WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3931/98 by Concepció FERRER Territorial pacts for employment
6. 11. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 320/89 Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission (27 January 1999) Selling prices (at farm level) in June 1998 (1). Soft wheat Maize Adult cattle (unit values) Pig (carcasses) grade I Fattening lambs Butter (in euro/100 kilogrammes) 10,8 11,6 12,1 (1) 15,4 11,2 (1) 15,1 (1) 12,3 11,0 13,1 14,5 12,0 11,4 (1) (1) 11,8 (1) 14,9 10,7 (1) 14,2 (1) (1) 10,9 13,9 (1) (1) (1) 247,1 247,4 242,9 335,9 253,3 285,0 238,6 293,0 277,8 243,6 255,9 273,3 241,7 262,5 236,5 128,4 112,4 115,4 (1) (1) 116,2 (1) (1) 139,9 (1) 112,6 143,5 131,6 132,8 128,1 (1) 166,3 348,6 281,6 231,8 (1) 157,8 244,1 (1) 170,4 192,4 201,0 (1) (1) 183,4 336,9 393,8 344,6 439,8 (1) 459,4 (1) 361,7 (1) 332,7 (1) (1) 323,5 389,7 314,9 Belgium Denmark Germany Greece Spain France Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Austria Portugal Finland Sweden United Kingdom Source: Eurostat. (1) not available. (1) Carcasses weight for adult cattle and pig, live weight for fattening lambs. (1999/C 320/121) WRITTEN QUESTION E-3931/98 by Concepció Ferrer (PPE) to the Commission (4 January 1999) Subject: Territorial pacts for employment On 8, 9 and 10 October this year the Commission held the first forum for the exchange of ideas on rural development and employment in Turku, Finland. During the forum the Commission announced that it was considering the possibility of granting additional funding to promote the transfer of ‘good practice’ in order to establish a link with the next programming period for the Structural Funds. Can the Commission say what conclusions it has reached on this subject? Answer given by Mrs Wulf-Mathies on behalf of the Commission (8 February 1999) The forum to which the Honourable Member refers was organised for the 89 territorial pacts for employment and enabled over 700 bilateral meetings to be held. On that occasion the Commission representatives referred to the principle of stepping up Community technical assistance for the territorial pacts for employment so they could prepare to gear their action plans to the new Structural Fund programming for 2000-2006. The practical details of how this will be done are still being studied, within a ceiling of EUR 100 000 per pact. In any case this additional funding will be dependent on the provision of a satisfactory account of how the technical assistance already granted was used and on the preparation of a work programme covering the period after 1999 and centred on the adaptation at local level of good practice useful in the context of the pacts’ action plans, such as that presented at the Turku forum