WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1463/98 by Quinídio CORREIA to the Commission. Projects submitted by the UGC [= General Union of Consumers] to the Commission
11. 12. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 386/131 1. How many projects to be carried out in Portugal have been approved by the Commission for 1998, and what are they? 2. What are the Portuguese organizations whose projects have been approved? 3. What were the main criteria used for approval of projects? 4. How have the budgetary resources available for such projects been shared out among the various Member States of the European Union? (98/C 386/183) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1463/98 by Quinídio Correia (PSE) to the Commission (13 May 1998) Subject: Projects submitted by the UGC [= General Union of Consumers] to the Commission In view of its refusal to provide financial support for the consumer policy projects submitted for 1998 by Portugalís General Union of Consumers, will the Commission say: 1. What the decisive criteria used for the approval of projects were? 2. How the budget resources available were allocated amongst the various EU Member States? 3. How many (and which specific) projects for implementation in Portugal were adopted by the Commission for 1998? (98/C 386/184) WRITTEN QUESTION P-1466/98 by Helena Torres Marques (PSE) to the Commission (7 May 1998) Subject: Portuguese consumer policy projects In response to the invitation published in the Official Journal on 12 September 1997 (issue C 277), the Portuguese General Union of Consumers (UGC) submitted three consumer policy projects to the Commission. Although they matched the priorities laid down by the Commission for 1998, the projects were rejected. To provide a clearer explanation to the UGC for the refusal of funding, could the Commission answer the following questions: 1. How many consumer policy projects to be carried out in Portugal in 1998 were approved by the Commission? What is the nature of those projects? 2. Which Portuguese bodies sponsored the projects selected? 3. On what key criteria was project selection based? 4. How are the available budget funds shared out among the different Member States? Joint answer to Written Questions E-1448/98, E-1463/98 and P-1466/98 given by Mrs Bonino on behalf of the Commission (19 June 1998) The Commission has received 378 applications for funding in response to the call for submission of 1. and 2. projects published in the Official Journal (1). Sixty projects have been selected to receive financial support, three of which are from Portugal, namely Edideco-Editores para defesa do Consumidor, Lda (joint project aimed at doing away with three types of unfair clause in travel contracts › ECU 35 610 of funding), Associacªo de arbitragem de conflitos de consumo do distrito de Coimbra (simplification of methods for settling consumer