WRITTEN QUESTION E-0370/01 by Antonio Tajani (PPE-DE) to the Commission. The common organisation of the market in flax.
Date: 2001-02-14
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Spain, common organisation of markets, economic support, financial aid, flax, regional government, regions of Spain

21.8.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 235 E/189

Relex Service) and some of the staff of the Directorate-General for External Relations and the Directorate-
General for Development.

The six directors of the former SCR, a director from the Directorate-General
for Development and
a principal adviser administratively attached to the Directorate-General for Administration and due for
reassignment were redeployed and assigned to the new administrative body in the interests of the service.

The Commission is aware of the present situation regarding gender balance in the Office. Every effort is
being made to apply equal opportunities policy when filling vacant posts, particularly at middle manage-
ment level, in the Office.

(1) SEC(2000) 814.

(2001/C 235 E/222)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0370/01

by Antonio Tajani (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(14 February 2001)

Subject: The common organisation of the market in flax

Is the President of the Commission aware that since 1993 in Spain, following the Constitutional Court(cid:146)s
judgment of 28 May 1992 in Case 79/92, scrutiny of the documents concerned, and the granting and
monitoring of subsidies deriving from the common organisation of the market in flax fall within the
exclusive competence of the regional authorities of the Autonomous Communities of Spain?

Does the President of the Commission know that the report addressed to OLAF on 19 December by the
prosecutor with special responsibility for the case of flax in Spain mentions several times that since 1993
scrutiny of the documents concerned, and the granting and monitoring of subsidies deriving from the
common organisation of the market in flax has fallen within the exclusive competence of the regional
authorities of the Autonomous Communities of Spain?

Answer given by Mr Prodi on behalf of the Commission

(28 March 2001)

Yes, the Commission is aware that, in accordance with the division of responsibilities characteristic of
Spanish law, the granting and monitoring of the payment of subsidies deriving from the common
organisation of the flax market fall within the exclusive competence of the regional authorities of the
Autonomous Communities of Spain. The special prosecutor(cid:146)s report mentions this division. That said, in
the Commission always deals formally with the central
its relations with the national authorities,
authorities even if this means that these authorities have to deal in turn with the authorities under whose
jurisdiction the matter comes.

(2001/C 235 E/223)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0371/01

by Reinhold Messner (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

(15 February 2001)

Subject: Brescia-Padova motorway concession company and the Valdastico motorway

Last May, without having issued a public call for tenders, the agreement between the company holding the
concession for the Brescia-Padova motorway and the Azienda Nazionale Autonoma Strade (ANAS), the
public agency responsible for managing Italy(cid:146)s national road network, was extended for a further nine
years (until 2011).