WRITTEN QUESTION E-2239/99 by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission. Cost of translation and interpretation.
12. 12. 2002 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 309 E/1 I (Information) EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (2002/C 309 E/001) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2239/99 by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission (19 November 1999) Subject: Cost of translation and interpretation Please indicate the cost of translation and interpretation in the EU in 1999 and estimate the cost in each case, assuming the continuation of present language policies, if one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten or eleven languages were added to the existing official languages. Supplementary answer given by Mrs Schreyer on behalf of the Commission (17 July 2002) Further to its initial reply, sent to the Honourable Member in 2000, the Commission would add that the additional expenditure for nine enlargement languages, according to the estimates made by the institutions in the second report on Heading V of the General Budget of the Community (drawn up in May 2002), would be: In 2003 2004 2005 2006 (In million euro) For translation For interpretation 31 127 161 175 7,5 40 54 60 (2002/C 309 E/002) WRITTEN QUESTION P-2890/01 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis (PPE-DE) to the Commission (10 October 2001) Subject: Substandard work on public projects funded under the 2nd CSF In its answer to my question No E-3481/00 (1), the Commission recognised that there were a wide range of problems concerning substandard work on public construction projects in Greece funded under the 2nd CSF