WRITTEN QUESTION P-1167/00 by Nirj Deva (PPE-DE) to the Council. Gender-specific funding in the budget.
C 81 E/20 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 13. 3. 2001 (2001/C 81 E/020) WRITTEN QUESTION P-1167/00 by Nirj Deva (PPE-DE) to the Council (6 April 2000) Subject: Gender-specific funding in the budget With reference to Article 13 of the Treaty concerning prejudice, action to combat discrimination based on sex,í áthe Council may take appropriate Will the Council clarify the following extract from Article 3(3) of Common Position (EC) No 13/2000 (1) adopted on 16 December 1999: In the selection, preparation, implementation and evaluation of activities, particular attention should be paid to: ü gender-specific roles, knowledge, perspectives and contributions of women/girls and men/boys in the sustainable management and use of natural resources. and explain how the common position falls within its Treaty obligations. (1) OJ C 64, 6. 3. 2000, p. 47. Reply (10 October 2000) The Council does not consider it appropriate to express its views on a subject regarding which the decision-making procedure is still in progress. (2001/C 81 E/021) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1206/00 by Jannis Sakellariou (PSE) to the Commission (14 April 2000) Subject: Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitats Directives In the Bavarian legal gazette, transposing the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive 85/337/EEC (1), there is a Bavarian excavation actí, Article 8 of which permits excavations in national parks and nature reserves. 1. Is a provision permitting the extraction of minerals occurring near the surface in national parks and nature reserves compatible with the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive or with the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) (2)? The Bavarian Minister of the Environment, in the document entitled Building in harmony with nature and landscape: rules governing interventions in urban development planningí (p. 13, plate 7 and lists II and III) has permitted building on legally protected areas provided adequate compensatory measures are taken. Is the destruction of natural and near-natural sections of rivers, and the building of houses on water- 2. meadows, in long-standing brushwood and hedge country and in species-rich forests, compatible with the Habitats Directive? (1) OJ L 175, 5. 7. 1985, p. 40. (2) OJ L 206, 22. 7. 1992, p. 7