(1999/C 135/098) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2634/98 by Otto Von
C 135/84 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 14.5.1999 (1999/C 135/098) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2634/98 by Otto von Habsburg (PPE), Hiltrud Breyer (V), Charles Goerens (ELDR), Klaus-Heiner Lehne (PPE), Claudia Roth (V), Wilmya Zimmermann (PSE) and Karl Habsburg-Lothringen (PPE) to the Council (1 September 1998) Subject: Visa requirements for Bulgaria and Romania − expert reports Several commissions of experts have recently visited Bulgaria and Romania to consider the visa problem there. No reports have yet been published on these visits. If such expert reports already exist, when will the Council be submitting them to Parliament? What conclusions has the Council reached in this matter? If a report or reports of this kind have not yet been drawn up, when will they be compiled? Reply (16 November 1998) Since it is not associated with the expert commissions mentioned by the Honourable Members, the Council has no knowledge of the existence or otherwise of any reports drawn up by such commissions. (1999/C 135/099) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2636/98 by Hiltrud Breyer (V), Otto von Habsburg (PPE), Charles Goerens (ELDR), Klaus-Heiner Lehne (PPE), Claudia Roth (V), Wilmya Zimmermann (PSE) and Karl Habsburg-Lothringen (PPE) to the Council (1 September 1998) Subject: Visa requirement for Bulgaria and Romania 1. How, in the Council’s opinion, can the strategy for bringing Bulgaria and Romania closer to the European Union be reconciled with the visa requirement for their nationals, seeing that two EU institutions, the European Parliament and the Commission, have argued for the removal of these countries from the common list compiled pursuant to Article 100c of the Treaty establishing the European Community and that the European Parliament will shortly be reaffirming this position? 2.
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