WRITTEN QUESTION No. 100/98 by Umberto BOSSI to the Commission. Measures against clandestine immigration in Europe
Date: 1998-01-30
Institutions: BOSSI, European Parliament
Subjects: Albania, Italy, Kurdistan question, Türkiye, cooperation in home affairs, crime, foreign national, human rights, illegal migration, judicial cooperation

17. 7. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 223/109

(98/C 223/138)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0094/98

by Konstantinos Hatzidakis (PPE) to the Commission

(30 January 1998)

Subject: Take-up State of appropriations from the Structural and Cohesion Funds

Can  the  Commission  indicate  in  absolute  terms  and  percentages  the  total  take-up  of  appropriations  from  the
Structural and Cohesion Funds by each Member State:

1.

2.

compared with total funds available for the entire current period (1994-1999)?

Compared with funds earmarked for programmes to the end of 1997?

Answer given by Mrs Wulf-Mathies on behalf of the Commission

(3 April 1998)

Because of the length of the answer, which includes a number of tables, the Commission is sending it direct to the
Honourable Member and to Parliament(cid:146)s Secretariat.

(98/C 223/139)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0096/98

by Jose· Valverde Lo·pez (PPE) to the Commission

(30 January 1998)

Subject: Designation of nicotine as an addictive substance

At the December 1997 part-session the Commission said that various steps were under way with a view to the EU
designating nicotine as an addictive substance.

Can the Commission say what specific initiatives are being taken and when it expects that it will be possible to
designate nicotine as an addictive substance in the EU?

Answer given by Mr Flynn on behalf of the Commission

(6 March 1998)

The Parliament gave its opinion on the Commission(cid:146)s communication on the present and proposed Community
role in combatting tobacco consumption (1) in December 1997, and the Commission is now in the process of
examining to what extent action can be undertaken on the various points in that communication and in what order
such  action  shall  be  taken.  In  particular,  priority  is  presently  being  given  to  revising  Council  Directive
90/239/EEC of 17 May 1990 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the
Member States concerning the maximum tar yield of cigarettes (2) and Council Directive 92/41/EEC of 15 May
1992  amending  Directive  89/622/EEC  on  the  approximation  of  the  laws,  regulations  and  administrative
provisions of the Member States concerning the labelling of tobacco products (3) and to examining what are the
possibilities for common action as regards additives to tobacco products.

(1)  COM(96) 609 final.
(2)  OJ L 137, 30.5.1990.
(3)  OJ L 158, 11.6.1992.

(98/C 223/140)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0100/98

by Umberto Bossi (NI) to the Commission

(30 January 1998)

Subject: Measures against clandestine immigration in Europe

The recent immigration of Albanians to Italy has given rise to heated discussions, often useless and exploited to
the  point  of  absurdity,  that  are  starting  all  over  again  with  the  arrival  of  Kurds.  According  to  international