WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1416/98 by Riitta MYLLER to the Commission. Equal treatment of citizens of the European Union as employees of businesses within the EU
22. 12. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 402/129 The intention is to produce BREFs covering all IPPC sectors by the year 2002. The first BREFs are expected to appear early in 1999. (98/C 402/170) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1416/98 by Riitta Myller (PSE) to the Commission (11 May 1998) Subject: Equal treatment of citizens of the European Union as employees of businesses within the EU Schering A. G. , which operates in Berlin, Germany, has invited its employees to subscribe to a share issue. The offer was open to employees of the parent company and of its German subsidiaries, but not to employees of subsidiaries working in other EU Member States. How will the Commission ensure that groups of enterprises › both parent companies and subsidiaries › in the various EU Member States treat all citizens of the Union equally with regard to employee share issues? Answer given by Mr Flynn on behalf of the Commission (19 June 1998) The Commission has already for a number of years worked on the general issue of financial participation of employees. In 1991 the Commission published a study on the Promotion of employee participation in profits and enterprise resultsí known as the Pepper I report. On the basis of this report Council Recommendation 92/443/EEC (1) on the subject was adopted in 1992. The Commission undertook to present a report to the Parliament, the Council and the Economic and social committee on the application of the recommendation on the basis of information supplied by the Member States. This report, known as the Pepper II report, was adopted by the Commission in January 1997 (2). In the recently adopted social action programme 1998-2000 (3), the Commission has undertaken to launch an initiative to encourage greater employee financial participation in companies by highlighting good practice and identifying obstacles, building on the 1992 Recommendation. Identifying obstacles that multinational companies face when introducing financial participation schemes in general and employee share ownership schemes in particular will be one of the essential aims of this initiative. (1) OJ L 245, 26. 8. 1992. (2) COM(96) 697 final. (3) COM(98) 256 final. (98/C 402/171) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1417/98 by Gianni Tamino (V) to the Commission (11 May 1998) Subject: Incompatibility with Community legislation of law No 30/97 and the hunting season calendar of the Emilia-Romagna region. The Emilia-Romagna (Italy) regional authority approved the new hunting season calendar on 31 March of this year in connection with regional law No 30/97 which stipulates, among other things, that during the season running from 20 September 1998 to 31 January 1999 it will be possible to hunt protected species such as sparrows (up to 31 December) and starlings