WRITTEN QUESTION E-0966/01 by Ian Paisley (NI) to the Commission. Secondment from the European Commission.
Date: 2001-03-30
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Commission Delegation, Northern Europe, administrator, pay, social security

11.12.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 350 E/65

A list of the main projects under the pacts considered to promote equality is being sent to the Honourable
Member and to the Secretariat-General of Parliament. Some of these projects are to be continued and
extended in the new Structural Fund programming period 2000-2006.

Among the projects with a major favourable impact on equal opportunities, the Commission would
mention the women(cid:146)s employment foundation, FAST, presented at the November 1999 (cid:145)ideas exchange(cid:146).
This foundation, promoted by the Vienna pact, is intended especially for women with fairly basic skills, to
help them broaden the range of employment opportunities open to them. Other exemplary measures will
be described (after verification by experts), in the guide to transferable instruments and good practice
gleaned from the territorial employment pacts, to appear in June 2001.

Gender equality is a priority throughout the European Union, and will be taken into account in the
thematic evaluation of the territorial employment pacts, to start by the end of 2001.

(2001/C 350 E/070)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0966/01

by Ian Paisley (NI) to the Commission

(30 March 2001)

Subject: Secondment from the European Commission

Could the Commission indicate the terms and dates of employment and the amount of European monies
paid to Mr Logue and Mr Larkin who have been seconded from the European Commission to the office of
the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland?

Answer given by Mr Kinnock on behalf of the Commission

(14 June 2001)

As part of the evidence of its practical commitment to the Northern Ireland peace process and the
administration of the newly created Northern Ireland Assembly, the Commission has approved the
secondments of Mr Larkin, an official of grade A3, and Mr Logue, an official of grade A4, as special
advisers to the Deputy First Minister in the Office of the First and Deputy First Ministers of the Northern
Ireland Executive. These secondments are due to terminate in the third quarter of 2002. The salaries and
allowances paid by the Commission to Mr Larkin and Mr Logue are commensurate with their respective
grade and domestic arrangements (family allowance, education allowance, etc.).

(2001/C 350 E/071)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0983/01

by Gorka Kn(cid:246)rr Borr(cid:224)s (Verts/ALE)
and Alexander de Roo (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

(30 March 2001)

Subject: Risk which the Itoiz reservoir presents to public safety

The Confederaci(cid:243)n HidrogrÆfica del Ebro [Ebrus Hydrographic Confederation] has decided to begin filling
the Itoiz reservoir in Navarra this spring, despite a new report by Professor Arturo Rebollo Alonso,
a geologist and engineer who maintains that the project presents a serious threat to public safety on
account of the instability of the clay soil found in the area in which the dam is located. According to the
report it is highly probable that land slippage will block the filters built into the dam, thereby causing the
water level to increase and thus exposing nearby towns to the risk of flooding and placing extreme
pressure on the structure of the dam. This could make the reservoir overflow or even cause a breach in the
dam, which would be a full-blown human disaster and would threaten the safety of the Asco nuclear
power station.

The new report backs up earlier studies,
describes the project as constituting (cid:145)maximum risk(cid:146). Antonio Casas, Head of

including a report by Spain(cid:146)s Environment Ministry, which
the Department of