WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2899/97 by Glenys KINNOCK to the Commission. Implementation of Council Resolution on Integrating Gender in European Development Cooperation, December 1995
16. 4. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 117/97 (98/C 117/123) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2899/97 by Glenys Kinnock (PSE) to the Commission (17 September 1997) Subject: Implementation of Council Resolution on Integrating Gender in European Development Cooperation, December 1995 In its Resolution of 20 December 1995 on Integrating Gender issues in European Development Cooperation the Council issued the following two statements: 17. The Council calls on the Commission, after consultation with the gender and development experts from the Community and the Member States, to draft precise proposals for common criteria and indicators for reporting on the implementation of this Resolution. í 18. With a view to ensuring a concrete and effective follow-up of the implementation of this Resolution, the Council will review the progress made by the Community and the Member States at its meeting of second half of 1997. í Further to this Council Resolution, what steps have been taken to agree common criteria and indicators for reporting on the implementation of the Resolution? Answer given by Mr Mar ·n on behalf of the Commission (10 October 1997) Following the Council Resolution of 20 December 1995, initial proposals for a methodology on the difficult question of drafting common criteria and indicators were presented by the Commission to a meeting of experts from the Member States in 1996. Following the discussions at this meeting, a questionnaire using precise common criteria and indicators was presented by the Commission to a second meeting of experts from the Member States on 11-12 September 1997. This draft was approved with some small revisions, and will come into operation shortly. In the meantime, a detailed progress report on implementation of the Resolution by the Community and Member States will be completed in time for the meeting of the Development Council in November 1997. (98/C 117/124) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2900/97 by W. G. van Velzen (PPE) and Ria Oomen-Ruijten (PPE) to the Commission (17 September 1997) Subject: IPC Directive › integrated environmental pollution control At the beginning of August it was revealed that a huge soil-pollution incident had happened at Zelzate in Belgium, caused, as shown by test results, by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The PAHs, which are spread through the atmosphere, have been detected in weaker concentrations as far afield as the Zealand- Flanders border area, in particular in the localities of Sas van Gent and Axel in the Netherlands. A chemicals firm is suspected of having caused this pollution. Can the Commission state whether that firm falls under the IPC Directive on integrated environmental pollution control? Should the Belgian authorities not have immediately announced, in accordance with the rules, that this serious pollution incident had happened and notified the Netherlands and Zealand authorities forthwith?