WRITTEN QUESTION E-2853/99 by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Relocation strategy of the Ford multinational company.
C 219 E/186 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 1. 8. 2000 Answer given by Mrs Reding on behalf of the Commission (11 February 2000) The Commission is collecting the information it needs to answer the question. It will communicate its findings as soon as possible. (2000/C 219 E/240) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2853/99 by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission (18 January 2000) Subject: Relocation strategy of the Ford multinational company The multinationalsí strategy of relocation is continuing to affect Portugal and its workers. One of the most recent examples is the case of the US multinational Ford, which, as part of its restructuring policy, now intends to give up its plant in Azambuja and sell it to Opel, thus ceasing to produce its Transití model in Portugal as from the first quarter of 2000. More than 300 jobs are at risk. Can the Commission state what measures it intends to take to oppose Fordís strategy and defend these jobs? Answer given by Mrs Diamantopoulou on behalf of the Commission (16 March 2000) While it regrets the negative social impact of Fordís decision concerning its plant in Azambuja, Portugal, the Commission wishes to remind the Honourable Member that it is not entitled to interfere in business decisions such as the one referred to here, unless Community law has been infringed. At this stage there is nothing to indicate that there has been any infringement (and there is no mention of an infringement in the question). At any rate the Commission wishes to recall that at least three Community directives may be applicable to this case: Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies (1), Council Directive 77/187/EEC of 14 February 1977 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employeesí rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of businesses (2), and Council Directive 94/45/EC of 22 September 1994 on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community- informing and scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purpose of consulting employees (3). (1) OJ L 225, 12. 8. 1998. (2) OJ L 61, 5. 3. 1977 (Directive amended by Directive 98/50/EC ü OJ L 201, 17. 7. 1998). (3) OJ L 254, 30. 9. 1994. (2000/C 219 E/241) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0032/00 by Anna Karamanou (PSE) to the Commission (19 January 2000) Subject: Nuclear threat of Akkuyu Further to previous questions and ahead of Turkeyís final decision on the construction of a nuclear in the earthquake-prone region of Akkuyu, Canadian Federal MPs opposed to Canadaís plant