WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1680/98 by Kirsi PIHA to the Commission. Utilization of PHARE appropriations in Latvia
Date: 1998-05-29
Institutions: European Parliament, PIHA
Subjects: EU programme, European Union, Latvia, financial aid, language teaching, teaching, vocational training

C 50/70

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

22.2.1999

Of the PHARE appropriations intended for Lithuania, how much was utilized in 1997 for such cooperation and
what proportion of these appropriations did it represent?

(1999/C 50/102)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1680/98

by Kirsi Piha (PPE) to the Commission

(29 May 1998)

Subject: Utilization of PHARE appropriations in Latvia

Educational cooperation is one of the most important forms of grass-roots cooperation between the EU Member
States and the candidate countries.

Of the PHARE appropriations intended for Latvia, how much was utilized in 1997 for such cooperation and what
proportion of these appropriations did it represent?

(1999/C 50/103)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1681/98

by Kirsi Piha (PPE) to the Commission

(29 May 1998)

Subject: Utilization of PHARE appropriations in Poland

Educational cooperation is one of the most important forms of grass-roots cooperation between the EU Member
States and the candidate countries.

Of the PHARE appropriations intended for Poland, how much was utilized in 1997 for such cooperation and what
proportion of these appropriations did it represent?

Joint answer
to Written Questions E-1678/98, E-1679/98, E-1680/98 and E-1681/98
given by Mr van den Broek on behalf of the Commission

(8 July 1998)

The Community attaches importance to the development of quality education and the implementation of a
vocational training system in all the candidate countries of central and eastern Europe. Phare funds have been
allocated since 1992 to improve the education systems in those countries. In particular, the Tempus programme
has substantially contributed to the achievement of the goals of higher education reform and has created the basis
for cooperation between higher education institutions in the three Baltic States and Poland and those of the
Community. Reforms are currently being undertaken in all three Baltic States and Poland at all levels of the
education and vocational training system in order to further adapt them to the needs of a democratic society and to
the market economy The Community has opened programmes such as Leonardo and Socrates to participation of
these countries.

In 1997, the following Phare allocations were made to education:

› Estonia

Information systems in education. ECU 1,7 million to support the national Estonian programme for
information technology in education by improving the access to networks, administration systems, teaching
methods and to develop native language information services.

Higher education & science reform programme. ECU 0,6 million to improve the two recently established
interdisciplinary centres of strategic competence for stimulating the integration of teaching and research and
the dialogue between the educational sector and the industry › funded from Phare 1996.

Language training for non-Estonian speakers. ECU 1,4 million to promote the integration and naturalisation
of Russian speaking minorities).

Tempus. ECU 1,2 million. The allocation to education amounting to ECU 4,9 million represents 15 % of the
overall budget for Estonia in 1997.