WRITTEN QUESTION E-2484/00 by Theresa Villiers (PPE-DE) to the Council. Meetings with third countries during the French Presidency.
Date: 2000-07-24
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: administrative expenditure (EU), common foreign and security policy, summit meeting

C 151 E/8

Official Journal of the European Communities

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22.5.2001

In order to receive Community financial support, projects must first be agreed by national administrations.
The full list of projects that have received financial support from the TEN budget can be found in the
annual report on the TENs which is sent to Parliament. However, it should be noted that most of the
financing of TEN projects in islands comes from the structural funds and Cohesion fund, as well as from
national authorities. The information available on these projects can be found in the annual report on the
Cohesion fund and the annual list of structural fund projects over € 50 million, both of which are sent to
the Parliament.

The Commission is currently preparing a report to revise the TEN-Transport guidelines, in which it will
propose to continue to support TEN projects in islands. For TEN-Energy, the Commission will underline
the importance of developing renewable energies, especially in islands, and linking the production units for
these energies to interconnected networks. The revision of the TEN-Telecom guidelines will only start
from September 2000. As the selection of TEN-Telecom projects is through open calls for proposals, there
are no specific elegibility criteria for projects related to islands. However, a better dissemination of the
support available for projects in islands at the different (European and national) TEN-Telecom information
days could help to strengthen links with islands.

(1) OJ L 228, 9.9.1996.
(2) OJ L 161, 29.6.1996.

(2001/C 151 E/010)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2484/00

by Theresa Villiers (PPE-DE) to the Council

(24 July 2000)

Subject: Meetings with third countries during the French Presidency

Could the Council please list all the meetings planned with third countries during the French

1.
Presidency and provide an estimate of the total cost of those meetings?

Could it also provide details of the total costs of meetings with third countries under the Portuguese

2.
Presidency in 2000 and under the German and Finnish Presidencies in 1999?

Reply

(22 December 2000)

1.

The meetings planned with third countries during the French Presidency are as follows:

Heads of State or Government

(cid:129) EU/Japan Summit, Tokyo, 19 July;

(cid:129) EU/Ukraine Summit, Paris, 15 September;

(cid:129) ASEM III Summit, Seoul, 21 October;

(cid:129) EU/China Summit, Beijing, 23 October;

(cid:129) EU/Russia Summit, Paris, 30 October;

(cid:129) Euro-Mediterranean Summit, Marseilles, 15 and 16 November;

(cid:129) European Conference, Nice, 7 December;

(cid:129) EU/United States Summit, Washington, 18 December;

(cid:129) EU/Canada Summit, Ottawa, 19 December;

(cid:129) EU/Western Balkans Summit (proposal).

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Ministerial meetings

(cid:129) ASEAN Regional Forum, Bangkok, 27 July;

(cid:129) ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conferences, Bangkok 28 and 29 July;

(cid:129) EU/South Korea Ministerial meeting, Bangkok, 29 July;

(cid:129) EU/United States Ministerial meeting, Paris, 2 October;

(cid:129) ASEM, Seoul, 20 October;

(cid:129) EU/Japan Ministerial meeting, Seoul, 21 October;

(cid:129) EU/ASEAN Ministerial meeting, Vientiane, 12 December;

(cid:129) EU/Canada Ministerial meeting, Paris, 3 November;

(cid:129) Barcelona IV, Marseilles, 16 November;

(cid:129) European Conference, Sochaux, 23 November.

(cid:129) EU/SADC Ministerial Conference, Gaborone (Botswana), 29 and 30 November;

Ministerial meetings held alongside meetings of the General Affairs Council in Brussels

(cid:129) 11 July: Cooperation Councils with Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan;

(cid:129) 19 September: EEA Ministerial Council;

(cid:129) 19 September: Association Councils with Hungary and the Czech Republic;

(cid:129) 9 and 10 October: Association Councils with Bulgaria and Poland;

(cid:129) Association Council with Morocco, 9 October;

(cid:129) Cooperation Councils with Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, 10 October;

The Council is unable to provide details of the total cost of these meetings, for several reasons:

(cid:129) when the meetings take place in the country of the Presidency, it bears the costs;

(cid:129) when they take place in a third country, the host country covers the costs;

(cid:129) Cooperation and Association Councils are held alongside meetings of the General Affairs Council.

Apart from interpreting costs, no expense is borne by the Union(cid:146)s budget.

2.
The total cost of meetings with third countries held during the Portuguese Presidency in 2000 and
the German and Finnish Presidencies in 1999 was borne either by the respective Presidencies or by the
host countries.

(2001/C 151 E/011)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2538/00

by Neil MacCormick (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

Subject: Erasmus programme: taxation of students

(28 July 2000)

Can the Commission confirm that students participating in Erasmus exchange programmes as visiting
students are exempt from liability to local taxation when resident as visiting students in the host country?
Can the Commission therefore advise as to the proper course of action when a visiting student on an
exchange between the UK and France receives tax demands, and ultimately (cid:145)final demands(cid:146) from Grenoble
(2nd Division) or any other such local authority?