WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2729/97 by Marianne THYSSEN to the Commission. Compensation scheme for Dutch filling station managers on the Belgian and German borders (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)
22. 6. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 196/1 I (Information) EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (98/C 196/01) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1720/97 by Heidi Hautala (V) to the Council (22 May 1997) Subject: UN Declaration on indigenous people Parliament adopted a resolution on the draft UN Declaration on Indigenous Peoples in November 1995 (B4-1415/95) (1). Since then, two sessions of the special Human Rights Commissionís working group on the Declaration have taken place. 1. 2. 3. Have EU Member States participated in the work of this working group? If so, has there been a common EU position? If not, why not? Is the Council considering discussion of a common position with regard to the Declaration, and/or with 4. regard to the issue of indigenous peoples in general? (1) OJ C 323, 4. 12. 1995, p. 117. Answer (30 March 1998) There has been no common EU position on the subject matter of the Honourable Member of Parliamentís question. The Council is not in a position to indicate which EU Member States have participated in the work of the special Human Rights Commissionís working group on the Declaration. This is a matter of national competence of individual EU Member States. At present, the Council is not considering a common position neither with regard to the Declaration nor with regard to the issue of indigenous peoples in general. (98/C 196/02) WRITTEN QUESTION P-2729/97 by Marianne Thyssen (PPE) to the Commission (30 July 1997) Subject: Compensation scheme for Dutch filling station managers on the Belgian and German borders It appears that on 23 July 1997 a scheme came into force for Dutch filling station managers on the Belgian and German borders which compensates them for the losses suffered from an increase in tax on petrol in the Netherlands