WRITTEN QUESTION E-2550/00 by Isidoro Sánchez García (ELDR) to the Commission. Statistical data concerning the geographical position of the Canary Islands, its rate of unemployment and its distance from Madrid.
Date: 2000-07-28
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Canary Islands, geography, regional statistics, unemployment

18.4.2001

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Official Journal of the European Communities

C 113 E/121

By its Decision of 19 June 2000 (1), the Council approved the Agreed Minutes between the European

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Community and the Government of the Republic of Korea on the world shipbuilding market.

This Decision is based on the Treaty establishing the European Community, in particular Article 133
thereof, in conjunction with the first sentence of Article 300 (2).

The Honourable Member is also reminded that, in its conclusions of 18 May 2000, the Council

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likewise called on:

(cid:129) the industry and the Commission to collect further detailed evidence on possible injurious pricing and
other non-market oriented behaviour in order to launch and support, respectively, a complaint under
the Trade Barrier Regulation if required;

(cid:129) the Commission and Member States to keep the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World
Bank informed about the findings and to request that the implementation of the conditions under
which IMF-led assistance was granted to the Republic of Korea is closely monitored and assessed with
particular reference to shipbuilding.

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Finally, the last question raised is clearly one for the Commission since it refers to steps planned by
the Commission to encourage the integration of the European shipbuilding industry in order to help
ensure its survival.

(1) Decision 2000/409/EC (see OJ L 155, 28.6.2000, p. 47).

(2001/C 113 E/122)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2550/00

by Isidoro SÆnchez Garc(cid:237)a (ELDR) to the Commission

(28 July 2000)

Subject: Statistical data concerning the geographical position of the Canary Islands, its rate of unemploy-

ment and its distance from Madrid

The general description of the outermost regions (French Overseas Territories, Canary Islands (Spain) and
the Portuguese archipelagoes of the Azores and Madeira) by the Commission secretariat (on its website for
outermost regions) contains statistical data for the various outermost regions of the EU some of which
would seem to refer to the Canary Islands. In particular, its geographical position is said to be off the coast
of Morocco, while no reference is made to its rate of unemployment or to the distance from Madrid of the
Canary capitals.

Will the Commission correct, where appropriate, the statistical data regarding the exact geographical
position of the Canary Islands, its rate of unemployment and its distance from Madrid?

Answer given by Mr Prodi on behalf of the Commission

(13 October 2000)

The present versions of the text on the europa.eu.int website in French, Spanish, Portuguese and English
do in fact include information on the rate of unemployment and the distance between the Canary capitals
and Madrid. As for the description of the Canary Islands(cid:146) geographical location in the Atlantic Ocean, it is
true that the Spanish version is incorrect. From now on, the expression (cid:145)OcØano AtlÆntico (cerca de las
costas de Marruecos)(cid:146) will be used in Spanish, which is a better rendering of the French (cid:145)OcØan Atlantique
(au large du Maroc)(cid:146) and the other language versions.