WRITTEN QUESTION E-0483/00 by Alejandro Cercas (PSE) to the Commission. Funding under the EQUAL Community initiative.
21. 11. 2000 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 330 E/171 The Commission has carried out verification visits, under Article 35 of the Euratom treaty, to Sellafield and to Cap de la Hague as part of a planned programme of such visits to all Member States, which continues. The Commission is achieving as high a level of verification visits as possible within the constraints of resources allocated at present. (1) See page 24. (2000/C 330 E/194) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0480/00 by Alejandro Cercas (PSE) to the Commission (24 February 2000) Subject: Allocation from the Structural Funds for the region of Estremedura for the period 2000-2006 Could the Commission indicate the amount of funding the Spanish region of Estremedura is likely to receive under the Structural Funds for the period 2000-2006? Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission (17 March 2000) A precise figure cannot be put at this stage on the Structural Funds appropriations for the Extremadura region in the 2000-2006 programming period. Objective 1 assistance is currently being negotiated with the Spanish authorities. The amounts which will be allocated to Extremadura under the Interreg, Urban, Equal and Leader Community Initiatives are similarly hard to estimate at this stage. In the case of Objective 1, the Commission sent each Member State a proposal for allocating the available funding between the eligible regions, based on the method it had used to allocate the budget for Objective 1 among the Member States. A copy of the proposal for Spain is being sent direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliamentís Secretariat. It should be stressed, however, that the proposal is only indicative. The Member State and the Commission will together agree on the final distribution when adopting the Community support framework. (2000/C 330 E/195) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0483/00 by Alejandro Cercas (PSE) to the Commission (24 February 2000) Subject: Funding under the EQUAL Community initiative Could the Commission indicate the amount of funding the Spanish region of Estremedura is likely to receive under the EQUAL Community initiative? Answer given by Mrs Diamantopoulou on behalf of the Commission (21 March 2000) The Commission cannot, at this stage, make any forecast of the amount of funding to be attributed to the Region of Extremadura following the implementation of the EQUAL initiative in Spain. In the EQUAL proposal, only an indicative amount is declared for each Member State. In the case of Spain, it must await the presentation of the Spanish operational programme and the selection of projects to know what amount will be received by Extremadura