C 155 E/114 Official Journal of the European Union EN 3.7.2003

Mr Akhmed Zakayev, Vice-President of the elected government of , in , where he had been sent on official business by President Maskhadov. Coming on the heels of the barbaric action against the hostages in and the hundreds of lives which it claimed, this unprecedented measure is the latest excess in the record of President Putin, whose attitude is part and parcel of a growing tendency worldwide to use the fight against as a pretext for overriding respect for human life which is increasingly assuming the features of a new and dangerous form of militarist fascism that refuses to acknowledge human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Can the Council state whether any remotely legitimate grounds exist permitting a government occupying the EU Presidency to arrest the Vice-President of a government such as that of Chechnya, democratically elected in a small country which is fighting for its independence?

Reply

(20 February 2003)

This matter is a subject for the judicial authorities of . For this reason, it is not appropriate for the Council to make any comment whatsoever upon it.

(2003/C 155 E/124) WRITTEN QUESTION E-3222/02 by Eija-Riitta Korhola (PPE-DE) to the Council

(14 November 2002)

Subject: Accession countries and volume of ‘hot air’

Is there an estimate on how big a volume of so-called ‘hot air’ is possessed by the 10 (and later 12) new Member States during the initial period of the EU emission trading scheme (2005-2007) or the subsequent period(s)? What is the volume, in comparison, of the ‘hot air’ the German Federal Republic is able to sell taking into account the fact of the German reunification which took place after the base year of the Kyoto protocol?

Has the EU developed strategies on when and how this hot air should be put on the market in regard to the price of emission allowances (and the actual reductions of emissions in the EU) and where have such strategies have been published if they exist?

(2003/C 155 E/125) WRITTEN QUESTION E-3224/02 by Eija-Riitta Korhola (PPE-DE) to the Council

(14 November 2002)

Subject: Accession countries and joint implementation projects (Kyoto Mechanism)

Has the EU made any agreements in the accession talks for the ten new Member States to promote JI projects during the initial period of the EU emission trading scheme (2005-2007) or the subsequent period(s)?

Is there an estimate on how big a volume of such projects will be initiated during each of the ET periods (absolutely and in proportion of ‘hot air’)? Has the EU made any models on how effective implementation of JI projects would affect the price of emission allowances (and the actual reductions of emissions in the EU) and where have such models been published if they exist?