WRITTEN QUESTION E-1419/00 by Bill Miller (PSE) to the Commission. Fixed investment.
Date: 2000-05-05
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU Member State, financial statistics, investment

13.2.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 46 E/191

By investigating the complaint, the Commission will have access to all the information it needs in order to
determine whether the principle of mutual recognition has been observed in this case. If, on concluding
this investigation, the Commission considers the principle in question to have been breached, it will not
hesitate to initiate infringement proceedings.

(1) OJ C 267, 19.10.1989.
(2) COM(1999) 299 final.

(2001/C 46 E/226)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1418/00

by Bill Miller (PSE) to the Commission

(5 May 2000)

Subject: Import penetration

Would the Commission list percentage import penetration within each Member State since 1988, in the
following areas:

(cid:129) high research-intensity goods;

(cid:129) medium research-intensity goods;

(cid:129) low research-intensity goods?

Answer given by Mr Solbes Mira on behalf of the Commission

(27 June 2000)

The Commission collects and stores external trade data using the combined nomenclature, a classification
of goods for tariff and statistical purposes. Using correspondence tables, the data can be analysed using
several other nomenclatures, such as the standard international trade classification or the Community
production statistics. It does not however have an analysis of products by research intensity, which would
allow the data requested to be provided. The Commission is working on an analysis of trade in high
technology products, using correspondence tables drawn up by the Organisation for economic cooperation
and development.

(2001/C 46 E/227)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1419/00

by Bill Miller (PSE) to the Commission

(5 May 2000)

Subject: Fixed investment

Would the Commission list the latest percentage share of gross domestic product each Member State is
spending on fixed investment?

C 46 E/192

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

13.2.2001

Answer given by Mr Solbes Mira on behalf of the Commission

(23 June 2000)

(%)

Gross fixed capital formation of
gross domestic product (GDP) in 1999

European Union (15 Member States)

Euro-zone (EUR-11)

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

20,2 (1)

20,8 (1)

21,0

19,5

20,9

23,0 (1)

23,9

19,1 (1)

24,5 (1)

18,9

20,3 (1)

22,3

24,3 (1)

26,9 (1)

19,3

16,6

18,0

Source: Eurostat New Cronos (cid:129) Date of extraction: 25.5.2000.
(1)

Estimate.

(2001/C 46 E/228)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1435/00

by Carmen Cerdeira Morterero (PSE) to the Commission

Subject: Dual discrimination on grounds of gender and disability

(5 May 2000)

The Commission has recently submitted a package of measures, including three directives, pursuant to the
anti-discrimination provisions of Article 13 of the Treaty of Amsterdam, which cites gender and disability
as two of the areas in which the Union intends to take action to combat discrimination. This being so,
disabled women face dual discrimination which the Commission should be monitoring.

With this in mind, has the Commission included a proposal of any kind within its package of anti-
discrimination measures to combat dual discrimination affecting disabled women?

Answer given by Mrs Diamantopoulou on behalf of the Commission

(27 June 2000)

Structural inequalities linked to male and female roles often have far more serious repercussions in the
event of dual, triple or multiple discrimination on grounds other than sex within the meaning of Article 13