WRITTEN QUESTION E-2443/00 by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Commission. Linking Galicia with the Peninsular and the rest of Europe by high speed train.
Date: 2000-07-19
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Community support framework, Galicia, co-financing, high-speed transport, rail transport

C 113 E/98

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

18.4.2001

Exchanges of view on these issues take place on a regular basis and at different levels with the Turkish
authorities. Lately, this was the case during the visits to Turkey of the Commissioner responsible for
Employment (22-24 June 2000) and the Commissioner responsible for Enlargement (13/14 July 2000).

The Commission is also in dialogue with international organisations, non-governmental organizations and
others to discuss developments in Turkey.

(2001/C 113 E/098)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2443/00

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

(19 July 2000)

Subject: Linking Galicia with the Peninsular and the rest of Europe by high speed train

The President of the Xunta de Galiza, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, recently publicly announced that he had
signed an agreement with the Spanish Minister of Public Works, Francisco `lvarez Cascos, on the building
of a (cid:145)high yield(cid:146) rail link, to be co-funded by the European Union, linking the cities of Galicia with Madrid
via Valladolid in the year 2006.

Does this decision form part of the Community Support Framework which the Commission agreed with
the Spanish Government for the 2000-2006 period? Is this to be a high-speed link, like those which
already exist and those planned for the links with the south and the Mediterranean part of the Iberian
Peninsula? What budget has been allocated, and what annual programming do the investments to be made
come under?

Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission

(6 October 2000)

Following negotiations with the Spanish authorities the Commission is now finalising the Community
support framework for the Objective I Spanish regions, which include Galicia, for 2000-2006.

The CSF does not itemise projects to be financed during this programming period. It is too soon therefore
to say anything precise about the projects that will be selected for inclusion in the CSF operational
programmes.

It should however be said that the Commission and the Spanish authorities consider improvement of rail
links between the main cities of Galicia and Valladolid to be one of the transport infrastructure priorities
for the period.

(2001/C 113 E/099)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-2449/00

by Ulrich Stockmann (PSE) to the Commission

(11 July 2000)

Subject: State aid notification procedures in the new L(cid:228)nder of the Federal Republic of Germany

At the beginning of June 2000, the SKL-M undertaking in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, was
forced to file a petition in bankruptcy because MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH withdrew the take-over bid
which it had made within the context of reprivatisation when it became known that the European
Commission intended to include the planned asset deal in the formal investigation procedure. MTU GmbH
was no longer prepared to wait the necessary time until the formal investigation procedure had ended. The
bankruptcy petition directly endangers 275 jobs at SKL-M and 1 700 other jobs with SKL-M(cid:146)s suppliers.