92000E3163

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3163/00

by Carlos Ripoll y Martínez de Bedoya (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(10 October 2000)

Subject: Water infrastructure

On 15 September this year Mrs Margarita Nájera, Mayoress of Calvia and President of the Balearic Islands Federation of Local Authorities (FELIB), announced that she had travelled to Brussels to meet with environment officials at the Commission and stated that the Commission had undertaken to fund several water infrastructure projects in full, and in particular the Sa Costera transfer project and a further water supply project in the town of Soller, on the island of Majorca (Balearic Islands).

1. Is it true that Mrs Nájera met with environment officials at the Commission?

2. Is it true that the Commission has undertaken to fund several water infrastructure projects on the Balearic Islands in full, including the Sa Costera transfer project and a further water supply project in the town of Soller, on the island of Majorca?

Answer given by Mrs Wallström on behalf of the Commission

(14 December 2000)

Commission environment officials have not officially met the person referred to by the Honourable Member during the last few months.

Water supply projects, including a project on Sa Costera, have been submitted by the Government of the Balearic Islands in the framework of the single programming document for the Balearic Islands.

The Commission is examining the single programming document for the Balearic Islands and a decision on the programme will in principle be taken before the end of the year. No projects are funded 100 % under the Structural Funds.