WRITTEN QUESTION E-1819/00 by Cristiana Muscardini (UEN) to the Commission. Funding in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 3904/92.
Date: 2000-06-08
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Italy, customs, financing, industrial restructuring, single market, vocational retraining

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Under the rules on export refunds on bovine animals (Article 33(9) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/
1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal and Article 1 of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 615/98) failure to comply with the provisions on the protection of live
animals being transported debars
from the refund. Commission Regulation (EC) No 615/98 of
18 March 1998 lays down specific detailed rules of application for the export refund arrangements as
regards the welfare of live bovine animals during transport (1).

Articles 2 and 3 of
that Regulation require systematic checking of all animals exported from the
Community and targeted checking when animals are unloaded in third countries. Only if its provisions
have been respected can export refunds be paid.

The Commission has no information on the refund amounts refused or recovered owing to non-
compliance with the abovementioned provisions. It will ask the Member States for figures for the period
since 1 September 1998, when the new rules of application introduced by Regulation (EC) No 615/98
came into force. These figures will then be notified to the Honourable Member.

(1) OJ L 82, 19.3.1998.

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-1819/00

by Cristiana Muscardini (UEN) to the Commission

(8 June 2000)

Subject: Funding in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 3904/92

In its answer to Written Question E-0154/00 (1) the Commission states that 17 % of the assistance it
granted to Italy to finance projects in the context of the above-mentioned Regulation was allocated to
Liguria and amounted to ITL 2 707 million. It also specifies that 97 % of the funding was intended
to benefit small and medium-sized enterprises.

Since the Commission did not answer the first two questions asked in that Written Question, can it now
say:

1.

to whom the funding was assigned and for what projects;

2. whether it also benefited businesses in the Ventimiglia area, since it is the one worst hit by the

disappearance of customs activities?

(1) OJ L 394, 31.12.1999, p. 1.

Answer given by Mrs Diamantopoulou on behalf of the Commission

(19 September 2000)

According to the implementation report concerning Council Regulation (EEC) No 3904/92 of 17 December
1992 on measures to adapt the profession of customs agent to the internal market (1) which has been
transmitted to the Commission by the Ministero del Lavoro e della Previdenza Sociale, the following

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information can be supplied concerning the number and location of projects carried out under that
Regulation:

Region

No of projects

Abruzzo
Campania
Emilia-Romagna
Fiuli Venezia-Giulia
Lazio
Liguria
Lombardia
Marche
Piemonte
Puglia
Sardegna
Sicilia
Toscana
Trentino Alto-Adige
Umbria
Valle d(cid:146)Aosta
Veneto

2
18
32
12
14
18
59
4
23
5
6
4
21
10
2
2
13

Overall funding
in lire

24 716 826
373 709 996
1 026 952 426
641 095 628
824 601 530
2 707 284 374
4 604 984 380
312 204 606
1 931 436 276
116 600 232
59 271 196
37 757 940
288 221 504
1 894 160 908
83 272 492
59 160 610
902 406 246

Italy (cid:129) Total

245

15 887 837 170

According to the same implementation report, the following information can be supplied concerning,
specifically, the province of Imperia (of which Ventimiglia is a part). 10 projects were presented (2 from
the town of Imperia, 3 from San Remo, 5 from Ventimiglia). The Italian authorities responsible for
operating the programme selected 6 projects to receive funding (1 from Imperia and 5 from Ventimiglia).
According to the information which the Commission has available, all but one of these projects did not
follow through their applications and for this reason did not receive support under the programme.

The one project from this group which did receive support was located in Ventimiglia. The project
concerned the creation of a service centre for lorries (2). The final beneficiary was (cid:145)Autoporto riviera dei
fiori spa(cid:146). Approved costs amounted to ITL 1 140 million, with Community funding at ITL 285 million and
national funding at ITL 285 million.

(1) OJ L 394, 31.12.1992.
(2)

(cid:145)Realizzazione di un centro di assistenza al traffico degli autotrasportatori che preveda oltre allo svolgimento
dell(cid:146)attivita(cid:146) edilizia, la gestione dei servizi autoportuali(cid:146).

(2001/C 81 E/116)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1820/00

by Bart Staes (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

(9 June 2000)

Subject: European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Charter of Fundamental Rights

According to the European Council of Cologne, the Charter of Fundamental Rights is intended to give
shape to the extraordinary significance of fundamental rights and their importance for the citizens of the
Union.

However,
lawyers are curious as to the future relationship between the Charter and the European
Convention on Human Rights. They propose that the Union should be subject to the ultimate jurisdiction
of the European Court of Human Rights to prevent human rights being eroded on the continent of
Europe.

Is the Commission prepared to subject the Union to the ultimate jurisdiction of the Court of Human

1.
Rights? If not, why not?