WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2843/98 by John McCARTIN to the Commission. Grant aid for the pig meat industry in Northern Ireland
C 207/14 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 21. 7. 1999 (1999/C 207/017) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2843/98 by John McCartin (PPE) to the Commission (28 September 1998) Subject: Grant aid for the pig meat industry in Northern Ireland Can the Commission state the amount of grant aid paid for the marketing and processing of pig meat in Northern Ireland over the last 15 years and the breakdown between the EU and UK contributions? Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission (22 October 1998) Investment aid awarded to the pigmeat sector in Northern Ireland Year 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 Total Community Member State (1) Total award (£ sterling) 96 108 93700 800 000 726 290 0 200 750 684 219 1 294 345 1 800 000 0 2 117 296 0 0 797 556 1 056 615 0 9 696 879 31 203 36 640 389 949 996 822 0 200 750 752 482 2 103 286 1 761 827 0 356 814 0 0 117 584 2 180 930 0 8 928 287 127 311 130 340 1 189 949 1 753 112 0 401 500 1 436 701 3 397 631 3 561 827 0 2 474 110 0 0 915 140 3 237 545 0 18 625 166 (1) European agricultural guidance and guarantee fund 0 guidance section. (1999/C 207/018) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2844/98 by Pedro Marset Campos (GUE/NGL) to the Commission (28 September 1998) Subject: Alleged scheme to detain and fine Spanish lorries in Poitiers (France) Employers from the transport sector in the Murcia region of Spain have complained about a scheme linking a brigade of French gendarmes in the Poitiers area of France to a certain workshop at which tachographs are checked with the aim of detaining and imposing fines on their lorries on the pretext that the tachographs have been tampered with, despite the fact that most of them comply with the relevant Spanish legislation. This unpleasant state of affairs has already held up a dozen lorries from Murcia at weekends, forcing their drivers to pay hefty sums in order to be able to continue their journey with their goods. A certain number of gendarmes are suspected of taking fees from workshops in return for sending Spanish lorries to them to have the tachographs that have allegedly been tampered with replaced. Several complaints have already been lodged with the Ministry of Development, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Embassy in Spain