WRITTEN QUESTION E-0293/00 by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Czech Republic's progress on the way to accession.
C 26 E/28 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 26. 1. 2001 Nevertheless, the Commission will closely follow the implementation of the Agreement, once it has come into force, and raise any difficulties with the Swiss authorities in the joint committee which is to be established under the agreement. (2001/C 26 E/033) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0293/00 by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission Subject: Czech Republicís progress on the way to accession (11 February 2000) Is the Commission aware that the German government considers the Benesch decrees, in so far as they relate to the deportation, revocation of citizenship and expropriation of Germans in former Czechoslova- kia, as contrary to international law, and how in that connection does it view the possibility of those decrees continuing to remain in force in the context of possible accession by the Czech Republic to the European Union, having regard in particular to the Copenhagen political criteria? (2001/C 26 E/034) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0294/00 by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission Subject: Czech Republicís progress on the way to accession (11 February 2000) Is the Commission aware that Czech citizens of German nationality continue to this day to have difficulty in recovering property lost to them on the basis of the 1945 and 1946 laws and decrees, and is the Commission prepared to make approaches to the government of the Czech Republic in that connection in the context of accession negotiations? (2001/C 26 E/035) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0295/00 by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission Subject: Czech Republicís progress on the way to accession (11 February 2000) Does the Commission share the view that the Czech Republicís restitution law is contrary to international law in so far as the non-retention of Czech nationality continues to be treated as grounds for exclusion from restitution of property even when that nationality was not surrendered voluntarily, and is the Commission prepared to remind the government of the Czech Republic that compliance with international law is an indispensable pre-condition for accession? (2001/C 26 E/036) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0296/00 by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission (11 February 2000) Subject: Progress with implementing European Union objectives in the Czech Republic Human rights violations committed against citizens of various nationalities as a result of their expulsion from Czechoslovakia in the period after the end of the Second World War have still not been put right even today. Many of those concerned are still living. Decrees by the Presidents of the Republic and other laws led in 1945 and 1946 to the complete expropriation of mainly German and Hungarian property-