WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2092/97 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. UNGASS Conference 23-27 June 1997
Date: 1997-06-19
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: EU aid, Economic and Monetary Union, UNO, development aid, environmental protection, financial aid, gross national product, liberalisation of the market, private aid, single market

25. 2. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 60/93

However,  it  is  true  that,  on  the  basis  of  petitions  put  forward  to  Parliament’s  Committee  on  Petitions (1),  the
Commission is currently investigating two open-cast mines situated in Germany. The Commission has not yet
taken a final decision in these cases.

Ruhrkohle AG and Saarbergwerke AG have announced that they intend to inform the Commission in the
2.
next  few  weeks  about  the  plan  to  merge  their  respective  Ruhr  and  Saar  coal  mining  activities.  As  yet  the
Commission  has  no  more  detailed  information  on  the  intended  merger.  Mergers  of  firms  in  the  field  of  coal
mining are subject to preventive merger control under Article 66 of the ECSC Treaty. The structure of supply and
demand  and  competition  conditions  in  the  substantive  and  geographical  markets  concerned  will  have  to  be
examined to determine whether a merger between Ruhrkohle AG and Saarbergwerke AG is compatible with the
common market. In view of the high concentration of hard coal production in Germany the examination will
have  to  concentrate  on  whether  imports  of  hard  coal  from  third  countries  (imported  coal)  and  from
intra-Community trade restrict domestic producers’ scope for competitive behaviour to any extent, and from the
customer’s point of view represent an adequate provisioning alternative. The outcome of this examination cannot
be anticipated here.

If  the  plan  were  also  to  concern  products  or  markets  which  are  not  covered  by  the  ECSC  Treaty  (e.g.
Saarbergwerke’s activities in mechanical engineering or waste disposal), the merger may, as far as these activities
are  concerned,  possibly  also  need  to  be  notified  under  Council  Regulation  No  4064/89  (the  (cid:145)merger  control
Regulation(cid:146)) (2).

(1)  Petitions 392/95, 584/95, 293/96 and 947/96.
(2)  OJ L 395, 30.12.1989.

(98/C 60/132)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2089/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(19 June 1997)

Subject: UNGASS Conference 23-27 June 1997

What funding will the EU make available over the next five years to guarantee the UNGASS follow-up process?

(98/C 60/133)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2090/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(19 June 1997)

Subject: UNGASS Conference 23-27 June 1997

Why has the EU not met its commitment given in Rio in 1992 to devote 0.7% of its GNP to development aid?

(98/C 60/134)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2091/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(19 June 1997)

Subject: UNGASS Conference 23-27 June 1997

How and when is the new target of 0.5% of GNP as development aid to be met?

(98/C 60/135)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2092/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(19 June 1997)

Subject: UNGASS Conference 23-27 June 1997

Could the Commission imagine following Denmark(cid:146)s example and hand over 0.1% of GNP for environmental
programmes in the developing countries?

If so, over what time scale and how far binding on the Member States?