WRITTEN QUESTION No. 232/98 by Antonios TRAKATELLIS , Giorgos DIMITRAKOPOULOS to the Commission. Reduction in CAP expenditure and adoption of measures to modernize agriculture (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)
Date: 1998-02-13
Institutions: DIMITRAKOPOULOS, European Parliament, TRAKATELLIS
Subjects: EAGGF Guarantee Section, EAGGF Guidance Section, Structural Funds, common agricultural policy, drawing up of the budget, farm modernisation, less-favoured region, reform of the CAP, structural expenditure

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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At present, no Member State has been granted a derogation under this procedure to give special treatment to
vehicles used by the fire services although Italy has such a derogation for ambulances and Greece for the national
police force, according to Council Decision 97/425/EC of 30 June 1997 authorizing Member States to apply and
to continue to apply to certain mineral oils, when used for specific purposes, existing reduced rates of excise duty
or exemptions from excise duty, in accordance with the procedure provided for in Directive 92/81/EEC (2).

(1)  OJ L 316, 31.10.1992.
(2)  OJ L 182, 10.7.1997.

(98/C 310/51)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0227/98

by Helena Torres Marques (PSE) to the Commission

(13 February 1998)

Subject: Projects funded by the Thermie Programme

According to the (cid:145)Agence Europe(cid:146) issue of 12 January 1998, the Commission has funded 134 projects in the
framework of the Thermie Programme.

Will  the  Commission  state  what  Portuguese  projects  were  funded  in  this  way,  and  how  much  funding  was
provided for each of them?

Answer given by Mr Papoutsis on behalf of the Commission

(3 April 1998)

In  1997  the  Commission  granted  Community  funding  under  the  Thermie  programme  to  13  demonstration
projects  involving  22  Portuguese  contractors.  Total  Community  support  for  these  projects  came  to
ECU 16.4 million, of which ECU 2.7 million for the Portuguese participants.

To give a full picture of Portuguese involvement, the Commission is sending a list of the 13 projects directly to
the Honourable Member and to Parliament(cid:146)s Secretariat, indicating project titles and descriptions, the overall
support, the Portuguese participants and the individual amount contributed to each project.

(98/C 310/52)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0232/98

by Antonios Trakatellis (PPE) and Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos (PPE) to the Commission

(13 February 1998)

Subject: Reduction in CAP expenditure and adoption of measures to modernize agriculture

In view of the comprehensive overhaul of the Common Agricultural Policy and the future challenges facing it in
the EU described by the Commission in Agenda 2000, will the Commission answer the following questions:

1.  How  much  was  made  available  by  the  regional  funds  to  cover  CAP  expenditure  and  for  structural
interventions in the field of agriculture and stockbreeding in Objective 1 regions for the 1992-1997 period,
broken down by year and Member State?

2.  What is the percentage reduction of EAGGF, Guarantee Section, spending and how much is this in ECU
compared with the overall budgets for the 1992-1997 period, broken down by year and Member State?

3.  What was the trend in EAGGF, Guidance Section, spending (percentage and amounts) compared to total
EAGGF spending and compared with the total budgets for the 1992-1997 period, broken down by year and
Member State?