WRITTEN QUESTION E-0443/00 by Jan Wiersma (PSE) to the Council. Domestic fuel oil for opposition towns in Serbia.
C 330 E/160 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 21. 11. 2000 (2000/C 330 E/181) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0443/00 by Jan Wiersma (PSE) to the Council (24 February 2000) Subject: Domestic fuel oil for opposition towns in Serbia 1. What towns in Yugoslavia receive oil from the EU? 2. What criteria are applied? 3. Why is the town of Pancevo not included? 4. Can the Council answer these questions a little more promptly than usual on account of the winter? Reply (2 May 2000) The Council invited the Commission at its meeting on 24 January to extend the Energy for 1. Democracyí initiative, as suggested by the Serbian opposition forces after the Berlin trilateral meeting with the EU and the US of 17 December 1999. The final decision on which communities should benefit was left to the Commission, being responsible for the implementation of the budget. On the basis of a proposal by the Commission, a decision was adopted by the Council to amend the Common Position 1999/691/CFSP on support to democratic forces in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), authorising the supply, sale or export of petroleum and petroleum products to the Serbian municipalities of Sombor, Subotica, Kragujevac, Kraljevo and Novi Sad. 2. The choice of municipalities was based on the priority list tabled by the Serbian opposition forces themselves. Particular attention was given to the municipalities which have a great number of socially vulnerable persons, as well as social institutions of regional character. 3. Pancevo was not among the priority municipalities indicated by the Serbian opposition. 4. The Council reiterates its readiness to continue supporting Serbian people in need and recalls that humanitarian assistance already provided by the Community for 1999, amounted to € 72,1 million for Serbia alone, while member States contributed with almost the same amount. (2000/C 330 E/182) WRITTEN QUESTION P-0448/00 by Phillip Whitehead (PSE) to the Commission (14 February 2000) Subject: BSE in France In view of the findings of the Commissionís veterinary mission to France (DG SANCO 1058/99) will the Commission undertake a follow-up investigation into current practices there, ineffective examination of BSE suspect cases, (b) re-admission of suspect cases and fallen stock into the human food chain, (c) levels of contamination of cattle feed by meat and bone meal, and will he place on record correspondence with the French Ministry of Agriculture subsequent to Mr Bernard Vallatís letter of 24 November 1999? including (a)