WRITTEN QUESTION E-3086/01 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos (PSE) to the Commission. Trips by the Director-General for Fisheries.
Date: 2001-11-13
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU action, EU initiative, EU regional policy, European official, administrative responsibility, common fisheries policy, duties of civil servants

C 134 E/194

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

6.6.2002

If a level of implementation of commitments of under 80 % is regarded as indicating delay, the number of
programmes concerned, under the various Community Support Frameworks, would be as follows:
13 programmes out of 53 in Greece, 12 programmes out of 98 in Spain, 4 programmes out of 33 in
Portugal and no delay for the 18 programmes in Ireland.

(2002/C 134 E/201)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3086/01

by Rosa Miguélez Ramos (PSE) to the Commission

(13 November 2001)

Subject: Trips by the Director-General for Fisheries

Senior figures in the Commission, both Commissioners and Directors-General, know how important it is
to travel to the Community regions in which the sectors linked to their sphere of competence are based.
Such trips help make the people concerned and public opinion in the Member States aware of Community
initiatives and actions designed to support them, as well as enabling the Commission to size up sectoral
problems and problems facing the regions on the spot.

With this in mind, how many working trips has the current Director-General for Fisheries made to each of
the Member States since his appointment?

Is there any geographical criterion within the Fisheries DG on the grounds of which the Director-General
travels to northern countries and some other official to southern countries?

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(19 December 2001)

The Commission certainly agrees, that visits not only by Members of the Commission but also by civil
servants of the Commission to various regions and sectors in Europe can help citizens become better
aware of Community initiatives and actions that can help solve local and regional problems.

Such visits can be initiated in different ways. As far as the Directorate General for Fisheries is concerned
visits organised for officials at the highest level have lately very much been dominated by the ongoing
debate on the Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy and the organisation of meetings and conferences
on different themes of the reform in different places in Europe. For each of the officials at the highest level
in the Directorate General for Fisheries their trips during 2000 and 2001 have, therefore, very much been
dominated by invitations they have received for participation and contributions to these meetings and
conferences.

(2002/C 134 E/202)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3087/01

by Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(13 November 2001)

Subject: Plans to build 109 wind turbines on the route taken by migratory birds along the Dutch section of

the Wadden Sea and early notification of incompatibility with directives

1.
Is the Commission aware that on 18 October 2001 the Dutch government decided to build 109 wind
turbines ranging from 60 to 75 million in height along the southern shore of the Wadden Sea. The wind
turbines will stand in the water on either side of the Afsluitdijk dam built in 1932 between the shallow,
saltwater and eutrophic Wadden Sea which leads into the North Sea and the Ijsselmeer, which is cut off
from the sea and now filled with fresh river water?