WRITTEN QUESTION E-0150/00 by Emmanouil Mastorakis (PSE) to the Commission. Community Interreg Initiative.
20. 2. 2001 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 53 E/1 I (Information) EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (2001/C 53 E/001) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0150/00 by Emmanouil Mastorakis (PSE) to the Commission (31 January 2000) Subject: Community Interreg Initiative Despite the increase in Interreg funding for the period 2000-2006 compared with the previous period, efforts have clearly been made not to alter the list of Group A recipients, with very few exceptions, the obvious aim being to concentrate the funds as effectively as possible. However, the fact that exceptions have been made prove that there was a need to remedy previously existing injustices and omissions. Notable omissions from the list of recipients in Greece are the prefectures of Arta and Ilia and this despite the inclusion of neighbouring prefectures which could be regarded as falling within the same category. Can the Commission show understanding in this matter and reconsider the possibility of including these two prefectures, which were unjustly omitted? (2001/C 53 E/002) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0229/00 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis (PPE-DE) to the Commission (4 February 2000) Subject: Failure to include the Prefecture of Arta in the Community initiative Interreg It appears from information I have received that the Prefecture of Arta has not been included in the operational programmes announced by the Commission for part A of the Community initiative Interreg, despite the fact that the basic criterion for inclusion, namely the existence of external land or sea borders, is met by this prefecture, since the Gulf of Ambrakia lies at its southern extremity and is also part of the Ionian Sea. Will the Commission say what the situation is and whether or not the Prefecture of Arta will finally be included in the Community initiative Interreg like all the rest of north-western Greece? (2001/C 53 E/003) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0336/00 by Alexandros Alavanos (GUE/NGL) to the Commission (14 February 2000) Subject: Exclusion of the prefecture of Arta from assistance under the Community Interreg 2000-2006 initiative The Commission recently forwarded a draft notification to the EU Member States concerning the Communityís Interreg 2000-2006 initiative