WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3227/97 by Dominique SOUCHET to the Commission. Authorization to market plant-health products
25. 5. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 158/63 (98/C 158/79) WRITTEN QUESTION P-3227/97 by Dominique Souchet (I-EDN) to the Commission (9 October 1997) Subject: Authorization to market plant-health products In the light of the Court ruling delivered on 12 November 1996 in Case C-201/94 concerning pharmaceutical products, where the competent authority of a Member State has evidence that a plant-health product which has marketing authorization in another Member State and a plant-health product for which it has itself already issued a marketing authorization are manufactured by the same company or by licensees of that company, and where the two plant-health products, while not being identical in every way, have nevertheless been manufactured in accordance with the same formula, using the same active ingredient, and have the same physical and chemical effects, must the competent authority in question, where there are no counter-considerations relating to the effective protection of human life and health, grant a marketing authorization to the imported plant-health product? Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission (7 November 1997) The Commission would refer the Honourable Member to its answer to Written Question P-2431/97 by Mr des Places (1). (1) OJ C 134, 30. 4. 1998, p. 8. (98/C 158/80) WRITTEN QUESTION E-3230/97 by Klaus Rehder (PSE) to the Commission (20 October 1997) Subject: Transport of horses for slaughter in the European Union Horses and donkeys for slaughter are often transported into or through the European Union under cruel conditions. How many donkeys and horses are exported for slaughter from the Central and Eastern European countries 1. each year? 2. 3. 4. 5. How many horses and donkeys per year come from (a) Poland, (b) Romania? How many horses and donkeys are taken to Italy each year? To which countries, apart from Italy, are horses brought for slaughter from the east? How many horses and donkeys have failed to survive transportation in the last two years? 6. What is the price of a horse for slaughter in Poland and Romania (per kilo live weight)? 7. How much horse meat (on the hoof or chilled) is exported from Italy to Switzerland? How many tonnes of salami, which is largely made from horse and/or donkey meat, is supplied by Italy to 8. the European Union countries? How much deep-frozen horse meat comes from other countries (Canada, Argentina, the US or any other 9. countries) to the EU?