WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2430/97 by David HALLAM to the Commission. 1988 European Parliament resolution on recognition for sign language
Date: 1997-07-08
Institutions: European Parliament, HALLAM
Subjects: EU aid, equal treatment, facilities for people with disabilities, language, non-governmental organisation, physically disabled person

C 45/176

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

10. 2. 98

Answer given by Mr Mar(cid:14)·n on behalf of the Commission

(31 July 1997)

Prior  to  the  Commission(cid:146)s  decision  to  suspend  decentralised  cooperation  programmes  at  the  end  of  1995
following  the  Court  of  Auditors(cid:146)  special  report  1/96 (1),  the  Med-Campus  programme  cofinanced  103  inter-
university  cooperation  projects  over  the  academic  year  1994-95.  The  catalogue  of  those  projects  is  being
forwarded direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliament(cid:146)s Secretariat.

43 projects covered economic development, 27 the environment, 21 management and 12 culture.

The financing proposal adopted by the Commission in 1994 after the Med Committee had given its approval was
for a grant of ECU 8.9 million from budget item B7-4080, which funds activities promoting multilateral and
regional or sub-regional cooperation in the Mediterranean.

Med-Campus will be launched afresh in the last quarter of this year.

(1)  OJ C 240, 19.8.1996.

(98/C 45/234)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-2430/97

by David Hallam (PSE) to the Commission

(8 July 1997)

Subject: 1988 European Parliament resolution on recognition for sign language

What  action  has  the  Commission  taken  on  Parliament(cid:146)s  1988  resolution (1)  calling  for  recognition  of  sign
language in Europe?

(1)  OJ C 187, 18.7.1988, p. 236.

Answer given by Mr Flynn on behalf of the Commission

(30 July 1997)

In  1995,  the  Parliament  allocated  the  amount  of  ECU  500  000  for  measures  related  to  sign  languages  in  the
Community. This was welcomed by the Commission which is conscious of the importance of sign languages in
the equality of opportunity for deaf people.

The Commission has since taken the necessary steps to ask the non-governmental organisation, the European
Union of the Deaf, to set up sign language projects in 1996 and 1997 which take into account the 1988 Resolution
of the Parliament as a base for their development. The results of the 1996/1997 sign languages project will be
examined at a conference in Brussels in September 1997 with a view to providing concrete proposals for further
measures with regard to sign languages throughout the Community.

(98/C 45/235)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-2431/97

by Edouard des Places (I-EDN) to the Commission

(8 July 1997)

Subject: Authorization to place plant protection products on the market

In the light of the judgment of the Court of Justice of 12 November 1996 in Case C-201/94 on pharmaceutical
products, where the competent authority of a Member State possesses evidence that a proprietary plant protection
product with an authorization to market in another Member State and a proprietary plant protection product for
which  it  has  already  issued  a  marketing  authorization  are  manufactured  by  the  same  company  or  by  its