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WRITTEN QUESTION P-0417/04 by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Sackings from the Finex Group factory.
Date: 2004-02-09
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU aid, Portugal, aid system, clothing industry, collective bargaining, collective dismissal, labour relations

27.3.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 78 E/687

Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission

(18 February 2004)

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

(2004/C 78 E/0733)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-0417/04

by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(9 February 2004)

Subject: Sackings from the Finex Group factory

The Finnish Finex Group owns a clothing factory in Nogueira, Maia, Portugal, which used to employ some
1 000 workers. Finex has already pressurised over half of them to accept dismissal agreements. Of the
current 430 workers, some 300 women are now being pressurised to consent to unacceptable agreements
on their dismissal by the end of this month. It should be noted that this company has received various
subsidies.

Can the Commission answer the following:

1. How much Community subsidy has been paid to the Finex Group in Portugal and in other EU

countries?

2. What measures are the Commission and the Portuguese Government going to take with a view to

defending the employment and all the rights of Finex’s workers, most of whom are women?

3.

Is the Commission prepared to demand that the subsidies paid to the Finex Group should be repaid, if
Finex continues to put pressure on its workers with a view to getting rid of them?

Answer given by Mrs Diamantopoulou on behalf of the Commission

(19 February 2004)

The Commission is collecting the information it needs to answer the question. It will communicate its
findings as soon as possible.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 223/2004 of 9 February 2004 supplementing the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2301/97 on the entry of certain names in the Register of certificates of specific character provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) 2082/92 on certificates of specific character for agricultural products and foodstuffs (Hushållsost)
Date: 2004-02-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Sweden, agricultural product, cheese, designation of origin, product designation

10.2.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 37/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 223/2004

of 9 February 2004

supplementing the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2301/97 on the entry of certain names in the
Register of certificates of specific character provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) 2082/92 on
certificates of specific character for agricultural products and foodstuffs (Hushållsost)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2082/92 of 14
July 1992 on certificates of specific character for agricultural
products and foodstuffs (1), and in particular Article 9(1)
thereof,

Whereas:

As a consequence, the name set out in the Annex should
be entered in the Register of certificates of specific char-
acter and thereby protected as a traditional speciality
guaranteed within the Community under Article 13(1)
of Regulation (EEC) No 2082/92.

(5)

The Annex hereto supplements the Annex to Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 2301/97 (3),

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

(3)

In accordance with Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No
2082/92, Sweden has forwarded an application to the
Commission for the name ‘Hushållsost’ to be entered in
the Register of certificates of specific character.

The description ‘traditional speciality guaranteed’ can
only be used with names entered in that Register.

No objection under Article 8 of that Regulation was sent
to the Commission following the publication in the Offi-
cial Journal of the European Union (2) of the name set out
in the Annex hereto.

The name in the Annex hereto is hereby added to the Annex to
Regulation (EC) No 2301/97 and entered in the Register of
certificates of specific character in accordance with Article 9(1)
of Regulation (EEC) No 2082/92.

Protection under Article 13(2) of that Regulation shall not
apply.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the 20th day
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 9 February 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 208, 24.7.1992, p. 9. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 806/2003 (OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ C 110, 8.5.2003, p. 18 (Hushållsost).

(3) OJ L 319, 21.11.1997, p. 8. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 317/2003 (OJ L 46, 20.2.2003, p. 19).

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10.2.2004

ANNEX

SWEDEN

Cheese

— Hushållsost
Commission Regulation (EC) No 225/2004 of 9 February 2004 determining the world market price for unginned cotton
Date: 2004-02-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cotton, world market price

10.2.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 37/7

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 225/2004

of 9 February 2004

determining the world market price for unginned cotton

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Protocol 4 on cotton, annexed to the Act of
Accession of Greece, as last amended by Council Regulation
(EC) No 1050/2001 (1),

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001 of 22
May 2001 on production aid for cotton (2), and in particular
Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

In accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No
1051/2001, a world market price for unginned cotton is
to be determined periodically from the price for ginned
cotton recorded on the world market and by reference
to the historical relationship between the price recorded
for ginned cotton and that calculated for unginned
cotton. That historical relationship has been established
in Article 2(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1591/
2001 (3). Where the world market price cannot be deter-
mined in this way, it is to be based on the most recent
price determined.

In accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
1051/2001, the world market price for unginned cotton
is to be determined in respect of a product of specific
characteristics and by reference to the most favourable
offers and quotations on the world market among those

considered representative of the real market trend. To
that end, an average is to be calculated of offers and
quotations
European
recorded on one or more
exchanges for a product delivered cif to a port in the
Community and coming from the various supplier coun-
tries considered the most representative in terms of
international
there is provision for
adjusting the criteria for determining the world market
price for ginned cotton to reflect differences justified by
the quality of the product delivered and the offers and
quotations concerned. Those adjustments are specified in
Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1591/2001.

trade. However,

(3)

The application of the above criteria gives the world
market price for unginned cotton determined herein-
after,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The world price for unginned cotton as referred to in Article 4
of Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001 is hereby determined as
equalling EUR 31,901/100 kg.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 February 2004.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 9 February 2004.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General

(1) OJ L 148, 1.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 148, 1.6.2001, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 210, 3.8.2001, p. 10. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1486/2002 (OJ L 223, 20.8.2002, p. 3).
Commission Regulation (EC) No 222/2004 of 9 February 2004 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2004-02-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agri-monetary policy, citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, import price, perennial vegetable, pip fruit

10.2.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 37/1

I

(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 222/2004

of 9 February 2004

establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and
vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 of
21 December 1994 on detailed rules for the application of the
import arrangements for fruit and vegetables (1), and in particu-
lar Article 4(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 lays down, pursuant to the
outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade nego-
tiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the
standard values for imports from third countries,
in
respect of the products and periods stipulated in the
Annex thereto.

(2)

In compliance with the above criteria,
the standard
import values must be fixed at the levels set out in the
Annex to this Regulation,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The standard import values referred to in Article 4 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 3223/94 shall be fixed as indicated in the Annex
hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 February 2004.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 9 February 2004.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General

(1) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 66. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1947/2002 (OJ L 299, 1.11.2002, p. 17).

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10.2.2004

to the Commission Regulation of 9 February 2004 establishing the standard import values for determining the
entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

ANNEX

CN code

0702 00 00

0707 00 05

0709 10 00

0709 90 70

0805 10 10, 0805 10 30, 0805 10 50

0805 20 10

0805 20 30, 0805 20 50, 0805 20 70,
0805 20 90

0805 50 10

0808 10 20, 0808 10 50, 0808 10 90

0808 20 50

Third country code (1)

Standard import value

(EUR/100 kg)

052
204
212
999

052
204
220
999

204
999

052
204
999

052
204
212
220
400
624
999

204
999

052
204
220
464
600
624
999

052
600
999

052
060
400
404
512
528
720
999

060
388
400
528
720
999

115,6
55,7
129,8
100,4

131,1
29,7
204,2
121,7

13,5
13,5

117,9
38,8
78,4

45,2
50,4
48,0
62,8
44,5
56,9
51,3

95,9
95,9

70,1
128,2
76,9
71,3
76,4
73,3
82,7

73,5
58,8
66,2

65,0
53,0
100,6
90,7
73,4
93,3
85,6
80,2

63,8
101,2
85,8
88,3
34,5
74,7

(1) Country nomenclature as fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2020/2001 (OJ L 273, 16.10.2001, p. 6). Code ‘999’ stands for

‘of other origin’.