WRITTEN QUESTION E-3468/02 by Graham Watson (ELDR) to the Commission. Iberian lynx.
Date: 2002-12-06
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU environmental policy, EU financing, EU programme, Portugal, Spain, protection of animal life, wild mammal

3.7.2003

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 155 E/157

Answer given by Mr Byrne on behalf of the Commission

(9 January 2003)

After submission of an emergency vaccination programme by Italy and following the advice of the
Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, the Commission by means of Decision 2002/
975/EC on introducing vaccination to supplement the measures to control infections with low pathogenic
avian influenza in Italy and on specific movement control measures (1) has authorised Italy to apply
emergency vaccination against avian influenza in some areas of the regions of Lombardia and Veneto.

The meat of vaccinated turkeys may be dispatched for intra-Community trade to other Member States,
provided that certain controls are carried out in the holding of origin, including the use of a laboratory test
able to distinguish vaccinated and healthy poultry from the infected ones, as these controls are considered
sufficient to ensure a high level of safety of the meat of these animals as regards avian influenza.

(1) OJ L 337, 13.12.2002.

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-3468/02

by Graham Watson (ELDR) to the Commission

(6 December 2002)

Subject: Iberian lynx

Has the Commission made contributions to efforts designed to reverse the impending extinction of the
Iberian lynx? Is the Commission aware of any breeding programmes, in captivity or in the wild? Are any
EC funds allocated towards such a breeding programme?

Answer given by Mrs Wallström on behalf of the Commission

(29 January 2003)

The Commission has supported, for several years already, conservation projects targeted at the Iberian lynx
in both Portugal and Spain. In particular, several LIFE-Nature projects received community funding for
increasing the knowledge about the species and for creating adequate conditions, in terms of habitats and
food resources, for the conservation of the Iberian lynx on sites where it still can be found or for allowing
the return of the species to areas that it inhabited in the recent past. Altogether there have been 18 LIFE
Nature projects on Iberian lynx in Spain and two in Portugal; three of these are still ongoing.

The Commission is aware that during the year 2000 the Directorate-General for Nature Conservation in
the Iberian Lynx’. The National
Spain has prepared an ‘Action plan for breeding in captivity of
Commission for Nature Protection in Spain approved this plan and it is carried out in the facilities of
Doñana National Park. To date no direct funding for this undertaking have been requested or given by the
Commission.

LIFE Nature projects on Iberian Lynx:

(cid:1) Year 1994:

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian lynx (cid:1) Castilla y León (LIFE94 NAT/E/001186)

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (Comunidad de Madrid) (LIFE94 NAT/E/004808)

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (LIFE94 NAT/E/004809)

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (LIFE94 NAT/E/004810)

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(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (Andalucía) (LIFE94 NAT/E/004811)

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (Castilla-La Mancha) (LIFE94 NAT/E/004813)

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (Extremadura) (LIFE94 NAT/E/004814)

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (LIFE94NAT/P/001058)

(cid:1) Year 1995:

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (Extremadura) (LIFE95 NAT/E/004815)

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (Castilla la Mancha) (LIFE95 NAT/E/004816

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (Castilla y Leon) (LIFE95 NAT/E/004817)

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (Andalucía) (LIFE95 NAT/E/004818)

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (Madrid) (LIFE95 NAT/E/004819)

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (LIFE95 NAT/E/004820)

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx (LIFE95 NAT/E/004821)

(cid:1) Year 1998:

(cid:1) Conservation of Lynx pardinus in Extremadura (LIFE98 NAT/E/005343)

(cid:1) Year 1999:

(cid:1) Conservation of the Imperial eagle, Black vulture, Black stork and Iberian lynx on private

protected land in Extremadura and Castilla-La-Mancha (LIFE99 NAT/E/006336)

(cid:1) Recovery of habitats and preys of Lynx pardinus in Serra da Malcata (LIFE99NAT/P/006423)

(cid:1) Year 2002:

(cid:1) Recovery of the populations of the Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus) in Andalucía (LIFE02NAT/E/

8609)

(cid:1) Conservation of the Iberian Lynx in ‘Montes de Toledo-Guadalmena’ (LIFE02NAT/E/8617)

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-3477/02

by Gerhard Schmid (PSE) to the Commission

(6 December 2002)

Subject: Discrimination on the ground of nationality in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

In Amsterdam, there is a road running alongside a canal where parking is restricted. Even so, it seems to
be local practice for motorists to park their cars there. I have been informed, however, that foreign-
registered cars (in the event, five German, three Belgian and two British) have been clamped, while vehicles
registered in the Netherlands have not even been given a parking ticket.

Does this constitute discrimination of the ground of nationality, which is prohibited pursuant to

1.
Article 12 of the EC Treaty?

2.

If so, what will the Commission do to remedy this situation?

Answer given by Mrs de Palacio on behalf of the Commission

(24 January 2003)

The Commission is not aware of any other cases like this in Amsterdam and has no concrete information
on this case which would lead it to suspect discrimination on the grounds of nationality.