92000E0048

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0048/00

by Paulo Casaca (PSE) to the Commission

(20 January 2000)

Subject: Cologne process: adjustment of the Poseima programme in the Azores with regard to trade in agricultural produce

Council Regulation (EEC) No 3763(1) (Poseidom) lays down specific measures on the marketing of certain agricultural products from ultraperipheral regions in neighbouring regions.

Transport problems and market structures mean that, the high quality dairy produce and beef produced in the Azores Autonomous Region is normally sold only on the European mainland at present.

Does the Commission think that the Poseima programme could include measures like those found in Article 3 of the Poseidom Regulation, with the aim of encouraging exports of Azores agricultural products to other neighbouring regions such as the other Macaronesian archipelagos and the eastern seaboard of the USA and Canada?

(1) OJ L 356, 24.12.1991, p. 1.

Joint answer to Written Questions E-0038/00, E-0043/00, E-0044/00, E-0045/00, E-0046/00, E-0047/00, E-0048/00, E-0049/00, E-0050/00, E-0051/00 and E-0052/00 given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(28 February 2000)

The Honourable Member has put a whole series of questions regarding the Poseima Programme for the Azores.

The Commission is currently drafting a report on the measures to implement Article 299(2) (ex Article 227) of the EC Treaty.

At this stage, before the Commission has adopted that report, it is not able to reply to the Honourable Member's questions concerning its content.

Lastly, the Commission's Work Programme for 2000 provides for a report to be presented to the Council and Parliament on the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92 of 15 June 1992 concerning specific measures for the Azores and Madeira relating to certain agricultural products(1) (Poseima), together where appropriate with proposals for any adjustments that prove necessary to achieve the programme's goals. The set of measures relating to agriculture in the Azores will be considered in that connection.

(1) OJ L 173, 27.6.1992.