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# 92002E1520

**WRITTEN QUESTION P-1520/02 by Ioannis Marínos (PPE-DE) to the Council. Inclusion of Cyprus on euro notes.** 
  
*Official Journal 092 E , 17/04/2003 P. 0063 - 0063*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION P-1520/02

by Ioannis Marínos (PPE-DE) to the Council

(27 May 2002)

Subject: Inclusion of Cyprus on euro notes

The authoritative newspaper European Voice (edition of 2-8 May 2002) devoted a special report to a very laudable initiative taken by a British colleague, Mr Chris Davies MEP, who pointed out to Commissioner Pedro Solbes Mira the need to include Cyprus in the map of Europe depicted on the notes of the new single European currency.

According to the report, Mr Davies pointed out that Cyprus is not depicted on the banknotes, despite being expected to become a Member State of the Union in 2004, and requested that the map of Europe should be altered to include the Republic of Cyprus. Interestingly enough, none of the applicant countries appear on the euro coins, whereas the countries which have not yet adopted the euro, i.e. the UK, Denmark and Sweden, do.

Can the Council say whether and when the representation of Europe on euro coins and notes will be altered to give as accurate a picture as possible of our continent?

Reply

(16-19 December 2002)

According to the Treaty, the ECB is competent on matters related to the design of euro banknotes.

Concerning euro coins, it has been agreed that these coins will have a common and a national face. The common face has been selected, on the basis of a European competition, by Heads of State or Government of participating Member States at the Amsterdam European Council in June 1997.

It is therefore respectively for the ECB and the Heads of State or Government of participating Member States to consider the future design of euro notes and a common face for coins after enlargement.

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