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European Commission Spokesman's Briefing for 97-05-20

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From: EUROPA, the European Commission Server at <http://europa.eu.int>

MIDDAY EXPRESS

News from the Spokesman's midday briefing

Nouvelles du rendez-vous de midi du Porte-Paroleb

20/05/97


CONTENTS / CONTENU

  • [01] Ritt Bjerregaard: 1996 bathing water report - still one out of three fresh water bathing zones is insufficiently monitored or does not meet the minimum quality requirements
  • [02] La Commission propose au Conseil d'étendre aux transports aériens entre l'Union et les pays tiers la pleine application des règles de concurrence
  • [03] Commission appoints members of the European Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development
  • [04] Tacis: la Commission approuve les programmes d'action 1997 pour l'Ukraine et le Kirghizistan
  • [05] Christos Papoutsis: "I believe that it is in the industry's interest to have a stronger energy policy, established in the Treaty"

  • [01] Ritt Bjerregaard: 1996 bathing water report - still one out of three fresh water bathing zones is insufficiently monitored or does not meet the minimum quality requirements

    The European Commission's quality of bathing water report covers about 13, 000 seaside beaches and 6,000 fresh water areas. Although almost 90 per cent of the seaside beaches respect the minimum quality requirements, there is no reason for complacency: 1 out of 3 fresh water zones is insufficiently monitored or does not meet the minimum quality requirements. Environment Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard repeats therefore her plea and encourages everyone - governments, environmental associations and individual citizens - to put a big effort in improving the quality of fresh water zones, while continuing the efforts already made and preserving the good quality at the seaside. She calls in particular upon Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal "to prove over the next bathing season that they are able of improving the situation. They have shown that they are able of doing it for their seaside beaches, so I am confident that they can do it for their fresh water bathing areas as well."

    [02] La Commission propose au Conseil d'étendre aux transports aériens entre l'Union et les pays tiers la pleine application des règles de concurrence

    La Commission européenne a approuvé un Mémorandum qui comporte deux propositions de règlements du Conseil des Ministres concernant l'application des règles de concurrence (articles 85 et 86 du Traité), aux transports aériens et plus particulièrement aux liaisons Union/pays tiers. La première proposition vise à étendre également à l'ensemble des liaisons Union/pays tiers le champ d'application du règlement n° 3975/87 du Conseil, qui vise à ce jour uniquement les transports aériens entre aéroports de l'Union. Une telle extension doterait la Commission des instruments de procédure pour appliquer directement et pleinement les articles 85 et 86 du Traité à des accords restrictifs de concurrence sur de telles liaisons, comme par exemple les alliances entre compagnies aériennes européennes et de pays tiers, et non plus indirectement par le biais de la procédure du régime transitoire prévu par l'article 89 du Traité comme c'est le cas actuellement. La seconde proposition vise à habiliter la Commission à octroyer des exemptions par catégorie pour certains accords restrictifs de concurrence sur ces mêmes liaisons avec les pays tiers.

    [03] Commission appoints members of the European Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development

    The European Commission today agreed on the appointment of 32 members of the European Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development. Members are drawn from the field of business, trade unions, non governmental organisations, regional and local authorities together with eminent personalities from the academic and research world and other fields of activity. Members of the Forum come from all European Union Member States as well as from the European Economic Area and the associated countries of Eastern and Central Europe. The Commission has designated Mr Thorvald Stoltenberg, former Norwegian Foreign Minister and former United Nations envoy to Bosnia, as Chairman of the new body.

    [04] Tacis: la Commission approuve les programmes d'action 1997 pour l'Ukraine et le Kirghizistan

    Dans le cadre du programme Tacis d'assistance aux Nouveaux Etats Indépendants et à la Mongolie, la Commission européenne a approuvé aujourd'hui les programmes d'assistance technique 1997 pour l'Ukraine d'une valeur de 34,75 millions d'Ecus et pour le Kirghizistan d'une valeur de 10, 7 millions d'Ecus.

    [05] Christos Papoutsis: "I believe that it is in the industry's interest to have a stronger energy policy, established in the Treaty"

    In a speech delivered on Monday 19 May 1997, during the XXIV Congress of UNIPEDE (Union Internationale des Producteurs et Distributeurs d'Energie Electrique) in Montreux, Switzerland, Energy Commissioner Christos Papoutsis referred to issues which need to be carefully monitored during implementation of Electricity Internal Market Directive, such as the public service obligations, the functioning and the role of the Single Buyer, the equitable treatment of eligible customers and the openness transmission. He also emphasised the importance he attaches to the international energy cooperation and said that a pre-requisite to creating better conditions for the energy industry is the improved cooperation on the basis of agreed Community energy objectives. He added: "I personally maintain, and I have made clear my views on this point, that energy policy cannot play its full role in our sustainable economic development if it does not have a legal basis in the new Treaty". For Mr Papoutsis, "it is in the industry's interest to have a stronger energy policy, established in Treaty".

    MIDDAY EXPRESS


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