WRITTEN QUESTION E-0931/04 by Cristiana Muscardini (UEN) to the Commission. Standards on portable liquid oxygen devices.
Date: 2004-03-26
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European Committee for Standardisation, medical device, oxygen, technical standard

C 84 E/918

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

3.4.2004

D. EU-Bookshop

Subject: EU-Bookshop on-line documentary management and dissemination system.
Developing company: Intrasoft (principal development) and EverTeam (prototype and technical
assistance).
Contract arrangements: Specific contract (6106) concluded after an invitation to tender published
in the Official Journal of the European Union for the principal development and direct treaty for
the production of the Everteam prototype …
Duration of contract: 12.5.2003-11.5.2007. Duration of the direct treaty: 17.6.2002-17.8.2002.
Cost of prototype: EUR 32 180.
IT tools used: EverSuite.
Performance: The Office had a prototype produced on the basis of the EverSuite software
package. An invitation to tender was then published in the Official Journal of the European Union
for the EU-Bookshop project.

E.

EUR-Lex/Celex
Subject: Merger of the EUR-Lex and Celex databases.
Developing companies: Trasys/Sword, and EverTeam as subcontractor.
Contract arrangements: Contracts (6203 and 6204) concluded on the basis of the IT Directorate
framework contract (DI/02432).
Duration of
31.12.2004.
Cost: contract 6203: EUR 387 793; contract 6204: EUR 385 410.
IT tools used: EverSuite.
Performance: This project is currently in the second of the three planned stages of development.
The purpose of the first stage was to identify the functions of the new application.

the contracts: contract 6203: 26.5.2003-31.12.2003; contract 6204: 2.3.2004-

5. A list of the contracts with the companies mentioned, other than those referred to in the reply to

question 4 is being sent direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliament’s Secretariat.

6.

from the Commissioner responsible for education and culture,

In response to the request
the
Publications Office had an audit carried out into its contracts over the period 1999 to July 2003. The
conclusions of this audit were set out in a report produced in November 2003 which found no
irregularity. A copy of the final report was sent in November 2003 to the members of the Office’s
Management Committee, which includes the Secretary-General of Parliament, and to the European
Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).

The Commission can inform the Honourable Member that OLAF is currently checking whether any
irregularities occurred in the award of public contracts by the Office.

(2004/C 84 E/1014)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0931/04

by Cristiana Muscardini (UEN) to the Commission

(26 March 2004)

Subject: Standards on portable liquid oxygen devices

In its answer of 15 February 2002 to my question E-3462/01 (1), the Commission stated that standards for
portable liquid oxygen devices, including connectors, were being developed by the European Committee
on Standardisation (CEN), following a mandate given by the Commission on the basis of Directive 93/42/
EEC (2). The adoption of these standards was expected for the second half of 2003.

3.4.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 84 E/919

1.

2.

Can the Commission indicate whether the CEN has fulfilled the mandate entrusted to it?

If so, when were these standards adopted?

3. Where can they be accessed?

(1) OJ C 134 E, 6.6.2002, p. 234.
(2) OJ L 169, 12.7.1993, p. 1.

Answer given by Mr Liikanen on behalf of the Commission

(29 April 2004)

The Standard for portable liquid oxygen devices, including connectors (EN ISO 18777), is now at public
enquiry stage in the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). The enquiry was closed on
11 February 2004. CEN will review the comments received. The Standard will be put to formal vote
before March 2005.

(2004/C 84 E/1015)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0932/04

by Graham Watson (ELDR) to the Commission

(26 March 2004)

Subject: Contribution to EU economy by fisheries

Has the Commission any information about the relative contributions to the EU’s economy of recreational
and commercial fisheries? What is the net value of commercial fisheries to the EU economy, i.e. after the
deduction of government subsidies? What is the net value of recreational angling?

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(21 April 2004)

The EU fisheries sector output in 2001 was around EUR 24 billion (0,3 % of EU gross domestic product
(GDP)), from which EUR 6 billion is the value of landings, EUR 3 billion the value of aquaculture
production, and EUR 15 billion the value of processing industry output.

The Commission does not have the required information on the weight of recreational fisheries.

The Community structural aid, co-financed by Member States, and covering a broad range of measures, is
made available to the fisheries sector through multiannual programmes. Total public contribution
programmed for the seven year period 2000-2006 is EUR 5,6 billion. There are other public interventions
not quantifiable, at Commission level, which make impossible the calculation of
the net value of
commercial fisheries.

(2004/C 84 E/1016)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-0936/04

by Jens-Peter Bonde (EDD) to the Commission

(22 March 2004)

Subject: EU Economic EU support for positive publicity

Will the Commission give a complete list of all medias which have received economic subsidies from the
EU Commission, and the journalists who have received subsidies from the Commission’s information
office?

The question is based on information from the article ‘Brussels pays for positive publicity’ on: (http://
www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=14700).