WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3653/98 by Amedeo AMADEO to the Council. Exercise of power, Community fraud and political malpractice
28. 6. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 182/115 Reply (22 and 23 February 1999) 1. The Council has no knowledge of the studies referred to in the Honourable Member’s question. 2. and 3. The Council is currently examining the proposal for a Recommendation on the limitation of exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields 0 Hz-300 GHz, the purpose of which is to provide a common framework for a high level of protection from the acute thermal effects of electromagnetic fields. It should be pointed out, in this context, that it will be for the Member States to evaluate situations where there is exposure to electromagnetic fields and to take such appropriate steps as are necessary to protect the public. It will also be recalled that on 3 July 1998 the Council decided to consult the European Parliament on the proposal for a Recommendation. (1999/C 182/156) WRITTEN QUESTION E-3653/98 by Amedeo Amadeo (NI) to the Council (4 December 1998) Subject: Exercise of power, Community fraud and political malpractice The 5 November issue of an authoritative Italian weekly news magazine contains a report on a series of acts of corruption in which the European Commission is said to be directly implicated, the very institution which regularly condemns inefficiency, delays and cases of corruption in Member States. According to the weekly magazine ‘Panorama’, the former French prime minister Mrs Cresson, now the commissioner for scientific research, is caught up in a complex web of business and political interests. It appears that Mrs Cresson’s dentist assisted her in her work in Brussels, without a regular salary but with support from the businessman Perry, the owner of Perry-Lux, the agency now famous for being involved in cases of Community fraud, and the prospect of possible consultancy work, which, it should be pointed out, Cresson did not facilitate. Instead, Mrs Cresson appointed the dentist and his son under contracts as scientific researchers. These contracts had previously been given only to the most eminent medical and scientific authorities in Europe commissioned to write important reports. Does the Council intend, as a matter of urgency, to respond to these accusations, and to provide all the explanations necessary to clarify a situation which discredits all the institutions of the European Union? Reply (8 February 1999) It is not for the Council to comment on the allegations contained in the Honourable Member’s question