WRITTEN QUESTION E-0457/00 by Daniela Raschhofer (NI) to the Commission. ESF ‐ written question E-1877/99.
Date: 2000-02-24
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Austria, Burgenland, EU Member State, EU financing arrangements, job creation, use of aid, vocational training

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-0456/00

by Daniela Raschhofer (NI) to the Commission

(24 February 2000)

Subject: Answer to Written Question E-1877/99: structural policy (cid:129) labour market

With reference to the answer to Written Question E-1877/99 (1) given on 20 December 1999, I would put
the following additional questions:

1. On what data was the answer to point 5 based (information on Austria)?

2. Which national authority collects the data on the labour market in connection with the funding

provided by the EU Structural Funds?

3. Are the 2 100 new jobs created in Burgenland, a region coming under Objective l, short-term,

medium-term or long-term?

4. How many of the 2 100 new jobs are full-time and how many part-time?

5. What criteria or definitions does the Commission use to distinguish between short-term, medium-term

and long-term jobs?

6.

In which sectors or branches of the economy were these new jobs created?

7. On what studies, statistics or other evidence is the Commission basing its statement that 5 800 jobs
have been saved by the use of funding from the Structural Funds in the Objective 1 region of
Burgenland?

8. How can the Commission prove that these jobs would have been lost but for the use of funding from

the EU Structural Funds?

(1) OJ C 203 E, 18.7.2000, p. 78.

Answer given by Mrs Diamantopoulou on behalf of the Commission

(28 March 2000)

The Commission is collecting the information it needs to answer the question. It will communicate its
findings as soon as possible.

(2000/C 280 E/256)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0457/00

by Daniela Raschhofer (NI) to the Commission

(24 February 2000)

Subject: ESF (cid:129) written question E-1877/99

Further to its answer of 20 December 1999 to written question E-1877/99 (1), will the Commission now
state:

1. What job-creation measures have been introduced throughout Europe with the ESF(cid:146)s EUR 43 000
million, and whether it has data showing precisely how many jobs use of this money has helped to
create or save?

2. What measures have been introduced in Austria using ESF transfers, and how many jobs such

measures have created and/or saved?

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In Burgenland, an Objective 1 region, 6000 people had taken part in ESF-financed training schemes by the
end of 1998.

What were these training schemes?

Does the Commission have data proving that more people found work as a result of such schemes?

How many of the people who took part in training schemes co-financed by the ESF have been able to find
work again?

(1) OJ C 203 E, 18.7.2000, p. 78.

Answer given by Mrs Diamantopoulou on behalf of the Commission

(28 March 2000)

The Commission is collecting the information it needs to answer the question. It will communicate its
findings as soon as possible.

(2000/C 280 E/257)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0458/00

by Daniela Raschhofer (NI) to the Commission

(24 February 2000)

Subject: Structural policy and employment

In its answer of 20 December 1999 to written question E-1877/99 (1) concerning studies of the effect of
Structural Funds transfers on employment, the Commission says (cid:145)It is, therefore, not possible to provide
figures on total impact of the funds on job creation(cid:146).

The Sixth Periodic Report on the Social and Economic Situation and Development of the Regions of the
European Union (SEC(99) 66 final), states as regards the relevant models for assessing the performance of
Structural Funds transfers that (cid:145)Both are very strong assumptions to make and, in reality, it is not possible
to know what would have happened in the absence of Union support.(cid:146) (p. 155).

Is this confirmation by the Commission that there are no scientifically based studies capable of

1.
demonstrating the link between the use of Structural Funds transfers and employment?

2. What means of assessment do the Commission and/or the relevant national departments use in order
nevertheless to provide details of newly created jobs or jobs that have been saved?

3. What methods do the Commission and/or the relevant national departments use in order to be able
to provide information on planned new jobs?

(1) OJ C 203 E, 18.7.2000, p. 78.

Answer given by Mrs Diamantopoulou on behalf of the Commission

(28 March 2000)

The Commission is collecting the information it needs to answer the question. It will communicate its
findings as soon as possible.