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Document C:2004:078E:TOC

    Official Journal of the European Union, CE 78, 27 March 2004


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    ISSN 1725-2423

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    Information and Notices

    Volume 47
    27 March 2004


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    I   (Information)

     

    EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

     

    WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 1)

    2004/C 078E/1

    E-0465/01 by Antonios Trakatellis and Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the Commission
    Subject: Violation of Community environmental legislation and measures to protect the Loggerhead (Caretta Caretta) sea turtle

    1

    2004/C 078E/2

    E-2369/02 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Directive 1999/74/EC on the protection of laying hens

    2

    2004/C 078E/3

    E-3463/02 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Economic integration

    3

    2004/C 078E/4

    E-3509/02 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Abolition of the arrangement whereby small-scale, occasional trading can be carried out on a cross-border basis using the cash-on-delivery system

    3

    2004/C 078E/5

    E-3522/02 by Bart Staes to the Commission
    Subject: Television rights relating to Champions League matches — dispute as to what constitutes news gathering and what is covered by copyright

    5

    2004/C 078E/6

    E-3574/02 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Outermost regions and enlargement

    7

    2004/C 078E/7

    E-3644/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the Commission
    Subject: Incarceration of Shaiboub

    8

    2004/C 078E/8

    E-3645/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the Commission
    Subject: Imprisonment of Shakir

    8

    2004/C 078E/9

    E-3652/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the Commission
    Subject: El Kosheh retrial

    9

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-3644/02, E-3645/02 and E-3652/02

    9

    2004/C 078E/10

    E-3675/02 by Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: Europe and Palestinian terrorism

    10

    2004/C 078E/11

    P-3803/02 by Joan Colom i Naval to the Commission
    Subject: Catalan television broadcast on fraud against the ESF in Spain

    10

    2004/C 078E/12

    E-3829/02 by Torben Lund to the Commission
    Subject: Trade agreements between the EU and Mexico and safeguarding human rights

    11

    2004/C 078E/13

    E-0072/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: The dangers of selling thawed deep-frozen meat as fresh meat and a requirement to warn consumers against refreezing it

    12

    2004/C 078E/14

    E-0201/03 by Emilio Menéndez del Valle to the Commission
    Subject: Gibraltarian police violence (Supplementary Answer)

    13

    2004/C 078E/15

    E-0219/03 by Alexandros Baltas to the Commission
    Subject: Countries which have set in place essential elements of the Integrated Administration and Control System for certain Community aid schemes (IACS)

    14

    2004/C 078E/16

    E-0293/03 by Struan Stevenson to the Commission
    Subject: Animal welfare in Greek slaughterhouses

    16

    2004/C 078E/17

    P-0439/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the Commission
    Subject: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) draft proposal for an Independent Recourse Mechanism

    17

    2004/C 078E/18

    P-0487/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the Commission
    Subject: El Khosheh judgment

    18

    2004/C 078E/19

    E-0559/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Horse identification documents

    19

    2004/C 078E/20

    E-0622/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the Commission
    Subject: Combating cartels

    20

    2004/C 078E/21

    E-0682/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the Commission
    Subject: Dam building project in Rivas de Tereso (La Rioja-Spain)

    20

    2004/C 078E/22

    P-0733/03 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the Commission
    Subject: Air transport safety and use of passengers' mother tongue

    22

    2004/C 078E/23

    E-0883/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Use of funds from the Customs 2002 programme by the municipality of Fiumicino

    22

    2004/C 078E/24

    E-1061/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Use of funds from the Customs 2002 programme by the municipality of Ancona

    23

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-0883/03 and E-1061/03

    23

    2004/C 078E/25

    P-0895/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the Commission
    Subject: Agro-business Bank of Georgia

    24

    2004/C 078E/26

    E-0912/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: Racism and racial attacks in candidate countries

    24

    2004/C 078E/27

    E-0922/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Serbia; assassination of the Prime Minister; instability

    25

    2004/C 078E/28

    E-1033/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: Famine in Africa

    26

    2004/C 078E/29

    E-1289/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the Commission
    Subject: Disruption of market access to the People's Republic of China for photographic products: specific import tariffs not complying with WTO agreements

    27

    2004/C 078E/30

    E-1309/03 by Bill Newton Dunn to the Commission
    Subject: Human rights abuses in Laos

    28

    2004/C 078E/31

    P-1409/03 by Othmar Karas to the Commission
    Subject: Reform of European corporate taxation policy

    29

    2004/C 078E/32

    E-1431/03 by Pierre Jonckheer to the Commission
    Subject: Open-cast coal mine in northern Leon (Valle de Laciana, Spain)

    32

    2004/C 078E/33

    E-1432/03 by Pierre Jonckheer to the Commission
    Subject: Open-cast coal mine in northern Leon (Valle de Laciana, Spain)

    32

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-1431/03 and E-1432/03

    33

    2004/C 078E/34

    E-1435/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Increasing Third World dependence on emigration to work in rich countries and earnings transfers from rich countries

    34

    2004/C 078E/35

    P-1483/03 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the Commission
    Subject: Protection of information concerning air passengers — Joint Declaration of 4 March 2003

    35

    2004/C 078E/36

    E-1550/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Uncontrolled flows of funds on the transfer of media ownership in Poland and possible preferential treatment for Poland as a new EU Member State

    36

    2004/C 078E/37

    E-1551/03 by Paulo Casaca to the Commission
    Subject: Labelling of products containing asbestos

    37

    2004/C 078E/38

    E-1568/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Sharp cuts in passenger services on the Slovakian rail network as a result of secret conditions in a loan granted by the EIB in 1999

    38

    2004/C 078E/39

    P-1596/03 by Regina Bastos to the Commission
    Subject: Closure of ‘Schuh-Union’ located in Ponte de Lima, Portugal (Supplementary Answer)

    40

    2004/C 078E/40

    E-1670/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the Commission
    Subject: Authorisation by the Commission of projects harmful to the Natura 2000 network

    41

    2004/C 078E/41

    E-1687/03 by Inger Schörling to the Commission
    Subject: Botniabanan — Umea river delta, Sweden

    43

    2004/C 078E/42

    E-1688/03 by Anders Wijkman to the Commission
    Subject: The construction of the Ladia Galaska road in the province of Aceh, Indonesia

    44

    2004/C 078E/43

    E-1726/03 by Mikko Pesälä to the Commission
    Subject: Shooting noise abatement

    45

    2004/C 078E/44

    E-1781/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: The EQUAL funding programme post-enlargement

    46

    2004/C 078E/45

    E-1817/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Air pollution

    47

    2004/C 078E/46

    E-1820/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Sausage meat

    48

    2004/C 078E/47

    E-1831/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Statistics concerning poverty and unemployment in Greece

    49

    2004/C 078E/48

    E-1836/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Particulates

    50

    2004/C 078E/49

    E-1867/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Average cost of capital in the euro area

    51

    2004/C 078E/50

    E-1868/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Equity culture

    52

    2004/C 078E/51

    E-1900/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the Commission
    Subject: Nitrate pollution in the Valencia region

    53

    2004/C 078E/52

    E-1906/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Credibility of televoting and its cost to the European public

    54

    2004/C 078E/53

    E-1910/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the Commission
    Subject: Underground storage of nuclear waste

    55

    2004/C 078E/54

    E-1927/03 by Jules Maaten to the Commission
    Subject: Bovine and porcine protein in chicken

    56

    2004/C 078E/55

    E-1955/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the Commission
    Subject: Processing of chicken intended for human consumption

    56

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-1927/03 and E-1955/03

    56

    2004/C 078E/56

    E-1937/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: Corinth-Patras railway link

    57

    2004/C 078E/57

    E-1946/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the Commission
    Subject: Investigations into subsidies paid by Spain to the Izar company and resumption of construction work on merchant vessels at the Izar-Fene shipyards in Galicia

    58

    2004/C 078E/58

    P-1951/03 by Giacomo Santini to the Commission
    Subject: Provisions banning traffic in Austria

    58

    2004/C 078E/59

    E-1953/03 by Lissy Gröner to the Commission
    Subject: Unused EU funding in Bavaria totalling EUR 17 million for 2002

    59

    2004/C 078E/60

    P-1961/03 by Alexander de Roo to the Commission
    Subject: Ispra meeting to discuss the Spanish National Hydrological Plan

    60

    2004/C 078E/61

    E-1970/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Recycling charges for household goods

    61

    2004/C 078E/62

    E-1971/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: Flying ultralight aircraft

    61

    2004/C 078E/63

    E-1986/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the Commission
    Subject: Atmospheric pollution in Athens and Thessaloniki

    62

    2004/C 078E/64

    E-1987/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi and Per-Arne Arvidsson to the Commission
    Subject: Nuclear safety principles applied to the EU accession countries

    63

    2004/C 078E/65

    E-1991/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Shedding of light on the circumstances relating to the organisation of the Commission that contributed to the death of Commission official Quatraro in 1993, and the secrecy surrounding the events

    65

    2004/C 078E/66

    E-2001/03 by Jan Dhaene and Patricia McKenna to the Commission
    Subject: Radioactive discharges from Sellafield

    66

    2004/C 078E/67

    P-2031/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the Commission
    Subject: Implementation of Community legislation on solid waste and the landfill of waste in Greece

    67

    2004/C 078E/68

    E-2043/03 by Maurizio Turco, Emma Bonino, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba and Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Means of putting an end to violations of religious freedom

    69

    2004/C 078E/69

    E-2045/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba and Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Serious and persistent violations of the fundamental human rights of the Uighur minority in the Chinese province of Xinjiang (eastern Turkestan)

    70

    2004/C 078E/70

    E-2051/03 by Caroline Jackson to the Commission
    Subject: Essential oils and consumer protection

    71

    2004/C 078E/71

    E-2056/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the Commission
    Subject: Ethylene

    72

    2004/C 078E/72

    E-2059/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the Commission
    Subject: One-year delay by the Spanish government in extracting fuel oil from the wreck of the ‘Prestige’ off the Galician coast

    73

    2004/C 078E/73

    P-2080/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the Commission
    Subject: Summary of subsidies to undertakings

    74

    2004/C 078E/74

    E-2084/03 by Graham Watson to the Commission
    Subject: 1970 Unesco Convention

    75

    2004/C 078E/75

    E-2087/03 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the Commission
    Subject: Recognition of Finnish engineering qualifications in certain Mediterranean countries

    76

    2004/C 078E/76

    E-2101/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Common agricultural policy reform — ‘capping’

    78

    2004/C 078E/77

    E-2111/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Comparative study of special needs teaching

    78

    2004/C 078E/78

    E-2120/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the Commission
    Subject: Development of renewable energy sources in Moldova

    79

    2004/C 078E/79

    E-2127/03 by Bart Staes to the Commission
    Subject: Guarantees as to the correctness of businesses' financial information

    80

    2004/C 078E/80

    E-2166/03 by Giuseppe Di Lello Finuoli to the Commission
    Subject: Update regarding of the Italian State and Campania Regional Government funding of the programme contract presented by Agrifuturo

    82

    2004/C 078E/81

    E-2173/03 by Paulo Casaca to the Commission
    Subject: Compliance with EU legislation on asbestos

    82

    2004/C 078E/82

    E-2176/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Procurement

    83

    2004/C 078E/83

    E-2180/03 by Samuli Pohjamo and Mikko Pesälä to the Commission
    Subject: Damage caused by predators in the Finnish reindeer range

    84

    2004/C 078E/84

    E-2186/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Need for better consumer protection against malicious or negligent practices in international e-commerce

    85

    2004/C 078E/85

    E-2187/03 by Sérgio Marques to the Commission
    Subject: Participation by the outermost regions in the RTD framework programmes

    87

    2004/C 078E/86

    E-2191/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Funding for the IRENE organisation

    88

    2004/C 078E/87

    P-2194/03 by Michael Cashman to the Commission
    Subject: Counterfeiting and piracy

    89

    2004/C 078E/88

    E-2196/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the Commission
    Subject: Civil protection

    90

    2004/C 078E/89

    E-2197/03 by Bart Staes to the Commission
    Subject: Cattle transport — CATRA findings

    90

    2004/C 078E/90

    E-2206/03 by Gerhard Schmid to the Commission
    Subject: Action to confine marketing of specified products to the Czech Republic

    91

    2004/C 078E/91

    E-2207/03 by Charles Tannock to the Commission
    Subject: Labelling of animal, including poultry, products and problems posed for members of religious minorities eating these products

    92

    2004/C 078E/92

    P-2440/03 by Diana Wallis to the Commission
    Subject: Addition of water and protein to chicken meat

    92

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-2207/03 and P-2440/03

    93

    2004/C 078E/93

    E-2216/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba and Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Arrest of twelve members of an evangelical church in China

    93

    2004/C 078E/94

    E-2221/03 by Alexander de Roo to the Commission
    Subject: Situation of the High Flux Reactor in Petten

    94

    2004/C 078E/95

    E-2236/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Disastrous environmental situation in Greece

    95

    2004/C 078E/96

    E-2240/03 by Bartho Pronk to the Commission
    Subject: Follow-up to an application for a driving licence in another EU Member State

    96

    2004/C 078E/97

    E-2241/03 by Kathalijne Buitenweg and Jean Lambert to the Commission
    Subject: Funding of enforced return measures

    97

    2004/C 078E/98

    E-2250/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba and Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Violation of religious freedom in China. Arrest of Father Lu Xiaozhou of the ‘clandestine’ Catholic church

    99

    2004/C 078E/99

    E-2251/03 by Joaquim Miranda to the Commission
    Subject: Charter for Children in Hospital

    99

    2004/C 078E/100

    E-2277/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: Construction faults on the Ionian highway

    100

    2004/C 078E/101

    E-2291/03 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the Commission
    Subject: Equal treatment of Member States in recruiting EU officials

    101

    2004/C 078E/102

    P-2301/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Implementation of Directive 1999/70/EC

    102

    2004/C 078E/103

    E-2320/03 by Christoph Konrad to the Commission
    Subject: First aid at the scene of an accident

    103

    2004/C 078E/104

    P-2340/03 by Giovanni Fava to the Commission
    Subject: National site for radioactive waste in Sardinia

    104

    2004/C 078E/105

    E-2348/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the Commission
    Subject: Measures to be taken in response to evidence that oil from the ‘Prestige’ is continuing to reach the coasts of Galicia and the Bay of Biscay

    105

    2004/C 078E/106

    E-2349/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the Commission
    Subject: Galicia and CAP reform

    105

    2004/C 078E/107

    E-2356/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Caroline Jackson, Johannes Blokland, Alexander de Roo and Karl-Heinz Florenz to the Commission
    Subject: Interpretation of the RoHS Directive (2002/95/EC)

    106

    2004/C 078E/108

    E-2380/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: New business formation

    108

    2004/C 078E/109

    E-2381/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Single market

    109

    2004/C 078E/110

    E-2382/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Single market

    109

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-2381/03 and E-2382/03

    109

    2004/C 078E/111

    E-2391/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the Commission
    Subject: Numbers of pigs and cattle in the EU 15 and the 10 accession countries

    110

    2004/C 078E/112

    E-2408/03 by Bart Staes to the Commission
    Subject: Watching an LCD screen whilst driving a motor vehicle

    111

    2004/C 078E/113

    E-2422/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the Commission
    Subject: In-car LCD screens

    111

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-2408/03 and E-2422/03

    112

    2004/C 078E/114

    E-2436/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Support for fishermen unable to fish for biological reasons

    113

    2004/C 078E/115

    E-2448/03 by Georges Berthu to the Commission
    Subject: Inappropriate incentive to destroy hedgerows

    114

    2004/C 078E/116

    E-2450/03 by Marco Cappato to the Commission
    Subject: Infringement by the Salerno Chamber of Commerce of legislation on fixed term employment contracts

    114

    2004/C 078E/117

    E-2466/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Systematic provision of information to police forces, businessmen and holidaymakers with a view to ensuring that foreign tourists are not punished when they unwittingly break the law

    115

    2004/C 078E/118

    E-2481/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the Commission
    Subject: Transferable fishing quotas

    117

    2004/C 078E/119

    E-2484/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the Commission
    Subject: Galicia and CAP reform

    118

    2004/C 078E/120

    E-2495/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Common agriculture policy

    119

    2004/C 078E/121

    E-2497/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Foreign direct investment

    120

    2004/C 078E/122

    E-2521/03 by Carles-Alfred Gasòliba i Böhm to the Commission
    Subject: Linguistic plurality of Spain with regard to passports

    121

    2004/C 078E/123

    E-2548/03 by Joan Vallvé to the Commission
    Subject: Linguistic coexistence as reflected in Spanish passports

    121

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-2521/03 and E-2548/03

    121

    2004/C 078E/124

    E-2535/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Farm incomes in Portugal

    122

    2004/C 078E/125

    E-2540/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Agreements between the Spanish State and the Vatican State which violate fundamental rights

    123

    2004/C 078E/126

    E-2541/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: The ‘Gescartera’ case and agreements between the Spanish State and the Holy See

    124

    2004/C 078E/127

    E-2546/03 by Jules Maaten to the Commission
    Subject: Evaluation of tobacco products

    125

    2004/C 078E/128

    E-2556/03 by Robert Evans to the Commission
    Subject: Voting in Mallorcan elections

    126

    2004/C 078E/129

    E-2565/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the Commission
    Subject: Residues of hormones, antibiotics and phthalic acid esters in drinking water

    127

    2004/C 078E/130

    E-2566/03 by Markus Ferber to the Commission
    Subject: EU aid for construction projects in Italy

    128

    2004/C 078E/131

    E-2569/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Bioptic driving

    129

    2004/C 078E/132

    E-2586/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: New information concerning the refunds for agricultural products exported from the Member States to the Vatican City State

    129

    2004/C 078E/133

    P-2591/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: State of emergency due to the drought in the Region of Lazio

    131

    2004/C 078E/134

    E-2597/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Natural disaster alert in Italy

    132

    2004/C 078E/135

    E-2605/03 by Elizabeth Lynne to the Commission
    Subject: Recognition of qualifications for language teachers (Supplementary Answer)

    133

    2004/C 078E/136

    P-2606/03 by Armin Laschet to the Commission
    Subject: Discontinuation of the infringement proceedings against the Federal Republic of Germany in connection with the Avantis cross-border business park

    134

    2004/C 078E/137

    E-2610/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Charging consumers for returning waste household electrical equipment

    135

    2004/C 078E/138

    E-2631/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of fresh and frozen beef (code 0201) for 1998. Inconsistencies between CATS and OECD data

    136

    2004/C 078E/139

    E-2632/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of fresh and frozen beef (code 0201) for 1999. Inconsistencies between CATS and OECD data

    136

    2004/C 078E/140

    E-2633/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of fresh and frozen beef (code 0201) for 2000. Inconsistencies between CATS and OECD data

    137

    2004/C 078E/141

    E-2634/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of fresh and frozen beef (code 0201) for 2001. Inconsistencies between CATS and OECD data

    138

    2004/C 078E/142

    E-2635/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, milk products (code 0405) for 1998

    139

    2004/C 078E/143

    E-2636/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, milk products (code 0405) for 1999

    139

    2004/C 078E/144

    E-2637/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, milk products (code 0405) for 2000

    140

    2004/C 078E/145

    E-2638/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, milk products (code 0405) for 2001

    141

    2004/C 078E/146

    E-2639/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form (code 1701) for 1998

    142

    2004/C 078E/147

    E-2640/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form (code 1701) for 1999

    142

    2004/C 078E/148

    E-2641/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form (code 1701) for 2000

    143

    2004/C 078E/149

    E-2642/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds on exports from Member States to the Vatican City State of beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form (code 1701) for 2001

    144

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-2631/03, E-2632/03, E-2633/03, E-2634/03, E-2635/03, E-2636/03, E-2637/03, E-2638/03, E-2639/03, E-2640/03, E-2641/03 and E-2642/03

    145

    2004/C 078E/150

    E-2645/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the Commission
    Subject: Amendment of Article 25(1) of the Kyoto Protocol regarding entry into force

    145

    2004/C 078E/151

    P-2647/03 by Bart Staes to the Commission
    Subject: Use of synthetic prohormones for livestock fattening

    146

    2004/C 078E/152

    E-2651/03 by Phillip Whitehead to the Commission
    Subject: Consumer involvement in the common implementation strategy for the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC

    147

    2004/C 078E/153

    E-2663/03 by Ian Hudghton to the Commission
    Subject: Illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances

    148

    2004/C 078E/154

    E-2669/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: ELSA laboratory — transport safety (JRC Ispra)

    149

    2004/C 078E/155

    E-2678/03 by Caroline Jackson to the Commission
    Subject: 1991 Nitrates Directive

    150

    2004/C 078E/156

    P-2691/03 by Herbert Bösch to the Commission
    Subject: EURES expenditure

    151

    2004/C 078E/157

    P-2693/03 by Caroline Lucas to the Commission
    Subject: GMOs

    152

    2004/C 078E/158

    P-2695/03 by Raffaele Costa to the Commission
    Subject: Implementation of the Promise programme

    154

    2004/C 078E/159

    E-2702/03 by Bill Miller to the Commission
    Subject: Illegally-sourced timber

    155

    2004/C 078E/160

    E-2705/03 by Raffaele Costa to the Commission
    Subject: Renewable energies

    156

    2004/C 078E/161

    E-2708/03 by Raffaele Costa to the Commission
    Subject: City-Res Network project

    157

    2004/C 078E/162

    E-2732/03 by Herbert Bösch to the Commission
    Subject: Possible conflict of interests at the Directorate-General for Competition

    158

    2004/C 078E/163

    E-2736/03 by Glyn Ford to the Commission
    Subject: Monkfish quotas

    159

    2004/C 078E/164

    E-2739/03 by Bernd Lange to the Commission
    Subject: Leader+: pre-financing by promoters

    160

    2004/C 078E/165

    E-2745/03 by Joan Vallvé to the Commission
    Subject: Environmental impact of the enlargement of Eivissa airport

    161

    2004/C 078E/166

    E-2755/03 by Glyn Ford to the Commission
    Subject: Requirement for nationality to be listed on driving licences

    162

    2004/C 078E/167

    E-2765/03 by Raffaele Lombardo and Francesco Musotto to the Commission
    Subject: Amending Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 for the use of concentrated musts and rectified concentrated musts

    162

    2004/C 078E/168

    E-2769/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor examinations

    163

    2004/C 078E/169

    E-2770/03 by Robert Evans to the Commission
    Subject: Personal injury awards

    164

    2004/C 078E/170

    P-2776/03 by Hans Kronberger to the Commission
    Subject: Conflict between the objectives of Directive 2001/77/EC on renewable energy and the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in Austria

    165

    2004/C 078E/171

    P-2782/03 by Torben Lund to the Commission
    Subject: EIA report and the Habitats Directive

    167

    2004/C 078E/172

    E-2788/03 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Use of peat for electricity generation

    168

    2004/C 078E/173

    E-2802/03 by Pedro Marset Campos to the Commission
    Subject: Special tolls in France and Germany for the transport of goods by road

    169

    2004/C 078E/174

    E-2805/03 by Avril Doyle to the Commission
    Subject: Solar energy

    170

    2004/C 078E/175

    E-2809/03 by Paulo Casaca to the Commission
    Subject: Innovative actions in the fisheries sector, 2003/C 115/08

    171

    2004/C 078E/176

    P-2810/03 by Ari Vatanen to the Commission
    Subject: Allowing longer truck combinations in Europe

    171

    2004/C 078E/177

    P-2811/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the Commission
    Subject: Situation of the Mauritanian fishing ground

    172

    2004/C 078E/178

    E-2812/03 by Bernd Lange to the Commission
    Subject: Revision of the Directive on driving licences — driving licences for light motorcycles

    174

    2004/C 078E/179

    E-2813/03 by Bernd Lange to the Commission
    Subject: Revision of the Directive on driving licences — eyesight requirements

    174

    2004/C 078E/180

    P-2823/03 by Françoise Grossetête to the Commission
    Subject: Annex to Directive 90/435/EEC

    175

    2004/C 078E/181

    E-2845/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the Commission
    Subject: EU enlargement and air transport

    176

    2004/C 078E/182

    E-2846/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the Commission
    Subject: European directive on transport infrastructure charging

    176

    2004/C 078E/183

    P-2847/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the Commission
    Subject: Plans to develop Salobrar de Campos — Es trenc

    177

    2004/C 078E/184

    E-2849/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Complaints or infringements regarding the implementation of Greece of Community environmental legislation

    178

    2004/C 078E/185

    E-2850/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Unsatisfactory performance by building and holiday home cooperatives in Greece

    179

    2004/C 078E/186

    P-2855/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Biocidal Products Directive

    179

    2004/C 078E/187

    E-2858/03 by Pierre Jonckheer to the Commission
    Subject: Opencast mining in the north of León (Valle de Laciana district, Spain)

    180

    2004/C 078E/188

    P-2864/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Data and sources indicating the role currently played by the Vatican's financial system in the payment of interest to natural persons

    182

    2004/C 078E/189

    E-2865/03 by Elisabeth Schroedter and Inger Schörling to the Commission
    Subject: Destruction of unique parts of the European natural heritage in Brandenburg, Federal Republic of Germany

    182

    2004/C 078E/190

    E-2868/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the Commission
    Subject: European electricity market

    184

    2004/C 078E/191

    E-2886/03 by Charles Tannock to the Commission
    Subject: Difficulties encountered in the liberalisation of the European rail freight sector

    185

    2004/C 078E/192

    E-2887/03 by Bill Miller to the Commission
    Subject: Animal by-products

    186

    2004/C 078E/193

    E-2907/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the Commission
    Subject: Expenditure on and structural indicators for research and innovation in the EU and Greece

    186

    2004/C 078E/194

    P-2909/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Future status of Tibet

    187

    2004/C 078E/195

    E-2921/03 by Glyn Ford to the Commission
    Subject: Cotton subsidies

    188

    2004/C 078E/196

    E-2924/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the Commission
    Subject: European Council to guarantee energy supplies

    190

    2004/C 078E/197

    E-2927/03 by Michl Ebner to the Commission
    Subject: Urgent need to expand voluntary fire services

    190

    2004/C 078E/198

    E-2935/03 by Monica Frassoni and Guido Sacconi to the Commission
    Subject: Inclusion of waste among the energy sources coming under the arrangements applying to renewable energy sources

    191

    2004/C 078E/199

    E-2943/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: European taxpayers' contribution to promoting and maintaining bullfighting and other local traditions involving cruelty to animals

    193

    2004/C 078E/200

    E-2946/03 by Dana Scallon to the Commission
    Subject: Specific programme for research

    195

    2004/C 078E/201

    P-2947/03 by Peter Liese to the Commission
    Subject: Trupbach industrial estate

    195

    2004/C 078E/202

    P-2948/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the Commission
    Subject: Whistleblowing provisions

    197

    2004/C 078E/203

    P-2964/03 by Brigitte Langenhagen to the Commission
    Subject: Digital recording equipment

    197

    2004/C 078E/204

    E-2965/03 by Graham Watson to the Commission
    Subject: Endometriosis research funding

    199

    2004/C 078E/205

    E-2969/03 by Roberto Bigliardo to the Commission
    Subject: Management of EUR 150 000 of Community funds — involvement of a Romanian government minister

    199

    2004/C 078E/206

    P-2971/03 by Alexander de Roo to the Commission
    Subject: Toxic ships

    200

    2004/C 078E/207

    P-2973/03 by Jean-Louis Bernié to the Commission
    Subject: Marais Breton site — September 2003

    203

    2004/C 078E/208

    E-2980/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the Commission
    Subject: Suspension of funding for public works studies in Greece from the Community budget

    204

    2004/C 078E/209

    E-2982/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: Stability pact

    205

    2004/C 078E/210

    E-2983/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: Instances of infringements of Community legislation on the environment

    206

    2004/C 078E/211

    E-2984/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Building on seafronts

    207

    2004/C 078E/212

    P-3010/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the Commission
    Subject: Blackout in Italy

    208

    2004/C 078E/213

    P-3011/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the Commission
    Subject: Fisheries: national boundaries within the EU's EEZ

    209

    2004/C 078E/214

    E-3018/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Promotions within the Commission

    209

    2004/C 078E/215

    E-3039/03 by Herbert Bösch to the Commission
    Subject: Allegations of bribery made against journalists without any basis in fact

    210

    2004/C 078E/216

    E-3044/03 by Graham Watson to the Commission
    Subject: Τ Pods

    211

    2004/C 078E/217

    E-3048/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: Coordinating the fight against paedophilia

    211

    2004/C 078E/218

    P-3052/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Suspension of the payment of Community appropriations for public works studies in Greece

    213

    2004/C 078E/219

    E-3054/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the Commission
    Subject: Replacement of the illegal waste dump at Kouroupitos

    214

    2004/C 078E/220

    E-3055/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the Commission
    Subject: Accounting scandals and corporate governance

    215

    2004/C 078E/221

    E-3058/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the Commission
    Subject: Contradictions and inconsistencies in Commission and OLAF statements about the Datashop case

    216

    2004/C 078E/222

    E-3070/03 by Christoph Konrad to the Commission
    Subject: Distortions of competition caused by the German Foreign Trade Act

    217

    2004/C 078E/223

    E-3072/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the Commission
    Subject: Provision of the ADSL service in Greece

    218

    2004/C 078E/224

    E-3073/03 by Ioannis Marínos to the Commission
    Subject: Cost of bank transactions in Greece

    219

    2004/C 078E/225

    E-3074/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Avermectin

    220

    2004/C 078E/226

    E-3096/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Protection of monopolies and high fares by means of aviation agreements with third countries and attempts by potential competitors to break such monopolies

    222

    2004/C 078E/227

    E-3113/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Classification of the codes for the units of measurement of quantities exported shown on the Commission's database CATS (Clearance Audit Trail System)

    223

    2004/C 078E/228

    E-3124/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: Working languages

    224

    2004/C 078E/229

    E-3126/03 by Astrid Thors to the Commission
    Subject: The cross-border provision of gaming services for humanitarian causes

    225

    2004/C 078E/230

    E-3130/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Fisheries — OASIS — Oceanic Seamounts

    226

    2004/C 078E/231

    E-3134/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Holland — ‘Ecstasy’

    227

    2004/C 078E/232

    E-3151/03 by Herman Schmid to the Commission
    Subject: The perception of quality of life in the EU

    229

    2004/C 078E/233

    E-3155/03 by Mogens Camre to the Commission
    Subject: Competition-distorting customs duties on fish imported from Norway to Denmark

    230

    2004/C 078E/234

    P-3160/03 by Ioannis Averoff to the Commission
    Subject: Authorisation for the construction of a landfill site in the prefecture of Ioannina

    231

    2004/C 078E/235

    P-3165/03 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Spanish Hydrological Plan (Pyrenees)

    233

    2004/C 078E/236

    E-3169/03 by Michl Ebner to the Commission
    Subject: Ban on dangerous dog breeds

    234

    2004/C 078E/237

    E-3174/03 by Charles Tannock to the Commission
    Subject: European film-making

    234

    2004/C 078E/238

    P-3178/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the Commission
    Subject: Damage caused by the Prestige: fresh evaluation and the Solidarity Fund

    236

    2004/C 078E/239

    E-3187/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the Commission
    Subject: Free movement of bankrupt persons in the EU

    237

    2004/C 078E/240

    E-3192/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat: clarification of President Prodi's powers of intervention

    237

    2004/C 078E/241

    E-3198/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Further camp closures and expulsions of refugees in Ingushetia

    239

    2004/C 078E/242

    P-3201/03 by Antonio Tajani to the Commission
    Subject: Search at the Ί1 Giornale' head office in Rome: violation of freedom of the press in Italy

    240

    2004/C 078E/243

    E-3219/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the Commission
    Subject: Recognition of fire regulations in the EU

    240

    2004/C 078E/244

    E-3231/03 by Dorette Corbey to the Commission
    Subject: Allocation of subsidies under the fifth and sixth framework programmes

    241

    2004/C 078E/245

    E-3255/03 by Marie Isler Béguin and Yves Piétrasanta to the Commission
    Subject: Respect for rights and justice following the Bhopal tragedy in India

    243

    2004/C 078E/246

    P-3258/03 by María Ayuso González to the Commission
    Subject: Garlic import scheme

    244

    2004/C 078E/247

    E-3260/03 by Michel Hansenne to the Commission
    Subject: Approving the setting up of a driving school

    244

    2004/C 078E/248

    E-3262/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Exclusion of persons who are nationals of another Member State from the right to purchase soft drugs or to be members of a users' association

    245

    2004/C 078E/249

    E-3268/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Commission employees

    246

    2004/C 078E/250

    E-3273/03 by Bart Staes to the Commission
    Subject: Emissions of refrigerant gases from (Dutch) ships

    246

    2004/C 078E/251

    E-3278/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Macao — Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation

    248

    2004/C 078E/252

    P-3279/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Quality checks by the Commission on the Clearance Audit Trail System (CATS) database

    249

    2004/C 078E/253

    E-3280/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Lack of specific monitoring of product quantities exported from Member States to the Vatican City State under the export refund system

    252

    2004/C 078E/254

    E-3281/03 by Bartho Pronk, Maria Martens and Albert Maat to the Commission
    Subject: Follow-up to question E-1740/02 on the free movement of captains

    253

    2004/C 078E/255

    P-3283/03 by Francesco Speroni to the Commission
    Subject: Bananas

    255

    2004/C 078E/256

    E-3293/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: Structural Funds

    255

    2004/C 078E/257

    E-3304/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: Monitoring racial and ethnic discrimination at border controls

    256

    2004/C 078E/258

    E-3317/03 by Íñigo Méndez de Vigo to the Commission
    Subject: Cross-border payments

    257

    2004/C 078E/259

    E-3320/03 by Glyn Ford to the Commission
    Subject: Transit visas in the EU

    258

    2004/C 078E/260

    P-3323/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Suspected infringement of the rules on public contracts by ATAC in Rome

    259

    2004/C 078E/261

    E-3327/03 by Albert Maat and Jan Mulder to the Commission
    Subject: Histomoniasis (blackhead)

    260

    2004/C 078E/262

    P-3332/03 by Herbert Bösch to the Commission
    Subject: Export refunds for live cattle

    262

    2004/C 078E/263

    P-3334/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: Politically absurd opinion polls

    263

    2004/C 078E/264

    E-3335/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Editorial offices of the daily newspaper Ί1 Giornale' searched

    264

    2004/C 078E/265

    E-3336/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Suspected violation of the rights of the employees of Alcatel Italia S.p.A

    265

    2004/C 078E/266

    E-3339/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Possibility of funding for the health authority of Fiumicino — Rome XIII

    266

    2004/C 078E/267

    E-3342/03 by Mogens Camre to the Commission
    Subject: Financial aid to Danish immigrant associations

    267

    2004/C 078E/268

    E-3348/03 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the Commission
    Subject: Project Gutenberg — making digital copies of books whose copyright has expired

    268

    2004/C 078E/269

    E-3351/03 by Christoph Konrad to the Commission
    Subject: Obstacles to the free movement of workers in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

    269

    2004/C 078E/270

    E-3352/03 by Roger Helmer to the Commission
    Subject: Single Market rules

    270

    2004/C 078E/271

    E-3353/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the Commission
    Subject: Equal treatment of men and women in sport

    271

    2004/C 078E/272

    E-3360/03 by Jean-Maurice Dehousse to the Commission
    Subject: Free movement of persons

    271

    2004/C 078E/273

    E-3362/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the Commission
    Subject: Development of new nuclear power stations

    272

    2004/C 078E/274

    E-3372/03 by Mogens Camre to the Commission
    Subject: Denmark's prospects of renegotiating Protocol 16

    273

    2004/C 078E/275

    E-3378/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the Commission
    Subject: European financial assistance to European contact points

    274

    2004/C 078E/276

    E-3381/03 by David Martin to the Commission
    Subject: Transportation of horses from Romania to Italy

    275

    2004/C 078E/277

    E-3385/03 by Karin Junker to the Commission
    Subject: Use of metal detectors in archaeology

    275

    2004/C 078E/278

    E-3388/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: The gradual downgrading of the role played by national central banks following the establishment of the ECB and the implications for the prevention of the production and distribution of counterfeit money

    276

    2004/C 078E/279

    E-3395/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Freedom of movement for Kosovo citizens in the EU and the final status of Kosovo

    278

    2004/C 078E/280

    E-3397/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: Dental instruments and risk of infections

    279

    2004/C 078E/281

    E-3406/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the Commission
    Subject: Installation and operation of mobile telephone antennae in Chortiatis

    280

    2004/C 078E/282

    E-3412/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: EU funding of independent NGO projects in Tunisia

    282

    2004/C 078E/283

    E-3434/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Protection of the Bauhaus style of architecture

    283

    2004/C 078E/284

    E-3438/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the Commission
    Subject: Renovation of the Berlaymont building

    284

    2004/C 078E/285

    E-3445/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Support for non-autonomous handicapped people

    285

    2004/C 078E/286

    E-3450/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Criteria for fisheries sector structural actions

    286

    2004/C 078E/287

    E-3458/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: The final destruction of tropical rainforests and measures to prevent overlogging and imports of timber without an ecolabel

    287

    2004/C 078E/288

    E-3461/03 by Peder Wachtmeister to the Commission
    Subject: Corruption scandal within the Swedish retail monopoly undertaking Systembolaget AB

    288

    2004/C 078E/289

    E-3469/03 by Bart Staes, Phillip Whitehead, Catherine Stihler and Margrietus van den Berg to the Commission
    Subject: Post-polio syndrome

    289

    2004/C 078E/290

    E-3480/03 by Catherine Stihler to the Commission
    Subject: Civil rights of disabled people

    290

    2004/C 078E/291

    E-3483/03 by Richard Corbett to the Commission
    Subject: Use of documents as evidence of criminal activity

    291

    2004/C 078E/292

    E-3489/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Stepping up supplies to the Sinaga's sugar production units — Azores Autonomous Region

    292

    2004/C 078E/293

    P-3492/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Romano Prodi — Manifesto

    292

    2004/C 078E/294

    E-3498/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Iran — nuclear energy

    293

    2004/C 078E/295

    E-3503/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the Commission
    Subject: Stray dogs and the Olympic Games

    294

    2004/C 078E/296

    P-3509/03 by Helmuth Markov to the Commission
    Subject: Interreg IIIA: Future funding of Euroregion offices

    294

    2004/C 078E/297

    E-3530/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: Health and safety for the elderly and disabled

    295

    2004/C 078E/298

    E-3534/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Portuguese workers abroad

    296

    2004/C 078E/299

    E-3535/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Humana Milchunion — infant health

    297

    2004/C 078E/300

    E-3545/03 by Alexander de Roo, Karl-Heinz Florenz and Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Transposition of the directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in France

    298

    2004/C 078E/301

    E-3556/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the Commission
    Subject: Projects co-funded by the ERDF in Lobios in Ourense, Spain

    299

    2004/C 078E/302

    E-3588/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Mozambique — elections

    300

    2004/C 078E/303

    P-3595/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: Disability

    301

    2004/C 078E/304

    E-3610/03 by Jan Mulder to the Commission
    Subject: Circumvention of sugar import tariffs

    302

    2004/C 078E/305

    P-3618/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Building cooperatives in Greece

    303

    2004/C 078E/306

    E-3637/03 by Torben Lund to the Commission
    Subject: Working environment for employees handling preservatives

    304

    2004/C 078E/307

    E-3639/03 by Michl Ebner to the Commission
    Subject: Pollution in Wipp and Eisack valleys (Austria and Italy)

    305

    2004/C 078E/308

    E-3642/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the Commission
    Subject: Eurobarometer poll

    306

    2004/C 078E/309

    E-3658/03 by Glyn Ford to the Commission
    Subject: Ban Bullying Day — future action

    307

    2004/C 078E/310

    E-3659/03 by Glyn Ford to the Commission
    Subject: Free movement of goods and services

    308

    2004/C 078E/311

    E-3662/03 by Glyn Ford to the Commission
    Subject: Botswanan beef, wildlife and sustainable development

    309

    2004/C 078E/312

    E-3664/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the Commission
    Subject: Women's reproductive health

    310

    2004/C 078E/313

    P-3666/03 by Mario Mantovani to the Commission
    Subject: Health services and free movement of patients

    311

    2004/C 078E/314

    P-3693/03 by Armin Laschet to the Commission
    Subject: Unpublished study on anti-Semitism drawn up by the EUMC

    313

    2004/C 078E/315

    P-3696/03 by Anna Karamanou to the Commission
    Subject: Balanced participation of women and men in the decision-making process

    314

    2004/C 078E/316

    P-3761/03 by Astrid Thors to the Commission
    Subject: Obligation to destroy horses where nandrolon has been used

    315

    2004/C 078E/317

    E-3764/03 by Alexander de Roo to the Commission
    Subject: Spanish Hydrological Plan: cost of water transferred, and the recovery of funding

    316

    2004/C 078E/318

    E-3765/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Carrara municipality

    317

    2004/C 078E/319

    E-3766/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Florence municipality

    317

    2004/C 078E/320

    E-3767/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Livorno municipality

    318

    2004/C 078E/321

    E-3768/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Macerata municipality

    318

    2004/C 078E/322

    E-3769/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Massa municipality

    318

    2004/C 078E/323

    E-3770/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Perugia municipality

    319

    2004/C 078E/324

    E-3771/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Pistoia municipality

    319

    2004/C 078E/325

    E-3772/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Prato municipality

    319

    2004/C 078E/326

    E-3773/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Siena municipality

    320

    2004/C 078E/327

    E-3774/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Terni municipality

    320

    2004/C 078E/328

    E-3775/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on the use of funds from the Leonardo programme for the Ancona municipality

    320

    2004/C 078E/329

    E-3793/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on funding for the city of Pisa under the Leonardo programme

    321

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-3765/03, E-3766/03, E-3767/03, E-3768/03, E-3769/03, E-3770/03, E-3771/03, E-3772/03, E-3773/03, E-3774/03, E-3775/03 and E-3793/03

    321

    2004/C 078E/330

    E-3794/03 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Fisheries certification

    321

    2004/C 078E/331

    E-3798/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Ancona

    322

    2004/C 078E/332

    E-3799/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Pisa

    322

    2004/C 078E/333

    E-3800/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Pistoia

    322

    2004/C 078E/334

    E-3801/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Prato

    323

    2004/C 078E/335

    E-3802/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Siena

    323

    2004/C 078E/336

    E-3803/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Terni

    323

    2004/C 078E/337

    E-3804/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Perugia

    323

    2004/C 078E/338

    E-3805/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Carrara

    324

    2004/C 078E/339

    E-3806/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Florence

    324

    2004/C 078E/340

    E-3807/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Livorno

    324

    2004/C 078E/341

    E-3808/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Macerata

    324

    2004/C 078E/342

    E-3809/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Culture 2000 programme by the municipality of Massa

    325

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-3798/03, E-3799/03, E-3800/03, E-3801/03, E-3802/03, E-3803/03, E-3804/03, E-3805/03, E-3806/03, E-3807/03, E-3808/03 and E-3809/03

    325

    2004/C 078E/343

    P-3810/03 by Mogens Camre to the Commission
    Subject: EU rules on discarding healthy fish

    325

    2004/C 078E/344

    P-3835/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: Implementation of Directive 89/48/EEC

    327

    2004/C 078E/345

    E-3838/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the Commission
    Subject: Stray animals in Greece

    328

    2004/C 078E/346

    E-3867/03 by Richard Corbett to the Commission
    Subject: Timeshare and holiday club study

    328

    2004/C 078E/347

    E-3883/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Alcatel Italia: Community funding for telecommunications

    330

    2004/C 078E/348

    E-3884/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Alcatel Italia: suspected infringement of rules on funding granted by the EU

    331

    2004/C 078E/349

    E-3885/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Alcatel Italia: possible checks on funding granted by the EU

    331

    2004/C 078E/350

    P-3890/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Recognition in Greece of diplomas of Community universities

    332

    2004/C 078E/351

    P-3892/03 by Nicole Thomas-Mauro to the Commission
    Subject: Opinion of AFSSA

    333

    2004/C 078E/352

    E-3901/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: President Prodi's involvement in Italian politics

    334

    2004/C 078E/353

    P-3911/03 by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to the Commission
    Subject: Discrimination against minors with regard to access to sporting federations in Spain

    335

    2004/C 078E/354

    P-3925/03 by Raina Echerer to the Commission
    Subject: Cat and dog furs — internal market

    336

    2004/C 078E/355

    P-4008/03 by Fernando Fernández Martín to the Commission
    Subject: Powerline Communications Systems

    337

    2004/C 078E/356

    P-0001/04 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Refunds for exports to the Vatican City State

    338

     

    WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 2)

    2004/C 078E/357

    E-1653/01 by Professor Sir Neil MacCormick to the Commission
    Subject: Restitution of property in the applicant countries

    340

    2004/C 078E/358

    P-1721/01 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Net budget transfers

    340

    2004/C 078E/359

    E-1746/01 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Completion of construction of hospitals at Katerini, Pyrgos and Corfu

    341

    2004/C 078E/360

    E-1897/01 by Charles Tannock to the Commission
    Subject: The legal basis for the Commission's proposals on the setting-up and funding of pan-European political parties

    342

    2004/C 078E/361

    P-2120/01 by Hans Modrow to the Commission
    Subject: Extradition of Milosevic to the Hague tribunal

    343

    2004/C 078E/362

    E-3711/01 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the Commission
    Subject: New trade agreement with the USA

    343

    2004/C 078E/363

    E-0684/02 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Moldova — the poorest country in Europe — and the striking difference in its treatment by the EU in comparison with the Baltic States

    344

    2004/C 078E/364

    E-0685/02 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Adverse impact on the EU Member States of constant discrimination against Moldova and its exceptional status

    345

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-0684/02 and E-0685/02

    345

    2004/C 078E/365

    E-3467/02 by Graham Watson to the Commission
    Subject: Effective treatment of tuberculosis — progress

    346

    2004/C 078E/366

    E-3561/02 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Bush meat

    348

    2004/C 078E/367

    E-3630/02 by Bill Newton Dunn to the Commission
    Subject: Limit to the number of cigarettes one may take out of Spain

    350

    2004/C 078E/368

    E-3647/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the Commission
    Subject: UPDF prisoners in Uganda

    350

    2004/C 078E/369

    P-3769/02 by Caroline Lucas to the Commission
    Subject: GATS

    351

    2004/C 078E/370

    E-3863/02 by Graham Watson to the Commission
    Subject: North Korean refugees

    352

    2004/C 078E/371

    E-3882/02 by Helle Thorning-Schmidt to the Commission
    Subject: Mexico's free-trade agreement and violation of human rights

    353

    2004/C 078E/372

    E-3900/02 by Lennart Sacrédeus to the Commission
    Subject: Treatment and life situation of girls and women in Afghanistan

    354

    2004/C 078E/373

    P-0327/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the Commission
    Subject: Implementation of Regulation (EC) No 2560/2001 on crossborder payments in euro

    354

    2004/C 078E/374

    E-0426/03 by Anna Karamanou to the Commission
    Subject: Violation of human rights in Chechnya

    355

    2004/C 078E/375

    E-0521/03 by Miet Smet to the Commission
    Subject: Women's rights in Pakistan

    356

    2004/C 078E/376

    E-0586/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Reduction of VAT on CDs

    358

    2004/C 078E/377

    E-0819/03 by Ole Krarup to the Commission
    Subject: GM crops and liability

    358

    2004/C 078E/378

    E-0906/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Cuba; Cotonou Agreement; Human rights

    359

    2004/C 078E/379

    E-1141/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Infrastructural damage caused by landslides in Greece

    360

    2004/C 078E/380

    E-1143/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Accessibility of digital services for the visually impaired

    361

    2004/C 078E/381

    E-1230/03 by Freddy Blak to the Commission
    Subject: Enhanced legal cooperation

    362

    2004/C 078E/382

    E-1232/03 by Nicholas Clegg to the Commission
    Subject: Member States' policies on airport expansion

    363

    2004/C 078E/383

    E-1272/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the Commission
    Subject: Discrimination in the treatment of citizens of EU Member States by the Turkish government

    363

    2004/C 078E/384

    E-1278/03 by Dana Scallon to the Commission
    Subject: Uniates in Romania

    364

    2004/C 078E/385

    E-1322/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Zimbabwe: land, violence and nepotism

    365

    2004/C 078E/386

    E-1364/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Exploitation of Community citizens by the Vatican City State

    367

    2004/C 078E/387

    E-1416/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Bank sentenced to pay compensation to clients for having provided information to the tax authorities of their Member State

    367

    2004/C 078E/388

    E-1418/03 by Maria Carrilho to the Commission
    Subject: Revision of the Europe-Asia strategic framework

    368

    2004/C 078E/389

    E-1451/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the Commission
    Subject: Cooperation with the Slovak Institute of Metrology

    369

    2004/C 078E/390

    E-1517/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the Commission
    Subject: Economic Partnership Agreements

    370

    2004/C 078E/391

    E-1526/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Failure to remove blue and brown asbestos from contaminated flats, workshops and other buildings in EU accession State Hungary

    371

    2004/C 078E/392

    E-1540/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Trade in equipment which could be used for torture or capital punishment

    372

    2004/C 078E/393

    E-1541/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Outlawing the production of equipment for capital punishment and torture

    373

    2004/C 078E/394

    E-1542/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Control of trade in products that may be used to inflict torture

    373

    2004/C 078E/395

    E-1543/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Production of equipment and products for capital punishment or torture

    373

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-1540/03, E-1541/03, E-1542/03 and E-1543/03

    373

    2004/C 078E/396

    P-1594/03 by Emilio Menéndez del Valle to the Commission
    Subject: EC-Israel trade agreement

    374

    2004/C 078E/397

    P-1595/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the Commission
    Subject: Cross-border payments in euro

    375

    2004/C 078E/398

    P-1632/03 by Renato Brunetta to the Commission
    Subject: Sale of the ‘Vittoriosa Gaming’ company by the ‘Casinò Municipale di Venezia’

    375

    2004/C 078E/399

    E-1636/03 by Bartho Pronk to the Commission
    Subject: Sixth VAT Directive

    376

    2004/C 078E/400

    E-1647/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Way in which EU funds for integrating Roma in Bulgaria and improving their living conditions are used and managed

    378

    2004/C 078E/401

    P-1653/03 by Joost Lagendijk to the Commission
    Subject: European Civil Peace Corps — current developments — mainstreaming of conflict prevention in external EU policies

    379

    2004/C 078E/402

    P-1661/03 by Luigi Vinci to the Commission
    Subject: Trial of Leyla Zana

    380

    2004/C 078E/403

    E-1668/03 by Charles Tannock to the Commission
    Subject: Human rights abuses in the Western Sahara

    381

    2004/C 078E/404

    E-1669/03 by Jean Lambert to the Commission
    Subject: Baku-Ceyhun oil pipeline

    382

    2004/C 078E/405

    E-1689/03 by Anders Wijkman to the Commission
    Subject: Bushmeat

    383

    2004/C 078E/406

    E-1739/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the Commission
    Subject: European Union unit to work for the release of kidnapped European tourists

    384

    2004/C 078E/407

    E-1763/03 by Torben Lund to the Commission
    Subject: Legislation in the EU, the Member States and the applicant countries concerning horse-keeping

    385

    2004/C 078E/408

    E-1777/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: Veria Justice and Home Affairs Council

    386

    2004/C 078E/409

    E-1827/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Reduced VAT on the rent or purchase of video cassettes and DVDs

    386

    2004/C 078E/410

    E-1832/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the Commission
    Subject: Substandard workmanship in Greece

    387

    2004/C 078E/411

    E-1838/03 by Roger Helmer, Charles Tannock, Sir Robert Atkins, Giles Chichester, Hartmut Nassauer and Jules Maaten to the Commission
    Subject: Free Trade Agreement between Singapore and the EU

    388

    2004/C 078E/412

    P-1839/03 by Ilka Schröder to the Commission
    Subject: EU relations with Syria and association agreement

    389

    2004/C 078E/413

    E-1854/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Landslides in Greece and infrastructural damage

    390

    2004/C 078E/414

    E-1869/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Pension losses

    391

    2004/C 078E/415

    E-1873/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Listing requirements

    392

    2004/C 078E/416

    E-1882/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Trade impact of euro

    393

    2004/C 078E/417

    P-1979/03 by Ian Hudghton to the Commission
    Subject: Synthetic progestins in contraceptive pills and Hormone Replacement Therapy

    394

    2004/C 078E/418

    E-2121/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the Commission
    Subject: Developing infrastructure and promoting employment in Madagascar

    395

    2004/C 078E/419

    E-2123/03 by Isabelle Caullery to the Commission
    Subject: Promotion of renewable energy sources and waste processing in Mauritius

    396

    2004/C 078E/420

    E-2143/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the Commission
    Subject: Commission contracts with the Planistat Group

    397

    2004/C 078E/421

    E-2173/03 by Paulo Casaca to the Commission
    Subject: Compliance with EU legislation on asbestos (Supplementary Answer)

    399

    2004/C 078E/422

    E-2211/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: Progress on asylum at Thessaloniki

    400

    2004/C 078E/423

    E-2212/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi to the Commission
    Subject: Increasing EU citizens' opportunities for influence and participation through interactive information technology

    401

    2004/C 078E/424

    E-2293/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Discontinuation of cross-border night-trains within the EU, in response to free market pressures, leading to high ticket prices for journeys using the rail networks of other Member States

    402

    2004/C 078E/425

    E-2405/03 by Bart Staes to the Commission
    Subject: Motor-vehicle insurance

    403

    2004/C 078E/426

    E-2406/03 by Bart Staes to the Commission
    Subject: Motor-vehicle insurance

    404

    2004/C 078E/427

    E-2407/03 by Bart Staes to the Commission
    Subject: Motor-vehicle insurance

    405

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-2405/03, E-2406/03 and E-2407/03

    405

    2004/C 078E/428

    P-2460/03 by Patricia McKenna to the Commission
    Subject: Anti-competitive actions of the Irish State in the electricity market

    407

    2004/C 078E/429

    E-2537/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Net contribution to the common agricultural policy (Supplementary Answer)

    407

    2004/C 078E/430

    E-2580/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Expectations of an increase in the production of counterfeit euro bank notes in thinly-populated countries where the euro is important as a parallel currency (Supplementary Answer)

    408

    2004/C 078E/431

    E-2601/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Refurbishment of the historic town centre of Rieti

    410

    2004/C 078E/432

    E-2649/03 by Paul Rübig to the Commission
    Subject: Comparison of electricity network tariffs in the Commission's second benchmarking report

    411

    2004/C 078E/433

    E-2650/03 by Theresa Villiers to the Commission
    Subject: Working Time Directive

    412

    2004/C 078E/434

    E-2662/03 by Ian Hudghton to the Commission
    Subject: Ozone-depleting substances

    413

    2004/C 078E/435

    E-2666/03 by Jean Lambert to the Commission
    Subject: Recycling print catridges

    413

    2004/C 078E/436

    E-2670/03 by Giovanni Pittella to the Commission
    Subject: Ban on simultaneous enrolment at several institutes of higher education

    415

    2004/C 078E/437

    P-2672/03 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Allocation of slots at airports

    416

    2004/C 078E/438

    E-2689/03 by Toine Manders to the Commission
    Subject: GSM roaming tariffs

    416

    2004/C 078E/439

    E-2711/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the Commission
    Subject: Free-base nicotine

    418

    2004/C 078E/440

    E-2716/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the Commission
    Subject: Radar detectors (Supplementary Answer)

    419

    2004/C 078E/441

    P-2722/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the Commission
    Subject: Application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2158 on protection of the Community's forests against fire

    420

    2004/C 078E/442

    P-2746/03 by Luigi Vinci to the Commission
    Subject: Infringements of European legislation on special conservation areas and sites of Community importance and the use of European funding for the reforestation of the Alta Murgia (Bari)

    421

    2004/C 078E/443

    E-2771/03 by Glyn Ford to the Commission
    Subject: European Project Funding for Enable project

    423

    2004/C 078E/444

    E-2772/03 by Glyn Ford to the Commission
    Subject: Levels of professional indemnity cover for small insurance firms

    424

    2004/C 078E/445

    E-2779/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Increase in the volume of mail and freight transported by rail in Germany and measures to promote a similar increase in other Member States

    425

    2004/C 078E/446

    P-2780/03 by António Campos to the Commission
    Subject: Forest fires in the Union

    426

    2004/C 078E/447

    E-2789/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the Commission
    Subject: Banking rules in EU emissions trading: Member States' right to bank emission allowances

    428

    2004/C 078E/448

    E-2790/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the Commission
    Subject: Banking rules in EU emissions trading: invariability of AAU (BSA) amounts

    429

    2004/C 078E/449

    E-2791/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the Commission
    Subject: Problem of double accounting in emissions trading

    429

    2004/C 078E/450

    E-2792/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the Commission
    Subject: Opportunities for aggressive speculation in emissions trading

    430

    2004/C 078E/451

    E-2793/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the Commission
    Subject: Definition of hot air and ban under the Kyoto Protocol

    430

    2004/C 078E/452

    E-2794/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the Commission
    Subject: Publication of the EU's Kyoto target as a five-year moving average

    431

    2004/C 078E/453

    E-2795/03 by Eija-Riitta Korhola to the Commission
    Subject: Emissions trading: problem of period-based allocation

    431

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-2789/03, E-2790/03, E-2791/03, E-2792/03, E-2793/03, E-2794/03 and E-2795/03

    431

    2004/C 078E/454

    P-2799/03 by Domenico Mennitti to the Commission
    Subject: Development of Pan-European corridors

    433

    2004/C 078E/455

    E-2819/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Environmental impact assessments in Ireland

    434

    2004/C 078E/456

    E-2826/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the Commission
    Subject: Eco-driving

    434

    2004/C 078E/457

    E-2827/03 by Kathleen Van Brempt to the Commission
    Subject: Isolation units in hospitals

    435

    2004/C 078E/458

    E-2832/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the Commission
    Subject: Compliance with of the Stability and Growth Pact

    436

    2004/C 078E/459

    E-2851/03 by Monica Frassoni to the Commission
    Subject: Building of a road without an environmental impact assessment in the proposed site of Community interest — the Triassic chalk outcrops in the Tuscan and Emilian Apennines (Villa Minozzo, RE, Italy)

    438

    2004/C 078E/460

    E-2853/03 by Richard Corbett to the Commission
    Subject: Port Services Directive: attacks on Parliament by Commission official

    439

    2004/C 078E/461

    E-2877/03 by Jan Dhaene to the Commission
    Subject: The ‘Sentiers de l'Europe’ international architecture competition and Place Jean Rey

    440

    2004/C 078E/462

    E-2895/03 by Dana Scallon to the Commission
    Subject: Irish sheep farmers

    440

    2004/C 078E/463

    E-2903/03 by Miet Smet to the Commission
    Subject: Suspension of cooperation agreements and postponement of their signature

    441

    2004/C 078E/464

    P-2916/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the Commission
    Subject: Community financial assistance for transnational producer organisations

    442

    2004/C 078E/465

    E-2959/03 by Armando Cossutta to the Commission
    Subject: Risks of electricity blackouts

    443

    2004/C 078E/466

    E-2966/03 by Brian Simpson to the Commission
    Subject: Spanish National Hydrological Plan: the impact of the La Brena dam project on the Iberian lynx and protected raptors

    444

    2004/C 078E/467

    P-2975/03 by Freddy Blak to the Commission
    Subject: Contracts with CESD

    445

    2004/C 078E/468

    E-2994/03 by Bernhard Rapkay to the Commission
    Subject: EU funding for Nordrhein-Westfalen for the years 2001 and 2002 (Supplementary Answer)

    447

    2004/C 078E/469

    E-2996/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Standardisation of computer dates

    447

    2004/C 078E/470

    E-3007/03 by Giacomo Santini to the Commission
    Subject: Role of the European Rural Carrefours in CAP information campaigns

    448

    2004/C 078E/471

    P-3068/03 by Hugues Martin to the Commission
    Subject: Funding of bodies which play host to an Info-Point Europe

    448

    2004/C 078E/472

    E-3112/03 by Giacomo Santini, Elena Paciotti, Luciana Sbarbati, Giovanni Pittella, Generoso Andria, Enrico Ferri, Carlo Fatuzzo, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Roberta Angelilli, Stefano Zappalà, Paolo Pastorelli, Antonio Di Pietro, Mauro Nobilia, Sebastiano Musumeci, Michl Ebner, Roberto Bigliardo, Catherine Guy-Quint, Adriana Poli Bortone, Fiorella Ghilardotti, Monica Frassoni, Franz Turchi, Massimo Carraro, Guido Bodrato, Francesco Musotto, Vincenzo Lavarra, Vitaliano Gemelli and Giovanni Fava to the Commission
    Subject: EU information policy — legal basis for the European ‘Carrefours ruraux’ and ‘Info-Points Europe’ — urgent need for operational subsidy for 2004

    449

    2004/C 078E/473

    P-3153/03 by Evelyne Gebhardt to the Commission
    Subject: EU Info-Points

    450

    2004/C 078E/474

    E-3240/03 by Thierry Cornillet to the Commission
    Subject: Abolition of operating grants for Europe Info-Points

    450

    2004/C 078E/475

    P-3265/03 by Maria Sanders-ten Holte to the Commission
    Subject: Info-Points and Carrefours

    451

    2004/C 078E/476

    E-3287/03 by Brice Hortefeux to the Commission
    Subject: Europe Houses

    451

    2004/C 078E/477

    E-3301/03 by Nicole Thomas-Mauro to the Commission
    Subject: Info-points Europe

    452

    2004/C 078E/478

    Ρ-3389/03 by John Hume to the Commission
    Subject: European Carrefours

    452

    2004/C 078E/479

    P-3403/03 by John Cushnahan to the Commission
    Subject: Funding for European Carrefour

    452

    Supplementary joint answer to Written Questions E-3007/03, P-3068/03, E-3112/03, P-3153/03, E-3240/03, P-3265/03, E-3287/03, E-3301/03, P-3389/03 and P-3403/03

    453

    2004/C 078E/480

    E-3012/03 by Jaime Valdivielso de Cué to the Commission
    Subject: Wine

    454

    2004/C 078E/481

    E-3030/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Use of hydraulic dredges in the EU

    454

    2004/C 078E/482

    P-3037/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the Commission
    Subject: Breach of EU environmental legislation in the expansion of Frankfurt airport

    455

    2004/C 078E/483

    E-3059/03 by Avril Doyle to the Commission
    Subject: EU funding for marine conservation

    456

    2004/C 078E/484

    E-3062/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: Improving water networks

    457

    2004/C 078E/485

    P-3069/03 by Luciana Sbarbati to the Commission
    Subject: Adriatic Corridor

    459

    2004/C 078E/486

    P-3077/03 by Torben Lund to the Commission
    Subject: Failure to implement Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles

    460

    2004/C 078E/487

    E-3086/03 by Bruno Gollnisch to the Commission
    Subject: Tobacco trade/France

    461

    2004/C 078E/488

    E-3087/03 by Bruno Gollnisch to the Commission
    Subject: Commission criteria on concentrations

    462

    2004/C 078E/489

    E-3099/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the Commission
    Subject: Aid for the farming of mussels

    464

    2004/C 078E/490

    E-3106/03 by María Bergaz Conesa to the Commission
    Subject: The Júcar-Vinalopó water diversion project

    465

    2004/C 078E/491

    E-3128/03 by Jaime Valdivielso de Cué to the Commission
    Subject: Trade

    467

    2004/C 078E/492

    E-3131/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: ‘Sorraia’ horses

    467

    2004/C 078E/493

    P-3135/03 by Patricia McKenna to the Commission
    Subject: Disposal of toxic ships

    469

    2004/C 078E/494

    E-3138/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: Atmospheric pollution in Thessaloniki

    470

    2004/C 078E/495

    E-3140/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the Commission
    Subject: Death-penalty-related projects

    471

    2004/C 078E/496

    E-3141/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the Commission
    Subject: European week against cancer — scientific research

    472

    2004/C 078E/497

    E-3144/03 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the Commission
    Subject: EU funding for the Spanish National Hydrological Plan

    473

    2004/C 078E/498

    P-3145/03 by W.G. van Velzen to the Commission
    Subject: Batteries in exploding mobile phones

    474

    2004/C 078E/499

    P-3152/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the Commission
    Subject: Exploding Nokia telephones

    476

    2004/C 078E/500

    E-3156/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the Commission
    Subject: Residential building in the Serra de la Renegà and the Oropesa-Benicàssim SCI (Castellón, Spain)

    477

    2004/C 078E/501

    E-3157/03 by Monica Frassoni to the Commission
    Subject: Enlargement of a military base in the Natura 2000 site of La Maddalena, Sardinia

    478

    2004/C 078E/502

    E-3173/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the Commission
    Subject: Voting rights for immigrants

    480

    2004/C 078E/503

    E-3182/03 by Paulo Casaca to the Commission
    Subject: The air transport company SATA's failure to comply with Community legislation

    481

    2004/C 078E/504

    E-3183/03 by Paulo Casaca to the Commission
    Subject: Calculating the additional levy in the Azores Autonomous Region

    482

    2004/C 078E/505

    E-3186/03 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the Commission
    Subject: Cross-border consumer goods transactions

    483

    2004/C 078E/506

    E-3189/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Explosion of Nokia mobile phone batteries

    484

    2004/C 078E/507

    E-3193/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Information on the former Director-General of Eurostat

    485

    2004/C 078E/508

    E-3200/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Racial appearance as a criterion for police or customs checks on individuals crossing an internal EU border

    487

    2004/C 078E/509

    E-3204/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Commercial exploitation of protected wildlife species in Greece

    487

    2004/C 078E/510

    E-3207/03 by Alexander de Roo to the Commission
    Subject: Peroxide in toothpaste

    488

    2004/C 078E/511

    E-3212/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: British newspaper allegations regarding irregularities in connection with Commission funding

    489

    2004/C 078E/512

    E-3216/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the Commission
    Subject: Disposal of hazardous waste in Greece and infringement of environmental legislation

    490

    2004/C 078E/513

    E-3218/03 by John Bowis to the Commission
    Subject: Rare diseases: Evans syndrome

    492

    2004/C 078E/514

    E-3222/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Missing persons

    493

    2004/C 078E/515

    E-3226/03 by Felipe Camisón Asensio to the Commission
    Subject: Reform of the tobacco sector

    494

    2004/C 078E/516

    E-3227/03 by John Bowis to the Commission
    Subject: Indonesia

    495

    2004/C 078E/517

    E-3230/03 by Dorette Corbey to the Commission
    Subject: Allocation of subsidies under the Interreg and Urban programmes

    496

    2004/C 078E/518

    P-3232/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the Commission
    Subject: Updated budget figures (Supplementary Answer)

    498

    2004/C 078E/519

    E-3236/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the Commission
    Subject: Training for public servants in new technologies

    498

    2004/C 078E/520

    E-3237/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the Commission
    Subject: Access to Internet for Greek households

    499

    2004/C 078E/521

    E-3239/03 by Martin Callanan to the Commission
    Subject: Bird killing in Malta

    500

    2004/C 078E/522

    E-3243/03 by Jan Wiersma to the Commission
    Subject: The ‘Buy American Act’ in the American defence budget

    500

    2004/C 078E/523

    E-3250/03 by Ruth Hieronymi, Christa Prets, Karin Junker, Raina Echerer and Maria Sanders-ten Holte to the Commission
    Subject: Assistance by the European Commission to Member States in encouraging the migration to an open interoperable standard in digital television

    502

    2004/C 078E/524

    E-3259/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: Unpleasant odours from waste disposal site in Ano Liosia

    504

    2004/C 078E/525

    E-3274/03 by Inger Schörling to the Commission
    Subject: Impact of the laying of artificial beaches in Caleta de la Guirra in the municipality of Antigua (Fuerteventura, Spain)

    505

    2004/C 078E/526

    E-3275/03 by Caroline Jackson to the Commission
    Subject: Destruction of Russian forests

    506

    2004/C 078E/527

    E-3276/03 by Brian Simpson to the Commission
    Subject: Restrictions imposed on flights into Zurich airport

    507

    2004/C 078E/528

    E-3284/03 by Lord Inglewood to the Commission
    Subject: Overbooking on Air France's flights

    507

    2004/C 078E/529

    E-3285/03 by Pierre Jonckheer to the Commission
    Subject: Feixolín open-cast coal mine (Valle de Laciana district, Spain)

    508

    2004/C 078E/530

    E-3286/03 by Anne André-Léonard to the Commission
    Subject: Harmonisation of European legislation in respect of boatmasters' certificates for recreational craft

    510

    2004/C 078E/531

    E-3288/03 by Margrietus van den Berg to the Commission
    Subject: Establishment of businesses in the municipality of Losser

    510

    2004/C 078E/532

    E-3289/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Portuguese workers without rights in the North Sea

    511

    2004/C 078E/533

    P-3291/03 by Helena Torres Marques to the Commission
    Subject: Enforcement of Community decisions in Portugal

    512

    2004/C 078E/534

    E-3294/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: The European Commission's 5th Framework Project

    513

    2004/C 078E/535

    E-3296/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the Commission
    Subject: Fees for residence permits

    514

    2004/C 078E/536

    E-3300/03 by Robert Sturdy to the Commission
    Subject: ‘Scam’ e-mails requesting bank details from Africa, etc

    515

    2004/C 078E/537

    E-3302/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the Commission
    Subject: Noise abatement plans (Directive 2002/49/EC)

    517

    2004/C 078E/538

    E-3306/03 by Gary Titley to the Commission
    Subject: Fluoride in drinking water

    518

    2004/C 078E/539

    E-3309/03 by Philip Claeys to the Commission
    Subject: ‘Responsible shopping week’ in the Commission's buildings

    518

    2004/C 078E/540

    E-3321/03 by Anna Karamanou to the Commission
    Subject: Malta's temporary landfills

    519

    2004/C 078E/541

    P-3322/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the Commission
    Subject: Vice-President Kinnock and indications of irregularities at Eurostat

    520

    2004/C 078E/542

    E-3326/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Emoluments of Commissioners

    521

    2004/C 078E/543

    E-3328/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Wilful neglect, to the point of destruction, of the former prison camp ‘Stammlager Χ Β Sandbostel’, an important memorial to the shared history of Europe

    522

    2004/C 078E/544

    E-3329/03 by Antonio Tajani to the Commission
    Subject: Eurobarometer poll according to which Israel is the greatest threat to world peace

    523

    2004/C 078E/545

    E-3340/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Request for verification of information concerning President Prodi

    524

    2004/C 078E/546

    E-3341/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the Commission
    Subject: Albania

    525

    2004/C 078E/547

    E-3343/03 by Mogens Camre to the Commission
    Subject: European Convention on Human Rights in relation to third countries

    526

    2004/C 078E/548

    E-3345/03 by John Bowis to the Commission
    Subject: Villas of Palladio

    527

    2004/C 078E/549

    P-3350/03 by Patricia McKenna to the Commission
    Subject: Derrybrien wind-farm bog-slide

    528

    2004/C 078E/550

    E-3361/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the Commission
    Subject: Ijzeren Rijn railway line

    529

    2004/C 078E/551

    E-3367/03 by Avril Doyle to the Commission
    Subject: Laser technology and radiation emissions

    530

    2004/C 078E/552

    E-3368/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the Commission
    Subject: Eurobarometer opinion poll on ‘Iraq and world peace’

    530

    2004/C 078E/553

    E-3370/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the Commission
    Subject: Mr Prodi's comments on the outcome of the Swedish referendum on EMU

    531

    2004/C 078E/554

    E-3371/03 by Mogens Camre to the Commission
    Subject: Legal implications of ratification of EU draft Constitution

    532

    2004/C 078E/555

    P-3376/03 by Christine De Veyrac to the Commission
    Subject: Reduced rates of VAT — hairdressing

    533

    2004/C 078E/556

    E-3379/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: Expansion of petroleum installations in the Ambracian Gulf

    534

    2004/C 078E/557

    E-3384/03 by Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Olivier Dupuis, Marco Pannella and Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Corridor 5

    535

    2004/C 078E/558

    P-3390/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: VAT on tailoring

    536

    2004/C 078E/559

    E-3393/03 by Jean Lambert to the Commission
    Subject: Moped type-approval

    537

    2004/C 078E/560

    E-3404/03 by Patricia McKenna to the Commission
    Subject: Ireland and infringement cases for bad application of EU environmental legislation

    538

    2004/C 078E/561

    E-3405/03 by Concepció Ferrer to the Commission
    Subject: Management of the Structural Funds (Supplementary Answer)

    539

    2004/C 078E/562

    E-3407/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Cabinda — report on human rights

    541

    2004/C 078E/563

    E-3413/03 by Olivier Duhamel to the Commission
    Subject: Eurobarometer

    542

    2004/C 078E/564

    E-3416/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    543

    2004/C 078E/565

    E-3417/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    543

    2004/C 078E/566

    E-3418/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    543

    2004/C 078E/567

    E-3419/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    543

    2004/C 078E/568

    E-3420/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    544

    2004/C 078E/569

    E-3421/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    544

    2004/C 078E/570

    E-3422/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    544

    2004/C 078E/571

    E-3423/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    544

    2004/C 078E/572

    E-3424/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    544

    2004/C 078E/573

    E-3425/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    545

    2004/C 078E/574

    E-3426/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    545

    2004/C 078E/575

    E-3427/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    545

    2004/C 078E/576

    E-3428/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    545

    2004/C 078E/577

    E-3429/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    546

    2004/C 078E/578

    E-3430/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    546

    2004/C 078E/579

    E-3431/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    546

    2004/C 078E/580

    E-3432/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    546

    2004/C 078E/581

    E-3433/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Eurostat scandal — unanswered questions

    547

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-3416/03, E-3417/03, E-3418/03, E-3419/03, E-3420/03, E-3421/03, E-3422/03, E-3423/03, E-3424/03, E-3425/03, E-3426/03, E-3427/03, E-3428/03, E-3429/03, E-3430/03, E-3431/03, E-3432/03 and E-3433/03

    547

    2004/C 078E/582

    E-3437/03 by Philip Claeys to the Commission
    Subject: Anti-Semitism among North African and other Islamic immigrants in Europe

    547

    2004/C 078E/583

    E-3442/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Discrimination amongst athletes

    548

    2004/C 078E/584

    P-3446/03 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the Commission
    Subject: Authorisation for aid in connection with a biological rest period in Sicily in 2002

    549

    2004/C 078E/585

    E-3447/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Marketing problems and imports in the wine sector

    550

    2004/C 078E/586

    E-3453/03 by Philip Claeys to the Commission
    Subject: Political position adopted by EU officials' trade union TAO-AFI on night flights over outlying districts of Brussels

    551

    2004/C 078E/587

    E-3455/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the Commission
    Subject: Community Action Plan to protect seabirds from longline fishing

    552

    2004/C 078E/588

    E-3456/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone to the Commission
    Subject: Cofinancing of NGOs

    553

    2004/C 078E/589

    E-3457/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Reform of the olive oil sector

    554

    2004/C 078E/590

    E-3459/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Measures to prevent the breaking-up in Europe of old US warships contaminated with chemicals, asbestos and diesel

    554

    2004/C 078E/591

    E-3460/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Foot-dragging by the future Member State Czech Republic in connection with efforts to stamp out child prostitution in areas close to its border with Germany

    556

    2004/C 078E/592

    E-3466/03 by Theresa Villiers to the Commission
    Subject: Animal welfare at abattoirs in Greece

    557

    2004/C 078E/593

    E-3472/03 by Christoph Konrad to the Commission
    Subject: Conversion of the Landesbank Nordrhein-Westfalen into an investment bank

    558

    2004/C 078E/594

    E-3474/03 by Herbert Bösch to the Commission
    Subject: Contracts with management consultants in Commission offices

    559

    2004/C 078E/595

    E-3477/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the Commission
    Subject: Women in prison

    560

    2004/C 078E/596

    E-3479/03 by Christine De Veyrac to the Commission
    Subject: Transposition of Directive 2002/46/EC seeking to harmonise Member State legislation on food supplements

    561

    2004/C 078E/597

    E-3482/03 by Richard Corbett to the Commission
    Subject: Legal privilege of documents between companies and their law firms

    562

    2004/C 078E/598

    E-3486/03 by Karl von Wogau to the Commission
    Subject: Charges for bank transfers within the eurozone

    563

    2004/C 078E/599

    E-3490/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Regulating the market and olive growers' incomes under the reform of the COM in olive oil

    564

    2004/C 078E/600

    E-3494/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Cuba — political prisoners

    565

    2004/C 078E/601

    E-3502/03 by Michl Ebner to the Commission
    Subject: Air quality standards in areas of heavy traffic

    566

    2004/C 078E/602

    E-3506/03 by Jorge Hernández Mollar to the Commission
    Subject: Community legislation on DNA

    567

    2004/C 078E/603

    P-3510/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the Commission
    Subject: Driving licences in the European Union

    568

    2004/C 078E/604

    E-3516/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the Commission
    Subject: Commission staffing

    569

    2004/C 078E/605

    P-3519/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Sudden unilateral decision by the Italian Council of Ministers to locate a national radioactive waste storage facility in the municipality of Scanzano Jonico

    570

    2004/C 078E/606

    E-3520/03 by Rijk van Dam to the Commission
    Subject: Court of Auditors Special Report No 4/2003 concerning rural development: support for less-favoured areas

    572

    2004/C 078E/607

    P-3522/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the Commission
    Subject: Specific import tariffs on photographic products for the People's Republic of China

    573

    2004/C 078E/608

    E-3523/03 by Struan Stevenson to the Commission
    Subject: Proposed new livestock transport regulations

    574

    2004/C 078E/609

    P-3527/03 by Rijk van Dam to the Commission
    Subject: Court of Auditors Special Report No 4/2003 on rural development: support for less-favoured areas

    576

    2004/C 078E/610

    E-3529/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: Amnesty International and Oxfam report on arms control

    578

    2004/C 078E/611

    E-3536/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Problems with the recognition of educational and professional qualifications in France

    578

    2004/C 078E/612

    E-3542/03 by Caroline Lucas to the Commission
    Subject: GMOs

    579

    2004/C 078E/613

    E-3543/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: Free movement of Bulgarians

    580

    2004/C 078E/614

    E-3544/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Eurobarometer survey on threats to peace

    580

    2004/C 078E/615

    E-3546/03 by Miet Smet to the Commission
    Subject: Using intelligent speed adaptation in road vehicles

    581

    2004/C 078E/616

    P-3547/03 by Paulo Casaca to the Commission
    Subject: Scot-free permanent oil slick along the Portuguese coast

    582

    2004/C 078E/617

    E-3549/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Cohesion Fund — Portugal

    583

    2004/C 078E/618

    E-3552/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the Commission
    Subject: EU funding for research programmes in Ukraine

    584

    2004/C 078E/619

    E-3553/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: Missing Cypriots

    585

    2004/C 078E/620

    E-3554/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Development of artificial viruses and bacteria in America and possible resultant neglect of environmental protection in Europe

    586

    2004/C 078E/621

    E-3555/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Development of artificial viruses and bacteria in America and its impact on biodiversity and biological warfare in Europe

    587

    2004/C 078E/622

    E-3559/03 by Margrietus van den Berg and Jan Wiersma to the Commission
    Subject: Groningen Rail Service Centre and non-use of cross-border railway line near Nieuweschans to Northern Germany

    589

    2004/C 078E/623

    E-3561/03 by Jan Andersson to the Commission
    Subject: ‘Parasubordinated’ workers and social dumping

    590

    2004/C 078E/624

    E-3562/03 by Giacomo Santini to the Commission
    Subject: Automatic renewal of concession for the Brenner motorway

    591

    2004/C 078E/625

    E-3564/03 by Torben Lund to the Commission
    Subject: International telecommunication services and competition

    591

    2004/C 078E/626

    E-3566/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Refund of budgetary resources

    593

    2004/C 078E/627

    P-3568/03 by Herman Schmid to the Commission
    Subject: Draft Constitution no solution to the EU's lack of democratic legitimacy

    593

    2004/C 078E/628

    E-3571/03 by Gerhard Schmid to the Commission
    Subject: Threat to a water protection zone in one member State by a project in another

    594

    2004/C 078E/629

    E-3576/03 by Michl Ebner to the Commission
    Subject: EU Identity document for the disabled

    595

    2004/C 078E/630

    E-3580/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: EU working time legislation

    596

    2004/C 078E/631

    E-3582/03 by Yasmine Boudjenah to the Commission
    Subject: Role of multinational corporations in conflict regions in Africa

    597

    2004/C 078E/632

    E-3584/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the Commission
    Subject: Receipt of supplementary reply

    599

    2004/C 078E/633

    E-3585/03 by Mogens Camre to the Commission
    Subject: The EUMC's shelved report on Muslim anti-Semitism

    599

    2004/C 078E/634

    E-3587/03 by Koenraad Dillen to the Commission
    Subject: Report on anti-Semitism by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia

    600

    2004/C 078E/635

    E-3607/03 by Olivier Duhamel to the Commission
    Subject: Vienna Observatory

    600

    2004/C 078E/636

    E-3700/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Withholding of a study on anti-Semitism in Europe by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)

    601

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-3585/03, E-3587/03, E-3607/03 and E-3700/03

    602

    2004/C 078E/637

    E-3590/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Ibero-American Summit — conclusions and prospects

    602

    2004/C 078E/638

    E-3596/03 by Brigitte Langenhagen to the Commission
    Subject: EU border controls

    603

    2004/C 078E/639

    E-3601/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the Commission
    Subject: Buy American Act

    605

    2004/C 078E/640

    E-3602/03 by Anne Van Lancker to the Commission
    Subject: Article 51 of the European Constitution

    606

    2004/C 078E/641

    E-3665/03 by Nelly Maes to the Commission
    Subject: Non-confessional organisations

    606

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-3602/03 and E-3665/03

    607

    2004/C 078E/642

    E-3603/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Portuguese Overseas War veterans — disabilities

    607

    2004/C 078E/643

    E-3604/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: East Timor — Emergency aid

    608

    2004/C 078E/644

    E-3608/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Violation of the rights of the Çam minority

    610

    2004/C 078E/645

    E-3611/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the Commission
    Subject: Legalising immigration

    611

    2004/C 078E/646

    E-3620/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the Commission
    Subject: Use of a mathematical formula in awarding public contracts

    612

    2004/C 078E/647

    E-3621/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the Commission
    Subject: Presence of chlophen in food produced in various regions of Greece

    613

    2004/C 078E/648

    E-3622/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Cost of ‘free’ education in Greece

    614

    2004/C 078E/649

    E-3626/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the Commission
    Subject: Opening up the labour markets in the Member States

    615

    2004/C 078E/650

    E-3627/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the Commission
    Subject: Access to the labour market for new EU citizens and non-EU citizens

    616

    2004/C 078E/651

    E-3631/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Consultation with charities with regard to the proposal relating to the imposition of VAT on postal services

    617

    2004/C 078E/652

    E-3632/03 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the Commission
    Subject: Statements by André Sapir (adviser to the Commission President, Romano Prodi) concerning EU cohesion policy

    617

    2004/C 078E/653

    E-3645/03 by Salvador Jové Peres and Pedro Marset Campos to the Commission
    Subject: European Union/Morocco agreement

    618

    2004/C 078E/654

    E-3646/03 by Salvador Jové Peres and Pedro Marset Campos to the Commission
    Subject: European Union/Morocco agreement

    618

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-3645/03 and E-3646/03

    619

    2004/C 078E/655

    E-3647/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Delay in deepening and widening the River Maas north of Maastricht due to objections to gravel quarrying under negotiated contracts

    619

    2004/C 078E/656

    E-3648/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Desire of international rail freight operators to replace national rail safety systems with the European standard ECTS

    620

    2004/C 078E/657

    E-3650/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Extinction of the Iberian lynx in the Sierra Morena nature reserve in Andalusia due to the construction of a large reservoir and lack of compensatory habitat

    622

    2004/C 078E/658

    E-3651/03 by Cees Bremmer and Bartho Pronk to the Commission
    Subject: Poor working conditions for au pairs in the Netherlands

    623

    2004/C 078E/659

    P-3660/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Tragic state of health of children in Chechnya

    624

    2004/C 078E/660

    E-3671/03 by Joost Lagendijk and Arie Oostlander to the Commission
    Subject: Further cooperation in the fight against terrorism

    625

    2004/C 078E/661

    E-3672/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Situation at the Sorefame company

    626

    2004/C 078E/662

    E-3675/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Situation of micro-enterprises and SMEs in Portugal

    627

    2004/C 078E/663

    E-3690/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Daphne programme by the municipality of Florence

    629

    2004/C 078E/664

    E-3691/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Daphne programme by the municipality of Pesaro-Urbino

    629

    2004/C 078E/665

    E-3692/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the Daphne programme by the municipality of Siena

    629

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

    630

    2004/C 078E/666

    P-3697/03 by Luigi Vinci to the Commission
    Subject: Return to Turkey of refugees of Turkish origin

    630

    2004/C 078E/667

    E-3699/03 by Dana Scallon to the Commission
    Subject: Objective 1 areas in Connacht/Ulster (Ireland)

    631

    2004/C 078E/668

    E-3702/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: EC-Macau Joint Committee — tenth meeting

    631

    2004/C 078E/669

    P-3703/03 by Ulla Sandbæk to the Commission
    Subject: HIV and Commission support for development of affordable microbicide

    632

    2004/C 078E/670

    E-3718/03 by Paul Rübig to the Commission
    Subject: Eco-design requirements for energy-using products

    633

    2004/C 078E/671

    E-3720/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: Adapting Directive 97/24/EC to technical progress

    635

    2004/C 078E/672

    P-3732/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Vietnam

    637

    2004/C 078E/673

    E-3733/03 by Constanze Krehl to the Commission
    Subject: Social partnerships for regional structural development in Saxony

    638

    2004/C 078E/674

    E-3751/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Terni

    639

    2004/C 078E/675

    E-3752/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Ancona

    640

    2004/C 078E/676

    E-3753/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Florence

    640

    2004/C 078E/677

    E-3754/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Livorno

    640

    2004/C 078E/678

    E-3755/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Macerata

    641

    2004/C 078E/679

    E-3756/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Perugia

    641

    2004/C 078E/680

    E-3757/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Pesaro

    641

    2004/C 078E/681

    E-3758/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Pisa

    642

    2004/C 078E/682

    E-3759/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Pistoia

    642

    2004/C 078E/683

    E-3760/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the 2000 City Twinning Programme by the municipality of Siena

    642

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-3751/03, E-3752/03, E-3753/03, E-3754/03, E-3755/03, E-3756/03, E-3757/03, E-3758/03, E-3759/03 and E-3760/03

    643

    2004/C 078E/684

    E-3763/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Clinical trials

    644

    2004/C 078E/685

    E-3792/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on funding for the municipality of Pesaro-Urbino under the Tempus III programme

    645

    2004/C 078E/686

    E-3811/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: The spread of androgenetic alopecia

    645

    2004/C 078E/687

    E-3813/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Judicial inquiry by the Venice Prosecutor's Office into use of Community funds for the agricultural sector

    647

    2004/C 078E/688

    E-3814/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Judicial inquiry by the Palermo Prosecutor's Office into EUR 6,5 million fraud against the European Union

    647

    2004/C 078E/689

    E-3815/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Judicial inquiry by the Salerno Prosecutor's Office into EUR 30 million fraud against the European Union

    648

    2004/C 078E/690

    E-3816/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Commission
    Subject: Judicial inquiry by the Lecce Prosecutor's Office into EUR 6 million fraud against the European Union

    649

    2004/C 078E/691

    E-3818/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Conditions for awarding pensions in Greece

    650

    2004/C 078E/692

    E-3820/03 by Elspeth Attwooll to the Commission
    Subject: Connection to electricity and water supplies

    651

    2004/C 078E/693

    E-3827/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Funding for the network of Carrefours and Info-Points

    651

    2004/C 078E/694

    P-3830/03 by Juan Ferrández Lezaun to the Commission
    Subject: Spanish NHP infrastructure tendering

    652

    2004/C 078E/695

    E-3833/03 by Roberto Bigliardo to the Commission
    Subject: Provincial authorities' involvement in the management of EU Structural Funds

    653

    2004/C 078E/696

    E-3834/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Discrimination against Portuguese workers abroad

    654

    2004/C 078E/697

    P-3836/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the Commission
    Subject: VAT for transport service providers

    655

    2004/C 078E/698

    E-3839/03 by Monica Frassoni and Daniel Cohn-Bendit to the Commission
    Subject: Marmara Earthquake Rehabilitation Programme (MERP): ‘An Integrated Intervention for the Rehabilitation of Düzce’ — Turkey

    656

    2004/C 078E/699

    E-3843/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Censorship practised at the request of the Russian Consulate in Milan by the city authorities in connection with the Romano Cagnoni photography exhibition

    657

    2004/C 078E/700

    E-3846/03 by Maj Theorin to the Commission
    Subject: Women and conflict

    658

    2004/C 078E/701

    E-3849/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Compilation of information on organ transplants in Europe

    658

    2004/C 078E/702

    E-3850/03 by Jan Andersson to the Commission
    Subject: Harmful isocyanates and the protection of workers

    659

    2004/C 078E/703

    P-3853/03 by Joan Colom i Naval to the Commission
    Subject: Funding for Spain's ‘National Water Plan’

    660

    2004/C 078E/704

    P-3861/03 by Heide Rühle to the Commission
    Subject: Export guarantee by the German Federal Government for Finnish nuclear reactor

    661

    2004/C 078E/705

    P-3862/03 by Sebastiano Musumeci to the Commission
    Subject: Community funding for the bridge over the Straits of Messina

    661

    2004/C 078E/706

    E-3872/03 by Alexander de Roo to the Commission
    Subject: Impact of EU investment in the Júcar-Vinalopó water transfer

    662

    2004/C 078E/707

    E-3874/03 by Francesco Fiori to the Commission
    Subject: Imports into the EU of uncertified active pharmaceutical ingredients

    663

    2004/C 078E/708

    E-3877/03 by Francesco Fiori to the Commission
    Subject: Breach of Community principles — Article 24 of Law 289/2002

    664

    2004/C 078E/709

    E-3878/03 by Johannes Blokland to the Commission
    Subject: Research into the effects of medicinal products on children

    666

    2004/C 078E/710

    E-3882/03 by Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Bernd Lange, Karl-Heinz Florenz and Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the Commission
    Subject: Inspire initiative

    667

    2004/C 078E/711

    P-3893/03 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Health warnings on cigarette packs

    669

    2004/C 078E/712

    P-3894/03 by Ian Hudghton to the Commission
    Subject: Objective One status — Highlands and Islands of Scotland

    669

    2004/C 078E/713

    E-3899/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Meeting of EU-Lao PDR Joint Committee

    670

    2004/C 078E/714

    E-3903/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Disparities in the treatment of debts by banks in connection with Democratici di Sinistra's unpaid debts

    671

    2004/C 078E/715

    P-3910/03 by Amalia Sartori to the Commission
    Subject: Domestic accidents and workplaces

    671

    2004/C 078E/716

    E-3913/03 by Ole Krarup to the Commission
    Subject: Oil extraction agreement: granting of authorisations

    673

    2004/C 078E/717

    E-3915/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Forced repatriation to Vietnam of Montagnard refugees by the Cambodian government and the repeated violation of the UN Convention on Refugees

    673

    2004/C 078E/718

    P-3918/03 by Georges Berthu to the Commission
    Subject: Reduced rates of VAT

    675

    2004/C 078E/719

    E-3922/03 by María Bergaz Conesa to the Commission
    Subject: Projects co-funded by the Commission as part of the National Hydrological Plan

    676

    2004/C 078E/720

    E-3943/03 by Daniel Cohn-Bendit to the Commission
    Subject: Temporary Nationality and Entry into Israel law

    676

    2004/C 078E/721

    E-3951/03 by Alexander de Roo to the Commission
    Subject: Genetically modified GloFish

    677

    2004/C 078E/722

    E-3953/03 by Catherine Stihler to the Commission
    Subject: Wheelchair design specifications

    678

    2004/C 078E/723

    E-3960/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Angola — reintegration of ex-combatants and disarmament of civilians

    678

    2004/C 078E/724

    P-3998/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the Commission
    Subject: Use of CSF funds to finance an advertising campaign in Greece

    680

    2004/C 078E/725

    E-4001/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Transfers of students

    681

    2004/C 078E/726

    E-4031/03 by Michl Ebner to the Commission
    Subject: Language programme for minority languages

    681

    2004/C 078E/727

    P-4059/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Large families

    682

    2004/C 078E/728

    P-4072/03 by John Cushnahan to the Commission
    Subject: Application of the EC-Israel Association Agreement

    683

    2004/C 078E/729

    P-4074/03 by Marianne Thyssen to the Commission
    Subject: Problems relating to the transposition into national law of Directive 2002/2/EC

    684

    2004/C 078E/730

    P-0037/04 by Charles Tannock to the Commission
    Subject: Provisions made by acceeding 10 new EU member states following 1 May 2004 for freedom of movement and establishment of other EU member state nationals

    685

    2004/C 078E/731

    E-0151/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Shortage of intensive care units in Greece

    686

    2004/C 078E/732

    P-0230/04 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the Commission
    Subject: Utilisation of Community appropriations in the Member States at the close of 2003

    686

    2004/C 078E/733

    P-0417/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Sackings from the Finex Group factory

    687

     

    WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER (Part 3)

    2004/C 078E/734

    E-1287/02 by Graham Watson to the Commission
    Subject: The planting of oilseed rape

    688

    2004/C 078E/735

    E-2931/02 by María Sornosa Martínez to the Commission
    Subject: Priority for EU funding for high-speed rail links in Spain that promote regional balance and economic and social cohesion

    688

    2004/C 078E/736

    E-3340/02 by Astrid Thors to the Commission
    Subject: Certification of organic cereals exported on the internal market

    690

    2004/C 078E/737

    P-3636/02 by Niall Andrews to the Commission
    Subject: Humanitarian aid and immigration controls

    691

    2004/C 078E/738

    P-3857/02 by Mark Watts to the Commission
    Subject: Slaughter of baby seal pups on the White Sea, Russia

    691

    2004/C 078E/739

    E-3878/02 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the Commission
    Subject: Community-wide harmonisation of time limits for the writing-off of tax arrears

    692

    2004/C 078E/740

    E-3908/02 by Caroline Lucas to the Commission
    Subject: Malta

    693

    2004/C 078E/741

    E-0064/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the Commission
    Subject: European assistance for the raising of the Le Joola ferry which sank off the coast of Senegal

    693

    2004/C 078E/742

    E-0075/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Regular rail transport in cities becoming unviable due to competition from minibuses offering expensive, unsafe and obscure services

    694

    2004/C 078E/743

    E-0115/03 by Catherine Stihler to the Commission
    Subject: Malta's accession to the EU: Wild Birds Directive (79/409/EEC)

    695

    2004/C 078E/744

    E-0118/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the Commission
    Subject: Delineation of the European Union's final borders

    696

    2004/C 078E/745

    E-0120/03 by Jorge Hernández Mollar to the Commission
    Subject: Border fishing dispute at the mouth of the Guadiana

    697

    2004/C 078E/746

    E-0192/03 by Lennart Sacrédeus to the Commission
    Subject: Indian priest imprisoned without charge in Qatar

    697

    2004/C 078E/747

    P-0281/03 by Ulpu Iivari to the Commission
    Subject: Reform of the common fisheries policy and restoration of wild salmon stocks

    698

    2004/C 078E/748

    E-0320/03 by Massimo Carraro and Vincenzo Lavarra to the Commission
    Subject: Poultrymeat imports

    700

    2004/C 078E/749

    E-0450/03 by Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: Reception centres and ‘human traffickers’

    701

    2004/C 078E/750

    P-0557/03 by Anne Van Lancker to the Commission
    Subject: Regulations governing milk quotas in cross-border farms

    703

    2004/C 078E/751

    E-0736/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Building of ‘controlled tips’

    704

    2004/C 078E/752

    E-0751/03 by Mary Banotti to the Commission
    Subject: National Irish Development Plan 2000-2006

    704

    2004/C 078E/753

    E-0790/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Legislation on waste incineration

    705

    2004/C 078E/754

    E-0816/03 by Paulo Casaca to the Commission
    Subject: Independent study on the use of inter-specific wine varieties

    706

    2004/C 078E/755

    E-0926/03 by Peter Skinner to the Commission
    Subject: Relocation of workforce from Eastleigh, United Kingdom to Battipaglia, Southern Italy by Pirelli

    707

    2004/C 078E/756

    P-1237/03 by Diana Wallis to the Commission
    Subject: EEA Agreement on enlargement of the EU

    707

    2004/C 078E/757

    P-1266/03 by Caroline Lucas to the Commission
    Subject: TRIPs, UPOV and Farmers' Rights

    708

    2004/C 078E/758

    E-1280/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the Commission
    Subject: Incorrect transposition into national law of Directive 2002/49/EC

    709

    2004/C 078E/759

    E-1285/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: European Union action to ensure civil and respectful treatment for prisoners of war in Iraq

    710

    2004/C 078E/760

    E-1318/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Concern about maintaining non-commercial services outside Europe following the EU's requests in the WTO GATS 2 negotiations

    711

    2004/C 078E/761

    E-1330/03 by Sérgio Marques to the Commission
    Subject: ‘Prestige’: Community aid

    713

    2004/C 078E/762

    E-1340/03 by Marjo Matikainen-Kallström to the Commission
    Subject: Funding of research into prion diseases in the 6th Research Framework Programme

    714

    2004/C 078E/763

    E-1441/03 by Caroline Jackson to the Commission
    Subject: Tyres: application of the Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC

    715

    2004/C 078E/764

    P-1450/03 by María Sornosa Martínez to the Commission
    Subject: Need for urgent intervention — plan to extend the port of Altea (Spain)

    716

    2004/C 078E/765

    E-1504/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the Commission
    Subject: Measurability of GMO material in food products

    717

    2004/C 078E/766

    P-1531/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the Commission
    Subject: Importation of canned tuna from Thailand and the Philippines

    718

    2004/C 078E/767

    E-1586/03 by Nuala Ahern to the Commission
    Subject: Radioactive contamination from Sellafield

    719

    2004/C 078E/768

    E-1587/03 by Nuala Ahern to the Commission
    Subject: Basic nuclear safety standards

    719

    2004/C 078E/769

    E-1588/03 by Nuala Ahern to the Commission
    Subject: Precautionary principle

    720

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-1586/03, E-1587/03 and E-1588/03

    720

    2004/C 078E/770

    E-1650/03 by Hanja Maij-Weggen to the Commission
    Subject: Detention of Oscar E. Biscet in Cuba

    720

    2004/C 078E/771

    E-1667/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: VAT on postal services

    721

    2004/C 078E/772

    E-1720/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Joint EU and US bloc vis-à-vis the rest of the world by widening the remit of the TABD

    722

    2004/C 078E/773

    E-1747/03 by Anna Karamanou to the Commission
    Subject: Israel — removal of restriction on movement from and to the occupied territories

    723

    2004/C 078E/774

    E-1764/03 by Torben Lund to the Commission
    Subject: Arms transport and export bans

    724

    2004/C 078E/775

    E-1795/03 by Terence Wynn to the Commission
    Subject: Manufactured products from third countries

    725

    2004/C 078E/776

    E-1815/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the Commission
    Subject: Information from Mrs Schreyer in connection with fraudulent financial dealings at Eurostat

    726

    2004/C 078E/777

    P-1826/03 by Monica Frassoni to the Commission
    Subject: High-speed Italian transverse rail route: internal market, environmental impact and productivity of investment

    727

    2004/C 078E/778

    P-1841/03 by Charles Tannock to the Commission
    Subject: The Commission's view that terrorism is not a human rights abuse

    729

    2004/C 078E/779

    E-1855/03 by Anna Karamanou to the Commission
    Subject: Human rights in the EU — absence of common procedures for the reporting by Member States of human rights violations

    730

    2004/C 078E/780

    E-1945/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the Commission
    Subject: Amendment of the Dutch Media Act

    731

    2004/C 078E/781

    P-2154/03 by Herbert Bösch to the Commission
    Subject: Delays in the disbursement of funding for SMU projects

    732

    2004/C 078E/782

    E-2160/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the Commission
    Subject: Broadcasting licences, rules governing State aid for broadcasting and media advertising in Greece

    733

    2004/C 078E/783

    E-2218/03 by Monica Frassoni to the Commission
    Subject: High-speed rail link between Milan and Genoa and Milan and Verona

    735

    2004/C 078E/784

    E-2265/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Deployment of a fund and provision of misleading information in order to dissuade authorities and other large users from using cheaper software available from a competitor

    736

    2004/C 078E/785

    E-2328/03 by Glyn Ford to the Commission
    Subject: Helicopter services to the Isles of Scilly

    737

    2004/C 078E/786

    E-2428/03 by Niels Busk to the Council
    Subject: State aid to Italian milk producers

    738

    2004/C 078E/787

    E-2429/03 by Niels Busk to the Council
    Subject: State aid to Italian farmers

    738

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-2428/03 and E-2429/03

    738

    2004/C 078E/788

    E-2447/03 by Marie-Arlette Carlotti to the Commission
    Subject: Detailed rules for the implementation of technical and financial assistance measures for traditional ACP suppliers of bananas

    739

    2004/C 078E/789

    E-2452/03 by Erik Meijer to the Council
    Subject: Growing American pressure on future EU Member States to permanently cease their cooperation with the International Criminal Court

    740

    2004/C 078E/790

    E-2464/03 by Piia-Noora Kauppi to the Commission
    Subject: Pricing of basic postal services

    741

    2004/C 078E/791

    E-2485/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the Commission
    Subject: Double taxation conventions and Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71

    743

    2004/C 078E/792

    E-2494/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Pensions

    744

    2004/C 078E/793

    E-2553/03 by Marco Cappato to the Council
    Subject: The Tunisian journalist Abdallah Zouari

    745

    2004/C 078E/794

    E-2584/03 by Graham Watson to the Council
    Subject: Import of timber from Indonesia

    747

    2004/C 078E/795

    E-2614/03 by Albert Maat to the Commission
    Subject: Planting of vineyards with the help of EU funds

    747

    2004/C 078E/796

    P-2616/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Exclusion of feta cheese, ouzo and Kalamata olives from the list of products with geographical indications of origin to be negotiated at the WTO

    748

    2004/C 078E/797

    E-2627/03 by Maurizio Turco to the Council
    Subject: Follow-up on the ‘Resolution on sexual violence against women, particularly Catholic nuns’ adopted by the European Parliament on 5 April 2001

    749

    2004/C 078E/798

    E-2652/03 by Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Olivier Dupuis, Marco Pannella and Maurizio Turco to the Council
    Subject: Infringements of legality in Lebanon

    750

    2004/C 078E/799

    E-2706/03 by Raffaele Costa to the Commission
    Subject: Daphne Programme

    752

    2004/C 078E/800

    E-2737/03 by Glyn Ford to the Commission
    Subject: Human rights in Vietnam

    752

    2004/C 078E/801

    P-2751/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the Commission
    Subject: Criminal practices involved in the award of a contract to CESD-Roma

    753

    2004/C 078E/802

    E-2753/03 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel to the Commission
    Subject: Amendment of the Dutch Media Act

    755

    2004/C 078E/803

    P-2767/03 by Dana Scallon to the Commission
    Subject: NGO funding

    756

    2004/C 078E/804

    E-2797/03 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the Commission
    Subject: Combating legionnaires' disease

    756

    2004/C 078E/805

    E-2801/03 by Pedro Marset Campos to the Council
    Subject: Special tolls in France and Germany for the transport of goods by road

    757

    2004/C 078E/806

    E-2807/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: The Vatican's crusade against homosexual marriages within the EU and the Vatican's right to acquire revenue by issuing euro coins

    758

    2004/C 078E/807

    E-2839/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Council
    Subject: Place of Iraq in the UN and position of the EU

    760

    2004/C 078E/808

    P-2875/03 by Hélène Flautre to the Council
    Subject: Situation of migrants and asylum-seekers in Malta

    760

    2004/C 078E/809

    E-2878/03 by Jan Dhaene to the Council
    Subject: Technical inspection of the systems for indirect vision used on commercial vehicles

    761

    2004/C 078E/810

    E-2880/03 by Jan Dhaene to the Council
    Subject: Bicycle theft

    762

    2004/C 078E/811

    E-2885/03 by Charles Tannock to the Commission
    Subject: Application of the EU/Israel Association Agreement

    763

    2004/C 078E/812

    E-2900/03 by Antonio Tajani to the Council
    Subject: Safeguarding jobs at the Alcatel plant in Rieti

    763

    2004/C 078E/813

    E-2911/03 by Glenys Kinnock to the Council
    Subject: Football-related violence

    764

    2004/C 078E/814

    E-2917/03 by Gabriele Stauner to the Commission
    Subject: 2 SDA, Camire, Marcom, World Systems, Ariane II Group and Sema Belgium

    765

    2004/C 078E/815

    E-2918/03 by Marco Cappato and Maurizio Turco to the Council
    Subject: Case of Italian citizen Maurizio Trotta, imprisoned in Romania

    766

    2004/C 078E/816

    E-2926/03 by Michl Ebner to the Council
    Subject: Urgent need to expand voluntary fire services

    766

    2004/C 078E/817

    E-2929/03 by Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Situation of Thich Tri Luc, a Vietnamese citizen enjoying HCR refugee status, kidnapped in Cambodia and awaiting trial in Vietnam

    767

    2004/C 078E/818

    E-2940/03 by Rosa Miguélez Ramos to the Council
    Subject: Allocations from the Solidarity Fund

    768

    2004/C 078E/819

    E-2944/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Cancellation of the special train carrying large numbers of officials and political group staff between the European Parliament's two meeting places

    769

    2004/C 078E/820

    E-2960/03 by Armando Cossutta to the Council
    Subject: Middle East peace process

    770

    2004/C 078E/821

    E-2962/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Damage to valuable works contained in the temple of St Sofia

    771

    2004/C 078E/822

    P-3008/03 by Karin Riis-Jørgensen to the Commission
    Subject: Unequal conditions of competition for the fish processing industry in the EU Member States

    772

    2004/C 078E/823

    E-3061/03 by Elisabeth Schroedter to the Commission
    Subject: Threat to the FFH protected area ‘Falkenseer Kuhlaake’ (No 537) from a road-building project to be carried out with assistance from the European Structural Funds

    773

    2004/C 078E/824

    P-3066/03 by Alain Esclopé to the Commission
    Subject: Breaking-up of decommissioned US warships

    774

    2004/C 078E/825

    E-3088/03 by Bruno Gollnisch to the Commission
    Subject: Pechiney-Alcan merger

    775

    2004/C 078E/826

    E-3089/03 by Bruno Gollnisch to the Council
    Subject: Alstom

    777

    2004/C 078E/827

    P-3090/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the Commission
    Subject: Declassification of forest land and forests and redefinition of the term ‘forest’ under new legislation proposed by the Greek Government

    777

    2004/C 078E/828

    E-3098/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the Commission
    Subject: Margot Wallström and the EMU campaign

    779

    2004/C 078E/829

    E-3100/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the Commission
    Subject: Commission's involvement in national campaigns

    779

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-3098/03 and E-3100/03

    779

    2004/C 078E/830

    E-3101/03 by Jonas Sjöstedt to the Council
    Subject: EMU referendum and location of agencies

    780

    2004/C 078E/831

    P-3102/03 by Lissy Gröner to the Commission
    Subject: Discrimination against women in the Commission's new assessment system

    780

    2004/C 078E/832

    E-3120/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Noise pollution

    782

    2004/C 078E/833

    E-3137/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Council
    Subject: Right to apply for asylum

    783

    2004/C 078E/834

    P-3167/03 by Roger Helmer to the Commission
    Subject: Working and health care in the accession countries

    783

    2004/C 078E/835

    E-3168/03 by Michl Ebner to the Council
    Subject: Ban on dangerous dog breeds

    784

    2004/C 078E/836

    P-3180/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Protection by the EU of its floriculture sector

    785

    2004/C 078E/837

    E-3188/03 by Adeline Hazan to the Commission
    Subject: Harmonisation of civil status records in Europe

    787

    2004/C 078E/838

    E-3195/03 by Ursula Stenzel to the Commission
    Subject: Recognition of the profession of (clinical) optometrist

    788

    2004/C 078E/839

    E-3196/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Problems with construction activity, the protection of forests and building cooperatives in Greece

    788

    2004/C 078E/840

    E-3203/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Treatment of hospital waste in Attica

    789

    2004/C 078E/841

    E-3213/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Take-up of Community funding in the cultural sector in Greece

    790

    2004/C 078E/842

    E-3217/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the Commission
    Subject: Monitoring of atmospheric pollution in Greece

    791

    2004/C 078E/843

    E-3224/03 by Glyn Ford to the Commission
    Subject: EC Commission proposal to replace Council Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85 on Drivers' Hours

    793

    2004/C 078E/844

    E-3229/03 by Raffaele Costa and Jas Gawronski to the Commission
    Subject: Funding for the Turin-Lyon rail link

    794

    2004/C 078E/845

    E-3238/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the Commission
    Subject: New arrangements regarding maritime cabotage in Greece

    795

    2004/C 078E/846

    E-3254/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: List of priority projects — European Commission

    796

    2004/C 078E/847

    E-3266/03 by Torben Lund to the Commission
    Subject: Impact of genetically modified crops on nature

    797

    2004/C 078E/848

    P-3298/03 by Ian Hudghton to the Commission
    Subject: Effect of climatic change on cod stocks

    799

    2004/C 078E/849

    E-3299/03 by Horst Schnellhardt to the Commission
    Subject: Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (Flora, Fauna and Habitats Directive)

    800

    2004/C 078E/850

    E-3316/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the Commission
    Subject: EAGGF corrections

    801

    2004/C 078E/851

    E-3318/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Issuing of EUR 1 banknotes

    802

    2004/C 078E/852

    E-3338/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Environmental protection for the Peschiera springs

    802

    2004/C 078E/853

    E-3346/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the Commission
    Subject: Amendments to the Majorca highway-planning programme

    804

    2004/C 078E/854

    P-3364/03 by Christos Folias to the Commission
    Subject: New regulatory framework for telecommunications

    805

    2004/C 078E/855

    E-3365/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: Regeneration of the Psyrri district

    806

    2004/C 078E/856

    E-3373/03 by Alexander de Roo to the Commission
    Subject: September floods in Malta and town of Qormi

    807

    2004/C 078E/857

    E-3392/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Economic monitoring

    808

    2004/C 078E/858

    E-3398/03 by Stefano Zappalà to the Commission
    Subject: Dumping by China on the world copper market

    809

    2004/C 078E/859

    E-3408/03 by José Ribeiro e Castro to the Commission
    Subject: Illegal immigration — German Consular Services

    810

    2004/C 078E/860

    E-3410/03 by Joan Vallvé to the Commission
    Subject: The NHP subsidies and environmental impact

    811

    2004/C 078E/861

    E-3411/03 by Joan Vallvé to the Commission
    Subject: Granting subsidies to the NHP and the Ródano water transfer

    812

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-3410/03 and E-3411/03

    812

    2004/C 078E/862

    E-3436/03 by Antonio Di Pietro to the Commission
    Subject: Harmonisation of the European energy market

    813

    2004/C 078E/863

    E-3444/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Teaching Portuguese language and culture in the Netherlands

    814

    2004/C 078E/864

    E-3452/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: Exclusion of environmental NGOs from environmental education

    814

    2004/C 078E/865

    E-3463/03 by Christos Folias to the Commission
    Subject: Fixing maximum profit margins for sales of fresh produce

    815

    2004/C 078E/866

    E-3465/03 by Caroline Jackson to the Commission
    Subject: Dichlofluanid

    816

    2004/C 078E/867

    E-3475/03 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: Protection of the Caretta caretta turtle

    817

    2004/C 078E/868

    E-3507/03 by Paul Lannoye to the Commission
    Subject: Protection of loggerhead turtles in Greece

    817

    2004/C 078E/869

    E-3528/03 by John Bowis to the Commission
    Subject: Protection of the caretta — caretta turtle

    817

    2004/C 078E/870

    E-3532/03 by María Bergaz Conesa to the Commission
    Subject: Protection of the Caretta caretta tortoise

    818

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-3475/03, E-3507/03, E-3528/03 and E-3532/03

    818

    2004/C 078E/871

    E-3481/03 by Richard Corbett to the Commission
    Subject: ‘Valdastico Sud’ motorway

    819

    2004/C 078E/872

    E-3488/03 by Albert Maat to the Commission
    Subject: Statements by individual Commissioners against Commission policy

    820

    2004/C 078E/873

    E-3505/03 by Hiltrud Breyer to the Commission
    Subject: Information on the level of EU funding granted to Saarland between January 1997 and December 2002 (Supplementary Answer)

    820

    2004/C 078E/874

    E-3513/03 by Adriana Poli Bortone and Cristiana Muscardini to the Commission
    Subject: Water

    821

    2004/C 078E/875

    E-3518/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Bioptic driving

    822

    2004/C 078E/876

    E-3541/03 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: US ‘ghost ships’ moored in the UK

    822

    2004/C 078E/877

    E-3548/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the Commission
    Subject: Public works in Greece: shortcomings and defects regarding the Port of Igoumenitsa and the Egnatia highway

    824

    2004/C 078E/878

    E-3551/03 by Paulo Casaca to the Commission
    Subject: Goatmeat subsidies — Application of Regulation 2550/2001 of 21 December 2001 to the Azores

    825

    2004/C 078E/879

    E-3557/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Irregularities in DG Agriculture highlighted by the Court of Auditors

    826

    2004/C 078E/880

    E-3558/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Right to vote for immigrants in EU Member States

    827

    2004/C 078E/881

    E-3578/03 by Michl Ebner to the Commission
    Subject: Environmentally friendly diesel fuel

    828

    2004/C 078E/882

    E-3579/03 by Christoph Konrad to the Commission
    Subject: Hunting season for carrion crows in the EU

    829

    2004/C 078E/883

    E-3581/03 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna to the Commission
    Subject: Shrimp fishing in Svalbard

    830

    2004/C 078E/884

    E-3592/03 by Karl-Heinz Florenz to the Commission
    Subject: Deposits on disposable drinks packaging in Germany from an environmental point of view

    831

    2004/C 078E/885

    E-3593/03 by Baroness Sarah Ludford to the Commission
    Subject: Cost of passports across the European Union Member States

    832

    2004/C 078E/886

    E-3600/03 by Roberto Bigliardo to the Commission
    Subject: Overflying Brussels — extension of Zaventem airport

    832

    2004/C 078E/887

    E-3606/03 by Michl Ebner to the Commission
    Subject: Special conditions for transport by heavy goods vehicles

    833

    2004/C 078E/888

    E-3614/03 by Esko Seppänen to the Commission
    Subject: Cultivation of sweet rowanberries

    835

    2004/C 078E/889

    E-3615/03 by Esko Seppänen to the Commission
    Subject: Fishing for migratory salmon

    835

    2004/C 078E/890

    E-3616/03 by Esko Seppänen to the Commission
    Subject: Setting fishing quotas for the new Member States

    836

    2004/C 078E/891

    E-3630/03 by Carles-Alfred Gasòliba i Böhm to the Commission
    Subject: Unspent Structural Fund resources

    837

    2004/C 078E/892

    P-3636/03 by Salvador Jové Peres to the Commission
    Subject: Reform of the CMO in olive oil

    838

    2004/C 078E/893

    E-3640/03 by Herbert Bösch and Johannes Swoboda to the Commission
    Subject: Withdrawal of direct cross-border rail connections

    839

    2004/C 078E/894

    E-3641/03 by Antonios Trakatellis to the Commission
    Subject: Definition of ‘forest’: divergence between the definition in a Greek bill and in the Forest Focus regulation

    840

    2004/C 078E/895

    E-3644/03 by Salvador Jové Peres to the Commission
    Subject: Reform of the COM in olive oil

    842

    2004/C 078E/896

    E-3649/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Serious delays in payments by the International Organisation for Migration in Geneva relating to the German forced labour compensation programme

    843

    2004/C 078E/897

    E-3971/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: Failure by Germany to compensate former Italian military internees (IMIs)

    843

    Joint answer to Written Questions E-3649/03 and E-3971/03

    844

    2004/C 078E/898

    P-3652/03 by Dana Scallon to the Commission
    Subject: Stem cells and stem-cell lines

    844

    2004/C 078E/899

    E-3656/03 by Salvador Jové Peres to the Commission
    Subject: High quality code NC 1003 00 barley imports

    845

    2004/C 078E/900

    P-3657/03 by Giovanni Procacci to the Commission
    Subject: Storage of nuclear waste

    846

    2004/C 078E/901

    E-3663/03 by Paulo Casaca to the Commission
    Subject: Undisclosed research on organic farming

    847

    2004/C 078E/902

    P-3667/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Building of a dam in the lower Sabor

    849

    2004/C 078E/903

    E-3698/03 by Torben Lund to the Commission
    Subject: Contravention of ban on fishing with drift nets and of the habitats directive

    850

    2004/C 078E/904

    E-3701/03 by Marco Pannella, Maurizio Turco, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Misappropriation of Community funds intended for the Palestinian National Authority

    851

    2004/C 078E/905

    E-3734/03 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the Commission
    Subject: High fees for residence cards

    853

    2004/C 078E/906

    E-3749/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the LIFE III programme by the municipality of Massa

    854

    2004/C 078E/907

    E-3750/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Update on use of funding from the LIFE III programme by the municipality of Florence

    854

    2004/C 078E/908

    E-3762/03 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis to the Commission
    Subject: Commission proceedings against Greece for infringing Community legislation in the telecommunications sector

    855

    2004/C 078E/909

    Ρ-3776/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: US GAAP

    856

    2004/C 078E/910

    E-3795/03 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Meeting UN sustainable fishing targets

    857

    2004/C 078E/911

    E-3796/03 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Maríne Stewardship Council

    858

    2004/C 078E/912

    E-3797/03 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Sustainable fisheries

    859

    2004/C 078E/913

    E-3821/03 by Joan Vallvé to the Commission
    Subject: Environmental impact of the extension of the Eivissa Airport

    859

    2004/C 078E/914

    E-3825/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Abandoned mines

    860

    2004/C 078E/915

    E-3826/03 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Environmental problems caused by small and medium-sized dairy farms

    861

    2004/C 078E/916

    E-3837/03 by Emmanouil Bakopoulos to the Commission
    Subject: Privatisation of the Post Office Savings Bank

    862

    2004/C 078E/917

    E-3841/03 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Protection of the consumer interest under the new EU regulatory framework for electronic communications (Directives 2002/20/EC, 2002/21/EC)

    863

    2004/C 078E/918

    P-3860/03 by Reimer Böge to the Commission
    Subject: Designation of bird protection zones in Schleswig-Holstein

    864

    2004/C 078E/919

    P-3863/03 by Mario Borghezio to the Commission
    Subject: European Evidence Warrant — a proposal threatening individual freedom?

    866

    2004/C 078E/920

    E-3871/03 by Alexander de Roo to the Commission
    Subject: Connection between the Ebro water transfer and the Júcar-Vinalopó water transfer

    866

    2004/C 078E/921

    E-3873/03 by Luigi Vinci to the Commission
    Subject: Motorway and high-speed rail routes — Corridor 5 and Friuli-Venezia Giulia region

    867

    2004/C 078E/922

    E-3875/03 by Francesco Fiori to the Commission
    Subject: Reform of the COM in tobacco

    869

    2004/C 078E/923

    E-3879/03 by Olle Schmidt to the Commission
    Subject: Rules governing eel fishing

    870

    2004/C 078E/924

    E-3886/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: Alcatel Italia and the seat of the European Satellite Agency

    871

    2004/C 078E/925

    E-3888/03 by Jan Mulder to the Commission
    Subject: Winding-up of contracts in the Eurostat affair

    872

    2004/C 078E/926

    P-3891/03 by Patricia McKenna to the Commission
    Subject: Renewable energy in Ireland

    873

    2004/C 078E/927

    E-3908/03 by Olle Schmidt to the Commission
    Subject: Freedom of movement in the EU and risk of abuse of welfare systems

    874

    2004/C 078E/928

    E-3916/03 by Maurizio Turco, Marco Pannella, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova and Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Unsatisfactory standards in Italy for checking that medical staff have the necessary professional qualifications

    875

    2004/C 078E/929

    E-3917/03 by Nelly Maes to the Commission
    Subject: European approval of government support for the livestock market in Leeuwarden

    876

    2004/C 078E/930

    P-3926/03 by Jacqueline Foster to the Commission
    Subject: Distortion of competition in the diamond industry

    877

    2004/C 078E/931

    E-3927/03 by Freddy Blak to the Commission
    Subject: Modular road trains on European roads

    878

    2004/C 078E/932

    E-3929/03 by Stavros Xarchakos to the Commission
    Subject: Increase in inflation in Greece

    879

    2004/C 078E/933

    E-3932/03 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou to the Commission
    Subject: Sexual exploitation of children

    881

    2004/C 078E/934

    E-3933/03 by Samuli Pohjamo and Mikko Pesälä to the Commission
    Subject: Recognition of the ergonomic saddle chair in the EU's chair classifications

    882

    2004/C 078E/935

    E-3935/03 by Bert Doorn to the Commission
    Subject: Court with jurisdiction in international civil and commercial matters under Regulation (EC) No 44/2001

    883

    2004/C 078E/936

    P-3937/03 by Elisabeth Jeggle to the Commission
    Subject: European Regulation on yogurt

    885

    2004/C 078E/937

    E-3950/03 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Incentives to halt the continuing cancellation of rapid and direct long-distance international train services

    886

    2004/C 078E/938

    P-3954/03 by Gian Gobbo to the Commission
    Subject: Issue of one-euro banknotes

    887

    2004/C 078E/939

    E-3982/03 by Miquel Mayol i Raynal to the Commission
    Subject: Political rights of the Macedonian minority in Greece

    888

    2004/C 078E/940

    E-3997/03 by Raffaele Costa to the Commission
    Subject: Prince/Euro programme

    888

    2004/C 078E/941

    E-4000/03 by Herbert Bösch to the Commission
    Subject: Reforms at Eurostat

    890

    2004/C 078E/942

    E-4005/03 by Anna Terrón i Cusí to the Commission
    Subject: Discrimination against Community children as regards access to sports federations in Spain

    891

    2004/C 078E/943

    P-4009/03 by Antonio Di Pietro to the Commission
    Subject: Reform of the tobacco CMO

    892

    2004/C 078E/944

    E-4016/03 by Salvador Garriga Polledo to the Commission
    Subject: Free movement of pharmaceutical products in the EU

    893

    2004/C 078E/945

    P-4022/03 by Christos Folias to the Commission
    Subject: Comparative data in the olive oil sector

    894

    2004/C 078E/946

    P-4023/03 by Jean-Louis Bernié to the Commission
    Subject: Natura 2000

    895

    2004/C 078E/947

    E-4024/03 by Christopher Huhne to the Commission
    Subject: Free-standing ovens

    896

    2004/C 078E/948

    E-4025/03 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: UN investigation in East Timor

    897

    2004/C 078E/949

    E-4030/03 by Juan Naranjo Escobar to the Commission
    Subject: Under-utilisation of payment appropriations

    898

    2004/C 078E/950

    E-4039/03 by Christos Folias to the Commission
    Subject: Optometry in Greece

    899

    2004/C 078E/951

    E-4040/03 by Glyn Ford, Kathalijne Buitenweg, Claude Moraes and Anna Terrón i Cusí to the Commission
    Subject: MEDEA Programme and Article 13 of the Treaty

    900

    2004/C 078E/952

    E-4041/03 by John Bowis and Ria Oomen-Ruijten to the Commission
    Subject: The implementation of worker safety directives and protection of healthcare workers and their patients

    901

    2004/C 078E/953

    E-4042/03 by Kathalijne Buitenweg to the Commission
    Subject: Bullying at school

    902

    2004/C 078E/954

    E-4044/03 by Theresa Villiers to the Commission
    Subject: Free passes for local residents to the grounds of heritage and tourist sites

    903

    2004/C 078E/955

    P-4049/03 by Francesco Speroni to the Commission
    Subject: GM products

    904

    2004/C 078E/956

    P-4050/03 by Theresa Villiers to the Commission
    Subject: Proposal for a directive concerning credit for consumers

    904

    2004/C 078E/957

    E-4052/03 by Christos Folias to the Commission
    Subject: Support for the various Churches

    906

    2004/C 078E/958

    P-4060/03 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: European citizenship

    906

    2004/C 078E/959

    E-4062/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Health and safety of workers - complaint 00/4404, SG(2000) A/3828/2

    907

    2004/C 078E/960

    E-4063/03 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Workers on one-day contracts

    908

    2004/C 078E/961

    P-4073/03 by Giovanni Fava to the Commission
    Subject: Waste-to-energy plant

    909

    2004/C 078E/962

    E-4080/03 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Pets' passports

    910

    2004/C 078E/963

    E-4086/03 by Olle Schmidt to the Commission
    Subject: Company-specific aid to Eftec in connection with relocation from Hässleholm in Sweden to Wales

    911

    2004/C 078E/964

    E-4087/03 by Chris Davies to the Commission
    Subject: Data Protection Supervisor

    912

    2004/C 078E/965

    E-0005/04 by Olivier Dupuis to the Commission
    Subject: Persecution of Uighur Organisations based in the European Union

    912

    2004/C 078E/966

    P-0014/04 by Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to the Commission
    Subject: Relationship between cancelled flights and PNR

    914

    2004/C 078E/967

    E-0024/04 by Avril Doyle to the Commission
    Subject: Financial support for an organisation facilitating the independence of people with disabilities

    915

    2004/C 078E/968

    E-0025/04 by Avril Doyle to the Commission
    Subject: Possibility of ‘BSE’ (OSE?) in sheep

    916

    2004/C 078E/969

    P-0028/04 by Philip Bushill-Matthews to the Commission
    Subject: Age discrimination

    917

    2004/C 078E/970

    P-0029/04 by Heinz Kindermann to the Commission
    Subject: Closure of veterinary border control point at Pomellen, Germany

    917

    2004/C 078E/971

    E-0036/04 by Jules Maaten to the Commission
    Subject: SARS outbreak in China and the Philippines

    919

    2004/C 078E/972

    E-0040/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the Commission
    Subject: Size of the Commission

    920

    2004/C 078E/973

    E-0041/04 by Elspeth Attwooll to the Commission
    Subject: Trade between Scotland and the rest of the European Union

    920

    2004/C 078E/974

    E-0057/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the Commission
    Subject: Welfare expenditure in the Spanish state and the situation in the EU

    921

    2004/C 078E/975

    P-0058/04 by Giuseppe Di Lello Finuoli to the Commission
    Subject: Funding by the Italian State and the Region of Campania for the programme contract submitted by Agrifuturo S.c.a.r.l

    922

    2004/C 078E/976

    E-0060/04 by Hiltrud Breyer to the Commission
    Subject: Chromium (VI) in leather

    923

    2004/C 078E/977

    E-0064/04 by Camilo Nogueira Román to the Commission
    Subject: Alarming rise in unemployment in Galicia: 7465 newly unemployed people in December 2003 out of a total of 23 419 for Spain as a whole, bringing the rate of unemployment in Galicia to 12,36 %

    924

    2004/C 078E/978

    P-0065/04 by Bill Newton Dunn to the Commission
    Subject: Post-60 flying in Europe

    925

    2004/C 078E/979

    E-0067/04 by Bill Newton Dunn to the Commission
    Subject: Retirement benefits

    926

    2004/C 078E/980

    E-0069/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Support for cleaning lakes in the Cantanhede municipal district

    926

    2004/C 078E/981

    E-0076/04 by Proinsias De Rossa to the Commission
    Subject: Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 and blind and partially sighted registration

    927

    2004/C 078E/982

    P-0083/04 by Dirk Sterckx to the Commission
    Subject: Restrictions on freedom of movement for Flemish travel guides on trips abroad

    928

    2004/C 078E/983

    E-0087/04 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Use by casinos of EU rules in support of their fight against the Netherlands government policy aimed at limiting compulsive gambling

    929

    2004/C 078E/984

    E-0095/04 by Mihail Papayannakis to the Commission
    Subject: Public hospital INMI L. Spallanzani in Italy

    930

    2004/C 078E/985

    E-0106/04 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Use in shops of escalators which meet European safety standards but are apparently unsafe for children

    931

    2004/C 078E/986

    E-0108/04 by Charles Tannock to the Commission
    Subject: Fiat in Italy acting in a joint venture in China providing vans to the People's Republic of China for the purposes of mobile exectution

    932

    2004/C 078E/987

    P-0109/04 by Claude Moraes to the Commission
    Subject: Sikhs and the banning of religious articles of faith

    933

    2004/C 078E/988

    P-0126/04 by Jean Lambert to the Commission
    Subject: Permits for capture, breeding and trading of protected species in Greece in violation of EU legislation

    933

    2004/C 078E/989

    P-0147/04 by Bart Staes to the Commission
    Subject: Combating the use of drugs in sport

    934

    2004/C 078E/990

    P-0157/04 by Catherine Guy-Quint to the Commission
    Subject: Twinnings with Bulgaria and Romania

    936

    2004/C 078E/991

    P-0158/04 by Brice Hortefeux to the Commission
    Subject: Aviation safety

    937

    2004/C 078E/992

    E-0178/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Funding from the Culture 2000 programme for the conservation of valuable cultural works stored in Aghia Sofia

    938

    2004/C 078E/993

    P-0193/04 by Ward Beysen to the Commission
    Subject: Parallel trade

    939

    2004/C 078E/994

    P-0206/04 by Renato Brunetta to the Commission
    Subject: Unlawful imposition of identification marks for sports craft in the Venice lagoon

    940

    2004/C 078E/995

    P-0207/04 by Harald Ettl to the Commission
    Subject: Further action by the Commission on the portability of supplementary pension rights

    941

    2004/C 078E/996

    P-0208/04 by Ioannis Averoff to the Commission
    Subject: Practical problems with town-twinning scheme

    942

    2004/C 078E/997

    E-0223/04 by Alexandros Alavanos to the Commission
    Subject: Unemployment rate in Greece

    943

    2004/C 078E/998

    E-0224/04 by Roberta Angelilli to the Commission
    Subject: ‘Militaria e Dintorni in Europa’ (Militaria Fair)

    943

    2004/C 078E/999

    P-0231/04 by Alexander de Roo to the Commission
    Subject: EIB loan to Schiphol Airport

    944

    2004/C 078E/1000

    E-0243/04 by Ilda Figueiredo to the Commission
    Subject: Relocation and unemployment

    945

    2004/C 078E/1001

    E-0249/04 by Christopher Heaton-Harris to the Commission
    Subject: Private Eye

    946

    2004/C 078E/1002

    P-0253/04 by Geoffrey Van Orden to the Commission
    Subject: The Construction Products Directive

    947

    2004/C 078E/1003

    E-0284/04 by Joachim Wuermeling to the Commission
    Subject: BEUC

    948

    2004/C 078E/1004

    E-0300/04 by Roberto Bigliardo to the Commission
    Subject: Financing for the new Athens airport

    949

    2004/C 078E/1005

    E-0310/04 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Further reduction of educational facilities for the long-established Sorbian-speaking community in Lausitz, eastern Germany

    950

    2004/C 078E/1006

    P-0314/04 by Ulpu Iivari to the Commission
    Subject: Effect of EU support on the shift of jobs within the EU

    951

    2004/C 078E/1007

    E-0330/04 by Luigi Vinci to the Commission
    Subject: Hospitals for ‘national defence’ in Italy

    953

    2004/C 078E/1008

    P-0454/04 by Ioannis Marínos to the Commission
    Subject: Unemployment benefits in Greece

    953

    2004/C 078E/1009

    P-0523/04 by Emmanouil Mastorakis to the Commission
    Subject: Second and Third Community Support Frameworks

    954

    2004/C 078E/1010

    E-0542/04 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: Active publication of information about subsidies and ratios between payments to large and small farms under the CAP

    954

    2004/C 078E/1011

    E-0543/04 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: CAP: the declining contribution of EU funds to the survival of small farmers in a context of low consumer prices and low world market prices

    955

    2004/C 078E/1012

    E-0544/04 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: CAP: intended change in the ratio between payments to large and small farms, a ceiling for aid per farm and limiting the damage caused to third countries

    956

    2004/C 078E/1013

    E-0545/04 by Erik Meijer to the Commission
    Subject: CAP: consequences of the distribution of the reduction in income in agriculture and financing of techniques which promote animal welfare or are environmentally sound for use on small farms

    956

    2004/C 078E/1014

    E-0616/04 by Klaus Hänsch to the Commission
    Subject: Allocation of EU resources

    957


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