WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2856/96 by Mihail PAPAYANNAKIS to the Commission. Water supply and sewage disposal projects
Date: 1996-10-25
Institutions: European Parliament, PAPAYANNAKIS
Subjects: Aegean Islands, EU aid, EU programme, Greece, project evaluation, public health, regional development, wastewater, water supply, water treatment













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2856/96 by Mihail PAPAYANNAKIS to the Commission. Water supply and sewage disposal projects  


Official Journal C 091 , 20/03/1997 P. 0044 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-2856/96 by Mihail Papayannakis (GUE/NGL) to the Commission (25 October 1996)Subject: Water supply and sewage disposal projectsIn response to my Question E-0393/95 ((OJ C 202, 7.8.1995, p. 17. )) concerning the water supply and sewage disposal problems facing the island of Symi, Mrs Wulf-Mathies on behalf of the Commission stated (17.03.1995) that 'The Commission...intends to draw the attention of the Greek authorities to it (i.e. the situation on Symi) at a forthcoming meeting of the Monitoring Committee for the Multifund Operational Programme for the Southern Aegean.'One and a half years later Symi faces the same problems. Although the MOP for the Southern Aegean is progressing normally and three meetings of the Monitoring Committee have already taken place, the Symi water supply and sewage disposal projects are not being promoted, even though they are ready: the definitive technical study, the budget tables and the technical projects report are all complete.Given that the state pays up to Drs.100 million to ship water from Rhodes while 80% of the inhabitants have water for only two hours a week, given that the septic tanks are next to the water tanks which poses an obvious risk of infectious disease and, finally, given that water supply and sewage projects are sometimes funded by INTERREG, sometimes by the EZES and sometimes by the EIB, will the Commission say whether it intends to draw the attention of the Greek authorities once more to the need to promote the projects on Symi and to recommend that the Greek Government enter them specifically in a given programme?Answer given by Mrs Wulf-Mathies on behalf of the Commission (18 December 1996)The Commission has already drawn the attention of the Greek authorities to the environmental problems of the island of Symi, principally at the technical meetings which precede those of the Monitoring Committee for the multifund operational programme for the Southern Aegean.Under that programme, work to improve port facilities on Symi and to build 5.7 km of road and a study to plan general development are already in progress.As regards the supply of drinking water, a preparatory study on the construction of a 160 000 cu. m. reservoir of the artificial lake type to collect surface water will be part-financed from the budget for the Interreg II Community Initiative. The Commission believes that this offers the prospect of a lasting solution to part of the problem to which the Honourable Member refers.In exercising its responsibilities with due regard to subsidiarity, the Commission will continue to draw the attention of the Greek authorities to environmental problems on Symi and elsewhere in the Aegean.