WRITTEN QUESTION E-0069/02 by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Council. The Barcelona process and the fisheries agreements with Morocco.
Date: 2002-01-25
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Morocco, Union for the Mediterranean, common fisheries policy, fishing agreement

29.8.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 205 E/67

The Council would remind the Honourable Member that, through its humanitarian aid office, ECHO, the
European Union is the largest provider of humanitarian aid to refugees: humanitarian aid worth EUR 56,4
million was supplied to refugees in the Tindouf camps between 1996 and 2001.

(2002/C 205 E/073)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0069/02

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

(25 January 2002)

Subject: The Barcelona process and the fisheries agreements with Morocco

The Spanish presidency’s priorities include the Euro-Mediterranean association, based on the Barcelona
process started in 1995. At the meeting in Barcelona the fisheries agreement between Morocco and the
European Union, which had just been signed, was seen as an example of the path to be followed in
seeking better collaboration between the two shores of the Mediterranean. In this context, is the Spanish
presidency willing to re-establish this climate of cooperation in order to facilitate the signing of a new
fisheries agreement between the EU and Morocco?

Reply

(21 May 2002)

As the Honourable Member pointed out, the 1995 Barcelona Conference created a new framework for
relations between the countries of the European Union and the countries of the Mediterranean through
global cooperation based on political dialogue, the development of economic and financial cooperation
and the inclusion of the social, cultural and human dimension.

In this spirit, the Council, aware that fisheries have always been a particularly important aspect of relations
between the Kingdom of Morocco and the European Union will do all it can to ensure that this close
relationship is maintained in the context of fruitful cooperation between both Parties.

(2002/C 205 E/074)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0082/02

by Chris Davies (ELDR) to the Commission

(25 January 2002)

Subject: Disposal of fridges : EC Regulation 2037/2000

In a House of Lords debate on 20 December 2001 the UK Government position was stated as being that,
following the Environment Council in February 1999, there were different views between member states in
respect of the need to recover CFCs and HCFCs from insulating foam in domestic refrigeration, and that
between 1999 and mid-2001 the UK Government sought a definitive legal
interpretation from the
Commission.

Further, it claimed that it was not until June 2001 that the Commission provided a final interpretation of
Regulation (EC) 2037/2000 (1) which made clear that it did require the recovery of controlled substances
from the insulating foam of domestic refrigerators.

What representations did the Commission receive from the UK Government during the period prior to
January 2002 regarding the difficulties which Britain would face in meeting the requirements of the
Regulation because no dedicated plant to enable the removal of CFCs from fridges exists in that Member
State?

(1) OJ L 244, 29.9.2000, p. 1.