(2004/C 84 E/0030)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2498/03

by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission

(25 July 2003)

Subject:   Investment

Further to the Commission's very interesting answer to my question E-1350/03 (1) on 22 May 2003 concerning foreign direct investment into the eurozone countries and the non-eurozone EU Member States, is the Commission now in a position to update those figures given in its tables to include last year (2002)? If not, when will it be able to do so?

Answer given by Mr Solbes Mira on behalf of the Commission

(3 September 2003)

Updated tables are sent direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliament's Secretariat. The data for 2002 are preliminary estimates sent by Member States to Eurostat in June 2003 together with revised 2001 data. For Denmark and Spain, data exclude reinvested earnings. For Greece and Sweden, data exclude reinvested earnings in some cases. Aggregates include estimated reinvested earnings in all these cases. Preliminary data for 2002 and revised data for 2001 are not available for partner ‘Eurozone countries’.

(1)  See page 8.