WRITTEN QUESTION E-3883/03 by Roberta Angelilli (UEN) to the Commission. Alcatel Italia: Community funding for telecommunications.
Date: 2003-12-16
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU financing, EU programme, Italy, industrial restructuring, innovation, telecommunications industry

C 78 E/330

Official Journal of the European Union

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27.3.2004

directives, including Directive 94/47/EC on timeshare. The Commission plans to present the strategy for
the review of the consumer protection ‘acquis’ in the 2nd quarter of 2004.

(1) OJ L 280, 29.10.1994.
(2) The role of the ECC Network (or ‘Euroguichets’) is to help European consumers understand better how to make the

Internal Market work for them and to provide advice if they encounter a problem.

(3) The role of the EEJ-Net, a network of contact points or ‘Clearing Houses’, is to provide consumers with information
on available Alternative Dispute Resolution schemes, as well as practical help in pursuing a complaint by this
means.

(4) SEC(1999) 1795 final.
(5) European Parliament Resolution on the monitoring of Community policy on the protection of purchasers of
the right to use immovable properties on a timeshare basis (Rapport Medina Ortega), adopted on 4 July 2002
(Doc PE 298 410).

(6) 2255th Council meeting of 13.4.2000 (point 9.2).
(7) The International Consumer Protection Enforcement Network is a worldwide network of national authorities with
the aim of strengthening and improving the enforcement of consumer protection legislation. (except product safety
and the prudential regulation of financial
institutions). It meets to discuss these enforcement issues, exchange
information and improve international cooperation between the countries involved. A sub-group ‘Europe’ has been
set up by the Commission to improve European co-operation and prepare for the global meetings.

(8) COM(2003) 356 final.
(9) COM(2003) 443 final.

(2004/C 78 E/0347)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3883/03

by Roberta Angelilli (UEN) to the Commission

(16 December 2003)

Subject: Alcatel Italia: Community funding for telecommunications

From a restructuring plan presented by the management of Alcatel Italia S.p.A. it emerges that two Italian
plants will be closed down, although they are both at the forefront of telecom technology. However, there
are a number of Community programmes to support technological
innovation, such as the @-Europe
programme, which provides for the possibility of subsidising investments for broad-band facilities in
depressed areas by means of the ESF. Furthermore, in the context of measures to promote the development
of broad band, investments of EUR 1 680 million over five years are envisaged, to be financed partly by
European funds and partly by means of project-financing.

In view of all this, can the Commission say:

1.

to what extent Alcatel Italia may benefit from such funding;

2.

to what extent it may benefit
Framework Programme for Research;

from funding provided under the Galileo project and the Sixth

3. what other future financial instruments are envisaged for telecoms?

Answer given by Mr Liikanen on behalf of the Commission

(30 January 2004)

The Commission is collecting the information it needs to answer the question. It will communicate its
findings as soon as possible.