WRITTEN QUESTION E-2234/01 by Daniela Raschhofer (NI) to the Commission. Exports of animal meal and imports of beef and veal.
Date: 2001-07-26
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Central and Eastern European countries, EU statistics, Internet, beef, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cereal substitute, exchange of information, export (EU)

16.5.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 115 E/43

(2002/C 115 E/043)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2234/01

by Daniela Raschhofer (NI) to the Commission

Subject: Exports of animal meal and imports of beef and veal

(26 July 2001)

In your answer to my Question E-0804/01 (1) you write ‘Whereas the figures for exports of processed
animal protein from the Community to CEEC can be derived from the available statistics, it is difficult to
estimate the amount of exports of animal feedingstuffs containing such products with any precision.’

As it is difficult to estimate the amount of exports of animal feedingstuffs containing animal protein with
any precision, I should like to know the figures for Community exports of processed animal protein to the
CEEC that can be derived from the available statistics.

The Scientific Steering Committee is continuously assessing the BSE risk in non-Community countries and
has submitted a file containing export figures.

Can the Commission forward this file to me? If so, I hereby request it to do so.

In its answer to my Question E-804/01 the Commission writes that the outcome of these assessments was
being made available on the Internet. At what Internet address are these results to be found?

In its answer to my Question E-0804/01 the Commission left a number of questions completely
unanswered.

Hoping for a reply this time, I shall repeat them:

4 How many head of cattle and tonnes of beef and veal are imported every day into the EU from the

CEECs?

4 How many head of cattle and tonnes of beef and veal are imported into the individual Member States?

(1) OJ C 350 E, 11.12.2001, p. 41.

Answer given by Mr Byrne on behalf of the Commission

(18 October 2001)

The Commission is sending the figures concerning the exports of processed animal proteins from the
Community to the Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEEC) direct to the Honourable Member and to
Parliament’s Secretariat. As explained in the answer given to the Honourable Member’s Written Question
E-0804/01 these figures are also available on the Internet for those Member States and third countries
for which the Scientific Steering Committee has conducted the geographical BSE-risk (GBR) assessment.
These reports are published at the following Internet address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/ssc/
outcome_en.html#reports.

The Commission will also resubmit direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliament’s Secretariat the
statistics concerning the imports of cattle and beef from the CEEC to the Member States.

(2002/C 115 E/044)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2237/01

by Caroline Lucas (Verts/ALE) to the Council

(26 July 2001)

Subject: EU relations with Colombia/EU assistance programme to support the peace process

The Commission has been asked in the past to guarantee that EU assistance remains wholly separate from
Plan Colombia. Yet we are concerned that European funds could be channelled through the ‘Fondo de
Inversiones para la Paz’, which is the Plan Colombia fund. Could the Council explain how the European