WRITTEN QUESTION E-2227/99 by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission. Purchasing power parities.
Date: 1999-12-01
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU Member State, gross domestic product, purchasing power parity, secondary sector, tertiary sector

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C 203 E/151

(2000/C 203 E/193)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2225/99

by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission

(1 December 1999)

Subject: Institutions(cid:146) employees discharged

Please state the number of employees and the proportion of employees asked to leave the service of the
Commission, Parliament and Council in each of the last five years and compare this with the number and
proportion in the civil services of the five largest Member States.

Answer given by Mr Kinnock on behalf of the Commission

(7 December 1999)

The Commission has dismissed eleven people in the past five years.

This breaks down by year as follows:

(cid:129) 1995: 4

(cid:129) 1996: 0

(cid:129) 1997: 1

(cid:129) 1998: 3

(cid:129) 1999: 3 (up to November)

The Commission does not have any information about dismissals of staff by the Council or by the
Parliament. This question should be addressed to the administrations of the Council and the Parliament
respectively.

The Commission has no statistics relating to civil servant dismissals in Member States and no legal
authority to require provision of such figures.

(2000/C 203 E/194)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2227/99

by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission

(1 December 1999)

Subject: Purchasing power parities

Using the latest available Eurostat data, what are (a) the GDP purchasing power parities in euros for each
of the EU Member States and (b) the tradeable sector purchasing power parities in euros for each of the EU
Member States (using, if no better measure is available, the PPP figures for manufacturing).

Answer given by Mr Solbes Mira on behalf of the Commission

(20 December 1999)

The purchasing power parities (PPPs) resulting from price comparison between the Member States and
other participating countries are finally expressed in such a way that the total Gross domestic product
(GDP) of the 15 Member States, or of whichever sub-GDP aggregate is being compared,
is the same
whether it is expressed in euro or in standardised parities. The standardised parities reflect the price level
differences in relation to the average of the 15 Member States.

PPPs are calculated on the basis of the classification of final expenditure. Consequently, there is no set of
PPPs available particularly for the tradable sector or for the manufacturing sector but the PPPs for
individual household consumption expenditure and for gross fixed capital expenditure may give an
indication of the magnitude of the PPPs for these sectors.

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PPPs at the level of GDP in 1997

Member State

B

DK

D

EL

E

F

IRL

I

L

NL

A

P

FI

S

UK

PPP

39,76

9,07

2,131

246,6

134,6

7,133

0,7165

1744

43,77

2,158

14,43

129,7

6,412

10,39

0,6905

PPPs for individual household consumption expenditure (HHC)
and gross fixed capital expenditure (GFCF) in 1997

Member State

B

DK

D

EL

E

F

IRL

I

L

NL

A

P

FI

S

UK

HHC

40,15

9,43

2,092

256,1

135,2

6,977

0,7252

GFCF

38,43

8,57

2,130

250,8

138,9

8,204

0,7064

1722

1667

40,69

2,132

14,61

144,2

6,985

10,86

0,7201

43,70

2,270

14,14

144,8

5,204

9,37

0,6452

Price level indices which are based on PPPs indicate the price level in each Member State relative to the
average of the 15 Member States.

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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).