WRITTEN QUESTION E-3149/00 by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Application of Community funds.
Date: 2000-10-06
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Central Portugal, EU financing arrangements, ceramics, industrial pollution

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Paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 1 of Council Directive 91/561/EEC (2) of 18 March 1991 on waste are also
being infringed, as are the provisions of Directive 97/11/EC (3).

What steps will
directives?

the Commission take to ensure compliance with the abovementioned Community

(1) OJ L 182, 16.7.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 78, 26.3.1991, p. 32.
(3) OJ L 73, 14.3.1997, p. 5.

Answer given by Mrs Wallstr(cid:246)m on behalf of the Commission

(12 October 2000)

The Commission would refer the Honourable Member to its answer to her Written Question E-1866/00 (1).

(1) See p. 101.

(2001/C 89 E/261)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3148/00

by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(6 October 2000)

Subject: Use of Community funds

The Portuguese company Electro Moagem do Marco S.A., which has approximately 70 employees, has
been active for over 70 years in the food sector and is based in Marco de Canaveses (Portugal), an inland
region with little industrial development.

The company, which holds a quality certificate issued by the Portuguese Quality Institute in 1999, has
allegedly received a significant amount of Community funding for modernisation purposes. However, its
employees are not being paid at the moment and the company is threatened with bankruptcy.

Would the Commission provide the following information? Did Electro Moagem do Marco S.A. actually
receive Community funding? If so, how much? Has the use to which that funding was put been monitored,
with particular reference to the protection of jobs?

Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission

(25 October 2000)

The Commission is collecting the information it needs to answer the question. It will communicate its
findings as soon as possible.

(2001/C 89 E/262)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3149/00

by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(6 October 2000)

Subject: Application of Community funds

The Portuguese industrial company Preceram S.A., which is based in Pombal (Portugal) and is active in the
ceramics sector, still uses highly polluting manufacturing processes which, as illustrated in reports drawn

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up by specialists at the Beira Litoral Regional Directorate for Agriculture, do enormous damage to local
farmers, although the latter have never been offered any kind of compensation. The crops which they
grow (pine trees, vines, maize and fruit) regularly display serious deformities and clear signs of charring.

The company has allegedly received Community funding for the purpose of introducing anti-pollution
technologies but, according to the local farmers, nothing has changed.

Would the Commission therefore provide information concerning any Community funding which the
company may have received and the action which is due to be taken in order to prevent the farmland in
the area around the factory from being further polluted?

Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission

(25 October 2000)

The Commission is collecting the information it needs to answer the question. It will communicate its
findings as soon as possible.