WRITTEN QUESTION E-0082/01 by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Commission. Compulsory BSE testing on cattle aged over 30 months killed in Galician slaughterhouses.
Date: 2001-01-29
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Galicia, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cattle, slaughter of animals, veterinary inspection

C 187 E/176

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

3.7.2001

No upper limit has been fixed with regard to the number of animals which could be covered by the
scheme. However, under the agricultural budget € 700 million has been earmarked for Community co-
financing of such purchases (70 % of the purchase price).

from this co-financing provision, Member States are responsible for providing the necessary

Apart
financing and technical capacity to assure the proper functioning of the scheme.

(1) OJ L 321, 19.12.2000.

(2001/C 187 E/187)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0082/01

by Camilo Nogueira RomÆn (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

(29 January 2001)

Subject: Compulsory BSE testing on cattle aged over 30 months killed in Galician slaughterhouses

What is the state of affairs in Galicia since the beginning of 2001 concerning the implementation of the
above compulsory testing?

Answer given by Mr Byrne on behalf of the Commission

(20 March 2001)

Following new developments in the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic in the Community
at the end of 2000, systematic testing of all bovine animals over 30 months of age entering the food chain
was introduced as of 1 January 2001 to further reinforce the protection of consumers against BSE.

In the beginning of this year, Member States were asked to send a report to the Commission on the status
of implementation of the new BSE related Community measures. Spain confirmed that the requirement to
test all bovine animals over 30 months of age slaughtered for human consumption had been implemented.

The Commission plans to make an inspection to verify the implementation as a part of a new series of
inspections starting in March 2001.

(2001/C 187 E/188)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0085/01

by Camilo Nogueira RomÆn (Verts/ALE) to the Council

(1 February 2001)

Subject: Frequent deaths off the shores of southern Spain arising from the conditions in which young

African men and women are obliged to emigrate

Young Africans wishing to enter the EU, and, specifically, the Spanish state, in search of employment and
a better life, as denied to them in their own countries (in many cases run by corrupt leaders protected by
European countries), are continuing to be arrested at a rate of several hundred a week. Many are dying
owing to the appalling conditions in which they are obliged to cross the Strait of Gibraltar and to the
hostile attitude of the Spanish authorities to immigration, as expressed, notably, in the recently adopted
Law on Foreigners, with attitudes at times openly verging on xenophobia. A few years ago many of us
angrily criticised the attitude of the US authorities, holding them responsible for the deaths of the Latin
American (cid:145)wetbacks(cid:146) trying to cross the Rio Grande; today, however, we are horrified to find ourselves
faced with a similar (cid:129) or even worse (cid:129) phenomenon happening off the Spanish coastline between Europe
and Africa, while the European authorities take no effective steps to prevent it. Even on 5 January 2000,
two small boats, known to be carrying 48 and 16 persons respectively on board, were known to be adrift
somewhere between Morocco and Andalusia in highly dangerous circumstances. What political measures