WRITTEN QUESTION E-1232/02 by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Commission. ERDF funding of rural cellular telephone access (TRAC) in Galicia.
Date: 2002-04-29
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European Regional Development Fund, Spain, telecommunications, universal service

C 301 E/112

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

5.12.2002

Consequently, if a merchant ship’s DSC MF/HF transmitter breaks down, it can communicate via another
equivalent on-board radiocommunication apparatus (e.g. an Inmarsat station or another DSC MF/HF
station), thereby guaranteeing the safety of shipping and safeguarding human life at sea.

In this light, the Commission does not intend to propose mandatory installation of two DSC MF/HF
transmitter-receivers.

(2002/C 301 E/117)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1232/02

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

(29 April 2002)

Subject: ERDF funding of rural cellular telephone access (TRAC) in Galicia

The Spanish Ministry of Government (Ministerio de la Presidencia) has issued a communication stating that
Spain has taken steps to improve the appalling conditions suffered by rural cellular telephone access
(TRAC) subscribers in Galicia, that the Commission had been made aware of the need to extend the
concept of universal service, and that this new Directive has finally incorporated the Spanish proposals.
The new European Parliament and Council Directive on universal service and users’ rights in relation to
electronic communications networks and services acknowledges that the replacement of TRAC facilities
shall remain guaranteed within the framework of universal service, once the national laws transposing the
Directive have come into force. Has the Spanish Government requested ERDF investment for replacing
rural cellular telephone access (TRAC) facilities in Galicia?

Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission

(24 June 2002)

The Commission refers the Honourable Member to its answer to his Written Question E-0855/02 (1) on
the request of the Spanish authorities for financial support for the project in question. The Directive on
Universal Service (2) defines universal service as covering a range of specified services, including functional
Internet access, provided to subscribers at affordable prices. The directive is ‘technology neutral’ in the
sense that it does not require the use of any given technology to provide these services.

(1) OJ C 229 E, 26.9.2002, p. 150.
(2) Directive 2002/22/EC of the Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on universal service and users’ rights

relating to electronic communications networks and services, OJ L 108, 24.4.2002.

(2002/C 301 E/118)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1242/02

by Monica Frassoni (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

Subject: Project to protect the Poetto coastline in Sardinia (Italy)

(30 April 2002)

The Province of Cagliari is currently implementing a project to protect the Poetto coastline in the Cagliari
and Quartu S. Elena municipalities of Sardinia (Italy), on the basis of Ministry of the Interior Order
(civil protection) No 2878 of 20 October 1998 and with EUR 15 493 707 of Community funds from the
1994-1999 CSF. This project, which was approved by the relevant departments at their meeting of
30 August 1999, provides for an environmental impact assessment pursuant to Directive 92/43/EEC (1)
(decisions of environmental protection officials of the autonomous Region of Sardinia No 3152 of
9 November 1999 and No 1893/V of 21 September 2001). It also provides, in particular, for the building
of a new road along the Quartu S. Elena salt marshes, which will involve the complete removal of the
former coastal road, the rehabilitation of the dune system and pine-forest and the gradual refurbishment of
the Poetto beach over a period of two years, with 370 000 m3 of sand of the same type as that of that
beach.