WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2430/97 by David HALLAM to the Commission. 1988 European Parliament resolution on recognition for sign language
C 45/176 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 10. 2. 98 Answer given by Mr Mar ·n on behalf of the Commission (31 July 1997) Prior to the Commissionís decision to suspend decentralised cooperation programmes at the end of 1995 following the Court of Auditorsí special report 1/96 (1), the Med-Campus programme cofinanced 103 inter- university cooperation projects over the academic year 1994-95. The catalogue of those projects is being forwarded direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliamentís Secretariat. 43 projects covered economic development, 27 the environment, 21 management and 12 culture. The financing proposal adopted by the Commission in 1994 after the Med Committee had given its approval was for a grant of ECU 8. 9 million from budget item B7-4080, which funds activities promoting multilateral and regional or sub-regional cooperation in the Mediterranean. Med-Campus will be launched afresh in the last quarter of this year. (1) OJ C 240, 19. 8. 1996. (98/C 45/234) WRITTEN QUESTION P-2430/97 by David Hallam (PSE) to the Commission (8 July 1997) Subject: 1988 European Parliament resolution on recognition for sign language What action has the Commission taken on Parliamentís 1988 resolution (1) calling for recognition of sign language in Europe? (1) OJ C 187, 18. 7. 1988, p. 236. Answer given by Mr Flynn on behalf of the Commission (30 July 1997) In 1995, the Parliament allocated the amount of ECU 500 000 for measures related to sign languages in the Community. This was welcomed by the Commission which is conscious of the importance of sign languages in the equality of opportunity for deaf people. The Commission has since taken the necessary steps to ask the non-governmental organisation, the European Union of the Deaf, to set up sign language projects in 1996 and 1997 which take into account the 1988 Resolution of the Parliament as a base for their development. The results of the 1996/1997 sign languages project will be examined at a conference in Brussels in September 1997 with a view to providing concrete proposals for further measures with regard to sign languages throughout the Community. (98/C 45/235) WRITTEN QUESTION P-2431/97 by Edouard des Places (I-EDN) to the Commission (8 July 1997) Subject: Authorization to place plant protection products on the market In the light of the judgment of the Court of Justice of 12 November 1996 in Case C-201/94 on pharmaceutical products, where the competent authority of a Member State possesses evidence that a proprietary plant protection product with an authorization to market in another Member State and a proprietary plant protection product for which it has already issued a marketing authorization are manufactured by the same company or by its