WRITTEN QUESTION E-1561/01 by Robert Sturdy (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Incineration vs. rendering in the UK.
Date: 2001-05-28
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU financing, United Kingdom, agricultural waste, beef, non-marketing premium, waste incineration

C 350 E/190

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

11.12.2001

accession treaties signed by 1 January 2004. If the total number of representatives is less than 732, which
could be the case if all the applicant countries have not completed negotiations and signed an accession
treaty by 1 January 2004, the Council will increase the number of representatives to be elected in each
Member State in 2004 to be as close as possible to 732. The number of representatives to be elected in
2004 will be corrected on a prorata basis; without the number of representatives to be elected in a Member
State being higher than that currently provided for.

(1) OJ C 80, 10.3.2001.

(2001/C 350 E/205)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1561/01

by Robert Sturdy (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(28 May 2001)

Subject: Incineration vs. rendering in the UK

In the UK, full entitlement to EU reimbursement under the Over Thirty Month Scheme is only payable
when a carcass is incinerated (although an 80 % advance may be given upon rendering). The UK is
therefore losing interest on claimable money because of the policy of the Intervention Board to render
rather than use direct incineration. Is this a result of a change in the European Commission(cid:146)s or the UK
Government(cid:146)s policy?

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(20 July 2001)

Under Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/96 of 19 April 1996 adopting exceptional support measures
for the beef market in the United Kingdom (1), the Community shall co-finance the expenditures incurred
by the United Kingdom for the purchase of Over Thirty Month (OTM) animals for destruction. The co-
financing which is limited to a fixed amount per animal is due after the animal has been fully incinerated
but the Regulation provides for an advance equal to 80 % of the Community contribution upon rendering.

Due to lack of capacity for direct incineration of OTM-animals, the bulk of the animals under the scheme
has been rendered into tallow and meat-and-bone meal which are products relatively easy to store until
their incineration can be made. It is the Commission(cid:146)s impression that the problem of incineration capacity
still to-day is the basis upon which the United Kingdom is deciding whether to render the animals or to
incinerate them directly.

(1) OJ L 99, 20.4.1996.

(2001/C 350 E/206)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1563/01

by Patricia McKenna (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

(28 May 2001)

Subject: Construction of a sports centre at the Cecebre reservoir, municipality of Avegondo, Spain

The Deportivo de La Coruæa football club wishes to build a sports centre extending over more than
100 000 m2 beside the Cecebre reservoir, an area belonging to the Natura 2000 network. In addition to the
immense environmental importance of the site (it is a bird habitat/resting area; the species to be found
there include migrant birds, ducks and mud dwellers, herons, lesser egrets, the kingfisher, otters, newts, the
osprey, falcons, the kestrel, the goshawk, the Spanish frog, the smooth snake, the stag beetle, the fox, and
the shrew; and the site is a bird nesting area, an international bird migration observation and monitoring
area, an area of special botanical interest, an Atlantic woodland area, and a natural landscape area (1)), its
state of conservation also determines the cleanliness of the water supply for human uses for the city of La
Coruæa and its outskirts (400 000 people). In the area there are several other possible sites for the