WRITTEN QUESTION No. 918/98 by Honório NOVO to the Commission. Community funding for Yazaki Saltano Ltd. of Portugal
22. 12. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 402/45 In reaction to repeated delays, the Commission also recently decided court applications against seven Member States (Denmark, Germany, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Finland) for missing or incomplete national lists for the Natura 2000 network. The Commission would nonetheless point to the substantial progress achieved lately in a number of Member States, e. g. the fact that sites (including marine ones) amounting to 8 % of the European territory of the Community have been proposed already under the Habitats Directive. To avoid further delay in setting up the Natura 2000 network, the Commission plans to adopt Community lists of sites by biogeographical region. The list for the Macaronesian region could be decided as early as this year. (1) OJ L 206, 22. 7. 1992. (98/C 402/054) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0918/98 by Honório Novo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission (26 March 1998) Subject: Community funding for Yazaki Saltano Ltd. of Portugal Yazaki Saltano Ltd. of Portugal, which produces electrical components for motor vehicles and is based in Estrada da Rainha › Praia da Granja › Vila Nova de Gaia, is a Japanese company which became established in Portugal ten years ago; in 1996 it employed over seven thousand workers. I assume that this company received Community cofunding from either the first or second CSF to meet establishment and/or development and modernization costs. Will the Commission say whether Yazaki Saltano Ltd. of Portugal received cofunding of this kind, which programme or programmes were involved, what partial or overall funding it received and what general contractual obligations it had to agree to in order to qualify for such Community funding? Answer given by Mrs Wulf-Mathies on behalf of the Commission (15 May 1998) According to information provided by the Member State, there has been no support for this company in either of the two Community support frameworks for Portugal. (98/C 402/055) WRITTEN QUESTION P-0919/98 by Carlo Secchi (PPE) to the Commission (12 March 1998) Subject: Complaint 97/4230/SG(97)A/4867 and the letter of formal notice subsequently sent to the Italian State because of its infringement of the Directive on public contracts in connection with the company Infomont of Borgotaro The local press has reported that the Italian State has been sent a letter of formal notice because of the case of the company Infomont of Borgotaro (PR), which was apparently awarded a service contract without the procedure laid down in Directive 92/50 (1) being observed. Can the Commission say: › what the main facts justifying the formal notice procedure were, in the light of the investigations carried out;