WRITTEN QUESTION E-0718/00 by Encarnación Redondo Jiménez (PPE-DE) to the Commission. 300 million cut in appropriations under heading 1.
C 26 E/94 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 26. 1. 2001 legally resident in a Member State may reside in other Member States (Article 63(4)). In the Scoreboardí (2) presented by the Commission and endorsed by the Council on 27 March 2000, it is stated that studies are under way on the admission of third country nationals with a view to the Commission presenting proposals for Directives. On the other hand, an entrepreneur who is a third country national acting as a natural person already legally resident in the territory of a Member State does not benefit from the right of establishment under the terms of Article 43 of the EC Treaty. However, paragraph 2 of Article 49 of the EC Treaty enables the Council to extend the freedom to provide services to service providers who are third country nationals legally established in a Member State. In February 1999, the Commission therefore presented a proposal for a Council Directive extending the freedom to provide cross-border services to third country nationals established within the Community (3). As part of the scheduled consultation procedure, the Parliament welcomed this proposal (see the Berger report (4)) subject to certain amendments, particularly concerning the issue of ábogus self-employed personsí. Following the Parliamentís opinion of 3 February 2000, the Commission will present an amended proposal as soon as possible. On a more general note, the Commission has presented a package of measures based on Article 13, including the proposal for a Council Directive implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin (5), which was the subject of the Buitenweg report adopted by Parliament on 18 May 2000. (1) COM(2000) 853. (2) Scoreboard to review progress on the creation of an area of Freedom, security and justiceí in the European Union ü COM(2000) 167 final of 24 March 2000. (3) OJ C 67, 10. 3. 1999. (4) Berger report of 2 February 2000 (A5-0012/00). (5) COM(1999) 566. (2001/C 26 E/114) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0718/00 by Encarnación Redondo JimØnez (PPE-DE) to the Commission Subject: 300 million cut in appropriations under heading 1 (17 March 2000) Further to the statements that Mrs Schreyer, Commissioner in charge of budgets, made on 22 February 2000 to the European Parliamentís Committee on Budgets and the answers she gave to the questions put by members of that committee regarding the annual reduction of EUR 300 m that the Commission intends to make in appropriations entered in respect of heading 1, that under no circumstances would heading 1B be involved, can the Commission say exactly which budget line within heading 1A it intends to make that cut from? to the effect Answer given by Mrs Schreyer on behalf of the Commission (27 April 2000) In its orientation debate in February 2000, the Commission decided on the priorities for the 2001 budget and proposed that an amount of 300 M€ per year for the reconstruction of Kosovo and its extension to the Western Balkan should be transferred from heading 1 to heading 4 for 2001 and 2002. In 2001, expected needs for agricultural expenditures in heading 1(a) have been adjusted as compared to the very first estimates in late December 1999. This was in particular possible in the light of more favourite evolution of the American dollar exchange rate and recovery in world cereal markets. Proposals to amend the existing legislative framework are therefore not required and support to farmers will remain unchanged. Consequently, no budget line has to be cut in order to permit the transfer of € 300 million to heading 4