WRITTEN QUESTION E-2519/00 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Incorporation of plans for projects in Third CSF.
Date: 2000-08-02
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Community support framework, Greece, financing, invitation to tender, project management

C 113 E/114

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

18.4.2001

Thus, there may be public or state aid connected with the creation of venture capital funds employing
structural funds. Whether state aid is present, and if so whether it is compatible with the common market,
depends on the nature and structure of the fund.

(1) OJ L 161, 26.6.1999.

(2001/C 113 E/115)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2519/00

by Konstantinos Hatzidakis (PPE-DE) to the Commission

Subject: Incorporation of plans for projects in Third CSF

(2 August 2000)

In March 2000, a few days before the general election in Greece, Secretaries-General of the Region
instructed their respective regional authorities to invite tenders for projects to be funded under the Third
Community Support Framework. Document 4091 of 21 March 2000 written by the Secretary-General of
the Ionian Islands Region reveals that, in the prefecture of Lefkada alone, tenders were invited for eleven
projects with an overall budget of GDR 3,16 billion.

1.
Is the Commission aware of any similar circumstances in which invitations to tender have been
issued for projects under the Third CSF and on the basis of which specific decisions were those invitations
issued?

2. What are those projects, in which region of the country are they located and what is the budget for
each project?

How were instructions issued to invite tenders for these projects (cid:129) particularly in the run-up to an

3.
election (cid:129) given that Greece and the European Union have not yet signed the Third CSF?

4. Will these projects continue to be implemented using funds from the Third CSF?

Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission

(9 October 2000)

The preparation and publication of calls to tender for projects part-financed by the Structural Funds is,
under the principle of decentralised management of the Funds, the exclusive responsibility of Member
States.

Part-financing of projects or activities under the operational programmes (OP) of the Greek Community
support framework (CSF) for 2000-2006 will be decided on by the programme managing authority in line
with the criteria and procedures set in the CSF, now in process of approval, and in the OPs, at present
under negotiation.

Tender calls for projects part-financed under OPs are normally made after the decision to include them in
the programme but under Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 of 21 June 1999 laying down general
provisions on the Structural Funds (1) expenditure incurred by Member States from 1 January can be
eligible even if it predates approval of the programme.

In such cases the decision to part-finance a particular project or activity under the programme in question
must subsequently be taken by the managing authority in line with the abovementioned criteria and
procedures. If a project now under realisation turns out not to satisfy the criteria for its inclusion in a
programme it will have to be financed from national resources only.

(1) OJ L 161, 26.6.1999.