WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2085/97 by Amedeo AMADEO to the Commission. The information society
Date: 1997-06-19
Institutions: AMADEO, European Parliament
Subjects: action programme, economic and social cohesion, information technology, labour market, marginalisation, organisation of work, social change, telecommunications, vocational training

11. 3. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 76/73

authorities  and  the  Commission,  including  extensive  discussions  on  potential  EAGGF  measures.  The
Commission now wishes to proceed with approval of this seriously-delayed programme and does not intend to
question further the priorities proposed by the Member States.

(1)  OJ C 222, 28.8.1995.

(98/C 76/160)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2078/97

by Mair Morgan (PSE) to the Commission

(19 June 1997)

Subject: Expert groups

As  each  DG  appears  to  set  different  rules  for  providing  information  on  expert  and  advisory  groups,  will  the
Commission introduce guidelines to enable a coherent, open and transparent policy to be adopted in every DG?

Answer given by Mr Santer on behalf of the Commission

(4 September 1997)

The provision of information on expert and advisory groups referred to by the honourable Member is not a matter
for the Commission, being currently governed by the following inter-institutional agreements or undertakings
given by the Commission to Parliament:

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the Plumb-Delors agreement on informing Parliament of draft decisions regarding legislative acts referred,
for an opinion, to committees assisting the Commission in fulfilling its executive responsibilities;

the  Klepsch-Millan  agreement,  setting  up  a  code  of  conduct  for  the  Commission’s  implementation  of
structural policy;

the (cid:145)modus vivendi(cid:146) concluded by Parliament, the Council and the Commission on measures implementing
acts adopted under the procedure set out in Article 189b of the EC Treaty;

the  undertaking  given  by  the  Commission  to  Parliament’s  Committee  on  Budgets  in  September  1996
regarding the transparency of work carried out by committees.

These agreements and undertakings apply to all Commission departments.

(98/C 76/161)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2085/97

by Amedeo Amadeo (NI) to the Commission

(19 June 1997)

Subject: The information society

The Commission communications to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee
and the Committee of the Regions on (cid:145)the implications of the information society for European Union policies:
preparing the next steps(cid:146) (COM(96)0395 final) and (cid:145)the information society: from Corfu to Dublin › the new
emerging priorities(cid:146) (CES 1401/96) give rise to concern over employment trends in the information society. This
fundamental issue will be examined further in the opinion on the Green Paper on (cid:145)living and working in the
information society: people first(cid:146). Nonetheless, the analyses currently available do not paint a reassuring picture
of the labour market in the future or of the future shape of labour relations. As things stand, there is no reason to
suppose that work will be fairly distributed in the future.

There is concern that the various initiatives taken by the Union might result in a multi-speed liberalization of the
market, which is likely to generate widespread imbalances, particularly in the social field.