WRITTEN QUESTION No. 203/99 by Mark KILLILEA Seals
12. 11. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 325/85 The project will support integrated pilot actions focusing on the upgrading of coordination, policy formulation, regulatory and service functions of the public sector, the improvement of environmental sustainability of exploitation patterns, the support of alternative mariculture production and marine eco- tourism, and the enhancement of responsible participation of producers and local communities in the planning and management process. The project is being launched with the full co-operation of the Thai government. (1999/C 325/110) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0203/99 by Mark Killilea (UPE) to the Commission (12 February 1999) Subject: Seals In April 1997, Bord Iascaigh Mhara, The Irish Sea Fisheries Board, submitted to DG XIV a report on the Physical Interaction between Grey Seals and Fishing Gear. The report was drawn up with financial assistance from the Commission. Can the Commission indicate whether it circulated this report to fisheries organisations or to the fisheries departments of the governments of the Member States? Answer given by Mrs Bonino on behalf of the Commission (9 March 1999) The Commission finances large numbers of research projects, which makes it difficult for the Commission to circulate or distribute reports resulting from such projects. However, copies of reports are available on request from the Commission. The Commission believes that the results from research projects should be made available to as wide an audience as possible. Therefore, summaries of research projects funded by the Commission are accessible through Internet. Furthermore, it is one of the conditions for funding by the Commission of research projects, including the one executed by the Irish sea fisheries board, that the recipient of the funds shall make an effort to distribute the results from the project as widely as possible, in recognised scientific journals or by any other suitable means. For more information on this same report by the Irish sea fisheries board the Honourable Member is referred to the reply the Commission gave to the Honourable Member’s oral question H-72/99, during question time at Parliament’s February 1999 part-session (1). (1) Debates of Parliament (February 1999). (1999/C 325/111) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0209/99 by Riccardo Nencini (PSE) to the Commission (12 February 1999) Subject: Waste dump at Corliano (Florence) A 120 000 m2 waste dump is scheduled for construction between vineyards and olive groves at Corliano (commune of Cerreto Guidi, Florence). The project does not seem to have included any study into the state of the ground water or any pollution caused to it by sewage from the old dump. Nor are there any plans to render the subsoil impermeable although the site is traversed by watercourses and subject to frequent landslides, as local maps show