WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3090/97 by Lissy GRÖNER to the Commission. Outflows of EU resources to the Middle and Upper Franconian administrative districts (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)
30. 4. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 134/77 (98/C 134/99) WRITTEN QUESTION P-3090/97 by Lissy Gro¤ner (PSE) to the Commission (3 October 1997) Subject: Outflows of EU resources to the Middle and Upper Franconian administrative districts 1. What EU financial assistance has gone to Bavaria as a whole and to the Middle and Upper Franconian administrative districts in particular since 1995? 2. In the context of what projects and funds have resources gone to these areas? 3. What specific projects have been implemented for the following target groups: › women › young people › the long-term unemployed and how much assistance has each received? Supplementary answer given by Mr Santer on behalf of the Commission (11 December 1997) In view of the length of its answer, the Commission is sending it direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliamentís Secretariat. (98/C 134/100) WRITTEN QUESTION E-3091/97 by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Council (2 October 1997) Subject: Medical treatment options for persons severely injured by chemicals Are research funds made available in the individual countries of the EU to investigate illnesses caused by 1. chemicals? If not, why not, particularly in view of the fact that such research is being stepped up in the United States? If so, what is the amount of research funding being made available? 2. 3. Are these research funds allocated to independent institutes? Does industrial funding reach these research projects? In which European country is sensitivity to chemicals recognized as a severe disability, as in the United 4. States? Answer (15 January 1998) 1. Funds are available in the individual Member States of the European Union to investigate illnesses caused by chemicals. Apart from national initiatives in this area, the framework programmes of the European Community for RTD activities have contained and continue to contain RTD projects addressing these problems. In the Fourth Framework Programme of the European Community for RTD activities, which is the framework programme in progress at present (1994-1998), research into illnesses caused by chemicals is funded through: › the Biomedicine and Health programme, where the area Research on occupational and environmental healthí addresses, inter alia, short and long-term effects of exposure to biological and chemical hazards, and the effects on man and the environment of the interaction between different toxic agents;