WRITTEN QUESTION E-0155/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna (PPE-DE) to the Commission. EU budget and development cooperation.
Date: 2003-01-28
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Community budget, cooperation policy, development aid, exchange of information, financial year, fishing industry, sectoral aid, third country

C 70 E/28

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

20.3.2004

(2004/C 70 E/030)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0155/03

by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna (PPE-DE) to the Commission

Subject: EU budget and development cooperation

(28 January 2003)

1.
Could the Commission indicate how much the EU allocated to the development cooperation budget
heading under its 2002 budget, and the breakdown of that amount between each beneficiary third
country?

2.
Could the Commission indicate how much of the amount allocated to the development cooperation
budget heading for 2002 was earmarked for the development of the fisheries sector in third countries, and
what the amount was for each beneficiary country?

3.
Could the Commission indicate how much the EU has allocated to the development cooperation
budget heading under its 2003 budget, and the breakdown of that amount between each beneficiary third
country?

4.
Could the Commission indicate how much of the amount allocated to the development cooperation
budget heading for 2003 is earmarked for the development of the fisheries sector in third countries, and
what the amount is for each beneficiary country?

Answer given by Mr Nielson on behalf of the Commission

(19 June 2003)

1.
A table detailing commitments and payments by country of external assistance for 2002 on the
Community Budget is sent direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliament’s Secretariat. These
numbers are of a provisional nature, and the definitive figures by country will only become available
towards end of April 2003. The figures by region are in general higher than those in the geographical
budget chapters, because expenditure under the thematic budget lines (such as fisheries agreements,
humanitarian aid, food aid, cofinancing with non-governmental organisations, human rights, etc.) has been
allocated, whenever possible, to the beneficiary country.

The figures giving the sectoral breakdown of the Community’s assistance are sent directly to the

2.
Honourable Member and to Parliament’s Secretariat.

3. and 4.
sector for a given budgetary year, therefore, it is not possible to respond to this question.

There is no earmarking of funds in advance to a particular country and/or to a particular

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-0419/03

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

(17 February 2003)

Subject: Spanish National Hydrological Plan (NHP): Júcar-Vinalopó transfer scheme

The construction scheme for transferring water from the basin of the river Júcar to that of the Vinalopó
was approved as part of the Júcar Basin Hydrological Plan, and ratified in Annex II of the NHP in July
2001. The course to be followed by the transfer channel runs parallel to the existing Tagus-Segura link,
and converges with the planned transfer of the Ebro to the Spanish south-east. The water transfer is
designed to develop new irrigation areas for heavily subsidised continental crops in the upper and middle
reaches of the Júcar, as well as unsustainable tourist and urban development. All this will have increased
negative repercussions on the lower reaches of the Júcar and the Albufera, and on the quality of Valencia’s
water supplies. The scheme’s environmental impact assessment did not assess alternatives, nor take account
of these and other problems, such as environmental impact on the Natura 2000 Network and areas of
ornithological importance.