WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2242/97 by Laura GONZÁLEZ ÁLVAREZ , Pedro MARSET CAMPOS , María SORNOSA MARTÍNEZ to the Commission. Siting of a waste tip in a 100-year-old oak forest in Villamartin de Don Sancho (León, Spain)
C 60/114 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 25. 2. 98 To these amounts must be added ECU 3. 64 million from the EAGGF approved for the forest sector under the Interreg II Community Initiative (external frontiers). 2. The Greek programme for afforestation of agricultural land approved by the Commission on 27 April 1994 under Regulation (EEC) No 2080/92 (1) schedules expenditure of ECU 43. 5 million chargeable to EAGGF Guarantee for the period 1994-97. Actual expenditure to 30 April 1997 was ECU 30. 9 million. Under the Community aid scheme for protection of forests against fire (Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92 (2)) 3. ECU 13 million was granted for 57 Greek projects over the period 1992-96. Some 17 projects, accounting for ECU 6. 8 million, have already been completed. Under the aid scheme for protection of forests against atmospheric pollution (Regulation (EEC) No 3528/86 (3)) ECU 710 029 was granted, for the period 1992-96, for 12 projects presented by Greece for the annual inventory of forest damage and forest soil condition and for continuous intensive ecosystem monitoring. Expenditure on these projects amounts to ECU 364 775. Both schemes fall under budget heading B2-515 Forestryí (non-EAGGF agricultural appropriations) and have been renewed for a further five-year period (1997-01) by Council Regulations (EC) Nos 307/97 and 308/97 amending Regulations (EEC) Nos 3528/96 and 2158/92 respectively (4). (1) OJ L 215, 30. 7. 1992. (2) OJ L 217, 31. 12. 1992. (3) OJ L 326,21. 11. 1986. (4) OJ L 51, 21. 2. 1997. (98/C 60/195) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2234/97 by Katerina Daskalaki (UPE) to the Commission (2 July 1997) Subject: Turkish interference in minority schools in Istanbul According to reports in the Turkish newspaper Milliyetí, the Istanbul Directorate for Education, which comes under the Turkish Ministry of Education, called in the Turkish deputy directors of the Greek minority schools and asked them to áobserveí Turkish teachers who ácollaborateí with their Greek colleagues. Bearing in mind that (as Milliyetí also points out) in Istanbul áthe number of Greek schools left can be counted on the fingers of one handí and that such a practice will end up intimidating the Turkish teachers and further isolating the Greeks, and bearing in mind that it constitutes an infringement of intellectual freedom and the right to education and that Turkey is associated with the EU through special agreements, will the Commission respond and, if so, how? Answer given by Mr Van den Broek on behalf of the Commission (4 September 1997) The Commission has been in touch with the Turkish authorities and the Turkish Human Rights Foundation and has not obtained any evidence to corroborate the information published in Milliyet. í (98/C 60/196) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2242/97 by Laura Gonza·lez A· lvarez (GUE/NGL), Pedro Marset Campos (GUE/NGL) and Mar ·a Sornosa Mart ·nez (GUE/NGL) to the Commission (2 July 1997) Subject: Siting of a waste tip in a 100-year-old oak forest in Villamartin de Don Sancho (Leo·n, Spain) Plans to site a tip for solid urban waste from the city of Leo·n in Villamartin de Don Sancho have aroused considerable concern among the inhabitants of this district, leading to serious clashes between the public and the