WRITTEN QUESTION E-0290/01 by Daniel Hannan (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Gender equality programmes.
Date: 2001-02-09
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU aid, EU programme, aid recipient, co-financing, copyright, exchange of information, gender equality, video cassette, women's movement

C 235 E/172

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

21.8.2001

(2001/C 235 E/200)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0290/01

by Daniel Hannan (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(9 February 2001)

Subject: Gender equality programmes

Can the Commission list those organisations which receive money to promote positive discrimination
based on gender?

What videos have been created by the (cid:145)Association des femmes de l(cid:146)Europe mØridionale(cid:146)? What money was
supplied by the EC to fund them? Can the Commission suply copies to the DG IV library so that such
videos are available to Members?

Answer given by Mrs Diamantopoulou on behalf of the Commission

(28 March 2001)

The Commission has funded several organisations under the medium-term Community action programme
on equal opportunities for men and women (1996-2000) established by Council Decision 95/593/EC of
22 December 1995 (1), in order to allow for the exchange of information and experience on good practice
at transnational
level and/or to identify and develop good practice and transfer of information and
experience to promote the integration of equal opportunities for men and women.

The Commission will submit a final report on the implementation of the programme to the Parliament,
the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions before 31 December
2001.

In the interim, the Commission is sending direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliament(cid:146)s Secretariat
the directories of projects funded in the financial years 1996-1999 and a list of the organisations funded in
financial year 2000.

The Association des femmes de l(cid:146)Europe mØridionale (AFEM) has produced a video entitled (cid:145)Femmes et
hommes, dØcidons ensemble. Le PE: une antichambre de la paritØ(cid:146) with the aim of promoting a positive
image of women(cid:146)s and men(cid:146)s roles in society. The Commission co-funded the production of the video for
an amount of € 23 112. The ownership, title and industrial and intellectual property rights of the video are
vested in the beneficiary. Therefore, all requests for copies should be addressed to AFEM, for the attention
of Mr Yannick Ladroyes, 48, rue de Vaugirard F-75006 Paris (fax number: 33.(0)1.43.25.93.87).

(1) OJ L 335, 30.12.1995.

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-0292/01

by Luis Berenguer Fuster (PSE) to the Commission

(9 February 2001)

Subject: State aid to the Terra M(cid:237)tica theme park in Benidorm (Alicante): guarantees granted by the

Valencian government

In its reply of November 1999 to Written Question E-2004/99 (1) on a complaint regarding the alleged
granting of state aid to the Terra M(cid:237)tica park, the Commission stated that it had not yet come to the
conclusion that aid within the meaning of Article 87(1) had been granted to the company concerned by
the Valencian government and the municipality of Benidorm.

Although the complaint was filed back in 1997, no investigation into this case has been opened and the
complaint has yet to be dismissed, presumably because new facts have come to light and are now being
looked into by the Commission. The only fact to have been made public in Valencia concerns the indirect
granting of guarantees by the Valencian government, which has renounced the benefit of discussion,