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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3245/97 by Rijk van DAM , Frits CASTRICUM , Georg JARZEMBOWSKI to the Commission. Guidelines for state aid to ports
Date: 1997-10-20
Institutions: CASTRICUM, European Parliament, JARZEMBOWSKI, VAN DAM
Subjects: EU Member State, EU publication, State aid, control of State aid, harbour installation, maritime transport, ports policy

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-3245/97

by Rijk van Dam (I-EDN), Frits Castricum (PSE)
and Georg Jarzembowski (PPE) to the Commission

(20 October 1997)

Subject: Guidelines for state aid to ports

In its communication, (cid:145)The Development of Short Sea Shipping in Europe: Prospects and Challenges(cid:146), of 5 July
1995, the Commission envisages (cid:145)the establishment of guidelines on how to apply the State aid provisions of the
Treaty to the port sector(cid:146).

Two  years  on  from  the  publication  of  the  communication,  can  the  Commission  say  when  it  will  be

1.
presenting the guidelines on State aid to ports?

How does the Commission check whether the Member States(cid:146) State aid to ports accords with the provisions

2.
of the Treaty?

Answer given by Mr Kinnock on behalf of the Commission

(15 December 1997)

The Commission(cid:146)s recent green paper (1) on ports and maritime infrastructure, which will address a number
1.
of issues relevant to the port sector with emphasis on public financing of infrastructure and state aid. The issuing
of state aid guidelines for the port sector will, to a large extent, depend on the outcome of discussions with the
other Community institutions, Member States, Parliament and other interested parties following the publication
of the green paper.

The examination of state aid to ports at present depends largely on the type and purpose of the aid, which
2.
may vary from social aid to financial support for infrastructure. As regards the latter, the Commission has always
taken the view that public investment in infrastructure does not generally constitute aid within the meaning of
Article 92 of the EC Treaty, as long as the infrastructure remains open to all users in the public interest on the
basis of normal non-discriminatory access. Public financing of superstructure on the other hand, the use of which
is limited to certain companies, would normally fall under Article 92 of the EC Treaty.

(1)  COM(97) 678 final.

(98/C 174/64)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3249/97

by Freddy Blak (PSE) to the Commission

(20 October 1997)

Subject: Cosmetic products and the working environment

The hairdressing profession has pointed out that hairdressers(cid:146) health is impaired because of the large amounts of
cosmetic products they use.

Will the Commission state whether it has looked into this problem or intends to do so?

Does  it  consider  the  Council  Directive  on  the  approximation  of  Member  States(cid:146)  laws  relating  to  cosmetic
products to be a satisfactory basis for providing adequate information to people working professionally with
cosmetic products and protecting them against health problems?
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3272/97 by Gianni TAMINO to the Commission. Fifth framework programme
Date: 1997-10-20
Institutions: European Parliament, TAMINO
Subjects: EU programme, European Commission, action programme, animal experimentation, environmental policy, protection of animals, research

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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No distinction is made in these figures between those which were incinerated with energy recovery and those
incinerated without energy recovery.

The United Kingdom incinerated 102 000 tonnes of used tyres with energy recovery in 1996 (4). Official figures
are not available to the Commission for Spain, Ireland, Luxembourg or Finland.

(1)  Total for Wallonia and Flanders, excluding Brussels region.

Figures for Flanders (100) for 1994.

(2)  Figures for 1993.
(3)  Per annum figures 1993-1995.
(4)  United Kingdom Industry/Government Scrap Tyre Working Group 2nd Annual Report.

(98/C 174/69)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3269/97

by Mar(cid:14)·a Estevan Bolea (PPE) to the Commission

(20 October 1997)

Subject: Used tyres

Article 5(2)(d) of the proposal for a Council Directive on the landfill of waste (COM(97) 0105) stipulates that
whole used tyres may not be accepted in a landfill with effect from two years from the date of entry into force of
the Directive and shredded used tyres may not be accepted with effect from five years from that date (1).

Can  the  Commission  say  what  measures  and  procedures  it  has  laid  down  to  ensure  compliance  with  the
requirements of the above proposal for a Directive?

(1)  OJ C 156, 24.5.1997, p. 10.

Answer given by Mrs Bjerregaard on behalf of the Commission

(2 December 1997)

A priority waste stream working group on used tyres, which was set up by the Commission in 1991, proposed a
ban on landfilling of tyres in its final conclusions of September 1993. As mentioned by the Honourable Member,
this has been taken into account in the new proposal on landfill of waste in order to prevent landfilled tyres from
making the sites unstable and to reduce the risk of fire. Furthermore, the ban on landfilling of whole tyres and
shredded tyres aims to encourage the recovery of tyres and thus to save resources.

When  the  time  for  implementation  of  the  landfill  directive  expires  Member  States  will  communicate  to  the
Commission their national implementing measures, which the Commission will examine in the usual way.

(98/C 174/70)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3272/97

by Gianni Tamino (V) to the Commission

(20 October 1997)

Subject: Fifth framework programme

To repeat the query not dealt with in the answer to my Written Question E-1873/97 (1) of 29 May 1997 (see point
2 of the question), will acceptance of projects be (cid:145)linked to compliance with the 50% reduction in the use of
animals in experiments announced by the Commission in the fifth programme on the environment(cid:146)?

(1)  OJ C 45, 10.2.1998, p. 115.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3307/97 by Marie-Paule KESTELIJN- SIERENS to the Commission. Budget item on growth and employment
Date: 1997-10-20
Institutions: European Parliament, KESTELIJN-SIERENS
Subjects: Community budget, EU aid, EU programme, economic growth, employment aid, principle of subsidiarity, restriction on competition













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3307/97 by Marie-Paule KESTELIJN- SIERENS to the Commission. Budget item on growth and employment  


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WRITTEN QUESTION E-3307/97 by Marie-Paule Kestelijn-Sierens (ELDR) to the Commission (20 October 1997)Subject: Budget item on growth and employmentIn the 1997 budget (heading B-040), the amount of ECU 25 000 000 is being held in reserve for the ELISE programme, the European loan guarantee scheme for employment. The Council has not however as yet succeeded in reaching common agreement on the ELISE programme, mainly because the Austrian, Netherlands and German governments consider that the scheme conflicts with the subsidiarity principle and exposes their own schemes to unfair competition.What will happen to the ECU 25 000 000 held in the reserve? Will the money be used for initiatives in the spirit of the growth and employment budget item (B5-322)? Or will it go to combat swine fever, as has been claimed?Answer given by Mr Liikanen on behalf of the Commission (3 December 1997)The ECU 25 million entered in the reserve for the Growth and employment budget heading was included in the omnibus transfer (transfer No 47/97) intended to rebalance appropriations at the end of this year. It is proposed that a total amount of ECU 65.5 million be transfered within heading 3 (Internal policies) without there being an individual link between the reductions and increases of the different headings. However, ECU 26 million from the omnibus transfer has been allocated to absorb the negative reserve of the Fourth Framework Research Programme.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3262/97 by Peter SKINNER to the Commission. Improvements in transnational knowledge of fire
Date: 1997-10-20
Institutions: European Parliament, SKINNER
Subjects: Community budget, EU programme, action programme, civil defence, fire

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-3262/97

by Peter Skinner (PSE) to the Commission

(20 October 1997)

Subject: Improvements in transnational knowledge of fire

Fire  has  devastating  impacts  within  the  whole  of  the  European  Community  and  has  no  respect  for  national
boundaries. The action programme in the field of civil protection, proposed by DG XI, offers one practical way
of assisting experts to develop better strategies.

The  action  programme  has  no  budget  for  1997.  Would  the  Commissioner  confirm  that  new  proposals  for  a
continuing budget are to be made and that an urgent and sustained effort will be made to have these proposals
adopted and approved.

Answer given by Mrs Bjerregaard on behalf of the Commission

(21 November 1997)

The  proposal  for  a  Council  decision  establishing  a  Community  action  programme  in  the  field  of  civil
protection (1)  is  still  before  the  Council.  If  this  programme  is  adopted  in  the  very  near  future,  it  is  for  the
budgetary authority to allocate appropriations to this Community activity.

(1)  OJ C 202, 12.7.1996.

(98/C 134/169)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3263/97

by Mar(cid:14)·a Estevan Bolea (PPE) to the Commission

(20 October 1997)

Subject: Petroleum coke

What are the properties of petroleum coke, especially as regards:

› 

› 

the sulphur percentage content

the parts per million of: chlorine, fluorine, lead, zinc, copper, chromium, nickel, cadmium, vanadium, others

›  and its calorific value?

Answer given by Mr Papoutsis on behalf of the Commission

(14 November 1997)

Petroleum coke has a sulphur content of between 2 and 6.5%, a heavy metal content of less than 1 000 parts per
million  (ppm)  (in  these  heavy  metals,  the  vanadium  content  varies  between  200  and  400  ppm),  and  a  gross
calorific value of approximately 7 780 kilocalories per kilogram.

(98/C 134/170)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3273/97

by Gianni Tamino (V) to the Commission

(20 October 1997)

Subject: Plans to exterminate grey squirrels

According to a report published in the Italian newspaper L(cid:146)Unita‘ on  27  July  1997,  the  United  Kingdom  and
Belgium have asked the European Union to support a programme to eradicate the grey squirrel because they are
worried that the indigenous red squirrel is being ousted from increasingly wide distribution areas. In Italy, a
Turin  University  project,  authorized  by  the  National  Institute  for  Wild  Fauna,  has  been  blocked  by  a  judge
because it infringes national hunting legislation.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2048/97 of 20 October 1997 amending Regulations (EC) No 936/97 opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas for high-quality fresh, chilled and frozen beef and for frozen buffalo meat and (EC) No 996/97 on the opening and administration of an import tariff quota for frozen thin skirt of bovine animals falling within CN code 0206 29 91
Date: 1997-10-20
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Commission Regulation (EC) No 2048/97 of 20 October 1997 amending Regulations (EC) No 936/97 opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas for high-quality fresh, chilled and frozen beef and for frozen buffalo meat and (EC) No 996/97 on the opening and administration of an import tariff quota for frozen thin skirt of bovine animals falling within CN code 0206 29 91  


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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2048/97 of 20 October 1997 amending Regulations (EC) No 936/97 opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas for high-quality fresh, chilled and frozen beef and for frozen buffalo meat and (EC) No 996/97 on the opening and administration of an import tariff quota for frozen thin skirt of bovine animals falling within CN code 0206 29 91THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 936/97 of 27 May 1997 opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas for high-quality fresh, chilled and frozen beef and for frozen buffalo meat (1), and in particular Article 7 (2) thereof,Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 996/97 of 3 June 1997 on the opening and administration of an import tariff quota for frozen thin skirt of bovine animals falling within CN code 0206 29 91 (2), and in particular Article 6 (2) thereof,Whereas Argentina has renamed the authority empowered to issue certificates of authenticity; whereas Annex II to Regulations (EC) No 936/97 and (EC) No 996/97 should therefore be amended,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:Article 1 In Annex II to Regulations (EC) No 936/97 and (EC) No 996/97, 'Secretaría de agricultura, ganadería y pesca` is replaced by 'Secretaría de agricultura, ganadería, pesca y alimentación`.Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.It shall apply with effect from 17 July 1997.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 20 October 1997.For the CommissionFranz FISCHLERMember of the Commission(1) OJ L 137, 28. 5. 1997, p. 10.(2) OJ L 144, 4. 6. 1997, p. 6.