: Human rights situation in Chechnya

644

2004/C 088E/662

E-3377/03 by Elisabeth Schroedter and Inger Schörling to the CommissionSubject: Oil extraction by Russia in the Baltic Sea, near the Curonian Spit (D6 oil deposit)

645

2004/C 088E/663

E-3380/03 by Christos Zacharakis and Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the CommissionSubject: Representations to the Egyptian authorities to implement the principles of democracy and the protection of human rights

647

2004/C 088E/664

P-3391/03 by Luigi Vinci to the CommissionSubject: Negotiations between Turkey and the Commission on the case against Leyla Zana

648

2004/C 088E/665

E-3396/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the CommissionSubject: Failure to pay compensation to Italian exiles in former Yugoslavia

648

2004/C 088E/666

P-3401/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: The Loizidou case

649

2004/C 088E/667

E-3467/03 by John Bowis to the CommissionSubject: Chad-Cameroon pipeline

650

2004/C 088E/668

E-3676/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the CommissionSubject: Petition by CNASTI (Portugal)

651

2004/C 088E/669

E-3857/03 by Raffaele Costa to the CommissionSubject: Development aid programme for India

652

2004/C 088E/670

E-3868/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi, Riitta Myller, Samuli Pohjamo and Ari Vatanen to the CommissionSubject: Taxation temperature of fuel

653

2004/C 088E/671

E-3880/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the CommissionSubject: Pet passports

654

2004/C 088E/672

E-3920/03 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: ECHO

655

2004/C 088E/673

P-3936/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the CommissionSubject: Italtrend

656

2004/C 088E/674

E-3959/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Africa - food shortage and security of food supply

656

2004/C 088E/675

E-3972/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Campaign in Bulgaria against distribution and management of funds for civil society development by the EU delegation in Sofia and ways of assuaging the associated annoyance

659

2004/C 088E/676

E-3973/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: National Council for Ethnic and Demographic Issues (NCEDI) ignored when allocating EU funds for social participation in Bulgaria

659

2004/C 088E/677

E-4011/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of PHARE project BG 0102.06 in Bulgaria: major disparities between the proposals drafted and the actual allocation of funding

660

2004/C 088E/678

E-4012/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of PHARE project BG 0102.06 in Bulgaria: late announcement of decisions and controversial payment arrangements

660

2004/C 088E/679

E-4013/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of PHARE project BG 0102.06 in Bulgaria: lack of information as to who is responsible for management, decision-making and assessment

661

2004/C 088E/680

E-4014/03 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Implementation of PHARE project BG 0102.06 in Bulgaria: delays in implementation and uncertainty regarding the disbursement of the resulting outstanding appropriations

661

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3972/03, E-3973/02, E-4011/03, E-4012/03, E-4013/03 and E-4014/03

662

2004/C 088E/681

E-3974/03 by Paulo Casaca to the CommissionSubject: Reform of the support system for ACP banana producers

663

2004/C 088E/682

E-3992/03 by Giles Chichester and Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Presentation of the peer review on the Kozloduy nuclear power plant

664

2004/C 088E/683

E-3993/03 by Giles Chichester and Geoffrey Van Orden to the CommissionSubject: Review of the closure dates for the Kozloduy nuclear power plant units

664

Joint answer to Written Questions E-3992/03 and E-3993/03

665

2004/C 088E/684

E-4019/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the CommissionSubject: Burma Forum

666

2004/C 088E/685

E-4038/03 by Herbert Bösch to the CommissionSubject: Processing of radioactive waste in Ukraine

666

2004/C 088E/686

E-4051/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the CommissionSubject: Export of nuclear facilities to the People’s Republic of China

667

2004/C 088E/687

E-4058/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Gun laws in Turkey

669

2004/C 088E/688

E-4077/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: NGOs

669

2004/C 088E/689

E-4081/03 by Chris Davies to the CommissionSubject: Tuberculosis

670

2004/C 088E/690

E-4083/03 by Bob van den Bos and Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the CommissionSubject: Burma

671

2004/C 088E/691

E-4084/03 by Miet Smet to the CommissionSubject: Suspension of cooperation agreements and postponement in signing cooperation agreements

672

2004/C 088E/692

P-4088/03 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Reproductive health definition

675

2004/C 088E/693

P-0002/04 by Bernd Posselt to the CommissionSubject: Definition of sexual and reproductive health

675

2004/C 088E/694

E-0007/04 by Philip Claeys to the CommissionSubject: Accession of Cyprus, official languages

676

2004/C 088E/695

E-0032/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Long-term stateless-person status of one category of permanent residents of the three future EU Member States that were internal states of the Soviet Union until 1991

676

2004/C 088E/696

E-0034/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Duty-free cigarettes sold over the Internet at half price in Romania and sent by private individuals

678

2004/C 088E/697

E-0085/04 by Matti Wuori to the CommissionSubject: Missing NGO legal framework in Malta

679

2004/C 088E/698

E-0096/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the CommissionSubject: Israeli arms for Turkey in exchange for water

679

2004/C 088E/699

E-0104/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Namibia - Farms threatened with occupation

680

2004/C 088E/700

E-0116/04 by Dana Scallon to the CommissionSubject: Leader II projects - Blue Dragon case

681

2004/C 088E/701

E-0118/04 by Monica Frassoni and Daniel Cohn-Bendit to the CommissionSubject: Elimination of voters from Maltese electoral lists

682

2004/C 088E/702

E-0120/04 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the CommissionSubject: Death of 20 Albanian nationals

683

2004/C 088E/703

E-0137/04 by Jillian Evans to the CommissionSubject: The case of Mrs Siham Qandah, Jordan

684

2004/C 088E/704

E-0144/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Cuba - Commission delegation

685

2004/C 088E/705

E-0146/04 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the CommissionSubject: Venezuela referendum

686

2004/C 088E/706

E-0148/04 by Cees Bremmer to the CommissionSubject: Human rights in Burma

687

2004/C 088E/707

E-0188/04 by Marco Cappato to the CommissionSubject: Abduction of two Ivorians

688

2004/C 088E/708

E-0213/04 by Sir Robert Atkins to the CommissionSubject: The Pharmaceutical Tariff Elimination Agreement (Zero for Zero)

689

2004/C 088E/709

E-0216/04 by Marco Pannella to the CommissionSubject: Violation of religious freedom in Vietnam

690

2004/C 088E/710

E-0218/04 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the CommissionSubject: Practical measures under the EU’s policy on Chechnya

692

2004/C 088E/711

E-0221/04 by Maurizio Turco to the CommissionSubject: Investigations by the Milan public prosecutor into the auditors Grant Thornton and Deloitte in connection with the Parmalat scandal

693

2004/C 088E/712

E-0248/04 by Glenys Kinnock to the CommissionSubject: Roma children in Bulgaria

693

2004/C 088E/713

P-0312/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the CommissionSubject: Development aid

694

2004/C 088E/714

E-0401/04 by Concepció Ferrer to the CommissionSubject: River Ebro water transfer

695

2004/C 088E/715

P-0409/04 by Carlos Coelho to the CommissionSubject: Rights inherent in European citizenship

696

2004/C 088E/716

E-0427/04 by Christopher Huhne to the CommissionSubject: Residence of nationals in another Member State

697

2004/C 088E/717

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

698

2004/C 088E/718

E-0526/04 by Matti Wuori to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement of Arinaga port (Gran Canaria, Spain)

699

2004/C 088E/719

E-0527/04 by Matti Wuori to the CommissionSubject: Enlargement of Arinaga port (Gran Canaria, Spain)

699

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0526/04 and E-0527/04

700

2004/C 088E/720

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

700

2004/C 088E/721

E-0661/04 by Alexander de Roo to the CommissionSubject: Public procurement for the Júcar-Vinalopó water transfer

702

2004/C 088E/722

E-0669/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Professional qualifications

703

2004/C 088E/723

E-0676/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat - resource allocation

703

2004/C 088E/724

E-0677/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat: timber concession wildlife management

704

2004/C 088E/725

E-0678/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat - Biodiversity Action Plan

704

2004/C 088E/726

E-0681/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat - poverty assessments

704

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0676/04, E-0677/04, E-0678/04 and E-0681/04

704

2004/C 088E/727

E-0682/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Bushmeat: Development Strategies

705

2004/C 088E/728

P-0687/04 by Marcelino Oreja Arburúa to the CommissionSubject: Infringement of the principle of the freedom of movement of goods

706

2004/C 088E/729

E-0708/04 by Erik Meijer to the CommissionSubject: Disappearance of last-remaining sources of income for Roma population in eastern Slovakia and resultant looting, violent clashes and migration

707

2004/C 088E/730

P-0721/04 by Daniela Raschhofer to the CommissionSubject: Benes Decree No 33/1945: the case of Hugo Salm

709

2004/C 088E/731

E-0756/04 by José García-Margallo y Marfil to the CommissionSubject: Repercussions of European financial market integration at national and regional level

710

2004/C 088E/732

E-0811/04 by Enrique Monsonís Domingo and Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Pests affecting citrus fruit

711

2004/C 088E/733

P-0841/04 by Cristiana Muscardini to the CommissionSubject: Female sexual mutilation

712

2004/C 088E/734

E-0853/04 by Terence Wynn to the CommissionSubject: New Regulation on sugar export and dispatch from outermost regions

714

2004/C 088E/735

E-0877/04 by Patricia McKenna to the CommissionSubject: Conflict resolution in Sudan

715

2004/C 088E/736

E-0901/04 by Graham Watson to the CommissionSubject: The treatment of animals in livestock markets

716

2004/C 088E/737

E-0921/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the CommissionSubject: Israeli nuclear arms

717

2004/C 088E/738

P-0956/04 by Brian Crowley to the CommissionSubject: Decoupling, farm retirement and families

718

2004/C 088E/739

P-0985/04 by Antonio Di Pietro to the CommissionSubject: Disappearance of children in Mozambique

718

2004/C 088E/740

P-1000/04 by Michiel van Hulten to the CommissionSubject: Publication by Commissioner Bolkestein of a book entitled ‘De grenzen van Europa’

720

2004/C 088E/741

P-1007/04 by Manuel Medina Ortega to the CommissionSubject: Breakdown of the POSEI item in the 2004 Budget

721

2004/C 088E/742

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

721

2004/C 088E/743

E-1081/04 by Maria Sanders-ten Holte to the CommissionSubject: The smaller European Schools

722

2004/C 088E/744

P-1125/04 by Daniela Raschhofer to the CommissionSubject: EU programmes with Turkey — potential consequences of full membership

724

2004/C 088E/745

P-1190/04 by Joan Vallvé to the CommissionSubject: Forum of Cultures 2004

724

2004/C 088E/746

P-1200/04 by Charles Tannock to the CommissionSubject: The progress in Ukraine being recognised by the EU as having Market Economy Status (MES)

725

2004/C 088E/747

P-1203/04 by Gianfranco Dell’Alba to the CommissionSubject: Suspected irregularities in the management of European Development Fund (EDF) resources for Project 8.ACP.PNG.003 (Supplementary Answer)

726

Corrigenda

2004/C 088E/748

Corrigendum to the answer to Written Question P-2323/03 by Mrs Schreyer on behalf of the Commission

728

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