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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1931/96 by Luigi FLORIO to the Commission. Number of directives currently in force
Date: 1996-07-16
Institutions: European Parliament, FLORIO
Subjects: EU law, EU publication, Publications Office of the European Union, database, directory













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1931/96 by Luigi FLORIO to the Commission. Number of directives currently in force  


Official Journal C 345 , 15/11/1996 P. 0114 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-1931/96 by Luigi Florio (UPE) to the Commission (16 July 1996)Subject: Number of directives currently in forceHow many European directives are currently in force in the EU?Joint answer to Written Questions E-1931/96 and E-1932/96 given by Mr Santer on behalf of the Commission (29 July 1996)The Honourable Member will find details of Community legislation in force in the directory published twice yearly by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. Legislative acts included in this directory are selected from the Celex database, which has been open to the public since 1981. Currently, Celex contains 1587 directives and 3188 Commission regulations in force.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1959/96 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. Smuggling of wild boar meat contaminated with swine fever
Date: 1996-07-16
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: animal disease, animal plague, customs inspection, customs regulations, game meat, import, import restriction, infectious disease, pigmeat













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1959/96 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. Smuggling of wild boar meat contaminated with swine fever  


Official Journal C 356 , 25/11/1996 P. 0114 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-1959/96 by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission (16 July 1996)Subject: Smuggling of wild boar meat contaminated with swine fever1. Is the Commission aware that wild boar meat contaminated with swine fever has been smuggled into the EU, perhaps on a wide scale?2. Is it aware that the Lindau customs investigation department is already conducting inquiries?3. What does the Commission intend to do?4. What was the volume of wild boar meat disguised as venison imported into the EU from eastern Europe last year?5. Are these imports from eastern Europe entering the EU through Austria at the Lindau frontier crossing point?Answer given by Mrs Gradin on behalf of the Commission (13 September 1996)1. The Commission is aware that wild boar meat was illegally imported from Poland into Germany.2. The Commission has been informed by the German authorities that customs inquiries on this subject are continuing.3. The Commission has informed the Polish customs authorities which are carrying out on the spot investigations. The German customs authorities had already informed Member States which could be concerned by this traffic.4. The quantity of illegally imported wild boar meat is not yet known. At the beginning of the investigation about 6 tonnes were seized.5. The imports were made through different border posts.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2097/96 by Eryl McNALLY to the Commission. Financial implications of adding to the official languages of the EU
Date: 1996-07-16
Institutions: European Parliament, MCNALLY
Subjects: Community budget, EU financing, accession to the European Union, administrator, enlargement of the Union, interpreting, language teaching, recruitment, translation













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2097/96 by Eryl McNALLY to the Commission. Financial implications of adding to the official languages of the EU  


Official Journal C 385 , 19/12/1996 P. 0093 





WRITTEN QUESTION P-2097/96 by Eryl McNally (PSE) to the Commission (16 July 1996)Subject: Financial implications of adding to the official languages of the EUCan the Commission explain what the financial implications would be of adding to the official languages when new Member States join the European Union?Answer given by Mr Liikanen on behalf of the Commission (9 September 1996)The various imponderables presented by the further enlargement of the European Union, such as the number of applicants and new languages, prevent the Commission from giving the Honourable Member a detailed answer regarding language arrangements at this stage.Hitherto, every enlargement has been followed by an increase in the number of permanent staff employed by the language services, an increase in the budget for freelance translation and interpreting, an increase in the budget for learning the new languages, additional publication costs and infrastructural adaptation costs (installation of staff and equipment of meeting rooms).A considerable part of translation and publication costs (a major example being the Official Journal) is attributable to the fact that most Community legislation is directly applicable in the Member States, and must therefore be published in the official languages of all the Member States.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1937/96 by Enrico FERRI , Pier CASINI to the Commission. Preventing value-added tax from being charged on national and regional taxes on the consumption of methane gas
Date: 1996-07-16
Institutions: CASINI PIER, European Parliament, FERRI
Subjects: Italy, VAT, basis of tax assessment, consumer price, excise duty, hydrocarbon, local tax, tax harmonisation













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1937/96 by Enrico FERRI , Pier CASINI to the Commission. Preventing value-added tax from being charged on national and regional taxes on the consumption of methane gas  


Official Journal C 365 , 04/12/1996 P. 0054 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-1937/96 by Enrico Ferri (PPE) and Pier Casini (PPE) to the Commission (16 July 1996)Subject: Preventing value-added tax from being charged on national and regional taxes on the consumption of methane gasThe inclusion of value-added tax as well as national and regional consumption taxes in the taxable amount applicable to supplies of methane gas pursuant to Article 10 of Decree Law No 15/977 has led to disparities in treatment at Community level and given rise to serious doubts about the legality of such action at national level.Italian consumers pay more for methane gas than consumers in any other country owing not only to the cost of the raw material but, above all, to a steady increase in the burden of taxation which, in the space of only a few years, has risen to over half of the consumer price.The sixth directive on the harmonization of the laws of the Member States with a view to establishing a 'common system of value-added tax' (Directive 77/388/EEC ((OJ L 145, 13.6.1977, p. 1. ))) states explicitly and unequivocally that 'the taxable amount shall include: (a) taxes, duties, levies and charges, excluding the value-added tax itself' (Title VIII, Article 11(2)).In view of the position regarding legislation in the various Member States, the only way of derogating from the generally accepted principle that taxes may be levied on other taxes is by means of Community legislation.Given the above, would the Commission take the necessary steps with a view to the adoption of a directive amending the relevant national legislation so as to prevent (where possible) VAT from being charged on national and regional consumption taxes applying to supplies of methane gas?Answer given by Mr Monti on behalf of the Commission (17 september 1996)The basic concept of value added tax as a general and comprehensive consumption tax implies that the taxable base is valued by the final consumer's real expenditure on goods and services or, in other words, by the monetary consideration for a given supply of goods or services. It is therefore coherent to include taxes, duties, levies andcharges, excluding the value tax itself in the taxable amount. Article 11 A (2)(a) of the sixth VAT Directive 77/388/EEC is fully in line with this principle of value added tax. Accordingly there has been no discussion between Member States on this provision. The Commission does not plan to change this arrangement.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1960/96 by Richard HOWITT to the Commission. Labour market deregulation
Date: 1996-07-16
Institutions: European Parliament, HOWITT
Subjects: anti-discriminatory measure, competence of the Member States, labour law, labour market, liability, occupational safety, temporary employment, temporary employment agency













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1960/96 by Richard HOWITT to the Commission. Labour market deregulation  


Official Journal C 385 , 19/12/1996 P. 0068 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-1960/96 by Richard Howitt (PSE) to the Commission (16 July 1996)Subject: Labour market deregulationIs the Commission aware that temporary workers employed via employment agencies can be held liable for financial claims brought against the company for whom they are working, even though permanent workers within the same company are not?Does the Commission know of similar problems in other Member States arising as a result of increased labour market deregulation? Is any protective legislation predicted at European level under the Social Chapter which would prevent this type of discrimination?Answer given by Mr Flynn on behalf of the Commission (5 September 1996)The Commission is not aware of the situation to which the Honourable Member refers, where temporary workers can be held liable for financial claims brought against the company in which they have been placed by an employment agency. The Commission would, however, stress that, in the absence of specific Community rules, the matter will have to be dealt with, in the first instance, according to the law and practice of the individual Member States.Where the more general problem of labour market deregulation is concerned, the Commission acknowledges that the deregulation process must provide sufficient security for the workers involved.The need to maintain a balance between social and economic considerations led to the adoption of Directive 91/383/EEC of 25 June 1991 supplementing the measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of workers with a fixed-duration employment relationship or a temporary employment relationship. ((OJ L 206, 29.7.1991. )) It is also central to recent Commission action on the flexibily of working time and security for workers, based on the Agreement on Social Policy.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1932/96 by Luigi FLORIO to the Commission. Number of regulations currently in force
Date: 1996-07-16
Institutions: European Parliament, FLORIO
Subjects: EU law, EU publication, Publications Office of the European Union, database, directory













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1932/96 by Luigi FLORIO to the Commission. Number of regulations currently in force  


Official Journal C 345 , 15/11/1996 P. 0114 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-1932/96 by Luigi Florio (UPE) to the Commission (16 July 1996)Subject: Number of regulations currently in forceHow many Commission regulations are currently in force in the EU?Joint answer to Written Questions E-1931/96 and E-1932/96 given by Mr Santer on behalf of the Commission (29 July 1996)The Honourable Member will find details of Community legislation in force in the directory published twice yearly by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. Legislative acts included in this directory are selected from the Celex database, which has been open to the public since 1981. Currently, Celex contains 1587 directives and 3188 Commission regulations in force.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1939/96 by Miguel ARIAS CAÑETE to the Commission. Quota hopping
Date: 1996-07-16
Institutions: ARIAS CANETE, European Parliament
Subjects: United Kingdom, case-law (EU), catch quota, common fisheries policy, fishing vessel, ship's flag













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1939/96 by Miguel ARIAS CAÑETE to the Commission. Quota hopping  


Official Journal C 365 , 04/12/1996 P. 0055 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-1939/96 by Miguel Arias Cañete (PPE) to the Commission (16 July 1996)Subject: Quota hoppingIn response to the practice of quota hopping, the United Kingdom is currently considering whether to submit to the Intergovernmental Conference proposals for amendments to the Treaty which would enable each Member State to allocate the quotas to which it is entitled under the Common Fisheries Policy to vessels belonging to its own fleet, on the basis of pre-determined requirements, and thus to establish a genuine economic link between the vessels themselves and local communities which depend on fishing for their livelihoods.Does the Commission intend to endorse the British proposals?Answer given by Ms Bonino on behalf of the Commission (10 September 1996)The Commission is aware that the United Kingdom intends to put forward proposals on quota-hopping at the Intergovernmental Conference.It would point out that there is in fact nothing in Community law as it stands to prevent a Member State making the right of vessels flying its flag to catch fish under a national quota conditional on their having a real economic link with the country, in terms of a relationship between the vessel's fishing activities and the communities dependent on the fishing industry.Existing European Court of Justice case law makes it plain that the conditions laid down to establish the existence of an economic link should not discriminate on grounds of nationality or be disruptive to normal fishing activity.On this basis the Commission, as custodian of the Treaties, monitors national legislation on quota allocation for compliance with Community law.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1954/96 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. Impact of patenting animals
Date: 1996-07-16
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: European patent, animal experimentation, economic consequence, genetic engineering, marketing, new product, pharmaceutical product













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1954/96 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. Impact of patenting animals  


Official Journal C 385 , 19/12/1996 P. 0067 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-1954/96 by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission (16 July 1996)Subject: Impact of patenting animalsWhat is the impact on downstream markets, such as the drugs market, of patenting animals?Answer given by Mr Monti on behalf of the Commission (11 October 1996)In reply to the question put by the Honourable Member, the Commission considers that the granting of patents in respect of animals will not adversely affect the pharmaceuticals market, either in terms of the prices of medicines, their quality or their diversity. On the contrary, the inventions concerned should encourage the marketing of new medicines, especially as scientists will be better able to study certain diseases by experimenting on transgenic animals.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2069/96 by Carlos PIMENTA to the Commission. Tagus bridge
Date: 1996-07-16
Institutions: European Parliament, PIMENTA
Subjects: EU financing, Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, Portugal, engineering structure, environmental impact, environmental law, infringement of EU law, project evaluation, protected area, watercourse













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2069/96 by Carlos PIMENTA to the Commission. Tagus bridge  


Official Journal C 011 , 13/01/1997 P. 0041 





WRITTEN QUESTION P-2069/96 by Carlos Pimenta (PPE) to the Commission (16 July 1996)Subject: Tagus bridgeIt is now undeniable that there were serious violations of the environmental provisions of the funding Decision on the Tagus bridge.It is also known that the most important requirement of the EIA, the preparation of a land use plan for the area affected by the bridge, has still not been completed and its preparation may not even have started. However, the EIA required this plan to be ready in the first half of 1995.The lack of such a plan is allowing wild land speculation caused by the new accessibilities generated by the bridge, which will have irreversible effects in the region.Will the Commission continue its payments until the plan is ready and approved?Answer given by Mrs Wulf-Mathies on behalf of the Commission (8 October 1996)Discussions between the Commission and the Portuguese government have identified satisfactory basis for dealing with the land use problems concerning the new Tagus bridge:- the possible problems linked to urban developments that may have an impact on the special protection area should be solved according the indications of the approved environmental impact assessment;- the Portuguese government confirms that the provisions of the laws referred to in Article 5/3 of the funding decision have been and will be properly applied, in particular with regard to the zone 'non aedificandi' referred to in point 8 of annex 1 of the funding decision and the control of land use on the south bank of the Tagus;- the Portuguese government will inform the Commission of the way in which future land use plans for the part of the Lisbon area including Alcochete covered by the environmental provisions of the funding decision, take account of the zone 'non aedificandi' and the land use control on the south bank of the Tagus in full respect of Community legislation;- the Portuguese government will continue to inform the Commission of any problem which might be detected as regards the provisions of the laws referred to in Article 5/3.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1946/96 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. BSE and breast milk
Date: 1996-07-16
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: animal disease, cattle, epidemiology, health risk, medical research, motherhood, research method, scientific cooperation













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1946/96 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. BSE and breast milk  


Official Journal C 385 , 19/12/1996 P. 0066 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-1946/96 by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission (16 July 1996)Subject: BSE and breast milk1. Is the Commission aware that studies have shown that a pregnant woman infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by the BSE pathogen was also found to have the pathogen in her breast milk?2. How does the Commission rate the danger of the transmission of the BSE pathogen by breast milk?3. What view does the Commission take of the fact that the tissue of the uterus also contained pathogens although the incubation period in the uterus is normally longer?4. Can the Commission rule out the possibility of the BSE pathogen being transmitted by breast milk?5. Can the Commission guarantee that vertical infection is impossible?6. What studies and research findings are available to the Commission?Answer given by Mr Flynn on behalf of the Commission (15 October 1996)1. The Commission is not aware of any case in which bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has been transmitted to a pregnant woman. A paper in the New England journal of medicine reported that in one case it had been possible to transmit Creutzfeld Jacob disease (CJD) to mice from some tissues and fluids from a pregnant woman who died of CJD. The fluids included colostrum. Other epidemiological evidence from pregnant cases of CJD and Kuru does not suggest that milk transmits the agent.2 - 4. A risk assessment of possible events after any uptake of BSE in humans is not possible, since there is as yet no confirmed transmission of BSE to humans.5. Vertical transmission of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) is known to take place in sheep (scrapie). There is recent statistical evidence that vertical transmission of BSE may occur although there is no biological explanation for the mode of transmission at present. If vertical transmission from mother to calf does occur it will probably be at relatively low levels.Transmission of TSEs to humans is as yet unconfirmed, and there are no studies with a bearing on vertical transmission in humans. The Commission is therefore not in a position to say whether such transmission is possible.6. At Community level, six research networks have been established which address the issues of the surveillance of CJD, the harmonization of neuropathologic diagnostic criteria, the identification of the agent, the efficacity of the inter-species barrier and the development of harmonized procedures for the identification and characterization of the disease.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1972/96 by Odile LEPERRE-VERRIER to the Commission. Honey production in the European Union
Date: 1996-07-16
Institutions: European Parliament, LEPERRE-VERRIER
Subjects: EU production, apiculture, application of EU law, foodstuffs legislation, honey, import, labelling, product quality, proposal (EU), third country













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1972/96 by Odile LEPERRE-VERRIER to the Commission. Honey production in the European Union  


Official Journal C 365 , 04/12/1996 P. 0057 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-1972/96 by Odile Leperre-Verrier (ARE) to the Commission (16 July 1996)Subject: Honey production in the European UnionWould the Commission say what progress has been made with amending Directive 74/409/EEC ((OJ L 221, 12 August 1974, p. 10. )) on honey production? Will it be compulsory to include the words 'imported honey' on the labels of honey from third countries?Is it planned to set up a committee of experts to lay down quality criteria for honey and decide on the designations to be used?Can the Commission explain why DG III deals with matters connected with honey production and the status of the beekeeping profession, and not DG VI, the Directorate-General responsible for agriculture? Honey is an agricultural product and should be treated as such.Answer given by Mr Bangemann on behalf of the Commission (9 September 1996)On 17 April 1996 the Commission approved a proposal for a directive on honey ((Doc. COM(95) 722. )) which, once adopted, will replace Directive 74/409/EEC. Parliament is required to deliver its opinion on the proposal.Contrary to what the Honourable Member believes, neither the proposal nor the existing Directive deals with problems relating specifically to primary production or the status of the beekeeping profession. The proposal is confined to aspects traditionally linked to foodstuffs legislation.The proposal does not require any such indication as 'imported honey', but allows Member States to provide for the indication of the country of origin of honey originating outside the Community. This is in line with the arrangements established by Directive 74/409/EEC. However, operators (producers, distributors) are free, even in the absence of a legal obligation, to indicate a honey's origin where they so wish.Honey, being a foodstuff, is subject to Community foodstuffs legislation like any other agricultural product within the meaning of the EC Treaty (sugars, preserved milk, jam and fruit juices).