WRITTEN QUESTION E-0718/00 by Encarnación Redondo Jiménez (PPE-DE) to the Commission. 300 million cut in appropriations under heading 1.
Date: 2000-03-17
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Community budget, Kosovo, agricultural expenditure, economic reconstruction, programme budgeting

C 26 E/94

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

26.1.2001

legally resident in a Member State may reside in other Member States (Article 63(4)). In the (cid:145)Scoreboard(cid:146) (2)
presented by the Commission and endorsed by the Council on 27 March 2000, it is stated that studies are
under way on the admission of third country nationals with a view to the Commission presenting
proposals for Directives.

On the other hand, an entrepreneur who is a third country national acting as a natural person already
legally resident in the territory of a Member State does not benefit from the right of establishment under
the terms of Article 43 of the EC Treaty. However, paragraph 2 of Article 49 of the EC Treaty enables the
Council to extend the freedom to provide services to service providers who are third country nationals
legally established in a Member State. In February 1999, the Commission therefore presented a proposal
for a Council Directive extending the freedom to provide cross-border services to third country nationals
established within the Community (3). As part of the scheduled consultation procedure, the Parliament
welcomed this proposal (see the Berger report (4)) subject to certain amendments, particularly concerning
the issue of (cid:145)bogus self-employed persons(cid:146). Following the Parliament(cid:146)s opinion of 3 February 2000, the
Commission will present an amended proposal as soon as possible.

On a more general note, the Commission has presented a package of measures based on Article 13,
including the proposal for a Council Directive implementing the principle of equal treatment between
persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin (5), which was the subject of the Buitenweg report adopted by
Parliament on 18 May 2000.

(1) COM(2000) 853.
(2) Scoreboard to review progress on the creation of an area of (cid:145)Freedom, security and justice(cid:146) in the European Union

(cid:129) COM(2000) 167 final of 24 March 2000.

(3) OJ C 67, 10.3.1999.
(4) Berger report of 2 February 2000 (A5-0012/00).
(5) COM(1999) 566.

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-0718/00

by Encarnaci(cid:243)n Redondo JimØnez (PPE-DE) to the Commission

Subject: 300 million cut in appropriations under heading 1

(17 March 2000)

Further to the statements that Mrs Schreyer, Commissioner in charge of budgets, made on 22 February
2000 to the European Parliament(cid:146)s Committee on Budgets and the answers she gave to the questions put
by members of that committee regarding the annual reduction of EUR 300 m that the Commission
intends to make in appropriations entered in respect of heading 1,
that under no
circumstances would heading 1B be involved, can the Commission say exactly which budget line within
heading 1A it intends to make that cut from?

to the effect

Answer given by Mrs Schreyer on behalf of the Commission

(27 April 2000)

In its orientation debate in February 2000, the Commission decided on the priorities for the 2001 budget
and proposed that an amount of 300 M€ per year for the reconstruction of Kosovo and its extension to
the Western Balkan should be transferred from heading 1 to heading 4 for 2001 and 2002.

In 2001, expected needs for agricultural expenditures in heading 1(a) have been adjusted as compared to
the very first estimates in late December 1999. This was in particular possible in the light of more
favourite evolution of the American dollar exchange rate and recovery in world cereal markets. Proposals
to amend the existing legislative framework are therefore not required and support to farmers will remain
unchanged. Consequently, no budget line has to be cut in order to permit the transfer of € 300 million to
heading 4.