WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1142/98 by José APOLINÁRIO to the Commission. Community Initiatives/Azores
Date: 1998-04-24
Institutions: APOLINARIO, European Parliament
Subjects: Community support framework, EU financial instrument, Structural Funds, eligibility criteria, structural policy, terms for aid

18.1.1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 13/21

In addition, outside the interventions under the structural funds, the Commission has also proposed that rural
development measures should be available throughout the Community as part of the reform of the common
agricultural policy.

(1999/C 13/028)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1135/98

by JosØ ApolinÆrio (PSE) to the Commission

(24 April 1998)

Subject: The Community Support Framework › Azores

In view of the specific nature of Portugal(cid:146)s Azores region (an extremely remote region which, as such, has a
special status enshrined in the EU Treaty), would the Commission give details of the kind of Community support
received by the region from the Structural Funds during the 1994-1999 period (policy measures and amounts of
funding) and how must support the Commission expects it to receive under the 2000-2006 Community Support
Framework?

(1999/C 13/029)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1142/98

by JosØ ApolinÆrio (PSE) to the Commission

(24 April 1998)

Subject: Community Initiatives/Azores

In view of the specific nature of Portugal(cid:146)s Azores region (an extremely remote region which, as such, has a
special status enshrined in the EU Treaty), would the Commission give details of the amount of Community
support received by the region from the Community Initiative (all of them, not just REGIS)during the 1994-1999
financial period? What does the Commission envisage as regards support during the 2000-2006 financial period?

Joint answer
to Written Questions E-1135/98 and E-1142/98
given by Mrs Wulf-Mathies on behalf of the Commission

(29 May 1998)

The amounts granted by the Structural Funds to the Azores region of Portugal under the 1994-1999 Community
support framework for Portugal total approximately ECU 697 million.

For the same period, under the initiative REGIS II Initiative giving the most remote regions the chance to engage
fully in action of the type aided by the other Community Initiatives, the Commission in allocating appropriations
between the Initiatives in 1994 granted the Portuguese REGIS II subprogramme for the Azores approximately
ECU 63 million (1996 prices).

To these amounts must be added ECU 6,6 million under the LEADER II Community Initiative and
ECU 1,84 million under the PESCA Initiative, from which the Azores benefit under the Portuguese national
programmes.

A summary table of the amounts granted with a breakdown by Fund and programme financed will be sent direct
to the Honourable Member and to Parliament(cid:146)s Secretariat.

These amounts include an additional ECU 26 million granted after the storms that ravaged the Azores
in December 1996 and January 1997.

Turning to the outlook for the future, the Commission is fully aware of the role played by the the economic and
social cohesion policy in developing the Community(cid:146)s most remote regions, and in its proposals for the new
programming period has brought them within Objective 1, for which some two-thirds of total Structural Fund aid
will be reserved (1).