(2004/C 78 E/0665)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3692/03

by Roberta Angelilli (UEN) to the Commission

(9 December 2003)

Subject:   Update on use of funding from the Daphne programme by the municipality of Siena

In its answer to question E-1015/03 (1), which asked whether the municipality of Siena had submitted projects and secured funding under the Daphne programme, the Commission stated that a number of proposals had been submitted, but that the outcome of the assessment would be available in July 2003.

Can the Commission say whether the projects submitted actually received funding and, if not, why they were not considered suitable?

Have any other projects been submitted in the meantime?

Joint answer

to Written Questions E-3690/03, E-3691/03 and E-3692/03

given by Mr Vitorino on behalf of the Commission

(19 January 2004)

In 2003 the Daphne programme received the following proposals from the municipalities in question:

The Commission did not accept these proposals for Community funding because they were not of the required quality.

The applicants were duly informed of this decision as well as of the reasons why the proposals were rejected. Moreover, in its correspondence, the Commission indicated which aspects of the proposal needed to be improved.

It also stated that new proposals could, of course, be submitted under the next call for proposals in 2004.

Since there was no further call for proposals in 2003, the Commission did not receive any other proposal.

(1)  OJ C 51 E, 26.2.2004, p. 62.