WRITTEN QUESTION P-3775/02 by António Campos (PSE) to the Commission. Common agricultural policy.
Date: 2002-12-17
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EAGGF Guarantee Section, EU Member State, EU statistics, agricultural expenditure, common agricultural policy

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Country

Total
(2000 and 2001)

Suriname

Sudan

South Africa

Uganda

Zambia

Sierra Leone

Somalia

Tonga

Tuvalu

Trinidad & Tobago

Vanuata

Chad

24,47

100,74

261,39

274,96

231,07

131,07

35,34

7,33

0

11,45

5,44

112,05

The Commission is sending direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliament’s Secretariat a more
detailed table, and the 2001 Annual Report on EC development policy and the implementation of external
assistance.

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WRITTEN QUESTION P-3775/02

by António Campos (PSE) to the Commission

(17 December 2002)

Subject: Common agricultural policy

On 11 October 1999, in my Written Question E-1766/99 (1), I asked the Commission for information
concerning the EAGGF Guarantee Section. The Commission’s reply of 16 December 1999 failed to supply
some of the information requested.

In order to be able to perform my duties as an MEP I require the following information to be made
available to me:

(cid:1) the total amount of money spent each year by the EAGGF Guarantee Section on the 100 largest

beneficiaries in each Member State;

(cid:1) the percentage of total EAGGF Guarantee Section spending received by each Member State and

assigned to those 100 largest beneficiaries.

(1) OJ C 303 E, 24.10.2000, p. 14.

Supplementary answer
given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(10 March 2003)

On 1 October 2002, the Commission has transmitted indicative figures on the distribution of direct farm
aid payments by size-class of aid received for the financial year 2000 to the Budgetary Committee, the
Budget Committee and the Agriculture Committee of the Parliament. The figures have been derived from
the European Agricultural Guarantee and Guidance Fund (EAGGF) payments data received from the
Member States. While in general data quality is adequate for use in the clearance of accounts activity, care
must currently be exercised over use of the data for other, analytical purposes. Not all Member States

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currently employ a ‘system for unique identifiers’ for all beneficiaries. Therefore, at present, the totals by
beneficiary may be inaccurate, which is leading to ‘indicative’ and not totally precise figures.

Based upon this information, the table sent direct
to the Honourable Member and to Parliament’s
secretariat gives an overview, per Member State, of the total direct payments paid in the financial year
2000, the total amount paid to the 100 largest beneficiaries of direct payments, and the relative percentage
of the latter. Please note that certain beneficiaries in the list of the 100 largest beneficiaries per Member
State might be producer organisations. Greece did not provide detailed information for all direct payment
measures. Therefore, no statistics are available for this Member State.

(2003/C 192 E/175)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3797/02

by Christos Folias (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(7 January 2003)

Subject: Studies on the Via Egnatia

The importance of the ‘Via Egnatia’ axis for northern Greece is well known, as well as its significance, in
conjunction with the perpendicular axes, for the cooperation and progress of all the bordering Balkan
states.

With this objective in mind, the Commission is funding project PP701 ‘Egnatia road (cid:1) technical studies’,
within the framework of the trans-European Transport Networks, to the tune of EUR 30 million over the
2001-2003 period.

1. Which sections of the main axis or the perpendicular axes have been studied?

How many agreements has Egnatia A.E. signed, what are they, and what procedures were used for

2.
the awarding of the studies? Was the public contracts procedure used or not?

3. When was each of the contracts for studies signed? Who are the contractors and what is the
timetable for completion? What is the budget, what is the specific subject matter of these studies, and what
stage of completion has each of them reached?

4.

How much of the EUR 30 million allocated has been paid to date?

How does the Commission intend to promote the completion of

5.
perpendicular axes? What time framework does it envisage?

the Egnatia road and its

Answer given by Mrs de Palacio on behalf of the Commission

(13 February 2003)

Priority project (PP) 701 to which the Honourable Member refers is part of the Multiannual Indicative
Programme adopted by the Commission on 19 September 2001, under which EUR 30 million is being
granted for studies and technical support measures in 2001-2006 on the Egnatia section of priority project
No 7 (PATHE-Egnatia). This project forms part of the Trans-European Transport Network. The funding
allotted is an indicative amount.

The sections of the main route or the perpendicular offshoots of the ‘Via Egnatia’ which are being studied
in the framework of project PP 701 are to be found in Decision C (2001) 3898/10 of 30 November 2001,
a copy of which will be sent directly to the Honourable Member and the Secretariat General of Parliament.

The contracts which Egnatia Odos S.A. has signed relate to both technical and environmental studies
covering all the phases of the project and to the construction of the different sections of this road.