WRITTEN QUESTION E-2454/01 by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Council. The Berlusconi Government and Italian police behaviour in Genoa at the G-7 Summit.
Date: 2001-09-11
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European Union membership, Italy, competence of the Member States, political unrest, public order, repression

C 81 E/166

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

4.4.2002

(2002/C 81 E/194)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2454/01

by Camilo Nogueira RomÆn (Verts/ALE) to the Council

(11 September 2001)

Subject: The Berlusconi Government and Italian police behaviour in Genoa at the G-7 Summit

Silvio Berlusconi(cid:146)s electoral campaign rested on the mendacious idea that he was defending (cid:145)liberty(cid:146) against
(cid:145)Communism(cid:146), which he claimed was the defining ideology of the electoral lists headed by the Presidential
candidate, Francesco Rutelli, a member of the Liberal Group within the EP. Amongst other legislative
decisions precipitous to protecting his own private interests and preventing any legal action against
himself, Berlusconi began his term of office as Italian Prime Minister by describing those demonstrating
against ultraliberal capitalist globalisation as Communists, and allowing and exonerating violent anti-
democratic action by the Italian police, which left the young Carlo Giuliani dead and the arrest, while
peacefully meeting on private property, of hundreds of people, of various European nationalities, who
were then jailed and subjected to ill treatment. Several European governments, including some of those
represented within the G-8, protested to the Italian Government. What collective attitude is the Council
going to take towards the violent and anti-democratic behaviour of Berlusconi(cid:146)s police and government? Is
the Presidency of the Council at least going to encourage the taking of a collective decision on the part of
the other 14 Member State governments condemning this behaviour?

Joint answer
to Written Questions E-2379/01 and E-2454/01

(6 December 2001)

The Council would remind the Honourable Member that the responsibility for maintaining law and order
and safeguarding the internal security of the Member States of the Union rests with the authorities of each
Member State. It is not for the Council to comment on an issue which does not fall within its sphere of
competence.

The Council does not envisage any discussion of the other matters raised by the Honourable Member.

(2002/C 81 E/195)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2380/01

by Jan Mulder (ELDR) to the Commission

(8 August 2001)

Subject: Authorisations for the use of veterinary medicinal products

Pursuant to Council Directive 93/40/EEC (1), authorisations may be granted for the use of veterinary
medicinal products in the EU. Such authorisations include conditions,
throughout the EU,
imposed on the use of veterinary medicinal products.

identical

In addition, a large number of veterinary medicinal products are registered in the Member States. However,
in this instance, the conditions imposed on the use of identical veterinary medicinal products vary from
one Member State to another. That concerns in particular the withdrawal period applicable between the
administration of a veterinary medicinal product and the time when an animal may be slaughtered and/or
products from that animal consumed.

Does the Commission feel that, in the interests of food safety and consumer protection, withdrawal

1.
periods applicable to identical veterinary medicinal products should be uniform throughout the EU?

Does it agree that an action plan for the harmonisation, at European level, of withdrawal periods

2.
applicable to veterinary medicinal products should be introduced as rapidly as possible?

3.

By what date does the Commission think that such harmonisation might be introduced?

(1) OJ L 214, 24.8.1993, p. 31.