WRITTEN QUESTION P-1984/02 by Christopher Heaton-Harris (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Convention financing.
Date: 2002-07-01
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European convention, European organisation, company constituted under civil law, exchange of information, financial year, financing, international meeting

14.8.2003

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(2003/C 192 E/034)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1957/02

by Glyn Ford (PSE) to the Commission

(3 July 2002)

Subject: Import of goods into the EU

What restrictions, if any, apply to the import of goods into the EU which are made and manufactured in
North Korea, but exported from South Korea?

Answer given by Mr Lamy on behalf of the Commission

(21 August 2002)

Trade with North Korea is subject to normal trading rules for industrial goods exports to the Union for all
sectors, except for textiles and clothing where North Korean exports are subject to a tight regime: only if
quotas are opened are their imports into the Union allowed. Such regime was improved in 2000, with
increased quotas for a number of textile categories (1). Otherwise, North Korean non-textile exports to the
Union are not subject to any restrictions and are subject to most favoured nation (MFN) tariffs.

No particular restriction would therefore apply to imports of products manufactured in North Korea but
exported via South Korea, except if these concerned textiles, where the Union autonomous regime vis-à-vis
North Korea would still apply. In this respect it should be noted that Union trade in textiles with South
Korea is subject to a different more liberal regime based on a bilateral agreement.

(1) Commission Regulation (EC) 2878 of 28 December 2000 (cid:1) OJ L 333, 29.12.2000, amending Annex IV to Council
Regulation (EC) No 517/94 on common rules for imports of textile products from certain third countries not
covered by bilateral agreements, protocols or other arrangements, or by other specific Community import rules.

(2003/C 192 E/035)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-1984/02

by Christopher Heaton-Harris (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(1 July 2002)

Subject: Convention financing

Further to written question E-0486/02 (1) (Subject: ‘Civil Society’), would the Commission, now that a list
of organisations participating in the forum on the Convention of the Future of Europe has been published
on the Internet
(http://europa.eu.int/futurum/forum_convention/organlist_en.htm#list), please indicate
which of these organisations have received European Community funds in the past five years?

Could the Commission please indicate how much money each of these Community funded organisations
has received in each of the past five years?

Could the Commission please indicate from which budget line each organisation derived/derives its funds?

Finally, which organisations have money ‘earmarked’ from the Community’s budget?

(1) OJ C 28 E, 6.2.2003, p. 32.

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Supplementary answer
given by Mrs Schreyer on behalf of the Commission

(22 November 2002)

Further to the preliminary answer sent to the Honourable Member, the Commission is sending direct to
him and to Parliament’s Secretariat a detailed analysis of the Union’s accounts for each of the 1998, 1999,
2000, 2001 and 2002 financial years, which provides the requested information for each of
the
organisations concerned. This analysis was conducted using the SINCOM2 accounting system.

The Commission has registered 1575 payments,
throughout the Union.

totalling EUR 154,5 million,

to 139 organisations

(2003/C 192 E/036)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1991/02

by Michael Gahler (PPE-DE), Christopher Heaton-Harris (PPE-DE),
Neil Parish (PPE-DE), Lennart Sacrédeus (PPE-DE)
and Charles Tannock (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(8 July 2002)

Subject: The implementation of ‘smart sanctions’ against selected members of the Mugabe regime

Can the Commission clarify the precise extent of the asset ban and the travel freeze imposed on associates
of President Mugabe and their families by the European Union in February of this year? Do the sanctions
prevent family members of the listed associates from visiting the European Union or pursuing courses of
study at educational institutions within the European Union?

There are reports that the Zimbabwean Commissioner of Police attended an Interpol summit in Lyons. Are
those reports accurate and, if so, was the visit allowed to take place because of a prior international treaty
commitment on the part of the French government or was there a discretionary element in the French
government’s decision?

There were also reports that two Zimbabwe government ministers entered the United Kingdom early in
May. Are those reports correct, and,
if so, were those visits consistent with the sanctions? Does the
Commission have knowledge of any breaches of the sanctions on the part of any Member State?

Finally, has the Commission discussed with the South African government the full
implications for
Southern Africa of any further deterioration of the Zimbabwean economy and the likely consequences for
South Africa itself if it fails to apply pressure on Robert Mugabe to give up power and allow a new
government to end the destructive economic and social policies currently pursued by his regime?

Answer given by Mr Patten on behalf of the Commission

(22 August 2002)

According to Council Regulation (EC) No 310/2002 of 18 February 2002 concerning certain restrictive
measures in respect of Zimbabwe (1) ‘all funds, other financial assets or economic resources belonging to
individual members of the Government of Zimbabwe and to any natural or legal persons, entities or
bodies associated with them as listed in Annex I (of the regulation), shall be frozen’. Annex 1 as revised by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1345/2002 of 24 July 2002 (2) only contains names of specific members
of the Government of Zimbabwe and certain officials as well as the spouse of Robert Mugabe. Funds, other
financial assets or economic resources belonging spouses and children of other persons on the list are not
affected by the Regulation.

The visa ban is laid down in the Council Common Position 2002/145/CFSP of 18 February 2002
concerning restrictive measures against Zimbabwe as amended by Council Common Position 2002/600/
CFSP (3), and is therefore implemented by the Member States.