WRITTEN QUESTION E-2106/01 by Paulo Casaca (PSE) to the Commission. Clearance of accounts and adulteration of milk powder.
Date: 2001-07-13
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: administration of the Institutions, aid to agriculture, closing of accounts, fraud against the EU, interinstitutional relations (EU), management accounting, skimmed milk powder, written question

14.2.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 40 E/187

The airline companies decided to include measures to this effect in the voluntary agreements which they
published in Lisbon on 10 May 2001. They undertook to apply these measures as from 14 February 2002,
since it would take some time to modify their procedures and train their staff.

Work is currently being carried out with the airline companies, the airports and the member States of the
European Civil Aviation Conference, to put in place ways and means of monitoring the implementation of
these voluntary agreements.

As regards monitoring the implementation of international conventions, the Community only has any
responsibility if it is itself a party to them, which is not the case with the Warsaw Convention. It has, on
the other hand, signed the Montreal Convention, and is in the process of both ratifying it (1) and
transposing it into internal law (2). Both proposals have been placed before Parliament and it has expressed
an opinion on them.

(1) COM(2000) 446 final.
(2) COM(2000) 340 final.

(2002/C 40 E/203)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2106/01

by Paulo Casaca (PSE) to the Commission

(13 July 2001)

Subject: Clearance of accounts and adulteration of milk powder

The Commission has committed itself to recovering Community funds in the wake of fraud over aids paid
in respect of skimmed-milk powder intended for use in feedingstuffs. Meanwhile, when asked a question
on whether it has fulfilled this commitment, the Commission failed to reply, either under the discharge
procedure or when the question was subsequently re-asked (Written Question E-1001/01 (1)).

In the light of the above, the author of this question repeats the question he earlier asked under point
2.7(a) of the second discharge questionnaire:

1. Has the Commission taken action or not to recover the funds it had agreed to recover in relation to

the adulteration of milk in the Netherlands?

2.

If action has been taken, can the Commission supply copies of the documents relating to the accounts
clearance procedure under which this recovery of funds took place?

(1) OJ C 350 E, 11.12.2001.

(2002/C 40 E/204)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2107/01

by Paulo Casaca (PSE) to the Commission

(13 July 2001)

Subject: Adulteration in the dairy industry

In paragraph 42 of its replies to the Court of Auditors(cid:146) Special Report No 1/1999, the Commission states
that the recovery of funds (cid:145)will be verified in the clearance of accounts procedure(cid:146).

In the discharge procedure, the Committee on Budgetary Control, in point 2(7) of its questionnaire No 2,
asked the Commission to confirm that it had proceeded to recover the sums concerned from the
Netherlands authorities.

Instead of replying to the question, the Commission chose to comment on a different procedure, relating
to Belgium.