WRITTEN QUESTION E-1820/00 by Bart Staes (Verts/ALE) to the Commission. European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Date: 2000-06-09
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, fundamental rights, human rights, international charter

13.3.2001

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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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?

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Is the Commission of the opinion that the Charter of Fundamental Rights will not lead to the
2.
undermining of human rights on the continent of Europe? What are the Commission(cid:146)s juridical arguments
for demonstrating that the Charter will not lead to an erosion of the European Convention on the
Protection of Human Rights?

Answer given by Mr Vitorino on behalf of the Commission

(19 September 2000)

1.
The Commission would remind the Honourable Member that it has stated on several occasions that
it believes the Community should accede to the European Convention on Human Rights. This would
establish the same external checks on Community legislation as those applied by Member States to their
own legislation. In the Commission(cid:146)s view, accession to the Convention, which would require amendment
of the Treaties (1), has lost none of its immediacy.

2.
The Commission attaches the utmost importance to drawing up the EU Charter of Fundamental
Rights. This will result in the codification in a single text of all the fundamental rights protected in the
Union, with an unmistakable improvement in legal certainty.

The Commission acknowledges the need to ensure that the fundamental rights laid down in the EU
Charter are interpreted in a consistent manner where they correspond to rights already enshrined in the
Convention.

For these reasons, it in no way shares the very pessimistic views expressed by the Honourable Member.

(1) Cf. ECJ ruling [1996] ECR I-1759.

(2001/C 81 E/117)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1821/00

by Camilo Nogueira RomÆn (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

(8 June 2000)

Subject: The dairy sector in Galicia and the reform of the CAP scheduled for the years 2005-2006

The reform of the CAP scheduled for the years 2005-2006 will lead to a fall in the intervention prices for
milk, to be offset by the introduction of a premium granted directly to farmers, which in 2007-2008 and
following years will amount to PTA 4,16 per kilogram. However, this premium will only apply to
production levels corresponding to each dairy farm(cid:146)s own quota.

Faced with the possible abolition of the system of milk quotas as a result of further CAP reforms, what will
be the situation of farms with a large land-based capacity for growth (cid:129) as is the case of most Galician
farms (cid:129) which are now hampered in developing their production by a quota system imposed on them
years ago, at the precise time when they were optimistically undertaking a process of modernisation?
Would a potential and necessary additional production capacity be given financial support comparable to
that given to production levels corresponding to the current quotas, assuming that some system of
premiums was maintained?

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(11 July 2000)

The direct payments to producers planned from 2005 onwards are currently established by tonne of
reference quantity ((cid:145)quota(cid:146)) of milk. If the Council decided to discontinue the system of quotas, it would
have to take account of all the consequences, including the base for and method of calculation of the
direct payments. Nevertheless, the Commission considers that it is premature to take a position on the
matter at this stage.