WRITTEN QUESTION E-2776/99 by Alexandros Alavanos (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Funding of a training school for tourist couriers.
1. 8. 2000 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 219 E/185 document and the final report of the conference are sent directly to the Honourable Member and the Secretariat general of the Parliament. The consultation process also confirmed that action to combat social exclusion is seen as an important means for improving conditions of access of fundamental rights. It is the Commissionís intention to reflect this in the aims of the programme. (2000/C 219 E/238) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2776/99 by Alexandros Alavanos (GUE/NGL) to the Commission Subject: Funding of a training school for tourist couriers (18 January 2000) There is no school in Greece for training couriers for the tourist industry and the knowledge which those currently working as couriers possess is gained from their experience and in-house courses. Can the Commission answer the following: 1. Will it say whether it could provide joint funding to set up a post-secondary school to train couriers for the tourist industry? 2. For which in-house courses for training couriers in Greece did the Union provide funding from 1996 to 1999 and what were the sums involved? 3. How many people received training on those courses? 4. In view of the allegations that some of those who attended these courses were subsequently unable to work as couriers because it is prohibited to do so by their current profession, e. g. civil servants, can the Commission confirm that such people did not take part in the courses run between 1996 and 1999? Answer given by Mr Barnier on behalf of the Commission (15 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/239) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2801/99 by Glyn Ford (PSE) to the Commission (18 January 2000) Subject: European study grants In view of legislation currently in force in certain Member States that deprives students of access to grants when they have not been living within that Member State for a certain length of time, does not the Commission feel that it would be appropriate for it to initiate a transnational scheme to provide assistance for students who may not have been residing in the Member State for the required period but who, during that period, resided within the Community?