WRITTEN QUESTION E-1902/99 by Raffaele Costa (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Telematics Programme.
C 203 E/84 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 18. 7. 2000 (2000/C 203 E/103) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1902/99 by Raffaele Costa (PPE-DE) to the Commission (29 October 1999) Subject: Telematics Programme institutions, companies, cooperatives and Will the Commission state what agencies (public or private), individuals have been allocated funding (specifying whether payments have already been made) under the Telematics programme (1994-1998) as part of the fourth framework programme in the field of research (budget ü ECU 898 million, equal to LIT 1 740 billion) and how much each of them has been granted? Has it checked how the amounts have actually been used and whether the proposed measures have been successfully implemented? Answer given by Mr Liikanen on behalf of the Commission (20 December 1999) The € 850 million net financial contribution to the various types of organisation funded under the Telematics application programme (TAP) from 1994 to 1998 can be broken down between large enterprises € 247 million, small and medium-sized enterprises € 130 million, universities and higher education institutions € 180 million, research organisations € 120 million, international organisations € 7 million and others € 166 million. The total paid as of 1 October 1999 was € 605 million. In total TAP funded some 800 projects with approximately 8 000 project participants. The Commission cannot give the details of all these projects or participants in the context of a reply to a parliamentary question, but the Commission (Information society Directorate general) would be delighted to provide the Honourable Member with any more specific information he may require on a particular region or project. As far as the continuous assessment of projects and programme is concerned, at project level the implementation is followed by projects officers. In addition, the TAP projects are subject to an annual, ongoing, external technical audit. The TAP programme itself is subject to a yearly monitoring exercise since 1995. The 1999 monitoring report should be available by April 2000 and it will also cover the whole of the new user friendly information society (RTD) programme. A five year assessment (1991-1995) of Community telematics research was performed in 1996 by an independent panel. A similar assessment of the last five years (1995-1999) is currently being performed and the report should be issued in July 2000. Also, information on the programme activities and its successful projects is available on the website www. echo. lu/telematics. (2000/C 203 E/104) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1905/99 by Raffaele Costa (PPE-DE) to the Commission (29 October 1999) Subject: Interreg II and Interreg II C (1994-1999) The total amount allocated to Italy from the Communityís structural funds in respect of transfrontier cooperation and energy networks for the period 1994-1999 is ECU 270 million (equal to LIT 523 billion), and that in respect of the Community initiative for transnational cooperation in the field of regional planning for the period 1995-1999 is ECU 33 million (equal to LIT 64 billion). Will the Commission state what agencies (public or private), institutions, companies, cooperatives and individuals have been allocated funding under Interreg II and Interreg II C (specifying whether payments have already been made) and how much each of them has been granted?