WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1304/97 by Amedeo AMADEO to the Commission. Veterinary checks
C 21/36 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 22. 1. 98 It is a declared objective of the Commission to proceed with rural development policies in the context of a further reform of the CAP. As a general orientation, the Commission favours an approach which strengthens the coherence between rural development policies and market policies and which reinforces the role of agri-environmental policies. Currently, the Commission is carrying out a thorough analysis of certain key market organisations, i. e. dairy, beef, cereals, oilseeds and protein crops, and of rural development. As a result of these analyses, the Commission will publish in due course a document which will give a factual background for proposals concerning a further reform of the CAP and rural development policies. As an important document, the Commission adopted in November 1996 the first report on economic and social cohesion. This deals in particular with the effects of structural and sectorial policies › such as the CAP › on cohesion during 1989-1999. These questions were raised during the European forum on cohesion which was held at the end of April in Brussels. In any case, the Commission will be presenting its guidelines and its first proposals › including financial perspectives › within the Santer packageí, following the conclusions of the Amsterdam European Council concerning the intergovernmental conference. (98/C 21/110) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1298/97 by Ba·rbara Du¤hrkop Du¤ hrkop (PSE) to the Commission (11 April 1997) Subject: Utilization of international fisheries agreements What percentages of the quotas laid down in international fisheries agreements are actually caught by the Community fleet? Answer given by Mrs Bonino on behalf of the Commission (9 June 1997) The fisheries agreements concluded on the basis of reciprocity give the Community fishing opportunities in the northern Atlantic (i. e. the exclusive economic zones of the Faroes, Iceland and Norway) and in the Baltic. These fishing opportunities are normally fully taken up by Community fishing vessels. The annual catch tonnage (250 000 tonnes) permitted under the agreement with Argentina to vessels operating within joint enterprises and joint ventures has so far been fully utilized. In the case of the agreements with Morocco and 14 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP States), there are no fixed catch quotas; fishing opportunities are expressed in gross registered tonnage (GRT) for trawlers and in numbers of vessels in the tuna fisheries. The catch tonnages, which depend on the extent to which these possibilities are taken up, are declared by Community shipowners directly to the authorities of the third countries, in accordance with the agreements. In the case of the tuna agreements, the Commission has figures for the tonnages caught each year by the Community fleet and would be able to send them to the Honourable Member. For the agreements concerned mainly with trawling, Member States have begun to send the Commission, under the ácontrolí regulation, overall data which require detailed examination. (98/C 21/111) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1304/97 by Amedeo Amadeo (NI) to the Commission (11 April 1997) Subject: Veterinary checks The Commission has submitted a proposal for a Council Directive laying down the principles governing the organization of veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries, amending Directives 71/118/EEC, 72/462/EEC, 85/73/EEC, 91/67/EEC, 91/492/EEC, 91/493/EEC, 92/45/EEC and 92/118/EEC governing the organization of veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries (COM(96)170 final › 96/0109/0110 (CNS)) (1), (CES 1395/96 › 96/0109/0110/CNS)