WRITTEN QUESTION E-0643/04 by Roberta Angelilli (UEN) to the Commission. Update on suspected infringement of the rules on public contracts by ATAC in Rome.
Date: 2004-03-03
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Italy, application of EU law, award of contract, public contract, urban transport

C 84 E/646

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

3.4.2004

(2004/C 84 E/0727)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0643/04

by Roberta Angelilli (UEN) to the Commission

(3 March 2004)

Subject: Update on suspected infringement of the rules on public contracts by ATAC in Rome

Regarding Written Question P-3323/03 (1) requesting clarification of a possible infringement of the rules
on public contracts by ATAC in Rome, the Commission replied, on 27 November 2003, that it would
make the necessary checks ‘to ascertain whether ATAC complied with Community rules and principles on
public procurement in the case in question’.

Can the Commission indicate whether these checks have been made and, if they have been completed,
what the findings of these were?

(1) OJ C 78 E, 27.3.2004.

Answer given by Mr Bolkestein on behalf of the Commission

(16 April 2004)

Further to Written Question E-3323/03 from the Honourable Member, the Commission asked the Italian
authorities, in a letter dated 8 December 2003, to provide information on the procedures used by ATAC
in Rome for the award of the public procurement contracts which were the subject of that Written
Question and to submit all relevant documentation.

A reply from the Italian authorities was received only at the beginning of March 2004. The Commission is
in the process of examining certain aspects of that reply and is still waiting to receive all the relevant
documents; this material should allow the Commission to make a final assessment on the compatibility of
the procedures in question with Community law on public procurement.

(2004/C 84 E/0728)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-0646/04

by Mario Mauro (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(26 February 2004)

Subject: Massacre in Lira (northern Uganda)

On Saturday, 21 February 2004, in a refugee camp in Lira, the capital of a district in northern Uganda,
a massacre occurred in which at least 220 people were killed. Rebels belonging to the ‘Lord’s Resistance
Army’ (LRA) set fire to hundreds of huts and fired on unarmed civilians. It is believed that the Uganda
military bear a large part of the responsibility thanks to their failure to protect civilians.

Can the Commission state what action it intends to take to put an end to this situation in northern
Uganda?

Can it state what role it is playing in democratisation in Uganda?

What is the Commission’s present strategy for economic and social development in Uganda?

Answer given by Mr Nielson on behalf of the Commission

(30 March 2004)

like other donors represented in Uganda,

The Commission,
is deeply disturbed by the alarming
humanitarian situation in northern Uganda and in particular by the recent atrocities committed against
civilians in Lira district. The ‘Donor Group on Northern Uganda, Amnesty and Recovery from Conflict’,
which is chaired by the Head of the Commission Delegation in Uganda, handed over a statement to the
Ugandan Parliament on 27 February 2004, in which the attack on the Barlonyo camp by the LRA, was