92002E2532

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2532/02

by Paulo Casaca (PSE) to the Commission

(11 September 2002)

Subject: Commission reports on Iranian opposition organisations

Can the Commission confirm that it drew up a report on 18 March this year entitled Commission report on the Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e-Khalq?

Did the Commission decide to invoke any of the exceptions mentioned in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001(1)?

If not, can it say why it did not distribute the report electronically?

Can the Commission supply a copy of the report or, if not, explain why it cannot?

(1) OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43.

Answer given by Mr Patten on behalf of the Commission

(17 October 2002)

The Commission has not drawn up a written report on the subject of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MKO). The issue of invoking any of the exceptions mentioned in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 has not arisen.

The Commission was asked by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, to make an intervention on the subject MKO at its meeting of 19 March 2002. At this meeting a representative of the Commission gave a brief oral presentation which provided a general background for the debate on the MKO.

It is worth recalling that under the Common Position adopted by the Council on 27 December 2001(1), the Council in its review of May 2002 decided to include the MKO on the list of organisations whose funds shall be frozen.

(1) OJ L 344, 28.12.2001.