WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3272/97 by Gianni TAMINO to the Commission. Fifth framework programme
8. 6. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 174/33 No distinction is made in these figures between those which were incinerated with energy recovery and those incinerated without energy recovery. The United Kingdom incinerated 102 000 tonnes of used tyres with energy recovery in 1996 (4). Official figures are not available to the Commission for Spain, Ireland, Luxembourg or Finland. (1) Total for Wallonia and Flanders, excluding Brussels region. Figures for Flanders (100) for 1994. (2) Figures for 1993. (3) Per annum figures 1993-1995. (4) United Kingdom Industry/Government Scrap Tyre Working Group 2nd Annual Report. (98/C 174/69) WRITTEN QUESTION E-3269/97 by Mar ·a Estevan Bolea (PPE) to the Commission (20 October 1997) Subject: Used tyres Article 5(2)(d) of the proposal for a Council Directive on the landfill of waste (COM(97) 0105) stipulates that whole used tyres may not be accepted in a landfill with effect from two years from the date of entry into force of the Directive and shredded used tyres may not be accepted with effect from five years from that date (1). Can the Commission say what measures and procedures it has laid down to ensure compliance with the requirements of the above proposal for a Directive? (1) OJ C 156, 24. 5. 1997, p. 10. Answer given by Mrs Bjerregaard on behalf of the Commission (2 December 1997) A priority waste stream working group on used tyres, which was set up by the Commission in 1991, proposed a ban on landfilling of tyres in its final conclusions of September 1993. As mentioned by the Honourable Member, this has been taken into account in the new proposal on landfill of waste in order to prevent landfilled tyres from making the sites unstable and to reduce the risk of fire. Furthermore, the ban on landfilling of whole tyres and shredded tyres aims to encourage the recovery of tyres and thus to save resources. When the time for implementation of the landfill directive expires Member States will communicate to the Commission their national implementing measures, which the Commission will examine in the usual way. (98/C 174/70) WRITTEN QUESTION E-3272/97 by Gianni Tamino (V) to the Commission (20 October 1997) Subject: Fifth framework programme To repeat the query not dealt with in the answer to my Written Question E-1873/97 (1) of 29 May 1997 (see point 2 of the question), will acceptance of projects be álinked to compliance with the 50% reduction in the use of animals in experiments announced by the Commission in the fifth programme on the environmentí? (1) OJ C 45, 10. 2. 1998, p. 115