WRITTEN QUESTION E-4013/03 by Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Implementation of PHARE project BG 0102.06 in Bulgaria: lack of information as to who is responsible for management, decision-making and assessment.
Date: 2004-01-09
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Bulgaria, accession to the European Union, dissemination of information, non-governmental organisation, transparency in decision-making

8.4.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 88 E/661

Is funding for job-creation schemes being allocated to persons who are known for their expansive,

3.
nouveau-riche lifestyle, but not for their ability to create normal forms of productive employment?

4.
Have there been cases of Roma organisations which have enquired about the possibilities for EU co-
financing being asked first of all to repair cars for or supply cheap cars to private individuals, creating the
impression that they must first bribe the officials responsible, and even then not receiving the funding in
question?

In its answer to Written Question E-1647/03 (1)

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the appropriate
involvement of the Roma and the organisations which represent them in the work of identifying needs and
preparing and implementing projects is fundamental to the success of such projects. Does the Commission
still stand by this view?

the Commission wrote that

6. What improvements in the situation outlined above does the Commission regard as possible and
desirable?

(1) OJ C 78 E, 27.3.2004, p. 378.

(2004/C 88 E/0679)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-4013/03

by Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(9 January 2004)

Subject: Implementation of PHARE project BG 0102.06 in Bulgaria:
responsible for management, decision-making and assessment

lack of information as to who is

1. Why, as of 14 December 2003, did neither the website of the National Council for Ethnic and
Demographic Issues (NCEDI), which was opened on 1 October 2003, nor other websites referred to by the
Commission in its answer of 16 June 2003 to Written Question E-1647/03 (1), nor the project website
(www.cscbg.com) still not give the names of the members of the national Projects Steering Committee,
which comprises representatives of the NCEDI and 35 Roma-related NGOs?

2. Why is it impossible to find out which three persons make up the assessment committee, even
though everyone suspects that a person involved in the projects, Teodor Vladov, is the chairman of that
committee?

3.
In addition to lists of the organisations which receive subsidies and their projects, have lists been
drawn up of the sums allocated to each project and the persons responsible for them? Are these lists
available to the public? Where can interested parties obtain them?

4. What improvements in the situation outlined above does the Commission regard as possible and
desirable?

(1) OJ C 78 E, 27.3.2004, p. 378.

(2004/C 88 E/0680)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-4014/03

by Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(9 January 2004)

Subject: Implementation of PHARE project BG 0102.06 in Bulgaria: delays in implementation and

uncertainty regarding the disbursement of the resulting outstanding appropriations

1. Why did the national Projects Steering Committee, on which a member of the EU’s delegation in
Sofia must sit, not start work at the agreed juncture (December 2001 or January 2002)? Why did this
Steering Committee only meet for the first time in September 2003 and was the deadline for submitting
proposals postponed from June 2002 to 6 November 2003?

2. Why, in March 2003, did the official responsible in the EU’s delegation ignore the call from the
relevant specialist committee of the Bulgarian Parliament to give reasons for that postponement?