WRITTEN QUESTION P-0222/00 by Brigitte Wenzel-Perillo (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Duty of the Member States to submit reports.
3. 10. 2000 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 280 E/201 Does the Commission intend to do anything to clarify the situation? Finally, we need to review the implications of the expiry of the ECSC Treaty. The aid system must continue after 2002. My view of this matter is that only a Council regulation will be able to offer the requisite legal certainty and guarantee a formal prohibition on any kind of aid not covered by the Code. Is the Commission planning to submit any proposals along those lines? Answer given by Mr Monti on behalf of the Commission (17 March 2000) Every year the Commission produces a report on implementation of the steel aid code, covering all the decisions adopted in the course of the year by the Commission in accordance with it. In 1993-1994 the Commission adopted decisions on aid to steel firms on the basis of Article 95 of the ECSC Treaty rather than the code but in accordance with the same procedure as the code and with the same force in law. Since then, no further decision of this type has been adopted. Implementation of the 1993-1994 decisions is dealt with in a separate report to the Council, as required by the decisions in question. The Commission has not yet formulated its final position regarding the rules on state aid to the steel industry after wexpiry of the ECSC Treaty. As promised by the Member with responsibility for competition at the January 2000 part-session, the future proposal will be presented to Parliament. However, the Commission notes Parliamentís position as set out in its resolution on the Commissionís 1998 report and expressed by the Honourable Member in his intervention of 18 January 2000 and in this written question. (2000/C 280 E/236) WRITTEN QUESTION P-0222/00 by Brigitte Wenzel-Perillo (PPE-DE) to the Commission Subject: Duty of the Member States to submit reports (31 January 2000) Will the Commission of the EU state how many legal provisions laid down by the Communities (EU and EC), divided into policy fields, entail a duty for the Federal Republic of Germany to submit reports? Will it also give a detailed list of the legal bases of the Community legal provisions involved, stating how often those reports must be submitted (each year, each month and so forth)? Answer given by Mr Prodi on behalf of the Commission (16 March 2000) In order to answer the Honourable Memberís questions the Commission would have to undertake lengthy and costly research. It cannot consider doing this at the present time because of other priorities. (2000/C 280 E/237) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0228/00 by María Sornosa Martínez (PSE) to the Commission (4 February 2000) Subject: Breach of the rules of competition in the selling of pet food in Spain Illegal and unfair competition is currently occurring in Spain in the marketing and sale of pet foods, with the rights of consumers being infringed. Pet food manufacturers are operating separate distribution