WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1796/98 by Amedeo AMADEO to the Council. Linguistic discrimination
18. 1. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 13/85 The Commission also draws the attention of the Honourable Member to the many rulings already given by the Court of justice on the prohibition of discrimination against part-time workers as regards pay (3) or promotion (4). (1) Eurostat, Statistics in focus › Population and social conditions. 1997/8. (2) OJ L 14, 20. 1. 1998. (3) Case C-457/93, Kuratorium für Dialyse und Nierentransplantation e. V. contre Johanna Lewark, (1996), ECR I-243. (4) Case C-1/95, Gerster v. Freistaat Bayern, (1997) ECR I-5253. (1999/C 13/121) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1795/98 by Umberto Bossi (NI) to the Commission (11 June 1998) Subject: European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products Council Regulation (EEC) 2309/93 (1) of 22 July 1993 established the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products. How long do the Member States have to adapt their national legislation to the provisions of the regulation (Articles 16 et seq. )? Which Member States have adapted their national legislation, and how? (1) OJ L 214, 24. 8. 1993, p. 1. Answer given by Mr Bangemann on behalf of the Commission (8 July 1998) Council Regulation (EEC) 2309/93 of 22 July 1993 laying down Community procedures for the authorization and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European agency for the evaluation of medicinal products entered into force on 30 November 1993 as regards Title IV and on 1 January 1995 as regards Titles I, II, III and V. The above mentioned Council Regulation is binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Member States are neither required nor supposed to adopt national transposition measures. However, any national legislation which could be contrary to provisions of this Regulation has to be repealed. (1999/C 13/122) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1796/98 by Amedeo Amadeo (NI) to the Council (11 June 1998) Subject: Linguistic discrimination For some weeks álinguistic cleansingí has been carried out along the mountain paths of southern Tyrol: signs in Italian have been removed from 5000 km2 of mountain tracks so that all that remains are place-names in German on Italian territory to inform tourists from throughout Europe of peaks, refuges, paths, railways, waterways etc. For the sake of the German minority there is a specific requirement of bilingualism in the statute of special autonomy which the southern Tyrol region enjoys. Will the Council intervene as a matter of urgency vis-à-vis the Italian authorities so that they put pressure on the Alpenverein Südtirol (AVS, the equivalent of the Club Alpino Italiano) to put an end to this absurd and anachronistic discrimination against Italian citizens?