WRITTEN QUESTION E-0456/00 by Daniela Raschhofer (NI) to the Commission. Answer to Written Question E-1877/99: structural policy ‐ labour market.
3. 10. 2000 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 280 E/215 (2000/C 280 E/255) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0456/00 by Daniela Raschhofer (NI) to the Commission (24 February 2000) Subject: Answer to Written Question E-1877/99: structural policy ü labour market With reference to the answer to Written Question E-1877/99 (1) given on 20 December 1999, I would put the following additional questions: 1. On what data was the answer to point 5 based (information on Austria)? 2. Which national authority collects the data on the labour market in connection with the funding provided by the EU Structural Funds? 3. Are the 2 100 new jobs created in Burgenland, a region coming under Objective l, short-term, medium-term or long-term? 4. How many of the 2 100 new jobs are full-time and how many part-time? 5. What criteria or definitions does the Commission use to distinguish between short-term, medium-term and long-term jobs? 6. In which sectors or branches of the economy were these new jobs created? 7. On what studies, statistics or other evidence is the Commission basing its statement that 5 800 jobs have been saved by the use of funding from the Structural Funds in the Objective 1 region of Burgenland? 8. How can the Commission prove that these jobs would have been lost but for the use of funding from the EU Structural Funds? (1) OJ C 203 E, 18. 7. 2000, p. 78. Answer given by Mrs Diamantopoulou on behalf of the Commission (28 March 2000) The Commission is collecting the information it needs to answer the question. It will communicate its findings as soon as possible. (2000/C 280 E/256) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0457/00 by Daniela Raschhofer (NI) to the Commission (24 February 2000) Subject: ESF ü written question E-1877/99 Further to its answer of 20 December 1999 to written question E-1877/99 (1), will the Commission now state: 1. What job-creation measures have been introduced throughout Europe with the ESFís EUR 43 000 million, and whether it has data showing precisely how many jobs use of this money has helped to create or save? 2. What measures have been introduced in Austria using ESF transfers, and how many jobs such measures have created and/or saved?