WRITTEN QUESTION E-3682/00 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Amounts allotted under and out-turn of the Structural Funds in Objective 1 regions.
Date: 2000-11-29
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European Regional Development Fund, FIFG, Structural Funds, distribution of aid, less-favoured region

C 163 E/192

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

6.6.2001

Could the Commission indicate the likely extent of overrun for each Member State, bearing in mind the
portions of the new allocations for some Member States to be accounted for by the current year?

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(8 January 2001)

Firstly, as the Honourable Member knows, Member States must notify official data on quotas to the
Commission by 1 September each year following the end of the reference period (April-March) using the
questionnaire annexed to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 536/93 of 9 March 1993 laying down detailed
rules on the application of the additional levy on milk and milk products (1), as stipulated in the fourth
indent of Article 8 of that Regulation. The data for the 2000/2001 reference period will therefore not be
known until after that date. The questionnaire constitutes the basis for payment of the additional levy.

However, it is standard practice for each Member State to provide the Commission with an estimate of the
trend in deliveries to the industry. The Commission currently has Member States(cid:146) estimates in respect
of April-October 2000 (except that those for Greece, Italy and Portugal run only to August 2000 and
those for Belgium, Spain, France, Ireland, Finland and Sweden run only to September 2000). The estimates
show some Member States (Denmark, Austria, Portugal, Finland and Sweden) to be in excess of their
estimated profile for the period.

It should be borne in mind that the transfers provided for in Articles 4 and 6 of Council Regulation (EEC)
No 3950/92 of 28 December 1992 establishing an additional levy in the milk and milk products sector (2),
which include transfers between delivery quotas and direct sales as well as temporary transfers between
producers, may cause the excess to increase or decrease depending on the circumstances.

In view of the above, the available data provide only a partial overview of excess quantities: there are no
estimates for a major part of the reference period (October 2000-March 2001) and each Member State
may depart significantly from the trend which it has followed up to now.

(1) OJ L 57, 10.3.1993.
(2) OJ L 405, 31.12.1992.

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-3682/00

by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(29 November 2000)

Subject: Amounts allotted under and out-turn of the Structural Funds in Objective 1 regions

Can the Commission say what aggregate amounts were allotted under the ERDF to each of the EU(cid:146)s

1.
Objective 1 regions during the 1994-1999 programming period?

Can it say what was the out-turn of those amounts in each Objective 1 region during the 1994-1999
programming period?

Can the Commission say what aggregate amounts were allotted under the FIFG to each of the EU(cid:146)s

2.
Objective 1 regions during the 1994-1999 programming period?

Can it say what was the out-turn of those amounts in each Objective 1 region during the 1994-1999
programming period?

Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission

(16 February 2001)

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