WRITTEN QUESTION E-1176/03 by María Sornosa Martínez (PSE) to the Commission. Community funding for Spain.
Date: 2003-04-01
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU financing, Spain, dissemination of information, hydraulic works

13.3.2004

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Official Journal of the European Union

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Joint answer
to Written Questions E-1034/03, E-1038/03, E-1041/03 and E-1156/03
given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(24 April 2003)

The questions relate to the use of appropriations from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee
Fund (EAGGF) by
the
Honourable Member asks the Commission to state whether the said municipalities have presented projects
to the EAGGF, whether they have obtained funding for those projects, and whether that funding has been
used.

the municipalities of Ancona, Macerata

In particular,

and Pesaro.

In the Marche Region, the EAGGF Guarantee Section is contributing towards part-financing the 2000-
2006 rural development plan approved by Commission decision C(2000)2726 of 26 September 2000.
The rural development plan covers the whole region, with the exception of two measures implemented
only in areas not eligible for Objective 2 support. The measures in question concern renovating and
developing villages and improving infrastructure related to agricultural development; the municipalities of
Macerata and Pesaro may present projects under those measures because they are not Objective 2 areas.
The municipalities of Ancona, Macerata and Pesaro may present projects under all the other measures of
the rural development plan, which include public bodies among support recipients.

The EAGGF Guidance Section is
contributing towards part-financing the 2000-2006 Leader+
Community Initiative programme approved by Commission decision C(2001)4144 of 13 December
2001. The Marche region has delimited application of that programme based on a number of criteria for
selecting rural areas, in accordance with the Commission notice to the Member States of 14 April 2000 (1):
based on those criteria, the municipalities of Ancona, Macerata and Pesaro, whose population density
exceeds that admissible under the notice, are not eligible for the Leader+ Community Initiative.

The Commission approved the above programmes after checking their compliance with the relevant
Community provisions; management on the ground is the responsibility of Member States, at the most
appropriate geographical level. It is up to the national and/or regional authorities responsible to implement
the programmes, while ensuring selection of projects proposed by potential recipients who satisfy the
eligibility conditions and present an application for support. The Commission is informed of
the
procedures for using the Fund under the partnership,
through the implementation reports on the
programmes concerned, and by the Monitoring Committees in which it is involved. The information
supplied in the form of financial and physical monitoring indicators as well as evaluation data does not
however relate to individual
instances of granting assistance, on which (cid:1) in accordance with the
subsidiarity principle (cid:1) the Commission is not qualified to comment.

to ask the Marche Region’s
The Commission would therefore request
Agriculture Inspectorate for information on individual recipients of support under the above programmes
and more specifically on the municipalities of Ancona, Macerata and Pesaro.

the Honourable Member

(1) Commission notice to the Member States of 14 April 2000 laying down guidelines for the Community initiative for

rural development (Leader+), 2000/C 139/05, OJ C 139, 18.5.2000.

(2004/C 65 E/064)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1176/03

by María Sornosa Martínez (PSE) to the Commission

(1 April 2003)

Subject: Community funding for Spain

Can the Commission forward, to the author of this question, a full list of all hydrological infrastructure
schemes for which funding has been requested by the Spanish central government under the Structural
Funds or the Cohesion Fund (for 2000-2006), in the context of major projects, whether planned on an
individual basis or included in measures under the operative programmes?

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Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission

(12 May 2003)

As established in Article 14.3:
‘Information and publicity’ of Council Regulation (EC) No 1164/94 of
16 May 1994 establishing a Cohesion Fund (1), amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1264/1999 of
21 June 1999 (2) and by Council Regulation (EC) No 1265/1999 of 21 June 1999 (2), the Commission
publishes yearly in the Official Journal of the European Union the main points of Decisions granting
financial assistance under the above mentioned Regulation.

The information is classified by country and by field of assistance. The fields dealing with ‘water supply
and water quality’ and with ‘waste-water disposal and treatment’ include the information regarding the
hydrological infrastructure schemes financed by the Cohesion Fund.

The information for Spain is published in the following Official Journals of the European Union:

(cid:1) Year 2000: OJ C 361, 17.12.2001;

(cid:1) Year 2001: OJ C 126, 28.5.2002.

The information corresponding to the year 2002, already sent for publication, is enclosed in the Annex I
of this reply, which is sent direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliament’s Secretariat.

Projects for which financing has been requested but which are still under consideration or have been
approved in 2003 are set out in Annex II of this reply, which is sent direct to the Honourable Member and
to Parliament’s Secretariat.

Regarding projects financed by the European Regional Development Fund under Council Regulation (EC)
No 1260/1999 of 21 June 1999 laying down general provisions on the Structural Funds (2), the Member
State is only obliged to communicate to the Commission its requests for the co-financing of major
projects. Information on such projects is enclosed in Annex III of this reply, which is sent direct to the
Honourable Member and to Parliament’s Secretariat.

(1) OJ L 130, 25.5.1994.
(2) OJ L 161, 26.6.1999.

(2004/C 65 E/065)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1206/03

by Alexandros Alavanos (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

Subject: European educational programmes including Turkey

(2 April 2003)

Turkey is participating in the Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci and Youth Programmes. For 2004, numerous
programmes have been agreed by the Turkish Government and the European Union involving universities,
educational
institutions and young people in general. Do they include programmes in Kurdish? Can
programmes in Kurdish be organised in European Union Member States with Kurdish immigrant
communities?

Answer given by Mrs Reding on behalf of the Commission

(5 May 2003)

Turkey is not yet participating in the Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci and Youth Programmes. Preparatory
measures are now being implemented with a view to its full participation in these programmes in 2004.
The terms and conditions for its participation will be the same as those applied to the other Candidate
Countries, and will follow the programmes’ rules.