WRITTEN QUESTION E-2225/99 by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission. Institutions' employees discharged.
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