WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2922/98 by Pasqualina NAPOLETANO to the Commission. Serious irregularities during tests for EC competitions
C 118/164 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 29. 4. 1999 3. Can the Commission say what measures it is carrying out or intends to implement to guarantee full and permanent compliance with the health requirements for the production of fishery products from those countries? Can the Commission say whether, on its own initiative or in conjunction with the Member States, it 4. has already ascertained/checked the health conditions of fishery products imported from the authorised third countries and what the global results were? (1) OJ L 122, 14. 5. 1997, p. 21. Answer given by Mrs Bonino on behalf of the Commission (3 November 1998) Commission Decision 97/296/EC of 22 April 1997, drawing up the list of third countries from which the import of fishery products is authorised for human consumption, entered into force on 1 July 1998. It contains three lists of third countries. List I of Annex I indicates the third countries covered by a specific Commission decision on the import of fishery products. Such decisions are adopted following a mission by Community and Member State experts to the country to verify the monitoring conditions applied by the local authority. List II of Annex I and the list constituted by Annex II indicate third countries for which a study of the membership application file has found that the information received is satisfactory (list II of Annex I) or substantial (Annex II). Under these circumstances, import arrangements are not totally harmonised as regards the lists of authorised establishments. It is the responsibility of each Member State to obtain any guarantees from the third country concerned. Most third countries on these two lists have not been subjected to an on-the-spot inspection by Commission experts. Council Directive 91/493/EEC of 22 July 1991 laying down the health conditions for the production and the placing on the market of fishery products (1) requires the same health conditions to apply to both Member States and third countries. (1) OJ L 268, 24. 9. 1991. (1999/C 118/205) WRITTEN QUESTION P-2922/98 by Pasqualina Napoletano (PSE) to the Commission (25 September 1998) Subject: Serious irregularities during tests for EC competitions During open competition COM/A/8/9/10/11/12/98 for administrators and assistant administrators held at the Hotel Ergife, Rome on 14 September 1998 there occurred a case of bad organisation and management in the fourth and last (language) test, the box containing the test papers having been mislaid. Apart from this incomprehensible carelessness, at the end of the third test, when it was discovered that the test papers were missing the candidates remained in the examination room with the form on which the answers were to be written without any supervision by the invigilators, so that a series of irregularities occurred such as comparison of answers, the use of cell telephones to ask for outside help, and other irregularities. In view of this, does the Commission think that the competition can be considered valid from the point of view of transparency, aptitude of the candidates and proper organisation of the tests?