WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1142/98 by José APOLINÁRIO to the Commission. Community Initiatives/Azores
18. 1. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 13/21 In addition, outside the interventions under the structural funds, the Commission has also proposed that rural development measures should be available throughout the Community as part of the reform of the common agricultural policy. (1999/C 13/028) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1135/98 by JosØ ApolinÆrio (PSE) to the Commission (24 April 1998) Subject: The Community Support Framework › Azores In view of the specific nature of Portugalís Azores region (an extremely remote region which, as such, has a special status enshrined in the EU Treaty), would the Commission give details of the kind of Community support received by the region from the Structural Funds during the 1994-1999 period (policy measures and amounts of funding) and how must support the Commission expects it to receive under the 2000-2006 Community Support Framework? (1999/C 13/029) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1142/98 by JosØ ApolinÆrio (PSE) to the Commission (24 April 1998) Subject: Community Initiatives/Azores In view of the specific nature of Portugalís Azores region (an extremely remote region which, as such, has a special status enshrined in the EU Treaty), would the Commission give details of the amount of Community support received by the region from the Community Initiative (all of them, not just REGIS)during the 1994-1999 financial period? What does the Commission envisage as regards support during the 2000-2006 financial period? Joint answer to Written Questions E-1135/98 and E-1142/98 given by Mrs Wulf-Mathies on behalf of the Commission (29 May 1998) The amounts granted by the Structural Funds to the Azores region of Portugal under the 1994-1999 Community support framework for Portugal total approximately ECU 697 million. For the same period, under the initiative REGIS II Initiative giving the most remote regions the chance to engage fully in action of the type aided by the other Community Initiatives, the Commission in allocating appropriations between the Initiatives in 1994 granted the Portuguese REGIS II subprogramme for the Azores approximately ECU 63 million (1996 prices). To these amounts must be added ECU 6,6 million under the LEADER II Community Initiative and ECU 1,84 million under the PESCA Initiative, from which the Azores benefit under the Portuguese national programmes. A summary table of the amounts granted with a breakdown by Fund and programme financed will be sent direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliamentís Secretariat. These amounts include an additional ECU 26 million granted after the storms that ravaged the Azores in December 1996 and January 1997. Turning to the outlook for the future, the Commission is fully aware of the role played by the the economic and social cohesion policy in developing the Communityís most remote regions, and in its proposals for the new programming period has brought them within Objective 1, for which some two-thirds of total Structural Fund aid will be reserved (1)