WRITTEN QUESTION E-0229/00 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Failure to include the Prefecture of Arta in the Community initiative Interreg..
C 225 E/222 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 8. 8. 2000 (2000/C 225 E/255) WRITTEN QUESTION P-0133/00 by Frank Vanhecke (TDI) to the Commission (18 January 2000) Subject: Commission support for staging political events On 9 December 1999, a debate was held in the European Parliament between MEPs Dirk Sterckx and FrØdØrique Ries on The press: Europeís lukewarm loverí. Both speakers are members of the Liberal Group According to the poster advertising the debate, the evening was supported by the Belgian Foreign Affairs Ministry, the EPís Belgian Office and the European Commission. 1. What did that support consist of? 2. What criteria must political organisations comply with to qualify for such support? Answer given by Mr Prodi on behalf of the Commission (14 February 2000) The event to which the Honourable Member refers did not receive financial support from the 1. Commission. It was organised by the Parliamentís Belgian Office and the Movement EuropØen Belgique asbl, which receives support from the Commission to organise public debates. 2. The Commission does not finance political parties. (2000/C 225 E/256) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0150/00 by Emmanouil Mastorakis (PSE) to the Commission (31 January 2000) Subject: Community Interreg Initiative Despite the increase in Interreg funding for the period 2000-2006 compared with the previous period, efforts have clearly been made not to alter the list of Group A recipients, with very few exceptions, the obvious aim being to concentrate the funds as effectively as possible. However, the fact that exceptions have been made prove that there was a need to remedy previously existing injustices and omissions. Notable omissions from the list of recipients in Greece are the prefectures of Arta and Ilia and this despite the inclusion of neighbouring prefectures which could be regarded as falling within the same category. Can the Commission show understanding in this matter and reconsider the possibility of including these two prefectures, which were unjustly omitted? (2000/C 225 E/257) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0229/00 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis (PPE-DE) to the Commission (4 February 2000) Subject: Failure to include the Prefecture of Arta in the Community initiative Interreg. It appears from information I have received that the Prefecture of Arta has not been included in the operational programmes announced by the Commission for part A of the Community initiative Interreg, despite the fact that the basic criterion for inclusion, namely the existence of external land or sea borders, is met by this prefecture, since the Gulf of Ambrakia lies at its southern extremity and is also part of the Ionian Sea. Will the Commission say what the situation is and whether or not the Prefecture of Arta will finally be included in the Community initiative Interreg like all the rest of north-western Greece?