WRITTEN QUESTION E-0540/04 by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Post 2006 financial perspectives.
Date: 2004-02-24
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European Development Fund, Structural Funds, commitment of expenditure, multiannual financial framework

3.4.2004

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 84 E/617

(2004/C 84 E/0691)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0533/04

by Bill Newton Dunn (ELDR) to the Commission

(24 February 2004)

Subject: Horse passport

How many of the Member States have put the Directive into their national law?

Answer given by Mr Byrne on behalf of the Commission

(23 March 2004)

The principles of identification of equidae are laid down in Council Directive 90/426/EEC of 26 June 1990
on animal health conditions governing the movement and import from third countries of equidae (1).
Minimum requirements for the identification of registered equidae are laid down in Council Directive 90/
427/EEC of 26 June 1990 on the zootechnical and genealogical conditions governing intra-Community
trade in equidae (1). Both Directives have been transposed by all Member States into national law.

Based on Directive 90/427/EEC, the Commission adopted Decision 93/623/EEC of 20 October 1993
establishing the identification document (passport) accompanying registered equidae (2).

In accordance with Article 4 of Directive 90/426/EEC and motivated by animal welfare and public health
concerns, the Commission adopted Decision 2000/68/EC of 22 December 1999 (3) amending Commission
Decision 93/623/EEC and establishing the identification of equidae for breeding and production.

According to Article 4 of Commission Decision 2000/68/EC, Member States shall ensure that as from
1 July 2000 at the latest, registered equidae and equidae for breeding and production are accompanied
during their movement by the identification document as referred to above. This Decision is addressed to
the Member States.

Decisions 93/623/EEC and 2000/68/EC do not oblige Member States to notify the legal provisions they
have implemented to comply with the provisions of these Decisions. So far, the Commission has not
received any complaint in connection with non-implementation of the mentioned Decisions in the
Member States.

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990.
(2) OJ L 298, 3.12.1993.
(3) OJ L 23, 28.1.2000.

(2004/C 84 E/0692)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0540/04

by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(24 February 2004)

Subject: Post 2006 financial perspectives

In view of the Commission’s proposed financial perspective for 2007-2013:

(cid:1) what is the indicative or planned allocation of authorised expenditure, by Member State and by year
for Category 1A (Competitiveness) and 1B (Cohesion), without including the Solidarity Fund? What is
the distribution of the total annual authorised expenditure, without taking account of the Solidarity
Fund and the European Development Fund;

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(cid:1) what is the framework of the 2007-2013 financial perspective for the current 15 EU Member States

only;

(cid:1) how has the weight of

the Structural Funds developed between 1988 and 2003,
Community GDR percentage terms? What are the forecasts for 2004, 2005 and 2006?

in GDP or

Answer given by Mrs Schreyer on behalf of the Commission

(16 March 2004)

1.
It is not possible to break down the proposed ceiling for expenditure under Heading 1A by Member
State. The weight of each programme under Heading 1A will only be determined at a later stage. At any
rate, each programme will consist of a global financial envelope rather than nationally allocated envelopes.

The amounts for the Solidarity Fund correspond to EUR 1 billion per year in current prices. Since the table
contained in the Commission Communication is expressed in constant 2004 prices,
the equivalent
amounts are:

Year

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

(million euro)

Amount

942

924

906

888

871

853

837

The amounts of the European Development Fund will be negotiated and decided at a later stage.

Since the majority of

financial envelopes rather than
2.
nationally allocated ones, it is not possible to calculate the share of the EU-15 in the financial perspective
table.

the programmes only consist of global

The requested figures are sent direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliament’s Secretariat.

(2004/C 84 E/0693)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0543/04

by Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(26 February 2004)

Subject: CAP: the declining contribution of EU funds to the survival of small farmers in a context of low

consumer prices and low world market prices

1.
In the Commission’s opinion, has the existence of the Common Agricultural Policy in recent decades
and the financial assistance from Community funds which it provides helped to enable small and medium-
sized farmers, in both the arable and livestock sectors, despite relatively low consumer prices for their
products and falling prices on the world market, to remain able to earn an acceptable income and thus to
ensure the continuity of production?

2.
In the light of the recent study by the development organisation Oxfam, can the Commission
confirm that the funding currently provided under the CAP is increasingly failing to guarantee the survival
of small farmers and that the bulk of it goes to large farmers and large land-owners?