WRITTEN QUESTION E-2230/99 by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission. Infringement proceedings against Member States.
Date: 1999-12-01
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU Member State, infringement procedure (EU)

18.7.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 203 E/153

Price level indices of individual household consumption expendi-
ture (HHC), gross fixed capital expenditure (GFCF) and GDP relative
to the average of the 15 Member States

Member State

B

DK

D

EL

E

F

IRL

I

L

NL

A

P

FI

S

UK

EU-15

HHC

99

126

106

83

82

106

97

89

100

96

106

73

119

126

104

100

GFCF

95

115

108

81

84

124

95

86

108

103

102

73

88

108

93

100

GDP

98

121

108

80

81

108

96

90

108

98

104

65

109

120

100

100

(2000/C 203 E/195)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2230/99

by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission

(1 December 1999)

Subject: Infringement proceedings against Member States

At the end of the last month (October), what was the total number of infringement proceedings initiated
by the Commission and outstanding against each Member State? Please give similar figures for the end of
the year for the last five years.

Answer given by Mr Prodi on behalf of the Commission

(3 December 1999)

The information requested by the Honourable Member concerning outstanding infringement proceedings
at the end of each year can be found in the Commission(cid:146)s annual report on monitoring the application of
Community law.

The report for 1998: COM(1999) 301 of 9 July 1999, available on the Europa website at the following
address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/sg/sgb/infringements/report98_en.htm.

Reports for previous years:

(cid:129) 1997: COM(1998) 317 final (1),

(cid:129) 1996: COM(97) 299 final (2),

(cid:129) 1995: COM(96) 600 final (3),

(cid:129) 1994: COM(95) 500 final (4).

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Updated information on the total number of infringement proceedings oustanding against each Member
State is available on the European website at the following address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/sg/sgb/
infringements/pdf/ms_n.pdf. This information is updated monthly.

(1) OJ C 250, 10.8.1998.
(2) OJ C 332, 3.11.1997.
(3) OJ C 303, 14.10.1996.
(4) OJ C 254, 29.9.1995.

(2000/C 203 E/196)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2232/99

by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission

(1 December 1999)

Subject: Publication of the econometric model

Is the Commission willing to make available to interested researchers its econometric model of the EU and
the eurozone, stripped, where necessary, of all assumptions?

(2000/C 203 E/197)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2243/99

by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission

(1 December 1999)

Subject: Maintenance and publication of econometric models

Please state, for each finance ministry and central bank in the Member States and for the Commission,
whether an econometric model of their own economy and of the eurozone economy is maintained and
whether the model is made available to interested parties on a regular basis and, if so, how regularly.

Joint answer
to Written Questions E-2232/99 and E-2243/99
by Mr Solbes Mira on behalf of the Commission

(20 December 1999)

Models in the public sector of Member States are not always developed by ministries of finance or central
banks (e.g. in Belgium and the Netherlands, they are developed by their planning bureau). The existence of
such models varies through time, is of course not under the control of the Commission and is not always
publicised.
their availability should thus be requested from the Member States
authorities.

Information about

As far as the Commission is concerned, it has been a constant policy to transfer its multinational macro
model QUEST to all universities and public sector research units that request it. The transfer is made under
the following conditions. The user cannot modify the structure and equations of the model in any way and
simulations made with the model should always state that they only represent the views of the authors and
in no way those of the Commission. The model has been developed in a specific software package that is
not the property of the Commission. The user must thus provide the same software, acquired under his
own responsibility. The Commission cannot provide any technical help to the user. It is the responsibility
of the latter to entrust the model to a fully qualified econometric team having a proven experience of
running macro-economic models.

The model covers all Member States and a description of it could be found on the Internet at the address;
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg02/document/ecopap/ecp/123en.htm.