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<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The new phase of the Al-Invest Programme provides for the possibility of support for individual projects. What measures has the Commission taken to ensure that payments to users are processed more efficiently and that the rules governing implementation of the programme are respected? The new Commission proposal states that EUR 3 m has been set aside for the organisation of TIPS. Has the Commission carried out an assessment of TIPS? Can the Commission explain the added value of TIPS for European firms participating in the programme?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-2201/99

Macroeconomics

The new phase of the Al-Invest Programme provides for the possibility of support for individual projects. What measures has the Commission taken to ensure that payments to users are processed more efficiently and that the rules governing implementation of the programme are respected? The new Commission proposal states that EUR 3 m has been set aside for the organisation of TIPS. Has the Commission carried out an assessment of TIPS? Can the Commission explain the added value of TIPS for European firms participating in the programme?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Cyprus has successfully emerged from the ‘Memorandum’, but efforts to further stabilise the economy, stimulate growth and tackle the serious problem of unemployment are continuing. Countries that have successfully completed the support programme still face many socioeconomic challenges. Given this state of affairs, it is estimated that, after leaving the ‘Memorandum’, countries should not be left to face the various economic problems that persist by themselves. The EU should launch specific programmes to support growth and address social problems such as unemployment, since any setbacks suffered by the economy of a country emerging from the ‘Memorandum’ would have a huge impact on that particular country and theEU as a whole. In view of the above, will the Commission say: Will it continue to support Cyprus in promoting growth, tackling unemployment and further stabilising the economy? Will special funding programmes be drawn up for countries such as Cyprus?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-003125-16

Macroeconomics

Cyprus has successfully emerged from the ‘Memorandum’, but efforts to further stabilise the economy, stimulate growth and tackle the serious problem of unemployment are continuing. Countries that have successfully completed the support programme still face many socioeconomic challenges. Given this state of affairs, it is estimated that, after leaving the ‘Memorandum’, countries should not be left to face the various economic problems that persist by themselves. The EU should launch specific programmes to support growth and address social problems such as unemployment, since any setbacks suffered by the economy of a country emerging from the ‘Memorandum’ would have a huge impact on that particular country and theEU as a whole. In view of the above, will the Commission say: Will it continue to support Cyprus in promoting growth, tackling unemployment and further stabilising the economy? Will special funding programmes be drawn up for countries such as Cyprus?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "In a recent interview with the Austrian newspaper ‘Kleine Zeitung’ (19.10.2012), the Vice-President of the European Investment Bank, MrWilhelm Molterer, said that the European Investment Bank is currently drawing up a large framework loan for businesses and investments in Greece. In view of the above, will the Commission say: Can it provide further information about this loan? Are targeted investments being directed towards a specific productive sector? What is the expected amount of these funds and what is the timetable for their disbursement?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-009854-12

Macroeconomics

In a recent interview with the Austrian newspaper ‘Kleine Zeitung’ (19.10.2012), the Vice-President of the European Investment Bank, MrWilhelm Molterer, said that the European Investment Bank is currently drawing up a large framework loan for businesses and investments in Greece. In view of the above, will the Commission say: Can it provide further information about this loan? Are targeted investments being directed towards a specific productive sector? What is the expected amount of these funds and what is the timetable for their disbursement?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "On 21December2005 the Commission adopted the guidelines on national regional aid for 2007‑13. Pursuant to paragrph 100 of the guidelines, in 2006 each Member State notified to the Commission, in accordance with Article88(3) of the Treaty, a single regional aid map for the 2007‑13 period, covering its entire national territory. The current crisis has had a considerable and asymmetrical impact on productive sectors and territories, some of which were not included in the regional aid maps proposed by the Member States in 2006. Now, when they are most in need, these territories find themselves excluded from national regional aid programmes. In light of the above, would it not be appropriate for the Commission to ask the Member States for an update of the regional aid maps which they submitted in 2006, that will be valid during the 2011‑13 period?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

P-001401/2011

Macroeconomics

On 21December2005 the Commission adopted the guidelines on national regional aid for 2007‑13. Pursuant to paragrph 100 of the guidelines, in 2006 each Member State notified to the Commission, in accordance with Article88(3) of the Treaty, a single regional aid map for the 2007‑13 period, covering its entire national territory. The current crisis has had a considerable and asymmetrical impact on productive sectors and territories, some of which were not included in the regional aid maps proposed by the Member States in 2006. Now, when they are most in need, these territories find themselves excluded from national regional aid programmes. In light of the above, would it not be appropriate for the Commission to ask the Member States for an update of the regional aid maps which they submitted in 2006, that will be valid during the 2011‑13 period?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The European Central Bank, a body which is independent of democratic control and which comprises one of the component parts of monetary union and its currency the euro, has selected the Spaniard Antonio Sainz de Vicuña as its Director-General of Legal Affairs. Since this person is the legal representative of the liquidated Banco Saudi Español (Saudesbank) and also the legal adviser of another failed bank (Banesto), the monetary authorities of the Bank of Spain and of the Economic Affairs Ministry must presumably know him and have endorsed his candidacy. Could the Council say whether or not the Spanish authorities have provided the directors of the European Central Bank with information regarding the professional merits of the person in question and his knowledge of the Bank of Spain's rules for monitoring credit institutions in order to prevent bankruptcies, tax evasion, deposits of """"""""dirty"""""""" money and other irregular practices engaged in by credit and savings institutions?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-2337/98

Macroeconomics

The European Central Bank, a body which is independent of democratic control and which comprises one of the component parts of monetary union and its currency the euro, has selected the Spaniard Antonio Sainz de Vicuña as its Director-General of Legal Affairs. Since this person is the legal representative of the liquidated Banco Saudi Español (Saudesbank) and also the legal adviser of another failed bank (Banesto), the monetary authorities of the Bank of Spain and of the Economic Affairs Ministry must presumably know him and have endorsed his candidacy. Could the Council say whether or not the Spanish authorities have provided the directors of the European Central Bank with information regarding the professional merits of the person in question and his knowledge of the Bank of Spain's rules for monitoring credit institutions in order to prevent bankruptcies, tax evasion, deposits of """"""""dirty"""""""" money and other irregular practices engaged in by credit and savings institutions?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The Maconde factory in Vila do Conde still employs around 600 workers, most of them women. The process of restructuring Maconde is worrying the workers and the population in the region, especially in Vila do Conde and Póvoa do Varzim, in view of the existing unemployment levels due to the closure of other businesses, which is having serious consequences for local and regional development. Can the Commission therefore say: 1. whether Maconde has received Community support in the last few years? 2. what measures are being considered in order to safeguard production and workers' jobs at the Maconde plant?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-4848/07

Macroeconomics

The Maconde factory in Vila do Conde still employs around 600 workers, most of them women. The process of restructuring Maconde is worrying the workers and the population in the region, especially in Vila do Conde and Póvoa do Varzim, in view of the existing unemployment levels due to the closure of other businesses, which is having serious consequences for local and regional development. Can the Commission therefore say: 1. whether Maconde has received Community support in the last few years? 2. what measures are being considered in order to safeguard production and workers' jobs at the Maconde plant?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Is the Commission aware of the report """"""""Keuzes in kaart - economische effecten van vijf verkiezingsprogramma's"""""""" (Reviewing the options - economic impact of five election manifestoes) by the Netherlands Central Planning Office, particularly the section """"""""Reduction of contributions to the EU budget"""""""" in Annex 6? If no agreement were to be reached within the Council concerning the new Financial Perspective - for example on account of a veto by the Netherlands - would an extension of the current Financial Perspective be """"""""conditional on unanimity"""""""", as the Central Planning Office claims? Does the view expressed by the Central Planning Office accord with the decision-making procedure described in Paragraph 25 of the Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA) of 29 October 1993 on the Financial Perspective? Is it true that """"""""as far as the Council is concerned, the IIA lays down that it may reject an extension by a qualified majority. However, the Member States have agreed that in practice there should be a qualified majority in favour of an extension ..."""""""" (1)? If the current Financial Perspective were to be extended, would it permit a higher level of expenditure in 2002 than the proposal for the new Financial Perspective for 2000-2006 recently presented by the Commission? Can the Commission provide an estimate of the Netherlands' contribution to the EU budget in 2002 on the basis of the assumptions that the current Financial Perspective will be extended, the existing Decision on Own Resources will still be in force, and the financial limits will be exploited to the maximum? If the Financial Perspective were to be denounced, would the """"""""maximum rate of increase procedure"""""""" pursuant to Article 203(9) of the EC Treaty be applicable? How many times and when have the European Parliament and the Council already made use of the the provision in Article 203(9), fifth paragraph, permitting a rise in the """"""""maximum rate of increase""""""""? Can a single Member State veto such a rise? In the light of the answers to the above questions, how accurate is the statement in the Introduction to the Central Planning Office's report that """"""""for reductions in contributions to the EU budget, an upper limit has been used which corresponds to what the Netherlands can, if necessary, secure by blocking decision-making on the new Financial Perspective for the EU""""""""? Is there any room for improvement in the description of European decision-making given in the Central Planning Office's report? (1) Note on the report on the approval of the Decision of 31 October 1994 concerning the system of the EC's own resources, Lower House of Parliament of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1995-1996, 24127, No 5, p. 15." Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

P-1464/98

Macroeconomics

Is the Commission aware of the report """"""""Keuzes in kaart - economische effecten van vijf verkiezingsprogramma's"""""""" (Reviewing the options - economic impact of five election manifestoes) by the Netherlands Central Planning Office, particularly the section """"""""Reduction of contributions to the EU budget"""""""" in Annex 6? If no agreement were to be reached within the Council concerning the new Financial Perspective - for example on account of a veto by the Netherlands - would an extension of the current Financial Perspective be """"""""conditional on unanimity"""""""", as the Central Planning Office claims? Does the view expressed by the Central Planning Office accord with the decision-making procedure described in Paragraph 25 of the Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA) of 29 October 1993 on the Financial Perspective? Is it true that """"""""as far as the Council is concerned, the IIA lays down that it may reject an extension by a qualified majority. However, the Member States have agreed that in practice there should be a qualified majority in favour of an extension ..."""""""" (1)? If the current Financial Perspective were to be extended, would it permit a higher level of expenditure in 2002 than the proposal for the new Financial Perspective for 2000-2006 recently presented by the Commission? Can the Commission provide an estimate of the Netherlands' contribution to the EU budget in 2002 on the basis of the assumptions that the current Financial Perspective will be extended, the existing Decision on Own Resources will still be in force, and the financial limits will be exploited to the maximum? If the Financial Perspective were to be denounced, would the """"""""maximum rate of increase procedure"""""""" pursuant to Article 203(9) of the EC Treaty be applicable? How many times and when have the European Parliament and the Council already made use of the the provision in Article 203(9), fifth paragraph, permitting a rise in the """"""""maximum rate of increase""""""""? Can a single Member State veto such a rise? In the light of the answers to the above questions, how accurate is the statement in the Introduction to the Central Planning Office's report that """"""""for reductions in contributions to the EU budget, an upper limit has been used which corresponds to what the Netherlands can, if necessary, secure by blocking decision-making on the new Financial Perspective for the EU""""""""? Is there any room for improvement in the description of European decision-making given in the Central Planning Office's report? (1) Note on the report on the approval of the Decision of 31 October 1994 concerning the system of the EC's own resources, Lower House of Parliament of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1995-1996, 24127, No 5, p. 15.

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Since October 1994 the Council has been urging the Commission to submit a concrete proposal for this sector, which in recent years has been facing a grave situation caused by the adverse impact of imports. To date, the Commission has not replied to the Council or to requests from Community producers or the European Parliament. When does the Commission plan to introduce the budgetary instruments and machinery needed for appropriate measures for this sector? Does the Commission plan to take up the measures proposed by the EP in its Resolution A4-0116/94 (1)? (1)OJ C 43, 20.2.1995, p. 130." Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-1423/96

Macroeconomics

Since October 1994 the Council has been urging the Commission to submit a concrete proposal for this sector, which in recent years has been facing a grave situation caused by the adverse impact of imports. To date, the Commission has not replied to the Council or to requests from Community producers or the European Parliament. When does the Commission plan to introduce the budgetary instruments and machinery needed for appropriate measures for this sector? Does the Commission plan to take up the measures proposed by the EP in its Resolution A4-0116/94 (1)? (1)OJ C 43, 20.2.1995, p. 130.

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "French MPs have just adopted a Finance Bill on social security which provides for an increase of 160% in excise duties on beer. This increase should initially bring in EUR280million per year to the French State, EUR95million of which would come from the Belgian brewing industry (for which France is the main export market with 32% of the amount of exports). The consequences for Belgian breweries would of course be disastrous. As the MEP responsible for consumer protection and as a Belgian, Iwould like to ask the Commission the following: 1. What is its position on this matter? Does it intend to overturn the decision by the French State or, at the very least, initiate an investigation? It is worth remembering that the Court of Justice of the European Union has in the past overturned a decision by the United Kingdom to increase taxes on wine to favour domestic beer production. 2. Does the Commission believe that a Member State’s fiscal policy could influence existing patterns of consumption, favouring national industries? 3. Is this matter fully consistent with theEU definition of the single market?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-011293-12

Macroeconomics

French MPs have just adopted a Finance Bill on social security which provides for an increase of 160% in excise duties on beer. This increase should initially bring in EUR280million per year to the French State, EUR95million of which would come from the Belgian brewing industry (for which France is the main export market with 32% of the amount of exports). The consequences for Belgian breweries would of course be disastrous. As the MEP responsible for consumer protection and as a Belgian, Iwould like to ask the Commission the following: 1. What is its position on this matter? Does it intend to overturn the decision by the French State or, at the very least, initiate an investigation? It is worth remembering that the Court of Justice of the European Union has in the past overturned a decision by the United Kingdom to increase taxes on wine to favour domestic beer production. 2. Does the Commission believe that a Member State’s fiscal policy could influence existing patterns of consumption, favouring national industries? 3. Is this matter fully consistent with theEU definition of the single market?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "On 22January, Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, presented the quantitative easing plan for the mass purchase of State bonds worth over EUR1 000billion, the supposed aim of which is to support the Eurozone economies. Given that the ECB's mandate forbids the direct financing of states, this large amount of liquidity is destined to end up in the hands of the banks, whose coffers are already full of state bonds, and the banks are then supposed to use this money to finance companies and families. Unfortunately, as was the case in the past, banks will opt instead to invest in profit-making financial activities. Can the Commission state how it intends to avail itself of its internal market and EMU prerogatives to ensure that the banks, the great beneficiaries of the plan, use this huge sum of money for transactions aiming at truly kick-starting the economy for the benefit of EU citizens and businesses and not just their own shareholders?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-003207-15

Macroeconomics

On 22January, Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, presented the quantitative easing plan for the mass purchase of State bonds worth over EUR1 000billion, the supposed aim of which is to support the Eurozone economies. Given that the ECB's mandate forbids the direct financing of states, this large amount of liquidity is destined to end up in the hands of the banks, whose coffers are already full of state bonds, and the banks are then supposed to use this money to finance companies and families. Unfortunately, as was the case in the past, banks will opt instead to invest in profit-making financial activities. Can the Commission state how it intends to avail itself of its internal market and EMU prerogatives to ensure that the banks, the great beneficiaries of the plan, use this huge sum of money for transactions aiming at truly kick-starting the economy for the benefit of EU citizens and businesses and not just their own shareholders?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "What is the Commission's position regarding the complaints lodged in 1995 in particular by producers and dealers in French wines labelled appellation d'origine contrôlée, over restrictions on the televising in France of sporting events staged abroad, because of hoardings around the grounds advertising alcoholic beverages. This position of the French authorities is based on a restrictive interpretation of the (French) """"""""loi Evin"""""""" which bans all TV advertising and on a """"""""code of good conduct"""""""" (drawn up inMarch 1995) which formalised that interpretation. 1.Can the Commission contemplate closing the case, even though it has identified, in its reasoned opinion ofJuly 1996, clear restrictions on freedom to provide services and even though France has shown no intention of modifying its position? 2.Can the continuation of discussions with the French authorities lead to a satisfactory solution when, contrary to the undertaking it gave inDecember 1998, it failed to consult the complainants and given that, since 1996, discussions have taken place time and again without any solution appearing? 3.Can the French authorities be said to respect the proportionality principle, when their approach (formalised in the """"""""code of good conduct"""""""") has the effect of allowing the televising of sporting events which count among those drawing the largest audiences, such as the World Cup or World Championships, of preventing medium-sized producers (wine producers) from advertising events which would be accessible to them and, in fact, of penalising drinks (wines) which are hardly consumed by young people at all? 4.In no way is the """"""""code of good conduct"""""""" binding on the authorities responsible in France for prosecuting the author of an infringement of the Evin law and, hence, of a criminal offence. How does the Commission intend, within the framework of discussions with France, to guarantee legal certainty under the conditions defined by the Court of Justice?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

P-1323/00

Macroeconomics

What is the Commission's position regarding the complaints lodged in 1995 in particular by producers and dealers in French wines labelled appellation d'origine contrôlée, over restrictions on the televising in France of sporting events staged abroad, because of hoardings around the grounds advertising alcoholic beverages. This position of the French authorities is based on a restrictive interpretation of the (French) """"""""loi Evin"""""""" which bans all TV advertising and on a """"""""code of good conduct"""""""" (drawn up inMarch 1995) which formalised that interpretation. 1.Can the Commission contemplate closing the case, even though it has identified, in its reasoned opinion ofJuly 1996, clear restrictions on freedom to provide services and even though France has shown no intention of modifying its position? 2.Can the continuation of discussions with the French authorities lead to a satisfactory solution when, contrary to the undertaking it gave inDecember 1998, it failed to consult the complainants and given that, since 1996, discussions have taken place time and again without any solution appearing? 3.Can the French authorities be said to respect the proportionality principle, when their approach (formalised in the """"""""code of good conduct"""""""") has the effect of allowing the televising of sporting events which count among those drawing the largest audiences, such as the World Cup or World Championships, of preventing medium-sized producers (wine producers) from advertising events which would be accessible to them and, in fact, of penalising drinks (wines) which are hardly consumed by young people at all? 4.In no way is the """"""""code of good conduct"""""""" binding on the authorities responsible in France for prosecuting the author of an infringement of the Evin law and, hence, of a criminal offence. How does the Commission intend, within the framework of discussions with France, to guarantee legal certainty under the conditions defined by the Court of Justice?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Italy’s meat industry has a turnover of some EUR 30 billion.The industry has suffered a serious economic downturn, as a result of which it is estimated that around 20% of its turnover has been lost, on account of the COVID-19 emergency and the restrictions imposed with the aim of containing the infection, which have limited exports, due to logistical difficulties and the lockdown measures imposed by the main importing countries, and which have brought the hotel and restaurant trade to a complete standstill.Within this industry, the pigmeat, beef and veal and poultry meat sectors have not been considered eligible for private storage, which is vital in order to even out fluctuations in demand due to the pandemic.In view of the above, can the Commission answer the following questions:1.Will it activate the crisis reserve for the meat industry?2.As part of the crisis strategy, will it also permit private storage for the sectors referred to above?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-002930/2020

Macroeconomics

Italy’s meat industry has a turnover of some EUR 30 billion.The industry has suffered a serious economic downturn, as a result of which it is estimated that around 20% of its turnover has been lost, on account of the COVID-19 emergency and the restrictions imposed with the aim of containing the infection, which have limited exports, due to logistical difficulties and the lockdown measures imposed by the main importing countries, and which have brought the hotel and restaurant trade to a complete standstill.Within this industry, the pigmeat, beef and veal and poultry meat sectors have not been considered eligible for private storage, which is vital in order to even out fluctuations in demand due to the pandemic.In view of the above, can the Commission answer the following questions:1.Will it activate the crisis reserve for the meat industry?2.As part of the crisis strategy, will it also permit private storage for the sectors referred to above?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "In December2012, Eurostat estimated that unemployment in the EU-27 stood at a total of 25926000. While I recognise that these are hard financial time for all Member States, with many having unprecedented levels of unemployment, what is theEU doing centrally to encourage the growth of entrepreneurship and enterprise through SMEs? Additionally, there has been much talk of a generational detachment because of youth unemployment. Is theEU providing or encouraging schemes which enable under-25s to begin on the career ladder across Europe?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-001507-13

Macroeconomics

In December2012, Eurostat estimated that unemployment in the EU-27 stood at a total of 25926000. While I recognise that these are hard financial time for all Member States, with many having unprecedented levels of unemployment, what is theEU doing centrally to encourage the growth of entrepreneurship and enterprise through SMEs? Additionally, there has been much talk of a generational detachment because of youth unemployment. Is theEU providing or encouraging schemes which enable under-25s to begin on the career ladder across Europe?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "In view of the fact that: — over recent years, the Member States have spent EUR4.6billion supporting the financial sector, a sector which benefits from fiscal advantages in the sum of EUR18billion per year as a result of VAT exemptions; — in his ‘State of the Union’ address in the European Parliament last year, the President of the European Commission said that ‘it is time for the financial sector to make a contribution back to society’; — the European Commission announced the creation of the European financial transaction tax, which is based on the initiative of James Tobin, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics; — this European tax is expected to raise EUR55billion per year, applying a tax rate of 0.1% on bond and equity transactions and 0.01 % on other financial products; — following a broad discussion on the suitability of adopting this tax, Portugal, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia sent a formal request to the European Commission to be involved in the enhanced cooperation project; — European Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta wrote that further letters [requests for enhanced cooperation] would be very welcome and that he was optimistic that they would be sent; — however, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been arguing that this tax should only be adopted in the eurozone countries and not throughout the European Union as a whole. The Commission is asked the following: 1. Will each Member State be able individually to set an appropriate rate for the financial transaction tax or will the rate be set jointly in all European countries opting to implement it? 2. What is the rate of the financial transaction tax to be applied by the Member States? 3. How much revenue do the European Commission and the Member States expect to gain from the introduction of the financial transaction tax?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-009809-12

Macroeconomics

In view of the fact that: — over recent years, the Member States have spent EUR4.6billion supporting the financial sector, a sector which benefits from fiscal advantages in the sum of EUR18billion per year as a result of VAT exemptions; — in his ‘State of the Union’ address in the European Parliament last year, the President of the European Commission said that ‘it is time for the financial sector to make a contribution back to society’; — the European Commission announced the creation of the European financial transaction tax, which is based on the initiative of James Tobin, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics; — this European tax is expected to raise EUR55billion per year, applying a tax rate of 0.1% on bond and equity transactions and 0.01 % on other financial products; — following a broad discussion on the suitability of adopting this tax, Portugal, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia sent a formal request to the European Commission to be involved in the enhanced cooperation project; — European Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta wrote that further letters [requests for enhanced cooperation] would be very welcome and that he was optimistic that they would be sent; — however, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been arguing that this tax should only be adopted in the eurozone countries and not throughout the European Union as a whole. The Commission is asked the following: 1. Will each Member State be able individually to set an appropriate rate for the financial transaction tax or will the rate be set jointly in all European countries opting to implement it? 2. What is the rate of the financial transaction tax to be applied by the Member States? 3. How much revenue do the European Commission and the Member States expect to gain from the introduction of the financial transaction tax?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "On 14July, the Czech Government approved the sale of Vitkovice Steel A.S. to the Russian steel group Evraz. The sale also involves the requirements of Protocol2 to the Accession Treaty of the Czech Republic to the EU (what is known as the steel protocol). Recently, there have been complaints about the state of the environment in the area around Vitkovice, which seem to have degraded. 1.How will the Commission guarantee full compliance with the requirements of Protocol2? What steps will the Commission take to ensure that Evraz lives up to the urgent need for the environmental damage caused by the company to the Vitkovice site and surrounding areas for which State aid was granted under the Protocol? 2.Can the Commission indicate whether the probable job losses in the Vitkovice steel and supplier/related companies resulting from the Evraz takeover are compatible with the terms of the steel Protocol? 3.Russian Steel products imported into the EU are subject to quotas and duties. Will the Commission consider whether the Vitkovice products are, in fact, Russian products in respect of which duties are being evaded, and how will the Commission monitor circumventions of EU trade policies and act against them?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-2908/05

Macroeconomics

On 14July, the Czech Government approved the sale of Vitkovice Steel A.S. to the Russian steel group Evraz. The sale also involves the requirements of Protocol2 to the Accession Treaty of the Czech Republic to the EU (what is known as the steel protocol). Recently, there have been complaints about the state of the environment in the area around Vitkovice, which seem to have degraded. 1.How will the Commission guarantee full compliance with the requirements of Protocol2? What steps will the Commission take to ensure that Evraz lives up to the urgent need for the environmental damage caused by the company to the Vitkovice site and surrounding areas for which State aid was granted under the Protocol? 2.Can the Commission indicate whether the probable job losses in the Vitkovice steel and supplier/related companies resulting from the Evraz takeover are compatible with the terms of the steel Protocol? 3.Russian Steel products imported into the EU are subject to quotas and duties. Will the Commission consider whether the Vitkovice products are, in fact, Russian products in respect of which duties are being evaded, and how will the Commission monitor circumventions of EU trade policies and act against them?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "On 5May 2020, the German Constitutional Court delivered a judgment on the public sector securities purchase programme (PSPP) of the European Central Bank (ECB) to the effect that the latter had gone beyond its mandate when it adopted a disproportionate public sector securities purchase programme. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) had previously declared the programme to be valid in a judgment of 11December 2018.Differences between the jurisdictions of the Member States regarding the validity of such actions would be likely to undermine the unity of the EU’s legal order and affect the legal certainty of the PEPP private and public sector securities purchase programme set up as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.1.A judgment delivered by the ECJ in respect of a request for a preliminary ruling is binding on the national court when ruling on the case in the main proceedings. Does the Council envisage imposing sanctions on Germany if the German Constitutional Court forces its central bank to put an end to this measure?2.If the Bundesbank failed to resolve the legal contradiction by demonstrating that the policy in question was appropriate, should there not be a revision of the ECB’s mandate?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-003385/2020

Macroeconomics

On 5May 2020, the German Constitutional Court delivered a judgment on the public sector securities purchase programme (PSPP) of the European Central Bank (ECB) to the effect that the latter had gone beyond its mandate when it adopted a disproportionate public sector securities purchase programme. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) had previously declared the programme to be valid in a judgment of 11December 2018.Differences between the jurisdictions of the Member States regarding the validity of such actions would be likely to undermine the unity of the EU’s legal order and affect the legal certainty of the PEPP private and public sector securities purchase programme set up as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.1.A judgment delivered by the ECJ in respect of a request for a preliminary ruling is binding on the national court when ruling on the case in the main proceedings. Does the Council envisage imposing sanctions on Germany if the German Constitutional Court forces its central bank to put an end to this measure?2.If the Bundesbank failed to resolve the legal contradiction by demonstrating that the policy in question was appropriate, should there not be a revision of the ECB’s mandate?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "In some European Member States it is common practice for prices to be quoted exclusive of value added tax, for example on menus in restaurants and on products in shops. This can create confusion for travellers and visitors from other Member States as the price which is payable is different from the price quoted. Can the Commission say if there are any proposals to encourage Member States to require prices to be quoted inclusive of VAT?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-2420/01

Macroeconomics

In some European Member States it is common practice for prices to be quoted exclusive of value added tax, for example on menus in restaurants and on products in shops. This can create confusion for travellers and visitors from other Member States as the price which is payable is different from the price quoted. Can the Commission say if there are any proposals to encourage Member States to require prices to be quoted inclusive of VAT?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Could the Commission set out the conditions required for the Astano shipbuilding company in Galicia to be able to resume operations and thus escape the discrimination to which it has fallen victim?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-0095/00

Macroeconomics

Could the Commission set out the conditions required for the Astano shipbuilding company in Galicia to be able to resume operations and thus escape the discrimination to which it has fallen victim?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Lengthy waiting periods, as much as a decade, can pass between an application for a patent and the time when a product is actually marketed. Furthermore, in addition to selling its products, the European industry is also engaged in plant-protection research (into insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and so forth). That being the case, the industry will find it difficult to recoup its research and development outlay and maintain its international position as an innovator without wider-ranging safeguards for plant-protection products. Will the Council grant an additional five years' protection following expiry of a patent — as called for, moreover, by the Commission — and lay down a standard period of protection in all the Member States, bearing in mind that its duration now varies?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-306/95

Macroeconomics

Lengthy waiting periods, as much as a decade, can pass between an application for a patent and the time when a product is actually marketed. Furthermore, in addition to selling its products, the European industry is also engaged in plant-protection research (into insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and so forth). That being the case, the industry will find it difficult to recoup its research and development outlay and maintain its international position as an innovator without wider-ranging safeguards for plant-protection products. Will the Council grant an additional five years' protection following expiry of a patent — as called for, moreover, by the Commission — and lay down a standard period of protection in all the Member States, bearing in mind that its duration now varies?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "It is known that Greece was condemned by the European Court of Justice (Case 375/95) on the grounds that, by imposing a special duty by category on imported used passenger vehicles meeting the requirements of Directive 94/12/EC(1), Greek legislation was infringing Community law. To date, Greece has not yet complied with the Court's judgment. What steps should the Commission have taken to enforce the above ruling? Why has the Commission not yet taken the necessary measures or initiated the relevant established proceeding applicable here? When will Article 228(2) of the Treaty be implemented? (1)OJ L 100, 19.4.1994, p. 42." Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-3292/02

Macroeconomics

It is known that Greece was condemned by the European Court of Justice (Case 375/95) on the grounds that, by imposing a special duty by category on imported used passenger vehicles meeting the requirements of Directive 94/12/EC(1), Greek legislation was infringing Community law. To date, Greece has not yet complied with the Court's judgment. What steps should the Commission have taken to enforce the above ruling? Why has the Commission not yet taken the necessary measures or initiated the relevant established proceeding applicable here? When will Article 228(2) of the Treaty be implemented? (1)OJ L 100, 19.4.1994, p. 42.

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The road freight transport sector in Europe is going through a time of severe economic hardship due to the economic crisis and other disturbing phenomena such as rising fuel costs, burdensome red tape and the spreading of dumping practices in relation to two different sets of circumstances: firstly, when the balance of contractual power is more on the side of the customer and small businesses have prices ‘imposed’ on them that do not even cover the cost of the service provided; or else, as happens especially in north-eastern Italy, certain Community hauliers offer significantly lower prices — cutting prices by even more than half compared to Italian firms, given that the costs they have to bear in their countries of residence are much lower. To combat these problems and to protect SMEs in the sector, during the European Council meetings of 19June2008, the UETR (European Road Haulage Union) submitted an initial text calling for the adoption of anti-dumping measures and a mechanism to enable freight rates to be automatically adapted to the cost of diesel. Subsequently, on 20April2009, the President of Confartigianato Trasporti (federation of small haulage businesses) and of the UETR, Francesco Del Boca, at the public hearing held by the Commission on the crisis in the sector, stressed the urgent need to specifically address the issue of social dumping by establishing a European Monitoring Centre on Costs, which would monitor the sector across Europe and clearly identify the minimum costs below which a company would be guilty of social dumping, thereby enabling prices to be determined more fairly across the board. 1.While fully supporting the campaign for the protection of small businesses backed by the UETR and Confartigianato Trasporti, Ishould like to ask the Commission whether there have been any developments with regard to the call for a European Monitoring Centre on Costs? 2.How will the Commission defend small haulage businesses from unfair competition and social dumping? 3.What will it do to resolve the difficulties that threaten a sector that is strategic not only in terms of employment but also in helping to achieve one of the four fundamental freedoms — the free movement of goods?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-6476/2010

Macroeconomics

The road freight transport sector in Europe is going through a time of severe economic hardship due to the economic crisis and other disturbing phenomena such as rising fuel costs, burdensome red tape and the spreading of dumping practices in relation to two different sets of circumstances: firstly, when the balance of contractual power is more on the side of the customer and small businesses have prices ‘imposed’ on them that do not even cover the cost of the service provided; or else, as happens especially in north-eastern Italy, certain Community hauliers offer significantly lower prices — cutting prices by even more than half compared to Italian firms, given that the costs they have to bear in their countries of residence are much lower. To combat these problems and to protect SMEs in the sector, during the European Council meetings of 19June2008, the UETR (European Road Haulage Union) submitted an initial text calling for the adoption of anti-dumping measures and a mechanism to enable freight rates to be automatically adapted to the cost of diesel. Subsequently, on 20April2009, the President of Confartigianato Trasporti (federation of small haulage businesses) and of the UETR, Francesco Del Boca, at the public hearing held by the Commission on the crisis in the sector, stressed the urgent need to specifically address the issue of social dumping by establishing a European Monitoring Centre on Costs, which would monitor the sector across Europe and clearly identify the minimum costs below which a company would be guilty of social dumping, thereby enabling prices to be determined more fairly across the board. 1.While fully supporting the campaign for the protection of small businesses backed by the UETR and Confartigianato Trasporti, Ishould like to ask the Commission whether there have been any developments with regard to the call for a European Monitoring Centre on Costs? 2.How will the Commission defend small haulage businesses from unfair competition and social dumping? 3.What will it do to resolve the difficulties that threaten a sector that is strategic not only in terms of employment but also in helping to achieve one of the four fundamental freedoms — the free movement of goods?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Is the Commission aware that, in the High Court of the United Kingdom, MrJustice Lewison drew attention to certain anomalies in his judgment in the case of HMRC v Livewire TelecomLtd [2009] EWHC 15 (Ch), and that the learned Judge was in no doubt that the terms of the Kittel judgment are not accurately reproduced within the translated version used by Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC)?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-003823/2011

Macroeconomics

Is the Commission aware that, in the High Court of the United Kingdom, MrJustice Lewison drew attention to certain anomalies in his judgment in the case of HMRC v Livewire TelecomLtd [2009] EWHC 15 (Ch), and that the learned Judge was in no doubt that the terms of the Kittel judgment are not accurately reproduced within the translated version used by Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC)?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "In 2011, the Commission proposed a common system for calculating the tax base of businesses operating in theEU. Creating a level playing field for all EU companies will finally make it possible to tackle unfair competition on theEU market and significantly reduce social dumping. 1.What common corporate tax system is the Commission proposing? 2.What will the Commission do next to make sure an agreement is reached?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-010204-15

Macroeconomics

In 2011, the Commission proposed a common system for calculating the tax base of businesses operating in theEU. Creating a level playing field for all EU companies will finally make it possible to tackle unfair competition on theEU market and significantly reduce social dumping. 1.What common corporate tax system is the Commission proposing? 2.What will the Commission do next to make sure an agreement is reached?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "A breakdown by EU institutions (Parliament, Council) of the exact cost of and appropriations for vehicles appears in the European Union’s general budget for the financial year 2010 (Official Journal of the European Union, L64(1)). However, the Commission’s budget shows only expenditure items, under which vehicle costs are included, inter alia, in building costs. 1.What are the Commission’s specific appropriations in 2010 for vehicles (purchase, rental, maintenance, insurance costs,etc.)? 2.What are the appropriations for this purpose in 2010 for the agencies coming under the auspices of the Commission (Publications Office, OLAF, EPSO, Office for the Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlements, Office for Infrastructure and Logistics) in Brussels and Luxembourg? (1)OJ L 64, 12.3.2010, p. 1." Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-3277/10

Macroeconomics

A breakdown by EU institutions (Parliament, Council) of the exact cost of and appropriations for vehicles appears in the European Union’s general budget for the financial year 2010 (Official Journal of the European Union, L64(1)). However, the Commission’s budget shows only expenditure items, under which vehicle costs are included, inter alia, in building costs. 1.What are the Commission’s specific appropriations in 2010 for vehicles (purchase, rental, maintenance, insurance costs,etc.)? 2.What are the appropriations for this purpose in 2010 for the agencies coming under the auspices of the Commission (Publications Office, OLAF, EPSO, Office for the Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlements, Office for Infrastructure and Logistics) in Brussels and Luxembourg? (1)OJ L 64, 12.3.2010, p. 1.

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The department of Indre-et-Loire is currently under consideration as regards the new zones for application of the reform of European regional policy. The commune of Nouâtre in the canton of Sainte-Maure, which used to be eligible under ERDF Objective 5(b), could now come under Objective 2. However, at the same time, the French authorities have decided to close a large part of the Nouâtre military base, which employs about 400 people, including 250 civilians, which will be a severe blow to the local economy. For instance, the Nouâtre secondary school, which takes the children of employees at the base, may be threatened with closure in the fairly near future. 1.Does not the Council think that there is an unacceptable contradiction between its regional policy objectives in Indre-et-Loire and the French authorities' decision, taken without any consultation, concerning a commune in the same department? 2.Does not the Council think that it should intervene with the French Government to resolve this inconsistency? 3.More generally, does the Council know of other, similar cases and what measures will it take to prevent contradictions of this kind in the future?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-1708/99

Macroeconomics

The department of Indre-et-Loire is currently under consideration as regards the new zones for application of the reform of European regional policy. The commune of Nouâtre in the canton of Sainte-Maure, which used to be eligible under ERDF Objective 5(b), could now come under Objective 2. However, at the same time, the French authorities have decided to close a large part of the Nouâtre military base, which employs about 400 people, including 250 civilians, which will be a severe blow to the local economy. For instance, the Nouâtre secondary school, which takes the children of employees at the base, may be threatened with closure in the fairly near future. 1.Does not the Council think that there is an unacceptable contradiction between its regional policy objectives in Indre-et-Loire and the French authorities' decision, taken without any consultation, concerning a commune in the same department? 2.Does not the Council think that it should intervene with the French Government to resolve this inconsistency? 3.More generally, does the Council know of other, similar cases and what measures will it take to prevent contradictions of this kind in the future?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "On 16 December 2020, Parliament approved a new strategy for European SMEs.Among other things, Parliament’s resolution calls for an update of the Commission’s SME strategy published in March 2020 in the light of the COVID-19 crisis, and demands the adoption of a SME action plan with clear objectives, milestones and timeline.1.Can the Commission specify what steps it concretely intends to take in order to propose an action plan to implement the SME strategy?2.Can the Commission explain its approach to reducing the administrative burden SMEs face, including how it aims to conduct a preliminary impact assessment leading to the definition of possible reduction targets?3.Can the Commission describe how it intends to address the specificities affecting the SMEs operating in the most peripheral territories of the Union, including islands?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

P-000147/2021

Macroeconomics

On 16 December 2020, Parliament approved a new strategy for European SMEs.Among other things, Parliament’s resolution calls for an update of the Commission’s SME strategy published in March 2020 in the light of the COVID-19 crisis, and demands the adoption of a SME action plan with clear objectives, milestones and timeline.1.Can the Commission specify what steps it concretely intends to take in order to propose an action plan to implement the SME strategy?2.Can the Commission explain its approach to reducing the administrative burden SMEs face, including how it aims to conduct a preliminary impact assessment leading to the definition of possible reduction targets?3.Can the Commission describe how it intends to address the specificities affecting the SMEs operating in the most peripheral territories of the Union, including islands?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "With reference to the Commission's answers of 23 April 2002 (E-0721/02(1)) to questions by Jules Maaten, I should like to put some supplementary questions. 1. Is the Commission aware that in some European countries (e.g. Belgium, France, Britain, Ireland and Italy), medicinal herbal cigarettes have for years been sold free of tobacco excise even though these countries have not, like Denmark, exempted these products from excise? 2. Is it right that it should be left to the discretion of national authorities to decide whether to place products on lists of pharmaceutical products which serve exclusively medical purposes, in the knowledge that this could result in national authorities arriving at different points of view, so that different rates of excise are levied on the same product in different Member States? (1)OJ C 277 E, 14.11.2002, p. 81." Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-3801/02

Macroeconomics

With reference to the Commission's answers of 23 April 2002 (E-0721/02(1)) to questions by Jules Maaten, I should like to put some supplementary questions. 1. Is the Commission aware that in some European countries (e.g. Belgium, France, Britain, Ireland and Italy), medicinal herbal cigarettes have for years been sold free of tobacco excise even though these countries have not, like Denmark, exempted these products from excise? 2. Is it right that it should be left to the discretion of national authorities to decide whether to place products on lists of pharmaceutical products which serve exclusively medical purposes, in the knowledge that this could result in national authorities arriving at different points of view, so that different rates of excise are levied on the same product in different Member States? (1)OJ C 277 E, 14.11.2002, p. 81.

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Is the Commission aware that certain German municipalities, for example the cities of Kassel and Frankfurt, have imposed taxes on single-service food-packaging products such as vending cups and does the Commission view this practice as a distortion of the Single Market?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

P-387/95

Macroeconomics

Is the Commission aware that certain German municipalities, for example the cities of Kassel and Frankfurt, have imposed taxes on single-service food-packaging products such as vending cups and does the Commission view this practice as a distortion of the Single Market?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The tea industry claims that in Portugal tea is subject to the maximum VAT rate of 21%, in contradistinction to most food and drink products, which are subject to the minimum VAT rate. How does this square with the relevant Community legislation?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-1641/06

Macroeconomics

The tea industry claims that in Portugal tea is subject to the maximum VAT rate of 21%, in contradistinction to most food and drink products, which are subject to the minimum VAT rate. How does this square with the relevant Community legislation?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "A mechanic from Saltrio, in the province of Varese, has invented a device that, if fitted to a car with a manual gearbox, promises to reduce fuel consumption by half and harmful emissions by over 60%. The mechanism, known as the kinetic drive system (KDS), is inspired by the cycloid curve principle, a principle of physics dating back to Galileo Galilei. The inventor from Varese worked on the system for years and, after perfecting it, patented it in Italy and Switzerland. The prototype has also been approved by the traffic department of the Ticino canton. All that is required to start moving is a slight acceleration for four seconds. After that, thanks to the KDS system, the car carries on at the desired speed for a minute with no need to keep the accelerator pressed down and, therefore, at the minimum engine speed (where the saving is made). Once propulsion is finished, another four seconds of acceleration provide another minute of driving. This ensures a smooth drive. In view of the above, can the Commission state whether it is aware of this device, which can reduce fuel consumption and, above all, harmful fuel emissions for cars? Does it intend to launch an experimental programme to promote this patent in all Member States?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-003834/2012

Macroeconomics

A mechanic from Saltrio, in the province of Varese, has invented a device that, if fitted to a car with a manual gearbox, promises to reduce fuel consumption by half and harmful emissions by over 60%. The mechanism, known as the kinetic drive system (KDS), is inspired by the cycloid curve principle, a principle of physics dating back to Galileo Galilei. The inventor from Varese worked on the system for years and, after perfecting it, patented it in Italy and Switzerland. The prototype has also been approved by the traffic department of the Ticino canton. All that is required to start moving is a slight acceleration for four seconds. After that, thanks to the KDS system, the car carries on at the desired speed for a minute with no need to keep the accelerator pressed down and, therefore, at the minimum engine speed (where the saving is made). Once propulsion is finished, another four seconds of acceleration provide another minute of driving. This ensures a smooth drive. In view of the above, can the Commission state whether it is aware of this device, which can reduce fuel consumption and, above all, harmful fuel emissions for cars? Does it intend to launch an experimental programme to promote this patent in all Member States?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Late payment is a harmful and unfair practice which continues to exist within the single market and has a negative effect on the development of all businesses. It is widespread primarily among SMEs but also involves individual professionals who provide cross-border services, in particular in the translation sector. In accordance with Directive 2011/7/EU on combating late payment in commercial transactions, the time limit for payment should not exceed 30 or 60 days.However, we have been receiving numerous reports and requests for support from freelance professionals and smaller operators, who often find it impossible to recover money owed them, for fear of damaging good business relationships or owing to a lack of resources.In view of the above:1.Will the Commission make arrangements for studies on and research into such cases involving individual professionals providing cross-border services?2.What steps will it take to improve the timely and effective implementation of both Directive 2011/7/EU and national legislation on late payments, and to give tangible responses with regard to this unfair practice that is adversely affecting thousands of freelancers and businesses in Europe?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-000739/2020

Macroeconomics

Late payment is a harmful and unfair practice which continues to exist within the single market and has a negative effect on the development of all businesses. It is widespread primarily among SMEs but also involves individual professionals who provide cross-border services, in particular in the translation sector. In accordance with Directive 2011/7/EU on combating late payment in commercial transactions, the time limit for payment should not exceed 30 or 60 days.However, we have been receiving numerous reports and requests for support from freelance professionals and smaller operators, who often find it impossible to recover money owed them, for fear of damaging good business relationships or owing to a lack of resources.In view of the above:1.Will the Commission make arrangements for studies on and research into such cases involving individual professionals providing cross-border services?2.What steps will it take to improve the timely and effective implementation of both Directive 2011/7/EU and national legislation on late payments, and to give tangible responses with regard to this unfair practice that is adversely affecting thousands of freelancers and businesses in Europe?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Can the Commission confirm whether Malta is a net beneficiary from the EU budget?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-2764/09

Macroeconomics

Can the Commission confirm whether Malta is a net beneficiary from the EU budget?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Under the new terms of international competition created by the GATT accord and the Agreement of 6 March 1995 on the Customs Union with Turkey, the Council and Commission undertook to present proposals in 1995 on the position of the textiles and clothing industry in Greece. In response to my several questions to the Council and the Commission on this subject, each has claimed that the other is responsible for the delay in submitting proposals. Despite the promises, we have finally reached the end of the year with the Commission still to submit proposals for the industry which attests to a lack of consistency and responsibility. Will the Commission honour its commitment concerning the textile and clothing industry in Greece and when will it present its proposals?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-68/96

Macroeconomics

Under the new terms of international competition created by the GATT accord and the Agreement of 6 March 1995 on the Customs Union with Turkey, the Council and Commission undertook to present proposals in 1995 on the position of the textiles and clothing industry in Greece. In response to my several questions to the Council and the Commission on this subject, each has claimed that the other is responsible for the delay in submitting proposals. Despite the promises, we have finally reached the end of the year with the Commission still to submit proposals for the industry which attests to a lack of consistency and responsibility. Will the Commission honour its commitment concerning the textile and clothing industry in Greece and when will it present its proposals?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The Belgian accountancy law cited above applies to Belgian legal persons, while in the case of businesses established under the law of other countries which have a branch in Belgium, the accountancy law of theEU Member State of the parent company of the Belgian branch could apply instead of Belgian accountancy law. 1.Does the Commission consider such legislation appropriate and compatible with European principles? Does the Commission know of any other EU Member States which apply an accounting requirement similar to that which exists in Belgium when a revalued fixed asset is realised? If so, which? 2.Moreover, in order to have the benefit of fractioned payment of tax on a gain in value in Belgium, an inviolability condition must be met. Is the Commission aware of any other EU Member States whose tax law imposes the same or an equivalent requirement? If so, which? 3.Does not the Commission consider that a legal person (a subsidiary) in Member State A to which the accounting requirement of Member State A applies suffers indirect discrimination in comparison with a branch in Member State A which ís subject to the accountancy law applicable to its parent company from Member State B, which has no accounting requirement? 4.What recommendations would the Commission make or what measures would it take, if appropriate, in order to enforce the European principles of non-discrimination in this case?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-006220/2012

Macroeconomics

The Belgian accountancy law cited above applies to Belgian legal persons, while in the case of businesses established under the law of other countries which have a branch in Belgium, the accountancy law of theEU Member State of the parent company of the Belgian branch could apply instead of Belgian accountancy law. 1.Does the Commission consider such legislation appropriate and compatible with European principles? Does the Commission know of any other EU Member States which apply an accounting requirement similar to that which exists in Belgium when a revalued fixed asset is realised? If so, which? 2.Moreover, in order to have the benefit of fractioned payment of tax on a gain in value in Belgium, an inviolability condition must be met. Is the Commission aware of any other EU Member States whose tax law imposes the same or an equivalent requirement? If so, which? 3.Does not the Commission consider that a legal person (a subsidiary) in Member State A to which the accounting requirement of Member State A applies suffers indirect discrimination in comparison with a branch in Member State A which ís subject to the accountancy law applicable to its parent company from Member State B, which has no accounting requirement? 4.What recommendations would the Commission make or what measures would it take, if appropriate, in order to enforce the European principles of non-discrimination in this case?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "According to the World Economic Forum report, Portugal has dropped from 45thto 49thposition in its competitiveness ranking. As we all know, competitiveness is essential to economic growth and properly balanced public accounts. Could the Commission answer the following: — In view of these figures, would it not be appropriate to consider measures to increase competitiveness, in parallel to those aimed at balancing the budget? — Could this drop in Portugal’s competitiveness be connected with the excessive austerity caused by the measures imposed by the Troika?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-007977/2012

Macroeconomics

According to the World Economic Forum report, Portugal has dropped from 45thto 49thposition in its competitiveness ranking. As we all know, competitiveness is essential to economic growth and properly balanced public accounts. Could the Commission answer the following: — In view of these figures, would it not be appropriate to consider measures to increase competitiveness, in parallel to those aimed at balancing the budget? — Could this drop in Portugal’s competitiveness be connected with the excessive austerity caused by the measures imposed by the Troika?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "COVID-19 is bringing thousands of craft businesses to their knees. At the end of the crisis, many of them will have no choice but to close down operations for good. This possibility rings especially true for independent watch repairers. Back in October 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union judgment that rejected a complaint brought by the European Confederation of Watch and Clock Repairers' Associations actually conferred legitimacy upon the monopolies which large watch manufacturers (most of which are based outside the EU) are enforcing through their post-sales repair services. The judgment in favour of these manufacturers, which refuse to supply spare parts, trampled on the interests of thousands of independent traders throughout Europe.Taking into account that these difficulties are also being compounded by the countless others triggered by the COVID-19 outbreak, this sector's alarming situation is clear. The lockdown, together with the border closures and the ongoing refusal to supply spare parts, is a perfect storm that is sounding the death knell on thousands of small-scale artisans.In the light of the above:What action will the Commission take to meet the needs of this sector and reverse the trend described above?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-003073/2020/rev.1

Macroeconomics

COVID-19 is bringing thousands of craft businesses to their knees. At the end of the crisis, many of them will have no choice but to close down operations for good. This possibility rings especially true for independent watch repairers. Back in October 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union judgment that rejected a complaint brought by the European Confederation of Watch and Clock Repairers' Associations actually conferred legitimacy upon the monopolies which large watch manufacturers (most of which are based outside the EU) are enforcing through their post-sales repair services. The judgment in favour of these manufacturers, which refuse to supply spare parts, trampled on the interests of thousands of independent traders throughout Europe.Taking into account that these difficulties are also being compounded by the countless others triggered by the COVID-19 outbreak, this sector's alarming situation is clear. The lockdown, together with the border closures and the ongoing refusal to supply spare parts, is a perfect storm that is sounding the death knell on thousands of small-scale artisans.In the light of the above:What action will the Commission take to meet the needs of this sector and reverse the trend described above?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "What are the annual costs and total costs since they started, including staff time, research, development, programming, hardware (distributors' and users'), promotion, training, travel and overheads for each of the following information projects: Eurolib, BREL, CASE, ECHO and Euronet? What are the costs of each to the European Union?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-0327/99

Macroeconomics

What are the annual costs and total costs since they started, including staff time, research, development, programming, hardware (distributors' and users'), promotion, training, travel and overheads for each of the following information projects: Eurolib, BREL, CASE, ECHO and Euronet? What are the costs of each to the European Union?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "1.Does the Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia have the right to state procedural conditions for JSC Passenger Train before signing the actual procurement contract for the Cohesion Fund project ‘Project of Activity3.3.2.1. Development of sustainable public transport system, Modernisation of Riga suburban passenger railway system and renovation of diesel train rolling stock’? If so, when and to what extent? 2.Are the actions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia — laying down additional conditions for the JSC Passenger Train which are related to the temporarily regulation of the administrative regional court, thereby limiting the possibility of signing a contract upon receipt of approval of the procurement monitoring institution (the Procurement Monitoring Bureau) — in accordance with EU Competition policy rules (in other words, does setting such conditions fall within the remit of the Cabinet of Ministers?). Should the Contracting Authority suspend the tender procedure until the legal procedure is over? 3.Is it a condition laid down by the Government of Latvia that JSC Passenger Train signing a contract only upon receipt of ‘sufficient proof’ and upon the Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia being ‘sure about its implementation’ should be considered as subjective, limiting EU Cohesion Fund implementation in Latvia and establishing substantial obstacles to the development of railway transport and industrial production in the future?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-012263/2011

Macroeconomics

1.Does the Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia have the right to state procedural conditions for JSC Passenger Train before signing the actual procurement contract for the Cohesion Fund project ‘Project of Activity3.3.2.1. Development of sustainable public transport system, Modernisation of Riga suburban passenger railway system and renovation of diesel train rolling stock’? If so, when and to what extent? 2.Are the actions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia — laying down additional conditions for the JSC Passenger Train which are related to the temporarily regulation of the administrative regional court, thereby limiting the possibility of signing a contract upon receipt of approval of the procurement monitoring institution (the Procurement Monitoring Bureau) — in accordance with EU Competition policy rules (in other words, does setting such conditions fall within the remit of the Cabinet of Ministers?). Should the Contracting Authority suspend the tender procedure until the legal procedure is over? 3.Is it a condition laid down by the Government of Latvia that JSC Passenger Train signing a contract only upon receipt of ‘sufficient proof’ and upon the Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia being ‘sure about its implementation’ should be considered as subjective, limiting EU Cohesion Fund implementation in Latvia and establishing substantial obstacles to the development of railway transport and industrial production in the future?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "According to the most recent inquiry into dumping practices relating to leather footwear from China and Vietnam, the measures now being applied by the Commission will not be prolonged beyond 15months, even though the anti-dumping regulation permits their extension up to five years (or a minimum of two years). The Commission is convinced that the process of structural ‘adjustment’ or renewal of the footwear industry in the EU will be so advanced by 2011 that the 15-month period proposed by its services will be sufficient to ensure that Europe's industries are competitive in the sector and will continue to be productive without support from anti-dumping measures. The Community regulation states that the five-year duration for anti-dumping measures may be reduced only if there is a ‘technical’ justification. 1.Does the Commission believe that the expected development and renewal of the productive structure of the EU's footwear industries between now and 2011 constitutes a ‘technical’ justification for reducing the duration of the measures? 2.Can the Commission explain on what grounds or on the basis of what technical data it has made its plans for the development and structural adjustment of the Union's footwear sector? 3.Can the Commission state what measures will be adopted or what safeguard clauses will be put in place for those sectors which, at the end of the 15-month period proposed by the Commission have not completed their restructuring and will therefore not be competitive on the European market?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-5711/09

Macroeconomics

According to the most recent inquiry into dumping practices relating to leather footwear from China and Vietnam, the measures now being applied by the Commission will not be prolonged beyond 15months, even though the anti-dumping regulation permits their extension up to five years (or a minimum of two years). The Commission is convinced that the process of structural ‘adjustment’ or renewal of the footwear industry in the EU will be so advanced by 2011 that the 15-month period proposed by its services will be sufficient to ensure that Europe's industries are competitive in the sector and will continue to be productive without support from anti-dumping measures. The Community regulation states that the five-year duration for anti-dumping measures may be reduced only if there is a ‘technical’ justification. 1.Does the Commission believe that the expected development and renewal of the productive structure of the EU's footwear industries between now and 2011 constitutes a ‘technical’ justification for reducing the duration of the measures? 2.Can the Commission explain on what grounds or on the basis of what technical data it has made its plans for the development and structural adjustment of the Union's footwear sector? 3.Can the Commission state what measures will be adopted or what safeguard clauses will be put in place for those sectors which, at the end of the 15-month period proposed by the Commission have not completed their restructuring and will therefore not be competitive on the European market?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Despite a formal call from Parliament in its resolution of 5May2010 (P7_TA(2010)0145)(1), and additional requests from individual MEPs, the Commission has stated that it does not intend to propose a ban on the use of cyanide in the mining sector. In its letter of 8November2011 (ref. 1188233), the Commission gave assurances that it ‘closely follows technological developments in the gold mining sector’ and will ‘ensure the development of new extraction technologies in the gold mining sector’ through the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials. Moreover, the Commission also reasoned that current ‘comprehensive and strict legislation (…) once properly implemented, should prevent the occurrence of accidents and minimise their environmental impacts’. In view of the above: 1. Could the Commission outline what concrete steps have been taken towards its stated goal of ensuring the development of new extraction technologies? 2. Could the Commission confirm that current legislation also includes a clear obligation on operators to cover the costs of accidents as well as the environmental costs resulting from normal occupational activities? 3. Given the established risks associated with using cyanide in the mining sector, will the Commission review its decision not to propose a ban? 4. Will the Commission consider targeting funds to be used specifically for alternative development in mining regions, such as tourism or the protection and promotion of archaeological sites? (1)http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P7-TA-2010-0145+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN." Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-005590-13

Macroeconomics

Despite a formal call from Parliament in its resolution of 5May2010 (P7_TA(2010)0145)(1), and additional requests from individual MEPs, the Commission has stated that it does not intend to propose a ban on the use of cyanide in the mining sector. In its letter of 8November2011 (ref. 1188233), the Commission gave assurances that it ‘closely follows technological developments in the gold mining sector’ and will ‘ensure the development of new extraction technologies in the gold mining sector’ through the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials. Moreover, the Commission also reasoned that current ‘comprehensive and strict legislation (…) once properly implemented, should prevent the occurrence of accidents and minimise their environmental impacts’. In view of the above: 1. Could the Commission outline what concrete steps have been taken towards its stated goal of ensuring the development of new extraction technologies? 2. Could the Commission confirm that current legislation also includes a clear obligation on operators to cover the costs of accidents as well as the environmental costs resulting from normal occupational activities? 3. Given the established risks associated with using cyanide in the mining sector, will the Commission review its decision not to propose a ban? 4. Will the Commission consider targeting funds to be used specifically for alternative development in mining regions, such as tourism or the protection and promotion of archaeological sites? (1)http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P7-TA-2010-0145+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN.

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "If the Commission will list the annual budget in (a) current and (b) historic costs" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-3060/95

Macroeconomics

If the Commission will list the annual budget in (a) current and (b) historic costs

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Further to my Question E‑5151/07, could the Commission give me precise information on all the other European budgetary expenditure in Lebanon — in particular payments made through the Lebanese authorities — during the period 2005‑07? Could the Commission give details of the funds channelled to youth and sports activities? Could the Commission give details of the control mechanisms for this expenditure?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-6740/08

Macroeconomics

Further to my Question E‑5151/07, could the Commission give me precise information on all the other European budgetary expenditure in Lebanon — in particular payments made through the Lebanese authorities — during the period 2005‑07? Could the Commission give details of the funds channelled to youth and sports activities? Could the Commission give details of the control mechanisms for this expenditure?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Goodyear France has announced that attempts to find a purchaser for its Amiens-Nord factory have failed, condemning the site to closure and threatening 1173 jobs. Goodyear Dunlop Tires France announced, during the central works council, that no purchasers were interested in Amiens following the study by the French Agency for International Investment (AFII). In total, 57 companies were contacted by AFII offices worldwide. Eight companies expressed their interest, five signed a confidentiality agreement and two non-binding offers were submitted. None of the candidates was in a position to submit a binding offer. Goodyear adds that plans for a cooperative put forward by a trade union did not represent a ‘solution to the problem of recurrent losses in activity’.(1) 1.Is the Commission aware of the closure of Goodyear France? 2.Does it provide aid for the implementation of cooperatives within the framework of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF)? 3.Will the group benefit or does it benefit from other support measures from the European Union? 4.What guarantees have been made with regard to respect for rights relating to work, and in particular the right to a job? (1)http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/entreprise/goodyear-amiens-la-direction-rejette-le-projet-de-scop-de-la-cgt_382601.html" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-006279-13

Macroeconomics

Goodyear France has announced that attempts to find a purchaser for its Amiens-Nord factory have failed, condemning the site to closure and threatening 1173 jobs. Goodyear Dunlop Tires France announced, during the central works council, that no purchasers were interested in Amiens following the study by the French Agency for International Investment (AFII). In total, 57 companies were contacted by AFII offices worldwide. Eight companies expressed their interest, five signed a confidentiality agreement and two non-binding offers were submitted. None of the candidates was in a position to submit a binding offer. Goodyear adds that plans for a cooperative put forward by a trade union did not represent a ‘solution to the problem of recurrent losses in activity’.(1) 1.Is the Commission aware of the closure of Goodyear France? 2.Does it provide aid for the implementation of cooperatives within the framework of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF)? 3.Will the group benefit or does it benefit from other support measures from the European Union? 4.What guarantees have been made with regard to respect for rights relating to work, and in particular the right to a job? (1)http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/entreprise/goodyear-amiens-la-direction-rejette-le-projet-de-scop-de-la-cgt_382601.html

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Cinemas across the EU have been closed for weeks. Regardless of their size and location, they all face severe long-term impacts.Box office losses already amount to EUR2 billion, this figure does not account for other revenue streams or the significant fixed costs that operators have to cover while closed.These negative impacts will continue once confinement measures are lifted. There is still huge uncertainty as to how quickly cinemas will be able to operate at anything like a normal level once reopened.On 4May, Commissioner Breton confirmed that cinemas were considered part of the EU’s recovery plan, which will ensure direct cash flow and investment to support them.1.In terms of the recovery fund, what financial support will be earmarked for cinemas, bearing in mind that they have not been able to generate any income since the lockdown, and will this be in the form of non-repayable grants, low interest loans or support for fixed costs?2.Who will decide the criteria for the distribution of funding and can the Commission guarantee that all cinemas will qualify?3.Given the factors that will affect the cinemas’ capacity to operate at a normal level, can it confirm that financial support will correspond to the long-term challenges?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-002928/2020

Macroeconomics

Cinemas across the EU have been closed for weeks. Regardless of their size and location, they all face severe long-term impacts.Box office losses already amount to EUR2 billion, this figure does not account for other revenue streams or the significant fixed costs that operators have to cover while closed.These negative impacts will continue once confinement measures are lifted. There is still huge uncertainty as to how quickly cinemas will be able to operate at anything like a normal level once reopened.On 4May, Commissioner Breton confirmed that cinemas were considered part of the EU’s recovery plan, which will ensure direct cash flow and investment to support them.1.In terms of the recovery fund, what financial support will be earmarked for cinemas, bearing in mind that they have not been able to generate any income since the lockdown, and will this be in the form of non-repayable grants, low interest loans or support for fixed costs?2.Who will decide the criteria for the distribution of funding and can the Commission guarantee that all cinemas will qualify?3.Given the factors that will affect the cinemas’ capacity to operate at a normal level, can it confirm that financial support will correspond to the long-term challenges?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The Portuguese Government has decided to sell Viana do Castelo Shipyard (ENVC) to a private company, Martifer. ENVC is one of Portugal’s strategic interests in the field of shipbuilding and repair and is vitally important for the region in which it is based, for the Portuguese economy and, ultimately, for the maritime safety of Portugal and the European Union. The Portuguese Government claims the Commission issued a decision following infringement proceeding SA.35546, opened in January2013. 1.Is the Commission aware that the Portuguese Government is invoking a non-existent Commission decision to justify selling ENVC to a private company, thus giving up Portugal’s strategic interest in keeping ENVC State-operated? 2.In its communication to Portugal when it opened infringement proceeding SA.35546, did the Commission provide any parameters for complying with the legal provisions relating to cancellation of the state aid allegedly granted by Portugal to ENVC? Has the Commission announced how much Portugal is to pay back to Brussels under the infringement proceeding? 3.Has the Commission received any response from the Portuguese Government on the opening of infringement proceedings? Could the Commission give details of any response? 4.Has the Commission reached a conclusion on the infringement proceeding opened in January2013? 5.Is the Commission aware that negotiation of the compensation relating to the contract to purchase two submarines for the Portuguese Navy involves projects to benefit ENVC, worth more than EUR600million — more than half the total value of the aforementioned compensation — with the aim of making ENVC financially viable again, only for the running of the facility now to be handed over to a private company? Can the Commission give details of any breach of competition and internal market rules resulting from awarding compensation that, while not granted in full, could now benefit a private company?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-013757-13

Macroeconomics

The Portuguese Government has decided to sell Viana do Castelo Shipyard (ENVC) to a private company, Martifer. ENVC is one of Portugal’s strategic interests in the field of shipbuilding and repair and is vitally important for the region in which it is based, for the Portuguese economy and, ultimately, for the maritime safety of Portugal and the European Union. The Portuguese Government claims the Commission issued a decision following infringement proceeding SA.35546, opened in January2013. 1.Is the Commission aware that the Portuguese Government is invoking a non-existent Commission decision to justify selling ENVC to a private company, thus giving up Portugal’s strategic interest in keeping ENVC State-operated? 2.In its communication to Portugal when it opened infringement proceeding SA.35546, did the Commission provide any parameters for complying with the legal provisions relating to cancellation of the state aid allegedly granted by Portugal to ENVC? Has the Commission announced how much Portugal is to pay back to Brussels under the infringement proceeding? 3.Has the Commission received any response from the Portuguese Government on the opening of infringement proceedings? Could the Commission give details of any response? 4.Has the Commission reached a conclusion on the infringement proceeding opened in January2013? 5.Is the Commission aware that negotiation of the compensation relating to the contract to purchase two submarines for the Portuguese Navy involves projects to benefit ENVC, worth more than EUR600million — more than half the total value of the aforementioned compensation — with the aim of making ENVC financially viable again, only for the running of the facility now to be handed over to a private company? Can the Commission give details of any breach of competition and internal market rules resulting from awarding compensation that, while not granted in full, could now benefit a private company?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "What stage, from a technical point of view, has been reached by the procedure for harmonising the corporate tax base between Member States of the European Union? When will the Council and Parliament be able to make use of the so-called CCCTB without the technical application of this instrument hindering its effective implementation?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-003308-19

Macroeconomics

What stage, from a technical point of view, has been reached by the procedure for harmonising the corporate tax base between Member States of the European Union? When will the Council and Parliament be able to make use of the so-called CCCTB without the technical application of this instrument hindering its effective implementation?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "1.Will the Commission please indicate the share of GDP generated by financial services in each Member State in each year for the last ten years? 2.Will it indicate any particular methodological inconsistencies between the measurement of financial services in the Member States and any particular difficulties in assessing the value added in this sector? 3.Will it give the comparable figures for the United States and Japan?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-0129/01

Macroeconomics

1.Will the Commission please indicate the share of GDP generated by financial services in each Member State in each year for the last ten years? 2.Will it indicate any particular methodological inconsistencies between the measurement of financial services in the Member States and any particular difficulties in assessing the value added in this sector? 3.Will it give the comparable figures for the United States and Japan?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Having regard to the Commission communication of 26November2008 on a European Economic Recovery Plan (COM(2008)0800) and the European Parliament resolution of 11March2009 on a European Economic Recovery Plan (2008/2334(INI)), which both concern the European Economic Recovery Plan, an instrument designed to overcome the serious global crisis that has affected the European Union, Iwould like to ask the Commission the following questions. — What is the status of implementation of the European Economic Recovery Plan? — What specific actions and initiatives have been implemented to support the economy of the European Union? — What sums were allocated, and what amounts have actually been spent in each Member State? — What objectives have been achieved?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-010992/2010

Macroeconomics

Having regard to the Commission communication of 26November2008 on a European Economic Recovery Plan (COM(2008)0800) and the European Parliament resolution of 11March2009 on a European Economic Recovery Plan (2008/2334(INI)), which both concern the European Economic Recovery Plan, an instrument designed to overcome the serious global crisis that has affected the European Union, Iwould like to ask the Commission the following questions. — What is the status of implementation of the European Economic Recovery Plan? — What specific actions and initiatives have been implemented to support the economy of the European Union? — What sums were allocated, and what amounts have actually been spent in each Member State? — What objectives have been achieved?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "There are parts of Europe, especially the area between Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy), Austria and the Republic of Slovenia, in which the local population and those in transit have no real or thorough knowledge of the content of Directive118/2008/EC. The considerable price differences of excisable goods, such as tobacco and alcohol, mean that thousands of EU and non-EU citizens purchase these goods outside their national borders, often exceeding by only a small amount the maximum limits laid down in the abovementioned directive and in the national provisions transposing the directive. Even though it is not smuggling as such, but merely ignorance of the law, these people are being subjected to criminal prosecutions, heavy fines and even having their vehicles seized. Can the Commission therefore say how it intends to remedy these problems of widespread misinformation and the serious impact it is having on EU citizens?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-007063-14

Macroeconomics

There are parts of Europe, especially the area between Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy), Austria and the Republic of Slovenia, in which the local population and those in transit have no real or thorough knowledge of the content of Directive118/2008/EC. The considerable price differences of excisable goods, such as tobacco and alcohol, mean that thousands of EU and non-EU citizens purchase these goods outside their national borders, often exceeding by only a small amount the maximum limits laid down in the abovementioned directive and in the national provisions transposing the directive. Even though it is not smuggling as such, but merely ignorance of the law, these people are being subjected to criminal prosecutions, heavy fines and even having their vehicles seized. Can the Commission therefore say how it intends to remedy these problems of widespread misinformation and the serious impact it is having on EU citizens?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Will the Commission provide a list of the projects approved for EU budget funding in 2001 for Papua New Guinea and give details of the total amount of investment for that year?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-2918/02

Macroeconomics

Will the Commission provide a list of the projects approved for EU budget funding in 2001 for Papua New Guinea and give details of the total amount of investment for that year?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Further to the answer dated 4July 2005 to Questions E‑0122/05 and E‑0123/05 and the failure to answer Question E‑3703/06 adequately, what is the current position on the audit conducted from 13 to 17September 2004 and any progress made in implementing recommendations of the report?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-4764/06

Macroeconomics

Further to the answer dated 4July 2005 to Questions E‑0122/05 and E‑0123/05 and the failure to answer Question E‑3703/06 adequately, what is the current position on the audit conducted from 13 to 17September 2004 and any progress made in implementing recommendations of the report?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "On 15January2015, the Swiss National Bank announced that the franc would be allowed to float freely on the currency market once more, thus abandoning the CHF1.20 per euro cap imposed in 2011. As a consequence, the franc soared by 30% and is currently quoted at CHF1.02 per euro. This return to a floating exchange rate will severely impact mortgage loans contracted in Swiss francs. Particularly affected, it seems, are Croatia and to an even greater extent Poland, where Swiss franc mortgages totalling USD36billion, equivalent to around 8% of the country’s GDP, were sold to homeowners by ‘financial wizards’. Hungary, however, is facing no such problems. The prudent Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, so ostracised and reviled by EU leaders, last year approved a law requiring banks to convert mortgages contracted in Swiss francs into local currency, at exchange rates advantageous to the families. In Italy, thousands of citizens took out mortgages in Swiss francs, trusting in the not always unselfish advice of the banks, and these people will now see their repayments shoot up, placing serious strain on household budgets already severely tested by the financial crisis. In light of the above, how does the Commission intend to exercise its prerogatives in economic and monetary matters, as well as in consumer protection, the internal market and external relations, to protect citizens who took out mortgages in Swiss francs?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-000866-15

Macroeconomics

On 15January2015, the Swiss National Bank announced that the franc would be allowed to float freely on the currency market once more, thus abandoning the CHF1.20 per euro cap imposed in 2011. As a consequence, the franc soared by 30% and is currently quoted at CHF1.02 per euro. This return to a floating exchange rate will severely impact mortgage loans contracted in Swiss francs. Particularly affected, it seems, are Croatia and to an even greater extent Poland, where Swiss franc mortgages totalling USD36billion, equivalent to around 8% of the country’s GDP, were sold to homeowners by ‘financial wizards’. Hungary, however, is facing no such problems. The prudent Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, so ostracised and reviled by EU leaders, last year approved a law requiring banks to convert mortgages contracted in Swiss francs into local currency, at exchange rates advantageous to the families. In Italy, thousands of citizens took out mortgages in Swiss francs, trusting in the not always unselfish advice of the banks, and these people will now see their repayments shoot up, placing serious strain on household budgets already severely tested by the financial crisis. In light of the above, how does the Commission intend to exercise its prerogatives in economic and monetary matters, as well as in consumer protection, the internal market and external relations, to protect citizens who took out mortgages in Swiss francs?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "During the last parliamentary term, the Commission undertook to revise the definition of SMEs and launched an impact assessment in 2017 and a public consultation in 2018. Since the Commission Recommendation of 6May2003 on the definition of small and medium-sized enterprises has been in force for more than 15years, and given that this is a dynamic, ever-evolving concept, Iwould like to ask: 1. How far advanced is the review of the EU’s concept of small and medium-sized enterprises? When will a new Commission recommendation be published? The Portuguese business sector includes a great many companies — particularly in the clothing, apparel and fashion sectors: labour-intensive industries that currently provide a large proportion of the country’s employment — that do not always generate a turnover in excess of EUR50million. 2.Will the Commission review its 2003 recommendation in order to put an end to discrimination against labour-intensive industries and to prevent the risk of distorting competition? 3.Will the Commission amend the definition of SMEs to include companies which, despite having more than 250 staff, do not generate an annual turnover of more than EUR50 million?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-002835-19

Macroeconomics

During the last parliamentary term, the Commission undertook to revise the definition of SMEs and launched an impact assessment in 2017 and a public consultation in 2018. Since the Commission Recommendation of 6May2003 on the definition of small and medium-sized enterprises has been in force for more than 15years, and given that this is a dynamic, ever-evolving concept, Iwould like to ask: 1. How far advanced is the review of the EU’s concept of small and medium-sized enterprises? When will a new Commission recommendation be published? The Portuguese business sector includes a great many companies — particularly in the clothing, apparel and fashion sectors: labour-intensive industries that currently provide a large proportion of the country’s employment — that do not always generate a turnover in excess of EUR50million. 2.Will the Commission review its 2003 recommendation in order to put an end to discrimination against labour-intensive industries and to prevent the risk of distorting competition? 3.Will the Commission amend the definition of SMEs to include companies which, despite having more than 250 staff, do not generate an annual turnover of more than EUR50 million?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Prošek is a traditional dessert wine produced in Dalmatia from naturally dried grapes, and its production goes dates back to an era before the occurrence of phylloxera, peronospora and uncinula necator.Italian winemakers produce several varieties of wine from the prosecco varietal, which have almost nothing in common in terms of production, quality, value, or categorisation with Croatian prošek. The only similarity is in the name, but if we listen a little more carefully to the pronunciation of both words, we see that there is no real similarity there either.The EU’s decision not to recognise the ‘prošek’ designation is jeopardising the production of this traditional wine. It is unprofitable for a winemaker to produce this extremely valuable wine if he cannot sell it under its true ‘prošek’ designation, and if it is sold as dessert wine, it loses its identity and disappears.For these reasons, only a few winemakers in the region of Dalmatia produce prošek, but only in small quantities and primarily for their own needs.Winemakers from Dalmatia have expressed their agreement with a potential compromise on the ‘prošek’ designation, under which prošek wine from Dalmatia could in future be called ’Dalmatian prošek’.What is the Commission's position on the possibility of relaunching the process for recognising the traditional ‘prošek’ designation?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

P-000995/2020

Macroeconomics

Prošek is a traditional dessert wine produced in Dalmatia from naturally dried grapes, and its production goes dates back to an era before the occurrence of phylloxera, peronospora and uncinula necator.Italian winemakers produce several varieties of wine from the prosecco varietal, which have almost nothing in common in terms of production, quality, value, or categorisation with Croatian prošek. The only similarity is in the name, but if we listen a little more carefully to the pronunciation of both words, we see that there is no real similarity there either.The EU’s decision not to recognise the ‘prošek’ designation is jeopardising the production of this traditional wine. It is unprofitable for a winemaker to produce this extremely valuable wine if he cannot sell it under its true ‘prošek’ designation, and if it is sold as dessert wine, it loses its identity and disappears.For these reasons, only a few winemakers in the region of Dalmatia produce prošek, but only in small quantities and primarily for their own needs.Winemakers from Dalmatia have expressed their agreement with a potential compromise on the ‘prošek’ designation, under which prošek wine from Dalmatia could in future be called ’Dalmatian prošek’.What is the Commission's position on the possibility of relaunching the process for recognising the traditional ‘prošek’ designation?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Further to parliamentary Question E‑004413/2011, which states that despite belonging to the euro area, national central banks are allowed to print money — that is, to inflate the Community currency for their own benefit — can the Commission comment on Ireland’s position and what its banks can do to ensure the survival of the euro and whether it will enforce stricter rules on this topic?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-006323/2011

Macroeconomics

Further to parliamentary Question E‑004413/2011, which states that despite belonging to the euro area, national central banks are allowed to print money — that is, to inflate the Community currency for their own benefit — can the Commission comment on Ireland’s position and what its banks can do to ensure the survival of the euro and whether it will enforce stricter rules on this topic?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "According to fresh statistics published by the European Central Bank, more than 300000 forged banknotes of the single European currency were withdrawn from circulation during the first half of 2006, an increase compared with 2005. The notes considered most vulnerable to forgery are the 20 and 50euro notes, mainly owing to the frequency with which they are used in daily business, but also because since 100, 200 and 500euro notes are scrutinised more closely and forgeries are easier to detect. Some 30% of forged notes were found in France, while some 80% are printed in other countries, such as the countries of eastern Europe, Italy and Colombia. In its attempts to put an end to the counterfeiting of the euro, the European Central Bank has introduced many security measures, such as holograms, special inks, security threads and embossed surfaces, so as to make the new currency difficult to forge. Nevertheless, four years after the euro entered into circulation in the eurozone countries, counterfeiters from Europe and other countries have circumvented many of these security measures. Will the Commission say whether it intends to upgrade the security characteristics of euro notes and change them so as to make the work of counterfeiters more difficult since they will then have to start all over again to find the vulnerable points of the new security codes? If so, what changes are likely to be made to the security characteristics? Given the increase in the counterfeiting of one and two euro coins, is it not increasingly urgent to replace them with notes?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-3790/06

Macroeconomics

According to fresh statistics published by the European Central Bank, more than 300000 forged banknotes of the single European currency were withdrawn from circulation during the first half of 2006, an increase compared with 2005. The notes considered most vulnerable to forgery are the 20 and 50euro notes, mainly owing to the frequency with which they are used in daily business, but also because since 100, 200 and 500euro notes are scrutinised more closely and forgeries are easier to detect. Some 30% of forged notes were found in France, while some 80% are printed in other countries, such as the countries of eastern Europe, Italy and Colombia. In its attempts to put an end to the counterfeiting of the euro, the European Central Bank has introduced many security measures, such as holograms, special inks, security threads and embossed surfaces, so as to make the new currency difficult to forge. Nevertheless, four years after the euro entered into circulation in the eurozone countries, counterfeiters from Europe and other countries have circumvented many of these security measures. Will the Commission say whether it intends to upgrade the security characteristics of euro notes and change them so as to make the work of counterfeiters more difficult since they will then have to start all over again to find the vulnerable points of the new security codes? If so, what changes are likely to be made to the security characteristics? Given the increase in the counterfeiting of one and two euro coins, is it not increasingly urgent to replace them with notes?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "In its answer to a previous question (E-001580/2017), on a pilot project included in theEU budget (2015) concerning a programme to support and modernise traditional trade, the Commission confirmed that it was working towards disseminating some best practices with a view to revitalising and modernising the sector. It also stated that it was working on improving information on funding available to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Can the Commission provide updated and detailed information on the conclusions of this pilot project? What were the results and what follow-up actions will be taken? With regard to the budgetary plan, will the Commission create new lines or change existing lines with a view to improving access to modernisation and revitalisation funding for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises trading traditionally (which does not leave them wholly dependent on private funds)?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-003256-19

Macroeconomics

In its answer to a previous question (E-001580/2017), on a pilot project included in theEU budget (2015) concerning a programme to support and modernise traditional trade, the Commission confirmed that it was working towards disseminating some best practices with a view to revitalising and modernising the sector. It also stated that it was working on improving information on funding available to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Can the Commission provide updated and detailed information on the conclusions of this pilot project? What were the results and what follow-up actions will be taken? With regard to the budgetary plan, will the Commission create new lines or change existing lines with a view to improving access to modernisation and revitalisation funding for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises trading traditionally (which does not leave them wholly dependent on private funds)?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The regional development programme involves an administrative provision by the State Ministry of Rhineland-Palatinate for Economic Affairs, Climate Protection, Energy and Regional Planning that supports some individual investment in this state, only promoting company split-ups recognised under the tax regime. No other form of actual company split-up is promoted (for example when the same shareholders are involved in both a limited liability company and a limited partnership with a limited liability company as general partner and the greater part of the operating capital is held in the limited liability company, while the operative business is run by the limited partnership with a limited liability company as general partner). 1.Can the structural funds available in the period 2007 to 2013 only be used to promote enterprises if the company split-up is also recognised under the tax regime, or can actual company split-ups not recognised under the tax regime also receive support? 2.Does the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative provision run contrary to EClaw? 3.Assuming the state provision conforms to EClaw: what is the reason for promoting company split-ups recognised under the tax regime while refusing support for company split-ups that do not have such recognition?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-003291-13

Macroeconomics

The regional development programme involves an administrative provision by the State Ministry of Rhineland-Palatinate for Economic Affairs, Climate Protection, Energy and Regional Planning that supports some individual investment in this state, only promoting company split-ups recognised under the tax regime. No other form of actual company split-up is promoted (for example when the same shareholders are involved in both a limited liability company and a limited partnership with a limited liability company as general partner and the greater part of the operating capital is held in the limited liability company, while the operative business is run by the limited partnership with a limited liability company as general partner). 1.Can the structural funds available in the period 2007 to 2013 only be used to promote enterprises if the company split-up is also recognised under the tax regime, or can actual company split-ups not recognised under the tax regime also receive support? 2.Does the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative provision run contrary to EClaw? 3.Assuming the state provision conforms to EClaw: what is the reason for promoting company split-ups recognised under the tax regime while refusing support for company split-ups that do not have such recognition?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "According to Eurostat statistics, production of durable consumer goods fell by 5.5% in the euro area and by 4.3% in the EU-27 in January2013, compared to January2012. During the same period, energy production also fell by 0.9% in the EU-27. Four of the 27Member States accounted for more than 60% of the EU’s industrial production in 2010: Germany (27.29%), Italy (12.44%), UK (11.93%) and France (11.65%). At the same time, 10Member States accounted together for less than 4% of the EU’s industrial production in 2010. Given that a fall in industrial production may result in an increase in imports, a decline in the EU’s competitiveness and job losses across theEU, can the Council say what measures it intends to take to achieve a recovery in the EU’s industrial production, maintain the EU’s competitiveness and preserve jobs in the EU? What measures does the Council intend to take to develop industrial production in all EU Member States and, in particular, in those where industrial production accounts for less than 1% of the EU’s industrial production?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-008621-13

Macroeconomics

According to Eurostat statistics, production of durable consumer goods fell by 5.5% in the euro area and by 4.3% in the EU-27 in January2013, compared to January2012. During the same period, energy production also fell by 0.9% in the EU-27. Four of the 27Member States accounted for more than 60% of the EU’s industrial production in 2010: Germany (27.29%), Italy (12.44%), UK (11.93%) and France (11.65%). At the same time, 10Member States accounted together for less than 4% of the EU’s industrial production in 2010. Given that a fall in industrial production may result in an increase in imports, a decline in the EU’s competitiveness and job losses across theEU, can the Council say what measures it intends to take to achieve a recovery in the EU’s industrial production, maintain the EU’s competitiveness and preserve jobs in the EU? What measures does the Council intend to take to develop industrial production in all EU Member States and, in particular, in those where industrial production accounts for less than 1% of the EU’s industrial production?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Written Question E-6115/2009 on ‘Liquid fuel pricing’ raised doubts about the reliability of fuel pricing methods and the uncontrolled and counterproductive nature of those methods, with particular reference to the role of companies ‘active in and providing services to’ the crude oil sectors. Even though it did not recognise the problems raised at that time, the Commission subsequently (2013) carried out an investigation into suspected collusion and rigging in fuel pricing, which was the subject of questions E-005997/2013 and E-002227/2015. In both cases, the Commission replied that the investigation had not yet been completed and it was therefore unable, at that stage, to say to what extent consumers had been affected by the infringements concerned. In the light of the above, and given that eight years have now passed since the first question was tabled and five years have passed since the first inspections were carried out, can the Commission provide updated information on this process? What are the conclusions of the investigation, to what extent were consumers affected (how many millions of euro too much did European consumers have to pay for petrol and diesel), and what steps have been taken following the conclusion of the investigation?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-001034-18

Macroeconomics

Written Question E-6115/2009 on ‘Liquid fuel pricing’ raised doubts about the reliability of fuel pricing methods and the uncontrolled and counterproductive nature of those methods, with particular reference to the role of companies ‘active in and providing services to’ the crude oil sectors. Even though it did not recognise the problems raised at that time, the Commission subsequently (2013) carried out an investigation into suspected collusion and rigging in fuel pricing, which was the subject of questions E-005997/2013 and E-002227/2015. In both cases, the Commission replied that the investigation had not yet been completed and it was therefore unable, at that stage, to say to what extent consumers had been affected by the infringements concerned. In the light of the above, and given that eight years have now passed since the first question was tabled and five years have passed since the first inspections were carried out, can the Commission provide updated information on this process? What are the conclusions of the investigation, to what extent were consumers affected (how many millions of euro too much did European consumers have to pay for petrol and diesel), and what steps have been taken following the conclusion of the investigation?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "There has been a rise in the number of married couples in which both spouses are unemployed. In April2013 in Portugal, this figure rose to 13176, 67.3% higher than in 2012. Unemployment among married couples is a problem and a cause for concern throughout the European Union. What has been the trend in unemployment among married couples in Slovakia in the first quarter of 2013, compared with the same period in 2012?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-008370-13

Macroeconomics

There has been a rise in the number of married couples in which both spouses are unemployed. In April2013 in Portugal, this figure rose to 13176, 67.3% higher than in 2012. Unemployment among married couples is a problem and a cause for concern throughout the European Union. What has been the trend in unemployment among married couples in Slovakia in the first quarter of 2013, compared with the same period in 2012?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "In view of the fact that purchase prices adjusted for VAT differ across the Member States, does the Commission consider it legal for car manufacturers to oblige their customers to register their cars in the country in which they are purchased?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-000460/2021

Macroeconomics

In view of the fact that purchase prices adjusted for VAT differ across the Member States, does the Commission consider it legal for car manufacturers to oblige their customers to register their cars in the country in which they are purchased?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Could the Commission services please present their forecasts of Greece’s economic growth since the first economic adjustment programme and a comparison with the actual outcomes. Could these figures please be provided in the form of one consolidated graph." Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-003801-17

Macroeconomics

Could the Commission services please present their forecasts of Greece’s economic growth since the first economic adjustment programme and a comparison with the actual outcomes. Could these figures please be provided in the form of one consolidated graph.

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The annual United Nations' World Day of Social Justice was observed on 20February2015. The Commission’s agenda for Jobs, Growth, Fairness and Democratic Change places an emphasis on fairness and equality. In the light of this commitment, can the Commission answer the following: 1. Does it plan to introduce new guidelines to help protect the most vulnerable sections of society from poverty and, if so, can it outline what these measures are? 2. Does it accept that the austerity measures adopted by theEU since the financial crash have widened inequality in terms of income and wealth within and between Member States?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-003038-15

Macroeconomics

The annual United Nations' World Day of Social Justice was observed on 20February2015. The Commission’s agenda for Jobs, Growth, Fairness and Democratic Change places an emphasis on fairness and equality. In the light of this commitment, can the Commission answer the following: 1. Does it plan to introduce new guidelines to help protect the most vulnerable sections of society from poverty and, if so, can it outline what these measures are? 2. Does it accept that the austerity measures adopted by theEU since the financial crash have widened inequality in terms of income and wealth within and between Member States?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Can the Commission provide a list of those of the world's currencies which had risen in value against the Euro between the latter's introduction on 1 January 1999 and the end of 2001?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-0177/02

Macroeconomics

Can the Commission provide a list of those of the world's currencies which had risen in value against the Euro between the latter's introduction on 1 January 1999 and the end of 2001?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "A 2014 report issued by Eurosif entitled ‘European SRI Study’ shows that socially responsible investing (SRI) keeps drawing solid interest in theEU as assets invested in financial instruments such as green bonds and micro-finance ventures grew by 21.7% to EUR16.8 trillion between 2011 and 2013 in 13 European countries. Can the Commission provide information on whether this study will affect its proposal for a revision of the Shareholder Rights Directive?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-008801-14

Macroeconomics

A 2014 report issued by Eurosif entitled ‘European SRI Study’ shows that socially responsible investing (SRI) keeps drawing solid interest in theEU as assets invested in financial instruments such as green bonds and micro-finance ventures grew by 21.7% to EUR16.8 trillion between 2011 and 2013 in 13 European countries. Can the Commission provide information on whether this study will affect its proposal for a revision of the Shareholder Rights Directive?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The need to create jobs for young people is currently being widely discussed, but what initiatives are being taken to create jobs and opportunities for EU citizens aged 50 and over, who are essential to the European economy?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-007286-14

Macroeconomics

The need to create jobs for young people is currently being widely discussed, but what initiatives are being taken to create jobs and opportunities for EU citizens aged 50 and over, who are essential to the European economy?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Taking advantage of the fact that it has factories in various countries of the European Union, the Elettrolux-Zanussi industrial group uses the system of European tenders whereby orders it receives are produced in the factories with the lowest production costs. Lower costs are increasingly being achieved through reduced staffing and a more intensive work rhythm which is not properly compensated. In Italy the danger is that if a law is adopted to reduce working hours to 35 orders will no longer be fulfilled in Italy. Does the Commission not think that this is an unacceptable system of social dumping by Elettrolux-Zanussi? What does it intend to do to harmonize the treatment of workers within the Community and in the same business group to prevent such behaviour by companies? How will it act vis-à-vis Elettrolux-Zanussi to put an end to the practice of European tenders?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-0564/98

Macroeconomics

Taking advantage of the fact that it has factories in various countries of the European Union, the Elettrolux-Zanussi industrial group uses the system of European tenders whereby orders it receives are produced in the factories with the lowest production costs. Lower costs are increasingly being achieved through reduced staffing and a more intensive work rhythm which is not properly compensated. In Italy the danger is that if a law is adopted to reduce working hours to 35 orders will no longer be fulfilled in Italy. Does the Commission not think that this is an unacceptable system of social dumping by Elettrolux-Zanussi? What does it intend to do to harmonize the treatment of workers within the Community and in the same business group to prevent such behaviour by companies? How will it act vis-à-vis Elettrolux-Zanussi to put an end to the practice of European tenders?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The indirect taxation of consumer goods chiefly affects the less well off sections of society whose incomes are being disproportionately eroded by the crisis caused by the rise in the prices of food and raw materials. In view of the above, will the Commission say: — Does it believe that a reduction in minimum VAT rates for certain categories of product would help cushion the impact for consumers, especially lower income groups, thereby allowing them to weather the present crisis? — How would it react to requests from Member States to increase indirect taxation in a bid to overcome their budget deficits so as to meet the terms of the Stability Pact? — What does it consider will be the consequences of an increase in indirect taxation as regards distorting the operating conditions of the internal market and consumers’ incomes, bearing in mind current trends both as regards prices and other developments, such as increases in interest rates which have a disproportionate impact on low income groups and on domestic demand, thereby adversely effecting growth? — Finally, does it believe that it would be appropriate to increase the special fuel consumption taxes as part of a planned convergence of rates between Member States, bearing in mind that the price of oil has increased far more than predicted, or would it accept a postponement of such an increase as a contribution towards addressing the current crisis?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-4548/08

Macroeconomics

The indirect taxation of consumer goods chiefly affects the less well off sections of society whose incomes are being disproportionately eroded by the crisis caused by the rise in the prices of food and raw materials. In view of the above, will the Commission say: — Does it believe that a reduction in minimum VAT rates for certain categories of product would help cushion the impact for consumers, especially lower income groups, thereby allowing them to weather the present crisis? — How would it react to requests from Member States to increase indirect taxation in a bid to overcome their budget deficits so as to meet the terms of the Stability Pact? — What does it consider will be the consequences of an increase in indirect taxation as regards distorting the operating conditions of the internal market and consumers’ incomes, bearing in mind current trends both as regards prices and other developments, such as increases in interest rates which have a disproportionate impact on low income groups and on domestic demand, thereby adversely effecting growth? — Finally, does it believe that it would be appropriate to increase the special fuel consumption taxes as part of a planned convergence of rates between Member States, bearing in mind that the price of oil has increased far more than predicted, or would it accept a postponement of such an increase as a contribution towards addressing the current crisis?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement poses a significant risk of fiscal dumping from the UK, which could hence become a ‘Singapore-on-Thames’. We would therefore like to see evidence of the robustness of the clauses enabling the EU to protect itself against any fiscal dumping from the UK.1.Which procedures in the agreement will allow the EU to ensure ‘fair competition’ in the event of major divergences between the EU and the UK in business taxation arrangements? Will these terms be applied to UK overseas territories?2.Does the absence of ‘rebalancing measures’ on tax and money laundering issues not infringe the general non-regression clause agreed on to ensure a level playing field?3.In the ongoing negotiations concerning financial regulation, what criteria will determine the possible ‘equivalence’ of UK financial services and what democratic scrutiny will be exercised over them?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-000326/2021

Macroeconomics

The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement poses a significant risk of fiscal dumping from the UK, which could hence become a ‘Singapore-on-Thames’. We would therefore like to see evidence of the robustness of the clauses enabling the EU to protect itself against any fiscal dumping from the UK.1.Which procedures in the agreement will allow the EU to ensure ‘fair competition’ in the event of major divergences between the EU and the UK in business taxation arrangements? Will these terms be applied to UK overseas territories?2.Does the absence of ‘rebalancing measures’ on tax and money laundering issues not infringe the general non-regression clause agreed on to ensure a level playing field?3.In the ongoing negotiations concerning financial regulation, what criteria will determine the possible ‘equivalence’ of UK financial services and what democratic scrutiny will be exercised over them?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Job losses are on the rise in the EU. One million employment contracts have been terminated in Romania since March. At the same time, over one million Romanians who until recently were employed in other Member States have returned home.We are back to the same levels as in 2008, when Europe was feeling the effects of the financial crisis. At that time, EU and national policies focusing mainly on support for the banking sector rather than on boosting job creation impacted severely on millions of Europeans.Unlike in that earlier crisis, we are now also faced with manipulative and subversive action from the east. I call on the Commission, therefore, to place special emphasis on economic and social support for the EU’s eastern border regions, such as the Danube Delta in South-East Romania, given their geostrategic importance.Poverty is a fertile breeding ground for manipulators and tricksters. EU policies must take these kinds of threats into account. Unless there are changes when it comes to EU funding, there could be a gradual uncoupling of the border regions from the EU.Does the Commission plan to take targeted measures that offer an effective and urgent solution for the vulnerable eastern border regions of the EU?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-004631/2020

Macroeconomics

Job losses are on the rise in the EU. One million employment contracts have been terminated in Romania since March. At the same time, over one million Romanians who until recently were employed in other Member States have returned home.We are back to the same levels as in 2008, when Europe was feeling the effects of the financial crisis. At that time, EU and national policies focusing mainly on support for the banking sector rather than on boosting job creation impacted severely on millions of Europeans.Unlike in that earlier crisis, we are now also faced with manipulative and subversive action from the east. I call on the Commission, therefore, to place special emphasis on economic and social support for the EU’s eastern border regions, such as the Danube Delta in South-East Romania, given their geostrategic importance.Poverty is a fertile breeding ground for manipulators and tricksters. EU policies must take these kinds of threats into account. Unless there are changes when it comes to EU funding, there could be a gradual uncoupling of the border regions from the EU.Does the Commission plan to take targeted measures that offer an effective and urgent solution for the vulnerable eastern border regions of the EU?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "In 1989, the Commission set up ‘Team Europe’. Representatives of that organisation travel throughout the Member States giving talks on various aspects of Commission policies. What is the organisation's annual budget and what are the various items in that budget?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-0008/05

Macroeconomics

In 1989, the Commission set up ‘Team Europe’. Representatives of that organisation travel throughout the Member States giving talks on various aspects of Commission policies. What is the organisation's annual budget and what are the various items in that budget?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "1. Does the Commission agree that the corporation tax regime changes recently announced in the Channel Islands will provide reduced rates for non-residents, with residents being charged more as a result of the adjustment of their other taxes? 2. Does it believe that these changes are consistent with the Primarolo report and with existing undertakings? 3. What action does it intend to take to ensure that unfair tax competition from the Channel Islands is eliminated?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-0901/05

Macroeconomics

1. Does the Commission agree that the corporation tax regime changes recently announced in the Channel Islands will provide reduced rates for non-residents, with residents being charged more as a result of the adjustment of their other taxes? 2. Does it believe that these changes are consistent with the Primarolo report and with existing undertakings? 3. What action does it intend to take to ensure that unfair tax competition from the Channel Islands is eliminated?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Since the Madrid European Council decided to call the future single currency the """"""""Euro"""""""", the term has appeared in texts in forms which vary both typographically (e.g. EURO, Euro and euro) and grammatically (is it invariable or does it have a plural form; if so, what is it?). Would it not be advisable, in particular in view of the Euro's legal status, for the Commission to clarify the official written usage of the term """"""""Euro""""""""?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-1493/97

Macroeconomics

Since the Madrid European Council decided to call the future single currency the """"""""Euro"""""""", the term has appeared in texts in forms which vary both typographically (e.g. EURO, Euro and euro) and grammatically (is it invariable or does it have a plural form; if so, what is it?). Would it not be advisable, in particular in view of the Euro's legal status, for the Commission to clarify the official written usage of the term """"""""Euro""""""""?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Article3, paragraph2 of Italian law No350/2003 (budget for 2004) regarding social security contributions and the civil service envisaged a productivity-linked allowance for staff of the Ministry of Economic and Financial Affairs, in accordance with procedures and deadlines established in collective bargaining. In particular, the largest amount of revenue would result from the sale of State-owned buildings by means of the process of securitisation. However, the 2007 budget specifies 2005 as the retroactive deadline for elimination of the productivity incentives resulting from securitisation, which in practice cuts the allowances for civil servants. This provision would also deprive staff of incentives for which they have already worked and would lead to an imbalance in employment conditions. In view of this, can the Commission say: 1. whether this retroactive provision does not infringe the acquired rights of workers; 2. what its general overview of the situation is?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-1397/07

Macroeconomics

Article3, paragraph2 of Italian law No350/2003 (budget for 2004) regarding social security contributions and the civil service envisaged a productivity-linked allowance for staff of the Ministry of Economic and Financial Affairs, in accordance with procedures and deadlines established in collective bargaining. In particular, the largest amount of revenue would result from the sale of State-owned buildings by means of the process of securitisation. However, the 2007 budget specifies 2005 as the retroactive deadline for elimination of the productivity incentives resulting from securitisation, which in practice cuts the allowances for civil servants. This provision would also deprive staff of incentives for which they have already worked and would lead to an imbalance in employment conditions. In view of this, can the Commission say: 1. whether this retroactive provision does not infringe the acquired rights of workers; 2. what its general overview of the situation is?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Under the rules of the Czech Enterprise and Innovation for Competitiveness Operational Programme (OPPIK), large companies can apply for a grant worth 20% of their total project budget. In her answer to question 24a of the Written Questions to Commissioner Hogan of 14January2016 on the 2014 Discharge to the Commission, Commissioner Creţu said that ‘increasing the overall threshold for the support of large enterprises up to 40%/50% at priority axis level is not acceptable’, concluding that the OP ‘has not changed its rules in favour of large enterprises’(1). On 31August2017, the Commission approved the revision of the OPPIK while increasing the value of the grants awarded to large companies for energy-saving programmes from 20% to 60% of the project budget. 1.Could the Commission please explain why it decided to renege on its original statement that increasing the grant threshold for large companies would be unacceptable? 2.What were the reasons for the increase from 20% to 60%? (1)http://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/94764/Questionnaire%20Commissioner%20Hogan_Consolidated%20clean%20final.pdf" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-001520-19

Macroeconomics

Under the rules of the Czech Enterprise and Innovation for Competitiveness Operational Programme (OPPIK), large companies can apply for a grant worth 20% of their total project budget. In her answer to question 24a of the Written Questions to Commissioner Hogan of 14January2016 on the 2014 Discharge to the Commission, Commissioner Creţu said that ‘increasing the overall threshold for the support of large enterprises up to 40%/50% at priority axis level is not acceptable’, concluding that the OP ‘has not changed its rules in favour of large enterprises’(1). On 31August2017, the Commission approved the revision of the OPPIK while increasing the value of the grants awarded to large companies for energy-saving programmes from 20% to 60% of the project budget. 1.Could the Commission please explain why it decided to renege on its original statement that increasing the grant threshold for large companies would be unacceptable? 2.What were the reasons for the increase from 20% to 60%? (1)http://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/94764/Questionnaire%20Commissioner%20Hogan_Consolidated%20clean%20final.pdf

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "What is the total cost to date of Galileo, and who has paid for it?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-2804/07

Macroeconomics

What is the total cost to date of Galileo, and who has paid for it?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Does not the Commission feel that it would be preferable if the Euro Info Centres were sited in premises other than official administrative buildings of the Member States? How does it explain the fact that, according to the list of Euro Info Centres for 1993/94 distributed by the Commission (DG XXIII), the Euro Info Centre PT-506 is located in a public administration building and not in a building housing a business or business finance or support organization (such as PT-505 or PT-508 for example)?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-2780/94

Macroeconomics

Does not the Commission feel that it would be preferable if the Euro Info Centres were sited in premises other than official administrative buildings of the Member States? How does it explain the fact that, according to the list of Euro Info Centres for 1993/94 distributed by the Commission (DG XXIII), the Euro Info Centre PT-506 is located in a public administration building and not in a building housing a business or business finance or support organization (such as PT-505 or PT-508 for example)?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Membership of the euro area is not an option for countries which joined theEU in 2004 but a legal obligation: on signing the Accession Treaties, they committed themselves to introducing the euro, although a specific date for this was not fixed. Irrespective of the exact date of the introduction of the euro, Hungary thus has a strict obligation to make preparations at national level, the technical arrangements of which are examined regularly by the relevant European Union committee. — What action can the Commission take in the event of the government of a Member State imposing an economic and budgetary policy on the country which results in an indefinite postponement of its joining the euro area, to which it committed itself in the Accession Treaty? — If joining the euro area is an obligation, does it qualify as a breach of obligation if the government of a Member State does not endeavour to implement what it committed itself to in the Accession Treaty? — Is there a limit to this period leading to the exact date of introduction of the euro?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

P-006944/2012

Macroeconomics

Membership of the euro area is not an option for countries which joined theEU in 2004 but a legal obligation: on signing the Accession Treaties, they committed themselves to introducing the euro, although a specific date for this was not fixed. Irrespective of the exact date of the introduction of the euro, Hungary thus has a strict obligation to make preparations at national level, the technical arrangements of which are examined regularly by the relevant European Union committee. — What action can the Commission take in the event of the government of a Member State imposing an economic and budgetary policy on the country which results in an indefinite postponement of its joining the euro area, to which it committed itself in the Accession Treaty? — If joining the euro area is an obligation, does it qualify as a breach of obligation if the government of a Member State does not endeavour to implement what it committed itself to in the Accession Treaty? — Is there a limit to this period leading to the exact date of introduction of the euro?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "In its 1997 General Report the Commission maintained that in Regulation (EC) No 2046/97(1) of 13 October 1997 the Council had provided a legal basis for budget line B7-6210 concerning North-South cooperation for the campaign against drug abuse. Article 11(1) of the Regulation states """"""""At the end of each budget year, the Commission shall present a report to Parliament and the Council summarising the operations financed in the course of that year and evaluating the implementation of this Regulation over that period. The summary shall in particular contain information about those with whom contracts have been concluded"""""""". Article 12 of the Regulation envisaged """"""""an overall assessment of operations financed by the Community (…) together with suggestions regarding the future of this Regulation and, where necessary, proposals for amending or terminating it"""""""" by 24 October 2000, but the Commission — which claims to have launched the assessment in 1999 and that it was actually started in January 2000 — had not received it by 20 December 2001 because of difficulties encountered by the chosen contractor, but that it should reach the Commission by the end of the year. In its answer of 21 December 2001 to Written Question P-2886/01(2) the Commission said that the budget line now has a legal basis. Can the Commission say: — what contractors took part in the selection procedure, whether any and, if so, what assessments had already been carried out within the European institutions, who the chosen contractor is, whether it has been told that it has failed to fulfil the contract and, if not, why? — what the terms of the annual reports referred to in Article 11(1) are? — what legal basis budget heading B7-6210 has? (1)OJ L 287, 21.10.1997, p. 1. (2)OJ C 147 E, 20.6.2002, p. 61." Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

P-0026/02

Macroeconomics

In its 1997 General Report the Commission maintained that in Regulation (EC) No 2046/97(1) of 13 October 1997 the Council had provided a legal basis for budget line B7-6210 concerning North-South cooperation for the campaign against drug abuse. Article 11(1) of the Regulation states """"""""At the end of each budget year, the Commission shall present a report to Parliament and the Council summarising the operations financed in the course of that year and evaluating the implementation of this Regulation over that period. The summary shall in particular contain information about those with whom contracts have been concluded"""""""". Article 12 of the Regulation envisaged """"""""an overall assessment of operations financed by the Community (…) together with suggestions regarding the future of this Regulation and, where necessary, proposals for amending or terminating it"""""""" by 24 October 2000, but the Commission — which claims to have launched the assessment in 1999 and that it was actually started in January 2000 — had not received it by 20 December 2001 because of difficulties encountered by the chosen contractor, but that it should reach the Commission by the end of the year. In its answer of 21 December 2001 to Written Question P-2886/01(2) the Commission said that the budget line now has a legal basis. Can the Commission say: — what contractors took part in the selection procedure, whether any and, if so, what assessments had already been carried out within the European institutions, who the chosen contractor is, whether it has been told that it has failed to fulfil the contract and, if not, why? — what the terms of the annual reports referred to in Article 11(1) are? — what legal basis budget heading B7-6210 has? (1)OJ L 287, 21.10.1997, p. 1. (2)OJ C 147 E, 20.6.2002, p. 61.

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The Commission has launched and in some cases completed several high-profile competition investigations in relation to possible unfair tax advantages in the past two years (Amazon, Apple, Fiat Finance, Starbucks, McDonald's, Belgium). According to statements made by the Deputy Director-General Gert Jan Koopman when speaking to members of the European Parliament’s TAX2 Committee,DG Competition does not have sufficient personnel and financial resources to fully investigate all possible cases of fiscal state aid in the form of selective tax advantages for transnational companies. In the light of the recent correspondence between Commissioner Margrethe Vestager and theUS Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, does the Commission see a risk that the selective approach to investigating cases resulting from the current availability of resources could be politically or legally challenged by the US? What specific additional resources has Commissioner Vestager requested or received since the start of the expanded tax-related state aid investigations? How many full-time staff will be working on tax-related state aid investigations following the completion of any ongoing restructuring inDG Competition, and when will this restructuring be completed?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

P-001887-16

Macroeconomics

The Commission has launched and in some cases completed several high-profile competition investigations in relation to possible unfair tax advantages in the past two years (Amazon, Apple, Fiat Finance, Starbucks, McDonald's, Belgium). According to statements made by the Deputy Director-General Gert Jan Koopman when speaking to members of the European Parliament’s TAX2 Committee,DG Competition does not have sufficient personnel and financial resources to fully investigate all possible cases of fiscal state aid in the form of selective tax advantages for transnational companies. In the light of the recent correspondence between Commissioner Margrethe Vestager and theUS Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, does the Commission see a risk that the selective approach to investigating cases resulting from the current availability of resources could be politically or legally challenged by the US? What specific additional resources has Commissioner Vestager requested or received since the start of the expanded tax-related state aid investigations? How many full-time staff will be working on tax-related state aid investigations following the completion of any ongoing restructuring inDG Competition, and when will this restructuring be completed?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Eleven countries of the euro area that have undertaken to tax financial transactions from 2017 onwards, including Germany and Spain, are now seeking to reduce the possible impact of this measure on depositors and on the role of markets in funding the economy. A document submitted by Germany, Spain, Belgium and Portugal considers the possibility of different treatment for transactions directly relating to corporate hedging in the real economy. Has the Commission considered the possibility of treating such transactions differently? What impact does the Commission think such a measure might have?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-013727-15

Macroeconomics

Eleven countries of the euro area that have undertaken to tax financial transactions from 2017 onwards, including Germany and Spain, are now seeking to reduce the possible impact of this measure on depositors and on the role of markets in funding the economy. A document submitted by Germany, Spain, Belgium and Portugal considers the possibility of different treatment for transactions directly relating to corporate hedging in the real economy. Has the Commission considered the possibility of treating such transactions differently? What impact does the Commission think such a measure might have?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The Financial Pact and the final agreement on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) will be at the heart of the Council of theEU Heads of State in Brussels on 30January. The Prime Minister, Loukas Papademos, held a meeting on Friday, 29January, with the political leaders who are supporting the Greek Government and the basic guidelines for the negotiations at the summit were agreed on. At a time when a new programme is being proposed that sets harsh, humiliating terms for Greece, Iwould like to ask the Commission: 1. Are the terms of the troika’s new programme of demands for Greece in the sectors referred to in Greece’s new loan agreement in alignment with Community law? 2. Do these terms comply with the Lisbon Treaty and are they in alignment with the Community acquis?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-001108/2012

Macroeconomics

The Financial Pact and the final agreement on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) will be at the heart of the Council of theEU Heads of State in Brussels on 30January. The Prime Minister, Loukas Papademos, held a meeting on Friday, 29January, with the political leaders who are supporting the Greek Government and the basic guidelines for the negotiations at the summit were agreed on. At a time when a new programme is being proposed that sets harsh, humiliating terms for Greece, Iwould like to ask the Commission: 1. Are the terms of the troika’s new programme of demands for Greece in the sectors referred to in Greece’s new loan agreement in alignment with Community law? 2. Do these terms comply with the Lisbon Treaty and are they in alignment with the Community acquis?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Has the Commission discussed future requirements for car emissions, within the context of improvement to air quality? For instance, has the Commission considered or discussed strategies or policies for the production or use of electric cars or even hybrid cars?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-1246/95

Macroeconomics

Has the Commission discussed future requirements for car emissions, within the context of improvement to air quality? For instance, has the Commission considered or discussed strategies or policies for the production or use of electric cars or even hybrid cars?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Can the Commission say whether since 1995 it has provided funding, through any channel whatsoever, for """"""""organisations"""""""" or """"""""foundations"""""""" based in the occupied part of Cyprus? If so, what are they, when were the payments made and exactly how much money was involved?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-0757/99

Macroeconomics

Can the Commission say whether since 1995 it has provided funding, through any channel whatsoever, for """"""""organisations"""""""" or """"""""foundations"""""""" based in the occupied part of Cyprus? If so, what are they, when were the payments made and exactly how much money was involved?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "According to authoritative media sources, Ukraine will receive EUR850million in aid from theEU between now and June2014. Reliable EU sources have said that the first EUR100million instalment (released as a result of the signing of the political part of the association agreement) of a macroeconomic aid package worth a total of EUR1.6billion will be paid in April. A second instalment of EUR500million will be paid in June, while an EUR250million grant for strengthening state institutions is scheduled to be paid in May. Can the Commission say exactly what theEU aid for Ukraine is intended for? How will it go about monitoring the use of the funds by Ukraine?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-004049-14

Macroeconomics

According to authoritative media sources, Ukraine will receive EUR850million in aid from theEU between now and June2014. Reliable EU sources have said that the first EUR100million instalment (released as a result of the signing of the political part of the association agreement) of a macroeconomic aid package worth a total of EUR1.6billion will be paid in April. A second instalment of EUR500million will be paid in June, while an EUR250million grant for strengthening state institutions is scheduled to be paid in May. Can the Commission say exactly what theEU aid for Ukraine is intended for? How will it go about monitoring the use of the funds by Ukraine?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Parliament’s resolution of 14March2012 setting out general guidelines for the preparation of the 2013 budget drew particular attention to the need for levels of payments to be ‘determined on the basis of technical criteria such as implementation figures’ (paragraph20) and for the ‘optimal and timely use of existing EU financing’ (paragraph12). In the light of the above, can the Commission explain the low implementation rate as of 31December2011 for the budget lines set out below? Title 19 (External relations): — Chapter19 01 (Administrative expenditure of the ‘external relations’ policy area) — Chapter19 11 (Policy strategy and coordination for the ‘external relations’ policy area)" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-005418/2012

Macroeconomics

Parliament’s resolution of 14March2012 setting out general guidelines for the preparation of the 2013 budget drew particular attention to the need for levels of payments to be ‘determined on the basis of technical criteria such as implementation figures’ (paragraph20) and for the ‘optimal and timely use of existing EU financing’ (paragraph12). In the light of the above, can the Commission explain the low implementation rate as of 31December2011 for the budget lines set out below? Title 19 (External relations): — Chapter19 01 (Administrative expenditure of the ‘external relations’ policy area) — Chapter19 11 (Policy strategy and coordination for the ‘external relations’ policy area)

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "In its December2009 part-session, Parliament adopted theEU general budget for 2010, involving a total of EUR141.4billion in expenditure commitments and EUR122.9billion in payments. Under Heading 2 — Preservation and management of natural resources — EUR59498833302 were allocated for expenditure commitments and EUR58135640809 for payments. Under Item 05 06 — International aspects of Agriculture and rural development policy area — EUR6275322 were allocated for expenditure commitments and EUR6275322 for payments. Given that the agricultural year came to an end on 15October2010, can the Commission say: 1. what the level of implementation of this budget item has been; 2. how and for what activities the above amounts have been used; 3. what amounts were allocated and how much was actually implemented in each Member State; 4. whether any resources have remained unused; 5. if so, what is the amount of those unused resources and why were they not used?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-010686/2010

Macroeconomics

In its December2009 part-session, Parliament adopted theEU general budget for 2010, involving a total of EUR141.4billion in expenditure commitments and EUR122.9billion in payments. Under Heading 2 — Preservation and management of natural resources — EUR59498833302 were allocated for expenditure commitments and EUR58135640809 for payments. Under Item 05 06 — International aspects of Agriculture and rural development policy area — EUR6275322 were allocated for expenditure commitments and EUR6275322 for payments. Given that the agricultural year came to an end on 15October2010, can the Commission say: 1. what the level of implementation of this budget item has been; 2. how and for what activities the above amounts have been used; 3. what amounts were allocated and how much was actually implemented in each Member State; 4. whether any resources have remained unused; 5. if so, what is the amount of those unused resources and why were they not used?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Following the agreement reached by the Heads of State and Government in Cannes to allocate ECU13,3 billion to the new EDF, ACP ambassadors discovered a discrepancy of ECU2,5 billion. This may lead to a reduction in the undertakings regarding new areas of cooperation given in the course of negotiations on the mid-term revision of the Fourth Lomé Convention. How does the Council intend to raise the missing ECU2,5 billion? Are there any plans to reduce the areas of cooperation, the level of commitments or the financial requirements? Will funding be made available according to a list of priorities? Which budget headings in this area will be deleted?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-2048/95

Macroeconomics

Following the agreement reached by the Heads of State and Government in Cannes to allocate ECU13,3 billion to the new EDF, ACP ambassadors discovered a discrepancy of ECU2,5 billion. This may lead to a reduction in the undertakings regarding new areas of cooperation given in the course of negotiations on the mid-term revision of the Fourth Lomé Convention. How does the Council intend to raise the missing ECU2,5 billion? Are there any plans to reduce the areas of cooperation, the level of commitments or the financial requirements? Will funding be made available according to a list of priorities? Which budget headings in this area will be deleted?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The Euro-lottery for employment and culture is a non-profit-making project designed to generate funds to create jobs and enable those playing the lottery to participate in investments. In October 1986 the then European Commissioner, Mr Ripa di Meana, told EU Finance Ministers that a feasibility study of the project was being undertaken and in July 1987 asked them to adopt a position on the matter. Between January 1988 and December 1994, work of all kinds was done on the project pending a final decision. Will the Commission say what the current situation is regarding this project, given the clearly favourable stance adopted by the Commission at the time and bearing in mind that in May 1996 the French Government considered the possibility of introducing the project at national level?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-0563/97

Macroeconomics

The Euro-lottery for employment and culture is a non-profit-making project designed to generate funds to create jobs and enable those playing the lottery to participate in investments. In October 1986 the then European Commissioner, Mr Ripa di Meana, told EU Finance Ministers that a feasibility study of the project was being undertaken and in July 1987 asked them to adopt a position on the matter. Between January 1988 and December 1994, work of all kinds was done on the project pending a final decision. Will the Commission say what the current situation is regarding this project, given the clearly favourable stance adopted by the Commission at the time and bearing in mind that in May 1996 the French Government considered the possibility of introducing the project at national level?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "In May 2018, the canned fish company Cofaco closed its factory on the island of Pico in the outermost region of the Azores, laying off 162 workers while undertaking to open a new plant by January 2020 employing 100 staff, a workforce that could be expanded to 250.The workers made redundant have not yet received the jobs they were promised and will soon lose their income as their unemployment benefits expire. Coupled with the impact of COVID-19, this is liable to trigger a social crisis in a structurally vulnerable region.1.Has Cofaco received, or applied for, any EU funding during this period?2.What can the Commission do to assist the Portuguese Government and the regional government of the Azores in maintaining income support to these workers and helping them retrain and return to work?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-004402/2020

Macroeconomics

In May 2018, the canned fish company Cofaco closed its factory on the island of Pico in the outermost region of the Azores, laying off 162 workers while undertaking to open a new plant by January 2020 employing 100 staff, a workforce that could be expanded to 250.The workers made redundant have not yet received the jobs they were promised and will soon lose their income as their unemployment benefits expire. Coupled with the impact of COVID-19, this is liable to trigger a social crisis in a structurally vulnerable region.1.Has Cofaco received, or applied for, any EU funding during this period?2.What can the Commission do to assist the Portuguese Government and the regional government of the Azores in maintaining income support to these workers and helping them retrain and return to work?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "As a major beneficiary of the European Structural and Investment Funds, Latvia is eligible to receive up to EUR5.6billion for the 2014-2020 period. This figure amounts to 3% of annual GDP and around 68% of the expected national public investment in areas supported by the funds. In 2016, the GDP growth of the Latvian economy was just 1.6%. Disregarding the benefits of EU funding, does the Commission consider that Latvia is showing economic growth of its own accord?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-002323-17

Macroeconomics

As a major beneficiary of the European Structural and Investment Funds, Latvia is eligible to receive up to EUR5.6billion for the 2014-2020 period. This figure amounts to 3% of annual GDP and around 68% of the expected national public investment in areas supported by the funds. In 2016, the GDP growth of the Latvian economy was just 1.6%. Disregarding the benefits of EU funding, does the Commission consider that Latvia is showing economic growth of its own accord?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Article 278 of Regulation (EU) 952/2013 allowed for the transitional use of manual processes instead of IT systems until 31 December 2020. Regulation (EU) 2019/632 prolonged this period until 31 December 2022.This legislation requires the Member States and the Commission to implement a large number of rules regarding IT-related customs systems and procedures. One of the key dates of the new Union Customs Code (UCC) work programme is to implement the VAT e-commerce package by 1 January 2021. The current transitional measures for customs clearance of the rapidly growing quantity of low value consignments do not meet the requirements under the VAT e-commerce package. If only one Member State fails to meet the January 2021 deadline, the level playing field between Member States will be lost and trade will have to follow different rules, depending on which Member States the goods are being imported into.In this context, a European Court of Auditors Special Report of 2018(1) made a series of recommendations to be implemented by 2020(2) .What is the Commission planning in order to ensure that all Member States will simultaneously put in place the series of systems mandated by the UCC and, in particular, to ensure that they meet the 1 January 2021 deadline? What have the Member States done in the meantime to achieve this? (1)https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/Pages/DocItem.aspx?did=47201 (2)The recommendations were as follows: Gear programme design towards IT implementation; improving IT project time, resource and scope estimates; facilitate cooperative IT development; and streamlining governance by enhancing communication." Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-004230/2019

Macroeconomics

Article 278 of Regulation (EU) 952/2013 allowed for the transitional use of manual processes instead of IT systems until 31 December 2020. Regulation (EU) 2019/632 prolonged this period until 31 December 2022.This legislation requires the Member States and the Commission to implement a large number of rules regarding IT-related customs systems and procedures. One of the key dates of the new Union Customs Code (UCC) work programme is to implement the VAT e-commerce package by 1 January 2021. The current transitional measures for customs clearance of the rapidly growing quantity of low value consignments do not meet the requirements under the VAT e-commerce package. If only one Member State fails to meet the January 2021 deadline, the level playing field between Member States will be lost and trade will have to follow different rules, depending on which Member States the goods are being imported into.In this context, a European Court of Auditors Special Report of 2018(1) made a series of recommendations to be implemented by 2020(2) .What is the Commission planning in order to ensure that all Member States will simultaneously put in place the series of systems mandated by the UCC and, in particular, to ensure that they meet the 1 January 2021 deadline? What have the Member States done in the meantime to achieve this? (1)https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/Pages/DocItem.aspx?did=47201 (2)The recommendations were as follows: Gear programme design towards IT implementation; improving IT project time, resource and scope estimates; facilitate cooperative IT development; and streamlining governance by enhancing communication.

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Employees at the Neves-Corvo mine in Castro Verde (Portugal) have been campaigning for their work to be properly compensated, calling in particular for an increase in the underground working allowance. As the Miners' Union has stressed, underground mining is a highly stressful activity, with the workers being exposed to high temperatures, excessive damp, gas, smoke and dust. Can the Commission state: 1. what measures exist at EU level for the proper compensation of miners' work, especially for those working underground; 2. what Community aid has been granted to the Somincor company, in particular with a view to the improvement of working conditions at the mine?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-1273/10

Macroeconomics

Employees at the Neves-Corvo mine in Castro Verde (Portugal) have been campaigning for their work to be properly compensated, calling in particular for an increase in the underground working allowance. As the Miners' Union has stressed, underground mining is a highly stressful activity, with the workers being exposed to high temperatures, excessive damp, gas, smoke and dust. Can the Commission state: 1. what measures exist at EU level for the proper compensation of miners' work, especially for those working underground; 2. what Community aid has been granted to the Somincor company, in particular with a view to the improvement of working conditions at the mine?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "In September 2002, the monitoring committee of the Italian Ministry for Economic Affairs issued a report on the spending of EU funds. The report reveals the alarming slowness and inefficiency with which EU funds are allocated to projects by some regional authorities. The grave concerns about the inadequate use of European funds by local authorities have frequently been echoed by the Commission. Bearing in mind that some local authorities, such as the municipality of Prato, urgently need to use European funds to support actions and initiatives encouraging sustainable development undertaken by operators in the Community and in developing countries, can the Commission state: 1. whether the municipality of Prato has submitted projects for the decentralised cooperation programme? 2. whether the municipality of Prato has secured funding for these projects? 3. whether this funding has been used?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-1001/03

Macroeconomics

In September 2002, the monitoring committee of the Italian Ministry for Economic Affairs issued a report on the spending of EU funds. The report reveals the alarming slowness and inefficiency with which EU funds are allocated to projects by some regional authorities. The grave concerns about the inadequate use of European funds by local authorities have frequently been echoed by the Commission. Bearing in mind that some local authorities, such as the municipality of Prato, urgently need to use European funds to support actions and initiatives encouraging sustainable development undertaken by operators in the Community and in developing countries, can the Commission state: 1. whether the municipality of Prato has submitted projects for the decentralised cooperation programme? 2. whether the municipality of Prato has secured funding for these projects? 3. whether this funding has been used?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The revenue side of Latvia’s budget for 2017totals EUR8065928117. Of this, EUR1113813274 — or approximately 14% of State budget revenue — consists of foreign assistance. Most of this sum comprises appropriations from European Union funds. Does the Commission not consider that, if allocations from the European Union’s Structural Funds to Latvia are significantly reduced after 2020, this will have a macroeconomic impact on Latvia’s budget and economy?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-008137-16

Macroeconomics

The revenue side of Latvia’s budget for 2017totals EUR8065928117. Of this, EUR1113813274 — or approximately 14% of State budget revenue — consists of foreign assistance. Most of this sum comprises appropriations from European Union funds. Does the Commission not consider that, if allocations from the European Union’s Structural Funds to Latvia are significantly reduced after 2020, this will have a macroeconomic impact on Latvia’s budget and economy?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Is the Commission aware of the leaked report by the independent German institute Prognos concerning the impact of the introduction in Germany of a deposit system for non-returnable beverage packagings (cost: up to € 1.2 billion and nearly 10 000 jobs)? Does the Commission conclude from this that even greater efforts are needed to improve or secure the abolition of the German deposit system?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-2842/03

Macroeconomics

Is the Commission aware of the leaked report by the independent German institute Prognos concerning the impact of the introduction in Germany of a deposit system for non-returnable beverage packagings (cost: up to € 1.2 billion and nearly 10 000 jobs)? Does the Commission conclude from this that even greater efforts are needed to improve or secure the abolition of the German deposit system?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "1.What is the basis for the Commission's claim that Directive 90/219/EEC(1) has an adverse effect on the international competitiveness of the Union? Is this claim based on Member States' disappointing experience with the Directive? Which Member States have had this experience? To what extent is their experience shaped by the Directive? 2.In accordance with Article 18(3) of Directive 90/219/EEC, the Commission should have submitted a summary report of its experience to Parliament in 1993. Why has it not yet done so? When will this report be submitted? When will the Commission submit the report pursuant to Directive 90/220/EEC(2), which was also due in 1993? When will the Commission honour its undertaking to consult Parliament in good time on amending Directive 90/219/EEC? When will it consult Parliament on document XI/506/94-rev.3? 3.Why is the Commission discussing amending the Directive before the report pursuant to Article 18(3) of directive 90/219/EEC is drawn up or even published? (1)OJ No L 117, 8. 5. 1990, p. 1. (2)OJ No L 117, 8. 5. 1990, p. 17." Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

P-388/95

Macroeconomics

1.What is the basis for the Commission's claim that Directive 90/219/EEC(1) has an adverse effect on the international competitiveness of the Union? Is this claim based on Member States' disappointing experience with the Directive? Which Member States have had this experience? To what extent is their experience shaped by the Directive? 2.In accordance with Article 18(3) of Directive 90/219/EEC, the Commission should have submitted a summary report of its experience to Parliament in 1993. Why has it not yet done so? When will this report be submitted? When will the Commission submit the report pursuant to Directive 90/220/EEC(2), which was also due in 1993? When will the Commission honour its undertaking to consult Parliament in good time on amending Directive 90/219/EEC? When will it consult Parliament on document XI/506/94-rev.3? 3.Why is the Commission discussing amending the Directive before the report pursuant to Article 18(3) of directive 90/219/EEC is drawn up or even published? (1)OJ No L 117, 8. 5. 1990, p. 1. (2)OJ No L 117, 8. 5. 1990, p. 17.

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "The announcement that the Portuguese public deficit will remain above 6% and that public debt now exceeds 122% of GDP is a good demonstration of the highly recessionary effect of implementing the EU/IMF programme. This demonstrates that we need to consolidate public finances and reduce public debt through economic growth. We will not succeed with such a recessionary policy. The budget implementation figures for the first two months of the year provide further evidence of this, with a clear gap between the 2013 budget’s revenue and expenditure growth forecasts, and actual implementation in January and February. These figures also call into question the Commission’s position, expressed in its answer to QuestionE-009603/2012, that ‘public debt in Portugal remains sustainable’ and that the implementation of the IMF/EU programme has been a ‘success’. The seriousness of the current situation means that we need an alternative to the IMF/EU programme, which must involve starting to renegotiate public debt. This option is nothing new— remember the process that Germany implemented 60years ago, which pegged servicing of the debt accrued during the Second World War to 5% of exports— and is suited to the Portuguese situation. 1.Has the Commission ever considered the possibility of implementing the same solution as that hit on by Germany which, by pegging debt servicing to a given percentage of exports, made it compatible with economic growth? If not, why not? 2.Given the aforementioned new evidence that the assumptions and forecasts associated with the IMF/EU programme are flawed, is the Commission prepared, together with the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, to start the process of renegotiating Portuguese public debt on the basis of the principles set out in QuestionE-009603/2012?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-003614-13

Macroeconomics

The announcement that the Portuguese public deficit will remain above 6% and that public debt now exceeds 122% of GDP is a good demonstration of the highly recessionary effect of implementing the EU/IMF programme. This demonstrates that we need to consolidate public finances and reduce public debt through economic growth. We will not succeed with such a recessionary policy. The budget implementation figures for the first two months of the year provide further evidence of this, with a clear gap between the 2013 budget’s revenue and expenditure growth forecasts, and actual implementation in January and February. These figures also call into question the Commission’s position, expressed in its answer to QuestionE-009603/2012, that ‘public debt in Portugal remains sustainable’ and that the implementation of the IMF/EU programme has been a ‘success’. The seriousness of the current situation means that we need an alternative to the IMF/EU programme, which must involve starting to renegotiate public debt. This option is nothing new— remember the process that Germany implemented 60years ago, which pegged servicing of the debt accrued during the Second World War to 5% of exports— and is suited to the Portuguese situation. 1.Has the Commission ever considered the possibility of implementing the same solution as that hit on by Germany which, by pegging debt servicing to a given percentage of exports, made it compatible with economic growth? If not, why not? 2.Given the aforementioned new evidence that the assumptions and forecasts associated with the IMF/EU programme are flawed, is the Commission prepared, together with the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, to start the process of renegotiating Portuguese public debt on the basis of the principles set out in QuestionE-009603/2012?

<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament. Classify the question according to only one of the policy categories below. Use only the category number taken from the list below to answer. Do not explain your answer. Text: "Can the Commission supply detailed information on the implementation of the Community RETEX initiative since its commencement in the fifteen Member States, with the budget details, execution and names of projects broken down by Member State?" Categories: [1] = Macroeconomics [2] = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties [3] = Health [4] = Agriculture and Fisheries [5] = Labour, employment and pensions [6] = Education [7] = Environment [8] = Energy [9] = Immigration [10] = Transportation [12] = Law and Crime [13] = Social welfare [14] = Regional and Urban issues and Planning [15] = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues [16] = Defence [17] = Space, science, technology, and communications issues [18] = Foreign trade [19] = International affairs and foreign aid [20] = Governance and government [21] = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues [23] = Culture and media [99] = none of the above [/INST] [1]. </s>

E-0493/97

Macroeconomics

Can the Commission supply detailed information on the implementation of the Community RETEX initiative since its commencement in the fifteen Member States, with the budget details, execution and names of projects broken down by Member State?