WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2560/98 by Carmen DÍEZ DE RIVERA ICAZA to the Commission. Future security at the Boliden company's mine at Aznalcóllar (Doñana, Spain)
Date: 1998-07-29
Institutions: DIEZ DE RIVERA ICAZA, European Parliament
Subjects: Spain, accident prevention, environmental impact, environmental protection, impact study, industrial hazard, industrial pollution, mining operation

C 297/26

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

15.10.1999

The Community has consistently supported measures taken by the Argentinian authorities to redress the
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state of the hake stocks. This position is in the medium to long term interest of the Argentinian fishery sector
including the vessels transferred under the fisheries agreement. It is the responsibility of the coastal state to
take management measures on the stocks under its responsibility in accordance with the law of the sea.

The joint enterprises established under the agreement are subject to Argentinian law and consequently
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assume the financial and economic risks associated with any commercial company. It may be recalled that
these companies received financial assistance from the Community in their establishment.

(1999/C 297/034)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-2560/98

by Carmen Díez de Rivera Icaza (PSE) to the Commission

(29 July 1998)

Subject: Future security at the Boliden company’s mine at Aznalcóllar (Doñana, Spain)

In the wake of the highly disturbing accident at Aznalcóllar (Spain), with its grave implications for the Doñana
area, can the Commission state what proposals it has received from the Boliden mining company concerning
its operational intentions for the Aznalcóllar mine, and also specify what preventive measures it is taking to
ensure that any proposed future operations in this mining area are in line with safety standards and to prevent
any more accidents from occurring?

Answer given by Mrs Bjerregaard on behalf of the Commission

(25 September 1998)

The Boliden company’s proposed mining operation at Los Frailes has undergone the environmental impact
assessment required by Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of
certain public and private projects on the environment (1). The environmental impact statement was published
in the official journal of the Province of Seville, No 180, of 5 August 1995. According to the Commission’s
information, Boliden intends, this autumn, to apply for authorisation to bring the Los Frailes mine back into
operation.

The Spanish authorities will be asked for details regarding the matters raised by the Honourable Member. In
addition, as part of the follow-up to the accident these matters will be raised at a bilateral meeting between the
Spanish authorities and the Commission, to be held in November 1998 in Madrid.

(1) OJ L 175, 5.7.1985.

(1999/C 297/035)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2591/98

by Elisabeth Schroedter (V) to the Commission

(1 September 1998)

Subject: Support for the ‘Friedrichshain Strategies, 1998-2000’ project in Friedrichshain, Berlin

The European Union has provided support for the ‘Friedrichshain Strategies, 1998-2000’ project in the
Friedrichshain district of Berlin in connection with urban pilot schemes under Article 10 of the European
Regional Development Fund. The district is also targeted by an URBAN project (Commission Decision
94/628/EC) (1) of 29 July 1994 concerning the Community support framework for the German Objective 1
regions). The urban pilot scheme was intended, inter alia, to create model jobs both directly, by integrating the
long-term unemployed, and indirectly, through support measures for small and medium-sized enterprises.

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Does the Commission consider that this objective has been attained?

Is the Commission in a position to check whether workers without social insurance have been employed

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in connection with the ‘Friedrichshain Strategies, 1998-2000’ project?