WRITTEN QUESTION E-2227/99 by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission. Purchasing power parities.
18. 7. 2000 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 203 E/151 (2000/C 203 E/193) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2225/99 by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission (1 December 1999) Subject: Institutionsí employees discharged Please state the number of employees and the proportion of employees asked to leave the service of the Commission, Parliament and Council in each of the last five years and compare this with the number and proportion in the civil services of the five largest Member States. Answer given by Mr Kinnock on behalf of the Commission (7 December 1999) The Commission has dismissed eleven people in the past five years. This breaks down by year as follows: ü 1995: 4 ü 1996: 0 ü 1997: 1 ü 1998: 3 ü 1999: 3 (up to November) The Commission does not have any information about dismissals of staff by the Council or by the Parliament. This question should be addressed to the administrations of the Council and the Parliament respectively. The Commission has no statistics relating to civil servant dismissals in Member States and no legal authority to require provision of such figures. (2000/C 203 E/194) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2227/99 by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission (1 December 1999) Subject: Purchasing power parities Using the latest available Eurostat data, what are (a) the GDP purchasing power parities in euros for each of the EU Member States and (b) the tradeable sector purchasing power parities in euros for each of the EU Member States (using, if no better measure is available, the PPP figures for manufacturing). Answer given by Mr Solbes Mira on behalf of the Commission (20 December 1999) The purchasing power parities (PPPs) resulting from price comparison between the Member States and other participating countries are finally expressed in such a way that the total Gross domestic product (GDP) of the 15 Member States, or of whichever sub-GDP aggregate is being compared, is the same whether it is expressed in euro or in standardised parities. The standardised parities reflect the price level differences in relation to the average of the 15 Member States. PPPs are calculated on the basis of the classification of final expenditure. Consequently, there is no set of PPPs available particularly for the tradable sector or for the manufacturing sector but the PPPs for individual household consumption expenditure and for gross fixed capital expenditure may give an indication of the magnitude of the PPPs for these sectors. C 203 E/152 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 18. 7. 2000 PPPs at the level of GDP in 1997 Member State B DK D EL E F IRL I L NL A P FI S UK PPP 39,76 9,07 2,131 246,6 134,6 7,133 0,7165 1744 43,77 2,158 14,43 129,7 6,412 10,39 0,6905 PPPs for individual household consumption expenditure (HHC) and gross fixed capital expenditure (GFCF) in 1997 Member State B DK D EL E F IRL I L NL A P FI S UK HHC 40,15 9,43 2,092 256,1 135,2 6,977 0,7252 GFCF 38,43 8,57 2,130 250,8 138,9 8,204 0,7064 1722 1667 40,69 2,132 14,61 144,2 6,985 10,86 0,7201 43,70 2,270 14,14 144,8 5,204 9,37 0,6452 Price level indices which are based on PPPs indicate the price level in each Member State relative to the average of the 15 Member States. 18. 7. 2000 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 203 E/153 Price level indices of individual household consumption expendi- ture (HHC), gross fixed capital expenditure (GFCF) and GDP relative to the average of the 15 Member States Member State B DK D EL E F IRL I L NL A P FI S UK EU-15 HHC 99 126 106 83 82 106 97 89 100 96 106 73 119 126 104 100 GFCF 95 115 108 81 84 124 95 86 108 103 102 73 88 108 93 100 GDP 98 121 108 80 81 108 96 90 108 98 104 65 109 120 100 100 (2000/C 203 E/195) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2230/99 by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission (1 December 1999) Subject: Infringement proceedings against Member States At the end of the last month (October), what was the total number of infringement proceedings initiated by the Commission and outstanding against each Member State? Please give similar figures for the end of the year for the last five years. Answer given by Mr Prodi on behalf of the Commission (3 December 1999) The information requested by the Honourable Member concerning outstanding infringement proceedings at the end of each year can be found in the Commissionís annual report on monitoring the application of Community law. The report for 1998: COM(1999) 301 of 9 July 1999, available on the Europa website at the following address: http://europa. eu. int/comm/sg/sgb/infringements/report98_en. htm. Reports for previous years: ü 1997: COM(1998) 317 final (1), ü 1996: COM(97) 299 final (2), ü 1995: COM(96) 600 final (3), ü 1994: COM(95) 500 final (4)