WRITTEN QUESTION E-1954/00 by Alexandros Alavanos (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Failure to maintain current job levels at a subsidised plant owned by pasta-producer MISKO.
Date: 2000-06-16
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU employment policy, Greece, Peloponnese, allowances and expenses, food industry, infringement of EU law, job preservation, pasta, worker consultation

C 103 E/38

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

3.4.2001

(2001/C 103 E/040)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1954/00

by Alexandros Alavanos (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(16 June 2000)

Subject: Failure to maintain current job levels at a subsidised plant owned by pasta-producer MISKO

I have already addressed two question to the Commission (E-2778/99 and 2779/99) (1) requesting
clarification about matters relating to aid for MISKO and the employment of workers at this plant.
Mrs Diamantopoulou, the Commissioner responsible, answered on behalf of the Commission that it was
collecting the information it needed to answer the question and that it would communicate its findings as
soon as possible.

In view of the difficult predicament facing MISKO employees, will the Commission say what progress it
has made in collecting information? When will it provide an answer to my question?

(1) OJ C 225 E, 8.8.2000, p. 206.

Answer given by Mrs Diamantopoulou on behalf of the Commission

(4 October 2000)

The Honourable Member will very shortly receive a complementary reply to his written questions E-2778/
99 and E-2779/99.

(2001/C 103 E/041)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1958/00

by Mario Mauro (PPE-DE), Johan Van Hecke (PPE-DE)
and Antonio Tajani (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(16 June 2000)

Subject: Human rights violations in northern Uganda

1.
Is the Commission aware of what is happening in northern Uganda, where more than ten thousand
children have been abducted in recent years and more children are still being abducted on an almost daily
basis, by rebels of the Lord(cid:146)s Resistance Army?

Is the Commission informed about the role of the Sudanese armed forces in training, arming and

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using these children for military operations against the Ugandan army and the SPLA in South Sudan?

3.
Is the Commission informed that many of these children are dying of cholera in the camps in South
Sudan, of mistreatment or of life-threatening conditions on the battlefield both in Uganda and South
Sudan?

If so, what measures will the Commission take on the basis of this information? If not, what will the

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Commission do to investigate these events?

5. What is the Commission doing to facilitate, press for and speed up the implementation of the
Nairobi Peace Accord, signed in December between Uganda and Sudan, and of the Amnesty Bill, passed by
the Ugandan Parliament in December but suffering from serious delays?

6.
Is the Commission aware of the presence in some Member States of (cid:145)representatives(cid:146) of the LRA,
guilty of the most serious abuses against children anywhere in the world, who seem to be travelling
unhindered within and outside the European Union? If so, what concrete actions is the Commission going
to take to stop these people from operating and mobilising support in these Member States?