WRITTEN QUESTION E-1946/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Commission. Investigations into subsidies paid by Spain to the Izar company and resumption of construction work on merchant vessels at the Izar-Fene shipyards in Galicia.
Date: 2003-06-13
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Galicia, Spain, State aid, aid for restructuring, control of State aid, shipbuilding

C 78 E/58

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

27.3.2004

(2004/C 78 E/0057)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1946/03

by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

(13 June 2003)

Subject: Investigations into subsidies paid by Spain to the Izar company and resumption of construction

work on merchant vessels at the Izar-Fene shipyards in Galicia

To what extent can the investigations undertaken by the Commission into alleged payments of subsidies by
the Spanish Government to the Izar group affect the legitimate complaints relating to resumption of
construction work on merchant vessels at the Izar-Fene (cid:1) formerly Astano (cid:1) shipyards in Galicia?

Answer given by Mr Monti on behalf of the Commission

(14 August 2003)

The Commission does not see any direct link between the investigation of possible subsidies paid by the
Spanish Government to the IZAR group and the prohibition of Fene shipyard to construct merchant ships.

The investigation of possible subsidies to IZAR is part of a state aid investigation covering the years after
2000. The prohibition of Fene shipyard to construct merchant ships was decided by the Commission (1) in
1997 as a condition for state aid supporting a major restructuring of the public Spanish shipyards.
Therefore, even though Fene shipyard is part of the group of public Spanish shipyards, the two issues are
not directly linked.

(1) OJ C 354, 21.11.1997.

(2004/C 78 E/0058)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-1951/03

by Giacomo Santini (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(5 June 2003)

Subject: Provisions banning traffic in Austria

The President of the Tyrolean regional government, Herwig van Staa, recently issued an astonishing ban on
the circulation of motor vehicles weighing more than 7,5 tonnes on a section of motorway between Kundl
and Ampass in Tyrol, in accordance with the following provisions:

(cid:1) from 1 June this year the ban on night traffic, which was in force during the winter, will be

reintroduced;

(cid:1) furthermore, from 1 August there will be a 24-hours-a-day ban on vehicles in certain sectors: waste,

scrap metal, cereals, timber, minerals, motor vehicles, steel and stone;

(cid:1) the ban will also affect the mining and transport of porphyry, which in the Alpine region is the sole
and irreplaceable source of income for thousands of families and hundreds of SMEs, which would
suffer incalculable damage.

Whilst one can understand the Tyrolean authorities’ reasons for the ban, it is only fair to remind them that
solutions of this kind contravene the provisions of the Treaty, in that they restrict the free movement of
goods within the single market.
is unacceptable that regional authorities should be allowed to
compromise a great deal of work which has already been done by adopting unilateral decisions outside the
sphere of Community rules.

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