WRITTEN QUESTION E-3481/00 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Substandard road construction funded by the second Community Support Framework.
Date: 2000-11-10
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Community support framework, Greece, product quality, road building

C 174 E/62

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

19.6.2001

(2001/C 174 E/061)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3481/00

by Konstantinos Hatzidakis (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(10 November 2000)

Subject: Substandard road construction funded by the second Community Support Framework

In reply to my question E-1912/99 (1),
there were widespread
problems with substandard road-building in Greece funded by the second Community Support Framework.

the Commission acknowledged that

Will the Commission say whether it has any further information concerning the extent of substandard
workmanship in all the projects funded in Greece by the second CSF? Is the Commission satisfied with the
measures taken by Greece to remedy this? If not, what steps will the Commission take to ensure that this
tremendously important issue is dealt with?

(1) OJ C 280 E, 3.10.2000, p. 2.

Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission

(22 December 2000)

The Commission would ask the Honourable Member to refer to the supplementary answer to Written
Question 2783/99 of Mr Alavanos (1) regarding the substandard workmanship in work part-financed under
the Community Support Framework for Greece during the 1994-1999 period.

Concerning specifically the Athens-Corinth and Athens-Yliki sections of the PATHE motorway, where
construction defects prevented the Ministry of Works from proceeding to the final acceptance of the
projects, the Greek authorities have just informed the Commission that the contractors are obliged to
repair the structural defects discovered in the work at their own expense before the end of the year 2000.
The Ministry of Works will then proceed to the final acceptance of the projects, and will impose fines for
irregularities in the layer of asphalt in the sections concerned.

Following the recommendations of a committee of experts and scientists created on the initiative of the
Ministry of Works to assess this problem, the final repairs to the layer of asphalt in these sections will be
carried out under a new contract for which the call for tender will be published at the beginning of 2001.

(1) See page 2.

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-3494/00

by Jonas Sj(cid:246)stedt (GUE/NGL) to the Council

(13 November 2000)

Subject: Arrest and intimidation of Syriac Orthodox clerics in Turkey

Yusuf Akbulut, a Syriac Orthodox priest in Diyarbakir, is quoted in the 3 October 2000 edition of the
H(cid:252)rriyet newspaper as saying that he considered a US House of Representatives committee to have been
right to recognise the Armenian genocide of 1915 and later years. Under the heading (cid:145)The traitor within
our midst(cid:146), the following day(cid:146)s H(cid:252)rriyet reported that Akbulut had promptly been arrested by the police
and released after questioning. It was also reported that the State Security Court had decided to detain
Akbulut, who was held and questioned for two days. According to H(cid:252)rriyet, he is now awaiting
prosecution for subversive activities and treason.

A plea for help has also been made by the two Syriac Orthodox bishops, Yusuf Cetin and Samuel Aktas,
who say that the Turkish State is trying to force them to sign a document containing a denial of the fact
that Assyrians and Syriacs were also murdered in 1915 and later years.