WRITTEN QUESTION E-1792/02 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal (Verts/ALE) to the Commission. Redevelopment of the port of Port-Vendres (F66).
Date: 2002-06-24
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European Regional Development Fund, Languedoc-Roussillon, environmental protection, harbour installation, regional planning

6.2.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 28 E/137

Effective use of this new mechanism will be achieved through intensive training and full-scale simulation
exercises. The purpose of the training programme is to ensure that teams from different Member States
can work together effectively in an emergency despite differences in national systems. This will enable the
Community to consolidate its overall emergency response capacity and adjust it as required.

Regarding the specific role of volunteers, the Commission would draw the Honourable Member’s attention
to an initiative recently developed in the context of the Community action programme in the field of civil
protection (3) on ‘the role of non-governmental organisations’ (NGOs) volunteers in civil protection’. The
results of this project, which are accessible on the Commission’s civil protection unit website (4), include a
wide range of recommendations aimed at improving the involvement of civil protection NGOs in general
and of individual volunteers in particular.

(1) OJ C 172 E, 18.7.2002, p. 155.
(2) Council Decision 2001/792/EC, Euratom of 23 October 2001, OJ L 297, 15.11.2001.
(3) Council Decision 1999/847/EC of 9 December 1999, OJ L 327, 21.12.1999.
(4) http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/civil/.

(2003/C 28 E/159)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1792/02

by Miquel Mayol i Raynal (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

Subject: Redevelopment of the port of Port-Vendres (F66)

(24 June 2002)

The Catalan port of Port-Vendres in the Roussillon, in the French département of Pyrénées-Orientales, is
the subject of a regional development project by virtue of a charter of 11 July 2000.

This project, which is said to have received European (ERDF) funding, is opposed by a large section of the
Port-Vendres population, who have formed an association called ‘Ensemble pour Port-Vendres’. In a file
sent to Commissioner Barnier on 28 May 2001, the association reports irreparable damage to a site
worthy of protection, occasioned not
two beaches in the
municipality.

least by the concreting-over of

the last

Is the Commission able to verify whether this project has actually received European funding? If it has,
could it check whether the work completed, and that planned, complies with the European directives on
environmental protection?

Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission

(19 July 2002)

According to the information provided by the French regional authorities, the project referred to by the
Honourable Member was not part-financed by the Structural Funds.

(2003/C 28 E/160)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1801/02

by Laura González Álvarez (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(24 June 2002)

Subject: Environmental impact study on the Puente del Arco to El Condado section of the AS-17 highway

(Asturias, Spain)

In the preparation of the information report on the construction of the Puente del Arco to El Condado
section of the AS-17 highway (Asturias, Spain), and in the environmental impact study, only one route