WRITTEN QUESTION No. 534/99 by Daniel VARELA SUANZES- CARPEGNA Fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union
Date: 1999-03-12
Institutions: European Parliament, VARELA SUANZES-CARPEGNA
Subjects: aid to industry, aquaculture, cannery, export refund, fishery product, food aid, health control, import policy, monetary compensatory amount, tariff reduction

21.12.1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 370/53

(1999/C 370/071)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0532/99

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

(8 March 1999)

Subject: Fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union

At its June 1998 part-session the European Parliament debated and adopted the own-initiative report on
the fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union (A4-0137/98) (1),
in the
conclusions to which, inter alia, it urged the Commission ‘to propose the initiatives needed to set up a
Community-level reference laboratory to safeguard the quality of Community products and products
originating from third countries freely marketed on Union territory, and their compliance with technical
and health standards’.

Can the Commission say what measures have been taken to comply with Parliament’s request?

(1) OJ C 210, 6.7.1998, p. 295.

(1999/C 370/072)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0533/99

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

(12 March 1999)

Subject: Fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union

At its June 1998 part-session the European Parliament debated and adopted the own-initiative report on
the fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union (A4-0137/98) (1),
in the
conclusions to which, inter alia, it urged the Commission and those responsible in the Member States ‘to
tighten up standards and improve the machinery for controlling fish products marketed on Union
territory, verifying in a reliable manner that fresh and processed fishery products comply with the law
on rules of origin’.

Can the Commission say what measures have been taken to comply with Parliament’s request, and what
results have been obtained?

(1) OJ C 210, 6.7.1998, p. 295.

(1999/C 370/073)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0534/99

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

(12 March 1999)

Subject: Fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union

At its June 1998 part-session the European Parliament debated and adopted the own-initiative report on
the fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union (A4-0137/98) (1),
in the
conclusions to which, inter alia, it stated its support for ‘the promotion of quality products, including
raw materials that can be added to the various canning preparations, such as canning liquids, and in
particular olive oil, for which it calls for measures to ensure that the price of olive oil is in line with the
international price, in order to maintain the competitiveness of this kind of preparation, a symbol of the
quality of the Community’s canning industry’, and called, in this context, ‘for the mechanism of olive oil
refunds for the industry under the COM for olive oil to be maintained and increased’.

Can the Commission say what measures have been taken to comply with Parliament’s request?

(1) OJ C 210, 6.7.1998, p. 295.