WRITTEN QUESTION E-2591/99 by Daniel Hannan (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Withholding of the Schengen acquis.
C 225 E/178 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 8. 8. 2000 Only the Member State of normal residence may conduct all administrative proceedings concerning the competence mentioned above, thus including updating the licence on possible changes of address. The issuing Member State loses its competence on driving licence issues, by the time the driver establishes normal residence in another Member State and the host Member State is responsible for any national administrative provisions it applies to the driver taking up normal residence in its territory. (1) OJ L 237, 24. 8. 1991. (2000/C 225 E/196) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2591/99 by Daniel Hannan (PPE-DE) to the Commission (11 January 2000) Subject: Withholding of the Schengen acquis There has been a degree of concern in certain quarters at Westminster that the United Kingdom has opted into elements of the Schengen Accord without full knowledge of the whole of the acquis and certainly before being able to deposit that acquis coherently in the House of Commons Library. Can the Commission identify those elements of the acquis which have not been released to date, as they retain their security grading status and remain restricted documents? Answer given by Mr Vitorino on behalf of the Commission (31 January 2000) As far as the Commission knows, the United Kingdom has received the full texts of all the elements of the Schengen acquis which have been incorporated into the Union framework. Article 1§ 2 of Council Decision 1999/435/EC of 20 May 1999 concerning the definition of the Schengen acquis for the purpose of determining, the EC and EU Treaties, the legal basis for each of the provisions or decisions which constitute the acquis (1) stipulates that the Schengen acquis is to be published in the Official Journal with the exception of áthose provisions which at the time of the adoption of this Decision are classified as íconfidentialá by the Schengen Executive the Schengen acquis were thus incorporated into the Union Committeeí. The various elements of framework with the security grading assigned to them by the Executive Committee. This grading is binding on all Member States. in conformity with the relevant provisions of (1) OJ L 176, 10. 7. 1999. (2000/C 225 E/197) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2592/99 by Daniel Hannan (PPE-DE) to the Commission (11 January 2000) Subject: Commissionersí interests The Commissionís website lists the declared interests of the last Commission. When will the updated list be published in readily-accessible form? Will all Commissioners contribute fully?