WRITTEN QUESTION E-3537/00 by Avril Doyle (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Human rights situation in Colombia and the life of Fr Brendan Forde.
Date: 2000-11-13
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Colombia, committee of inquiry, crime against humanity, establishment of peace, human rights

C 163 E/156

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

6.6.2001

(2001/C 163 E/174)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3536/00

by Avril Doyle (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(13 November 2000)

Subject: Evaluation report on the sheepmeat regime

Bearing in mind that the Agriculture Committee of the European Parliament was assured by Commissioner
Fischler in March that the evaluation report on the sheepmeat regime would be published immediately
after Easter, could the Commission please give an explanation for the inordinate delay in publishing the
report, in the light of the difficulty being experienced by sheep farmers in certain Member States?

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(11 December 2000)

The Commission regrets that the evaluation report on the sheep and goat meat regime could only be made
available to the public with a certain delay. Since the beginning of November however this report can be
consulted on the evaluation web-site of the Commission Directorate general for Agriculture.

The drafting of the final version of the report by the external consultant in charge of the study took more
time than initially foreseen. It has to be noted that the deadlines provided were extremely tight and only
under ideal circumstances could a publication have been envisaged during the first six months of 2000.

During the process of drafting this report it was decided by the steering group responsible for this
evaluation, in agreement with the consultant, to make a thorough revision of the draft final report as
concerns the methodological approach in order to improve the validity of the results obtained. This
revision caused an additional delay for the presentation of the final report with the result that it was only
available in autumn 2000. This delay is however justified through the fact that thanks to this thorough
revision a report of good quality could be obtained as the judgement of the steering group accompanying
the publication of the report reveals.

(2001/C 163 E/175)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3537/00

by Avril Doyle (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(13 November 2000)

Subject: Human rights situation in Colombia and the life of Fr Brendan Forde

I received a written response from Commissioner Patten(cid:146)s office on 19 September regarding the situation
in Colombia and the safety of Fr Brendan Forde in his village of La Union.

In that letter it was stated that Mr Patten was seeking assurances from his Colombian counterparts on the
abuses of human rights in the area.

Would the Commission please outline what explanations and assurances it has received from its
Colombian counterparts regarding this issue?

(2001/C 163 E/176)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3538/00

by Avril Doyle (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(13 November 2000)

Subject: Human rights situation in Colombia and the life of Fr Brendan Forde

Bearing in mind that Commissioner Nielson(cid:146)s letter to me dated 18 September on the human rights
situation in Fr Brendan Forde(cid:146)s area of La Union described the situation as (cid:145)calm(cid:146) and bearing in mind the