WRITTEN QUESTION E-0629/00 by María Ayuso González (PPE-DE) to the Commission. The EAGGF Guarantee Section in the various EU Member States in the period 1997-1999.
28. 12. 2000 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 374 E/125 (2000/C 374 E/147) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0629/00 by María Ayuso GonzÆlez (PPE-DE) to the Commission (3 March 2000) Subject: The EAGGF Guarantee Section in the various EU Member States in the period 1997-1999 Can the Commission indicate the total amount received by each EU Member State under the EAGGF Guarantee Section in the years 1997, 1998 and 1999, and provide a breakdown of expenditure: (a) by heading (arable crops, sugar, fibre plants and silk worms, fruit and vegetables, other plant products, wine products, tobacco, milk and milk products, beef/veal, sheepmeat and goatmeat, pigmeat, eggs and poultry, other measures concerning animal products, refunds on certain goods obtained by processing agricultural products, refunds in connection with Community food aid, distribution of agricultural products to deprived persons, accompanying measures, rural development measures linked to markets, other measures, income aid, and the European Fisheries Guarantee Fund); and (b) by type of aid (export refunds, price compensating aids, acreage aid, aid for livestock, guidance premiums, private storage aid, withdrawals and similar operations, monetary compensatory amounts, measures accompanying reform of the CAP, and public storage costs)? Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission (3 April 2000) The Commission would refer the Honourable Member to the 27th and 28th financial reports of the European agricultural guidance and guarantee fund (EAGGF) ü guarantee section (1) for the data concern- ing 1997 and 1998 requested in the first part of her written question. The financial report for 1999 is not yet available and so the Commission is sending directly to the Honourable Member and to the Parliamentís Secretariat extracts of the data to be included therein concerning the information requested for 1999. As for the second part of her written question, the Commission is sending direct to the Honourable Member and to the Parliamentís Secretariat some additional tables concerning the information requested for 1997, 1998 and 1999. However, the Commission would like to underline that all the information which it is sending direct in respect of the1999 financial year has not yet been subject to a financial clearance of accounts and for this reason should not be considered as final. (1) COM(98) 552 and COM(1999) 568. (2000/C 374 E/148) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0651/00 by Carlos Ripoll y Martínez de Bedoya (PPE-DE) to the Commission (9 March 2000) Subject: Environment tax A forum was held in Palma de Mallorca in February attended by Mr Eusebio Murillo of the Directorate- General for Regional Policy, at which a proposal for an environment tax on tourists visiting the Balearic Islands, levied by the Regional Government of the Balearic Islands, was discussed. Has any proposal for an environment tax in the Balearic Islands been submitted to the Commission or has it been consulted on the matter?