WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1500/98 by Daniel VARELA SUANZES- CARPEGNA to the Commission. The information society and social and economic cohesion
Date: 1998-05-13
Institutions: European Parliament, VARELA SUANZES-CARPEGNA
Subjects: European Commission, European Regional Development Fund, action programme, budgetary resources, co-financing, economic and social cohesion, information, information policy, telematics

5.2.1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 31/47

The guidelines will be based › among other things › on the continuing evaluations of the different initiatives
financed by the structural funds and of the mid-term review of structural interventions. For example, the current
evaluation of the structural funds(cid:146) impact on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) will provide elements
concerning the typology of information society › related expenditure. This will help to focus the orientations and
future action of the Commission in supporting SMEs to fully integrate information and communication
technologies.

Similarly, the evaluation of the IRISI programmes › the information society regional strategies developed by the
six regions precursors of the current RISI pilot projects on the basis of Article 10 of the current ERDF Regulation
› is giving important insights concerning the regional perception of the information society and the institutional
and procedural problems arising from investments of an intangible nature such as those associated with the
information society.

Furthermore, as a follow-up to the communication (cid:145)Living and working in the information society › people first(cid:146),
the Commission is examining issues related to changes in the organisation of work › following among other
things the diffusion of information and communication technologies › in order to extract examples of best
practices.

(1) COM(98) 131 final.

(1999/C 31/062)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1500/98

by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna (PPE) to the Commission

Subject: The information society and social and economic cohesion

(13 May 1998)

In her appearance before Parliament(cid:146)s Committee on Regional Policy on 23 January 1997 in connection with the
presentation of the Commission Communication on cohesion and the information society (COM(97) 7 final of
22 January 1997), Mrs Mathies, Commissioner, mentioned that budget resources under Article 10 of the ERDF
had been made available to a certain number of regions with a view to the drawing up of a strategy and an action
programme for transition to the information society.

Could the Commission provide information regarding all the projects relating to the information society which
have so far been co-financed by the Commission under Article 10 of the ERDF and also those which will be co-
financed between now and the end of the current planning period, specifying the regions concerned, the total cost
of implementation and the extent of Community co-financing?

(1999/C 31/063)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1502/98

by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna (PPE) to the Commission

Subject: The information society and social and economic cohesion

(13 May 1998)

In her appearance before Parliament(cid:146)s Committee on Regional Policy on 23 January 1997 in connection with the
presentation of the Commission Communication on cohesion and the information society (COM(97) 7 final of
22 January 1997), Mrs Mathies, Commissioner, mentioned that ten information society projects would be
financed under interregional cooperation.

Could the Commission provide information regarding all the projects relating to the information society which
have so far been co-financed by the Commission under the Community initiatives and also those which will be
co-financed between now and the end of the current planning period, specifying the regions concerned, the total
cost of implementation and the extent of Community co-financing?