WRITTEN QUESTION E-2887/03 by Bill Miller (PSE) to the Commission. Animal by-products.
Date: 2003-09-29
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU Member State, agricultural by-product, animal product, statistics, waste incineration

C 78 E/186

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

27.3.2004

(2004/C 78 E/0192)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2887/03

by Bill Miller (PSE) to the Commission

(29 September 2003)

Subject: Animal by-products

How many incinerators are there in Europe burning animal by-products and in which countries are they?

Answer given by Mrs Wallström on behalf of the Commission

(16 October 2003)

The Commission does not have the information requested. However, according to the draft report on Best
Available Techniques for waste incineration (1), about 421 installations are in operation in the Member
States, and about 106 installations in the Candidate Countries. These installations burn mainly municipal
waste, non-hazardous and hazardous industrial waste, sewage sludge and clinical waste. Among these
waste types could also be fractions of animal by-products.

(1) http://eippcb.jrc.es/pages/Factivities.htm.

(2004/C 78 E/0193)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2907/03

by Antonios Trakatellis (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(1 October 2003)

Subject: Expenditure on and structural indicators for research and innovation in the EU and Greece

One of the objectives set out in the conclusions to the European Council meeting in Barcelona in March
2002 was that overall spending on R & D and innovation in the Union should be increased with the aim of
approaching 3 % of GDP by 2010. It was made clear that two-thirds of this new investment should come
from the private sector (1). At the present time, the average level of investment in research in the EU totals
1,9 % of GDP and to reach the 3 % target requires an annual increase of 8 %. Given that the gap between
the Union and its more serious competitors is constantly widening, the Union should concentrate all its
efforts on R & D and innovation, with particular emphasis on frontier technologies, to achieve the target of
3 % of GDP by 2010.

1. What is the level of investment in research as a whole in the Union and separately for each Member
State and what is the percentage increase or decrease in that figure for each Member State separately
according to the latest available data?

2. What research funding is invested in Greece, broken down by source separately for the private
sector, national public participation and Community initiatives and programmes in the field of research,
and what measures will the Commission take to deliver statistics on a regular basis and within specified
deadlines in accordance with Decision 1608/2003/EC (2)?

On how many, and which, of each of the 16 structural

indicators under the Lisbon Strategy
3.
(e.g. percentage of GDP by source of funds spent on R & D, patents, etc.) relating to Innovation and
Research (II) is Greece behind or ahead of the Community average?

4.
Is there a need to revise the Commission’s approach to the ‘open coordinating method’, which is not
binding on the Member States and ineffective but was adopted by the European Council to achieve the
target of 3 % of GDP by 2010, and what measures will the Commission take to encourage links between
research and new business opportunities?

(1) http://europa.eu.int/comm/barcelona_council/index_en.html.
(2) OJ L 230, 16.9.2003, p. 1.