WRITTEN QUESTION P-3251/02 by Margrietus van den Berg (PSE) to the Council. Commission proposal for a certification scheme for the diamond trade.
Date: 2002-11-11
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Community certification, EC Regulation, export monitoring, import policy, international trade, precious stones, trade restriction

18.9.2003

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C 222 E/55

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Total receipts for financial year

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1 115 273,00

23 464 195,97

7 437 493,36

83 271 712,09

755 000,00

23 013 000,00

62 742 494,58

117 109 000,00

49 426 000,00

Total

422 134 827,01

The sums listed above were utilised by the Commission cash department

4.
implementation of payment appropriations and hence used for payments.

for the budgetary

As far as the budget is concerned, the sums entered in Article R 710 are part of the budget balance for the
year and implicitly reduce the take-up of gross national product (GNP) resources in year n+1.

The Commission publishes the figures for fines in its annual revenue and expenditure account. At

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31 December 2001, fines still pending before the court or not yet due totalled EUR 2 914 million.

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The legal basis is as follows:

(cid:1) Articles 73 and 74 of the new Financial Regulation, which applies from 1 January 2003. Previously,

Articles 28 and 28a of the 1977 Financial Regulation applied;

(cid:1) the Internal procedure provisions for the recovery of entitlements arising from direct management,
adopted by the Commission on 17 December 2002 (1) This is a recast version of the Internal
procedure provisions
the recovery of entitlements arising from the Commission’s direct
management, fines and penalty payments under the Treaties, which were adopted by the Commission
on 29 October 1986.

for

(1) SEC(86) 1748.

(2003/C 222 E/059)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-3251/02

by Margrietus van den Berg (PSE) to the Council

(11 November 2002)

Subject: Commission proposal for a certification scheme for the diamond trade

Does the Council share the Commission’s view that if the diamonds cannot be shown to have been
obtained legally, they should be impounded unconditionally (1)?

Can the regulation enter into force on 1 January 2003? If not, how can the Council justify this in view of
the fight against international terrorism

Does the Council agree with the proposed measures? If not, has it a better alternative?

(1) COM(2002) 455.

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Reply

(8 May 2003)

The Council
invites the Honourable Member to refer to Council Regulation (EC) No 254/2003 of
11 February 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 implementing the Kimberley Process
certification scheme for the international trade in rough diamonds and to the Commission Regulation
(EC) No 257/2003 of 11 February 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002.

(2003/C 222 E/060)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-3271/02

by Salvador Jové Peres (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(12 November 2002)

Subject: EAGGF Guarantee Section payments and processed tomatoes.

What monies, by Member State, did the EAGGF Guarantee Section pay out for processed tomato subsidies
(heading B0-1511) for the last five seasons (not financial years)?

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(3 December 2002)

The Commission is sending direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliament’s Secretariat a table
containing the information requested.

(2003/C 222 E/061)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3282/02

by Wilhelm Piecyk (PSE) to the Council

(19 November 2002)

Subject: Fund for compensation for pollution caused by oil or hazardous and noxious substances in

European waters

On 12 December 1999 the oil tanker ‘ERIKA’ sank off the French coast, the oil spillage polluting large
areas of Brittany.

In response, the Commission submitted at the end of December 2000, as part of the ‘ERIKA II’ package, a
proposal for a Parliament-Council regulation establishing a fund for compensation of oil pollution damage
in European waters (1).

On 14 June 2001, Parliament held its first-reading vote on the report submitted by Mr Esclopé (2).

1.

Has the Council already examined the Commission proposal and, if so, at what level?

2. When does the Council intend to adopt a common position on this?

3. What difficulties are there within the Council as regards adopting a common position?

(1) COM(2000) 802 (cid:1) OJ C 120 E, 24.4.2001, p. 79.
(2) OJ C 53 E, 28.2.2002, p. 317.