WRITTEN QUESTION P-2980/01 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Harmonisation of Regulation (EC) 925/1999.
Date: 2001-10-19
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: International Civil Aviation Organisation, aircraft, airport, civil aviation, environmental protection, environmental standard

C 205 E/18

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

29.8.2002

(2002/C 205 E/017)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-2980/01

by Emmanouil Bakopoulos (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

Subject: Harmonisation of Regulation (EC) 925/1999

(19 October 2001)

At the recent meeting of the ICAO in Montreal, Canada (25 September-5 October 2001), an agreement
was reached on noise and pollution caused by civil aircraft.

What measures will the Commission take to bring Regulation (EC) 925/1999 (1)
into line with this
agreement? Can the Commission also say whether this ICAO decision allays the public’s concern over
pollution and noise caused by aircraft?

(1) OJ L 115, 4.5.1999, p. 1.

Answer given by Mrs de Palacio on behalf of the Commission

(12 November 2001)

The Commission welcomes the consensus reached at the 33rd International Civil Aviation Organisation
(ICAO) Assembly on Resolution A 33/7 ‘Consolidated statement of continuing ICAO policies and practices
related to environmental protection’. The conclusions of
the Council of Transport ministers on
16 October 2001 underlined that the adoption of this Resolution opens up a prospect of replacing
Council Regulation (EC) No 925/1999 of 29 April 1999 on the registration and operation within the
Community of certain types of civil subsonic jet aeroplanes which have been modified and recertificated as
meeting the standards of volume I, Pat II, chapter 3 of Annex 16 to the Convention on International Civil
Aviation,
in the near future by a new legislative instrument on noise
management and operating restrictions for noisy aircraft.

third edition (July 1993),

The Commission will submit as soon as possible a legislative Proposal which, whilst being in line with
Resolution A 33/7, will establish a framework for the introduction of operating restrictions at Community
airports that takes full advantage of the flexibility offered by the said Resolution and offers sufficient and
necessary guarantees of protection against an increase in noise nuisance from aircraft for people living
around airports.

(2002/C 205 E/018)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2986/01

by Markus Ferber (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(29 October 2001)

Subject: Funding from PHARE appropriations of the publication Panorama Latvii

Is there any substance to reports in the Latvian press that the Commission is using PHARE appropriations
to fund the publication Panorama Latvii (formally Sovjetskaja Latvija) under its ‘Democracy Programme’?

Is the Commission aware of the fact that Panorama Latvii is published by Alfreds Rubiks, previously First
Secretary of the Latvian Communist Party and one of the perpetrators of the August 1991 putsch?

Is it Commission policy to support publications which foster nostalgia for the Soviet Union and Stalinism
in the applicant countries?

What steps does it plan to take to rule out such a situation recurring in the future?

Which official was responsible for the granting of funding?

Why did the political supervision of the programme fail?