WRITTEN QUESTION E-2210/03 by Claude Moraes (PSE) to the Council. Progress on asylum in Thessaloniki.
Date: 2003-07-02
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: admission of aliens, external border of the EU, migration policy, political asylum, refugee, right of asylum, social facilities

C 84 E/16

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

3.4.2004

Reply

(8 March 2004)

In February 2003, the Council and the European Parliament had before them a proposal for a Directive on
measures and procedures to ensure the enforcement of intellectual property rights (2003/0024(COD)).

This proposal is currently being examined in detail within the Council bodies pending the opinion of the
European Parliament at first reading (scheduled for November 2003). The Council can ensure you that it
will continue to accord this proposal the priority it deserves.

In this context, it should be noted that on 22 July 2003 the Council also adopted a Regulation concerning
customs action against goods suspected of infringing certain intellectual property rights and the measures
to be taken against goods found to have infringed such rights (1). The Regulation forms part of the more
general framework of cooperation and mutual assistance between customs administrations at Community
level.

(1) OJ L 196, 2.8.2003, p. 7.

(2004/C 84 E/0018)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2210/03

by Claude Moraes (PSE) to the Council

(2 July 2003)

Subject: Progress on asylum in Thessaloniki

Will the Council please give its view on the progress made on the issue of asylum at the Thessaloniki
Summit, particularly with regard to UK proposals to create ‘zones of protection’ to process asylum
applications on or close to the borders of refugee producing countries?

(2004/C 84 E/0019)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2258/03

by Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL) to the Council

(8 July 2003)

Subject: Keeping new refugees away from EU territory by building reception camps in the future Member

States or further afield

1.
Can the Council confirm that, even before the decision was taken on 20 June 2003 at Porto Carras
(near Thessaloniki) to permit some EU Member States by way of an experiment to accommodate asylum
seekers outside EU territory, work had already begun to connect electricity, water mains ssand drainage to
13 barracks at the former army base in the village of Trstenik, Croatia?

2.
Does the Council consider that the housing in Trstenik will remain confined to the temporary
accommodation of 800 asylum seekers wishing to settle in the UK, and will the people taken there
exclusively comprise people from Balkan countries applying for asylum at UK ports or airports?

Do similar agreements exist, concluded by the EU or its individual Member States,

3.
for the
construction of refugee camps in Russia, Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Albania, and are there
plans for camps further away from EU territory in a ring around the refugees’ countries of origin in South-
Western and North-Eastern Africa?

4.
Is the intention to keep the refugees permanently outside EU territory? Does that mean that these
reception camps will be moved, together with their occupants, when Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia join
the EU?