WRITTEN QUESTION E-1002/02 by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco (PSE) to the Commission. Endorsement of indicators relating to violence against women.
Date: 2002-04-12
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU statistics, distribution by sex, violence

6.2.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 28 E/63

(2003/C 28 E/068)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1002/02

by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco (PSE) to the Commission

Subject: Endorsement of indicators relating to violence against women

(12 April 2002)

What are the Commission’s specific plans and initiatives as regards to the drawing up of a list of the main
indicators relating to violence against women? How is it intending to ensure that the necessary tasks of
coordination, endorsement and standardisation are carried out as part of the process of gathering and
disseminating data for the purpose of producing statistics and indicators which will provide a proper
picture of the situation as regards violence against women in the EU?

Answer given by Mr Solbes Mira on behalf of the Commission

(26 June 2002)

Up until now there has not been a defined demand to collect statistics in order to calculate indicators
relating to violence against women and therefore the Commission does not have the information
requested. However the Danish Presidency plans to develop indicators on violence, based on the activities
of the Spanish Presidency concerning violence against women and Eurostat is prepared to co-operate in
this area. In fact Eurostat plans to start the reflections on the development of statistics in the area of
victimisation, personal security and crime in its work programme of 2003.

(2003/C 28 E/069)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-1013/02

by Hans-Peter Martin (PSE) to the Commission

(5 April 2002)

Subject: Mergers vetted in 2001

Every year, the Commission vets mergers in Europe. The number of vettings is evidently rising every year:
still well under 300 in 1999, but well above that figure in 2000.

Can the Commission provide an overview of the mergers it has vetted in recent years, indicating both the
number of vettings and the number of mergers accepted plus a detailed breakdown of the firms vetted?

Answer given by Mr Monti on behalf of the Commission

(17 May 2002)

After seven years of rapid growth in merger activity,
the number of merger notifications to the
Commission declined slightly in 2001, to 335 from 345 in the previous year. In 1999 there had been 292
notifications.

In 2001, the Commission took 332 decisions on the compatibility of the proposed concentrations with the
Common Market, 20 of which followed in depth investigations (five prohibition, five clearances without
conditions and 10 conditional clearance decisions) and 13 of which were conditional clearances at the end
of an initial investigation (‘Phase 1’). The Commission cleared 312 cases in Phase 1. 140 decisions (45 %) of
the first-Phase clearance decisions were taken in accordance to the simplified procedures introduced in
September 2000.
In addition to these 332 decisions, the Commission took seven referral decisions
pursuant to Article 9 of the Merger Regulation (1) referring the assessment of the cases to the jurisdiction of
individual Member States. The Commission opened in depth investigations in 22 cases, three of which
were outstanding at the year end of the year.