WRITTEN QUESTION E-1684/03 by Jens-Peter Bonde (EDD) to the Commission. Definition of contracts with the Commission.
Date: 2003-05-20
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European Commission, competition (EU), servant (EU)

C 65 E/88

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

13.3.2004

(cid:1) a commitment to make sufficient progress in defining and implementing the binding measures of the
nitrates code of good farming practice (GFP) and/or the action programme and adapting and/or
completing the general GFP as defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1750/1999 of 23 July
1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 (3)
accordingly.

In the guidelines, the Commission indicated that it would be formally notifying Member States when it was
about to take immediate and appropriate action in the event of irregularities concerning the conditions of
implementation, in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 and Council Regulation (EC)
No 1258/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (2), i.e. in this case
specifically a failure to comply with the commitment to designate nitrate vulnerable zones.

Ireland undertook these commitments in its Rural Development Plan approved by the Commission by the
end of 2001.

On 23 February 2003, the Irish authorities communicated their intention to apply an action programme
throughout the territory of Ireland, as permitted under Article 3(5) of Directive 91/676/EEC.
It was
indicated that an action programme would be developed by June 2003.

With reference to derogations, it is premature to comment, since the action programme from which any
derogation would seek to depart is still lacking.

As regards the Acceding States, all have committed themselves, in the context of accession negotiations, to
including the establishment of
fully transpose and implement the Directive at the latest by accession,
action programmes. The Commission is closely monitoring these preparations.

(1) Case C-2001/396, Commission v. Ireland.
(2) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999.
(3) OJ L 214, 13.8.1999.

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-1684/03

by Jens-Peter Bonde (EDD) to the Commission

Subject: Definition of ‘contracts with the Commission’

(20 May 2003)

Further to the Commission’s answer of 11 February to my question, E-2968/02 (1), concerning the
the term ‘contracts with the
recruitment competition,
Commission’.

I should like a more detailed definition of

The answer reads as follows: ‘x candidates were called to the oral test exam. Of these, x had or have had
contracts with the Commission’.

Will the Commission say whether the term ‘young national expert’ falls within the definition of ‘contracts
with the Commission’?

(1) OJ C 192 E, 14.8.2003, p. 88.

Answer given by Mr Kinnock on behalf of the Commission

(20 June 2003)

In the Commission’s response of 11 February 2003, the reference to candidates having or having had
‘contracts with the Commission’ meant that those candidates had or have had ‘permanent’, ‘temporary’ or
‘auxiliary’ contracts with the Commission, under the provisions of Article 1 (18) and Article 2 (18) of Title I
(cid:1) General provisions of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the Communities.

‘Seconded national expert’ contracts are not encoded in the Commission’s database, nor is this information
requested from those taking part in competitions.