WRITTEN QUESTION E-3820/03 by Elspeth Attwooll (ELDR) to the Commission. Connection to electricity and water supplies.
Date: 2003-12-12
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Scotland, Structural Funds, co-financing, electrical energy, eligible region, energy grid, water supply

27.3.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 78 E/651

Details on such features in national pension systems can be found in the publication ‘Missoc (cid:1) Social
Protection in the Member States and the European Economic Area’ (1) and in the Joint Report by the
Commission and the Council on Adequate and Sustainable Pensions of March 2003 (2). The latter contains
in particular tables on the retirement age (table 7) and on minimum income guarantees for older people
(table 1).

(1) http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/missoc/index_en.html
(2) http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/soc-prot/pensions/index_en.htm

(2004/C 78 E/0692)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3820/03

by Elspeth Attwooll (ELDR) to the Commission

(12 December 2003)

Subject: Connection to electricity and water supplies

Further to Written Question E-2399/03 and the Commission’s reply, will the Commission please reply to
the same question but with regard to the parts of Scotland that are not within the Highland and Islands
Region?

Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission

(27 January 2004)

3 746 381 people in Scotland live in areas eligible under Objective 2 of the Structural Funds or in
Objective 2 transitional areas. The interventions are organised under three Objective 2 Programmes in
accordance with Commission Decisions taken on 21 and 22 March 2001: the West of Scotland Objective
2 Programme, the East of Scotland Objective 2 Programme and the South of Scotland Objective 2
Programme.

Under Objective 2, the interventions relate to the diversification and revitalisation of areas in economic
decline. Infrastructures in these areas are supported where they are ‘a prerequisite for the location or
development of job-creating economic activities’. In all three Objective 2 Programmes there is provision
for actions to promote the adoption of waste minimisation, energy efficiency and environmental
management to benefit economic activity and better protect the environment through more efficient use
of resources.

The responsibility for deciding on the selection of projects co-financed by European Structural Funds lies
with the Regional Partnership for each Objective 2 Programme. For the West of Scotland Programme, this
is the Strathclyde European Partnership Ltd (SEP Ltd), for the East of Scotland, this is the East of Scotland
European Partnership Ltd (ESEP Ltd) and for the South of Scotland, this is the South of Scotland
Partnership (SOSEP).

(2004/C 78 E/0693)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3827/03

by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

Subject: Funding for the network of Carrefours and Info-Points

(12 December 2003)

The European network of Carrefours and Info-Points Europe recently publicly protested at the decision of
the Directorate-General for Press and Communication of 29 September to cancel the annual allocation of
EUR 20 000 for Carrefours and Info-Points Europe and its proposal merely to maintain collaboration in
distributing documentation, training and running helpdesks. They complained that this ‘unilateral decision,
taken without any consultation and at such short notice’ would affect the budget and activities of all the
structures involved.