WRITTEN QUESTION No. 808/98 by Hedy d'ANCONA to the Commission. Report entitled 'An appraisal of technologies of political control - interim study', drawn up by STOA (the European Parliament's Scientific and Technological Options Assessment) (PE 166.499./Int.St.)
21. 10. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 323/77 (98/C 323/100) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0799/98 by Nuala Ahern (V) to the Commission (18 March 1998) Subject: Dispersion of radioactivity from the Dounreay site in Scotland into the North Sea Has the Commission reason to change its reply to question H-0706/96 (1), on 17 September 1996 that the dispersion of radioactivity from the Dounreay site in Scotland into the North Sea áis of no significance to Scandinaviaí in the light of the admission by the UK Atomic Energy Authority management on 2 February 1998 that there is a second, hitherto secret, disposal shaft/silo at Dounreay? When did the Commission learn of the existence of the shaft? (1) Proceedings of the European Parliament 4-488 (September 1996). Answer given by Mrs Bjerregaard on behalf of the Commission (5 May 1998) The newspaper article, to which the Honourable Member refers, provides no new information relevant to discharges from the Dounreay site. Consequently, it does not affect the Commissionís reply to Oral Question H-706/96 by Mrs Eriksson during question time at Parliamentís September 1996 part-session (1). The áhitherto secretí shaft is, in fact, an on-site storage facility known as the Intermediate solid waste silo. It is connected to the site effluent disposal system and so any discharge from it is part of the authorised discharge from the site. The Commission has known of the existence of this facility since the United Kingdom became a signatory to the Euratom Treaty. In that context, the Honourable Member is referred to the Commissionís reply to Written Question E-663/98 by Mrs Bloch von Blottnitz (2). The United Kingdom Government has also announced that the wastes are to be retrieved for treatment from both the intermediate based shaft and the silo at Dounreay. (1) Debates of the Parliament 4-488 (September 1996). (2) See page 62. (98/C 323/101) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0807/98 by Hedy díAncona (PSE) to the Commission (26 March 1998) Subject: Report entitled An appraisal of technologies of political control › interim studyí, drawn up by STOA (the European Parliamentís Scientific and Technological Options Assessment) (PE 166. 499. /Int. St. ) Has the report entitled An appraisal of technologies of political control › interim studyí, drawn up by STOA (the European Parliamentís Scientific and Technological Options Assessment) (PE 166. 499. /Int. St. ) been notified to the Commission? (98/C 323/102) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0808/98 by Hedy díAncona (PSE) to the Commission (26 March 1998) Subject: Report entitled An appraisal of technologies of political control › interim studyí, drawn up by STOA (the European Parliamentís Scientific and Technological Options Assessment) (PE 166. 499. /Int. St. ) Given the efforts made by the European Parliament to provide guarantees for the protection of individualsí privacy, what implications does the Commission see in the threats thereto of áhorizontal proliferationí of new