WRITTEN QUESTION E-1147/01 by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission. GDP and public enterprises.
Date: 2001-04-10
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU Member State, EU statistics, gross domestic product, public sector

C 340 E/180

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

4.12.2001

79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds (1). Nor is it an area identified by the
scientific community as an (cid:145)important area for birds(cid:146) in the inventory prepared for the Commission in
1998 by national experts and Birdlife. Moreover, the Spanish authorities have not identified it as a site of
Community importance for inclusion in the Natura 2000 network under Council Directive 92/43/EEC of
21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora. Therefore, as far as
nature conservation is concerned, this case appears to be a matter for the Spanish national and regional
authorities alone.

With regard to Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of certain public and
private projects on the environment, it should be noted that Article 2 thereof provides that projects likely
to have significant effects on the environment by virtue, inter alia, of their nature, size or location must be
made subject to an assessment with regard to their effects before development consent is given.

This provision applies to projects of the classes listed in Annexes I and II to the Directive. Annex II point
10(j) includes the construction of yacht marinas. Under the terms of Article 4(2) projects of the classes
listed in Annex II must be made subject to an environmental impact assessment where Member States
consider that their characteristics so require.

It should be noted that Directive 85/337/EEC was amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC of 3 March
1997 (2). However, under Article 3(2) of Directive 97/11/EC if a request for development consent is
submitted before 14 March 1999 the provisions of Directive 85/337/EEC prior to amendment continue to
apply.

In any event, the Commission has contacted the Spanish authorities to ask for their comments on the
situation reported by the Honourable Member in this written question, so as to ensure that the applicable
Community law is complied with in this particular case.

(1) OJ L 103, 25.4.1979.
(2) OJ L 73, 14.3.1997.

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-1147/01

by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission

(10 April 2001)

Subject: GDP and public enterprises

1. What are the latest available figures for the share of GDP produced in each Member State by publicly
controlled or owned enterprises?

2. What was the equivalent figure for each Member State five and ten years previously?

Answer given by Mr Solbes Mira on behalf of the Commission

(6 July 2001)

The European System of National and Regional Account (ESA 95), adopted in the form of a Council
Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 dated 25 June 1996 (1), does not foresee the collection of these data, and
therefore, there are not official and/or harmonised date available at the Statistical Office of the European
Communities.

The (cid:145)European Centre of Enterprises with Public Participation and of Enterprises of General Economic
Interest(cid:146) has published on its website (2) a document titled (cid:145)the development of enterprises of public
in which some non-official
participation and of general economic interest
data related to the Honourable Member(cid:146)s question are included.

in Europe since 1996(cid:146)

(1) OJ L 310, 30.11.1996.
(2) http://www.ceep.org/index.html.