WRITTEN QUESTION E-3371/01 by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Commission. CaseNo2000/2007 opened by the Commission.
Date: 2001-12-06
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European Community, European Regional Development Fund, Galicia, Spain, co-financing, environmental impact, exchange of information, harbour installation

4.7.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 160 E/105

(2002/C 160 E/136)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3371/01

by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

Subject: CaseNo2000/2007 opened by the Commission

(6 December 2001)

In its reply to my written question E-804/00 (1) the Commission undertook to take the necessary steps to
ensure that Community law would be upheld if the quay and the fuel and chemical storage tanks were to
be built in the port of Vilagarcía de Arousa (Galicia, Spain). It subsequently opened a file under reference
number 2000/2007 on the basis of that and other parliamentary questions. Can the Commission provide
any information regarding the current state of that file?

Can the Commission also provide information regarding the amount of any ERDF aid and subsidy which
may have been received by the Spanish Development Ministry for the purpose of building the quay at
Vilagarcía de Arousa? And how much (if any) ERDF aid and subsidy has been received by the FINSA,
Foresa, Granorsa, P & J and Carrasco S.L. companies?

(1) OJ C 374 E, 28.12.2000, p. 154.

Answer given by Mrs Wallström on behalf of the Commission

(31 January 2002)

The Commission has received a number of parliamentary questions on the environmental impact of port
construction work and work on fuel and chemicals storage facilities in the port of Vilagarcía de Arousa in
Pontevedra province in the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain.

In response to these questions, the Commission opened a ‘case detected by its own investigations’. It has
also received a complaint on the same matter. In the course of the Commission’s inquiries an exchange of
information took place between the Commission and the Spanish authorities, and the Commission is
currently looking into the Spanish authorities’ response. The complainant recently sent additional
information, which is now being examined.

According to the information received from the Spanish authorities there are no plans to construct a new
quay for fuel and chemicals storage in the port of Vilagarcía de Arousa.

Construction of the quay in the Arousa estuary was completed in 1997. Three concessionary firms are
two of them engaged in timber storage and the third in the storage of
currently operating there,
hydrocarbon derivatives. This quay received € 3 957 723 in cofinancing under the European Regional
Development Fund (ERDF) and the total cost came to more than € 6 million.

As regards any ERDF cofinancing granted to the Finsa, Foresa, Granorsa, P & J and Carrasco SL companies,
the Commission has asked the Spanish authorities for information, which it will pass on to the
Honourable Member.

(2002/C 160 E/137)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3374/01

by Graham Watson (ELDR) to the Commission

(7 December 2001)

Subject: The inclusion of disabled people in poverty-reduction work

It is recognised that the European Commission is the biggest provider of humanitarian assistance in the
world, dedicated to the international development target of halving world poverty by 2015. There is also
clear evidence that disabled people, who are among the most severely marginalised, make up a
disproportionate number of those living in extreme poverty.