ISSN 0378-6986 Official Journal C93 Volume 26 of the European Communities 7 April 1983 English edition Information and Notices Contents I Information European Parliament 'Written Questions with answer: No 835/82 by Mr Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg to the Commission Subject: Obstacles to trade created by German insurance companies 1 Supplementary answer to Written Question No 835/82 1 No 1343/82 by Mr Corentin Calvez to the Commission Subject: Television satellites 2 No 1402/82 by Mr Dieter Rogalla to the Commission Subject: Entry into the United Kingdom 3 No 1416/82 by Mr Fernand Herman to the Commission Subject: Telephone charges in the Community 3 No 1446/82 by Mr Pol Marck to the Commission Subject: Intervention agencies 3 No 1508/82 by Mr Rudolf Schieler to the Commission Subject: Uniform legal safeguards in the European Community 4 No 1550/82 by Mr Otto Habsburg to the Commission Subject: Ratification of the Convention on the Law of the Sea 4 No 1566/82 by Mrs Marijke Van Hemeldonck to the Commission Subject: Bill tabled in Greece for the creation of a national pharmacological institute 5 No 1579/82 by Mr Alan Tyrrell to the Commission Subject: Imbalance in the nationalities of the stagiaires at the Commission 5 No 1588/82 by Mr Karel De Gucht to the Commission Subject: Secondment of Community officials to national administrations 6 No 1591/82 by Mr Dieter Rogalla to the Commission Subject: Coal imports 7 2 (Continued overleaf) Contents (continued) No 1598/82 by Mrs Anne-Marie Lizin to the Commission Subject: Request for food aid for Vietnam No 1607/82 by Mrs Sylvie Le Roux to the Commission Subject: Refund component in the sale of agricultural products . No 1642/82 by Mr James Provan to the Commission Subject: Co-responsibility levy in the milk sector 9 No 1664/82 by Mr Luc Beyer de Ryke to the Commission Subject: Cereal substitutes 10 No 1665/82 by Mr Luc Beyer de Ryke to the Commission Subject: Cereal substitutes 10 No 1667/82 by Mr Luc Beyer de Ryke to the Commission Subject: Cereal substitutes 11 No 1674/82 by Mr Mark Clinton to the Commission Subject: Measures to aid beef production 12 No 1680/82 by Mrs Hanna Walz to the Commission Subject: Rome declaration on hunger 13 No 1685/82 by Mrs Beate Weber to the Commission Subject: Formaldehyde 13 No 1687/82 by Mrs Marijke Van Hemeldonck to the Commission Subject: Disposal of used motor oil and its re-use as fuel 14 No 1692/82 by Mrs Ien van den Heuvel to the Commission Subject: Conditions faced by refugees from El Salvador in Honduras 15 No 1704/82 by Mr Hendrik Louwes to the Commission Subject: Common measures pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 355/77 to improve the conditions under which bovine animals and swine are slaughtered and processed 16 No 1707/82 by Mr Hendrik Louwes to the Commission Subject: Obstacles to the transport of live animals and meat by road between Member States of the Community 16 No 1715/82 by Mr Hans-Gert Pottering to the Commission Subject: EEC food consignments to Poland 16 No 1716/82 by Mr Roberto Costanzo to the Commission Subject: Promotion of rural tourism 17 No 1717/82 by Mr Roberto Costanzo to the Commission Subject: Construction of cereals harvesting and processing facilities with EAGGF funds 18 No 1718/82 by Mr Dieter Rogalla to the Commission Subject: Employment of trainees in the Commission 18 No 1729/82 by Mrs Barbara Castle to the Commission Subject: The veal crate 19 No 1737/82 by Sir Fred Warner to the Commission Subject: Health insurance 19 No 1738/82 by Mr Pierre-Bernard Couste to the Commission Subject: Anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations 20 No 1744/82 by Mrs Barbara Castle to the Commission Subject: French import restrictions 20 Contents (continued) No 1760/82 by Mr Francis Wurtz to the Commission Subject: The education of young people 21 No 1763/82 by Mr Anthony Simpson to the Commission Subject: Free movement of teachers 21 No 1764/82 by Mr Reinhold Bocklet, Mr Pol Marck, Mr Joachim Dalsass, Mr Nicolas Estgen, Mr James Janssen van Raay, Mr Robert Jackson and Mr Ingo Friedrich to the Commission Subject: Beer supply contracts 22 No 1767/82 by Mrs Jacqueline Hoffmann to the Commission Subject: The effects of iron and steel production quotas on demand 25 No 1768/82 by Mrs Jacqueline Hoffmann to the Commission Subject: Development of the market in special steel 25 No 1770/82 by Mr Anthony Simpson to the Commission Subject: Advertisement of public works contracts in the Official Journal 26 No 1775/82 by Mr Allan Rogers to the Commission Subject: Milk exports from Ireland 26 No 1780/82 by Mr Basil de Ferranti to the Commission Subject: Postal delays in the Community 27 No 1790/82 by Mr Lucien Radoux to the Commission Subject: Drilling for oil 27 No 1804/82 by Mr Pol Marck to the Commission Subject: Customs duties on boiling chickens in Zaire 27 No 1807/82 by Mr Jens-Peter Bonde to the Commission Subject: Invocation of Article 235 as a legal basis 28 No 1808/82 by Mr Ernst Miiller-Hermann to the Commission Subject: International cooperation in the steel industry 28 No 1815/82 by Mr Jochen van Aerssen and Mr Karl von Wogau to the Council Subject: The Benelux model 28 No 1816/82 by Mr Jeremiah Cronin to the Commission Subject: EAGGF finance for tourism projects 2.9 No 1830/82 by Sir James Scott-Hopkins to the Commission Subject: Minerals received from South Africa 29 No 1834/82 by Sir James Scott-Hopkins to the Commission Subject: European agriculture 30 No 1838/82 by Mr Andrew Pearce to the Commission Subject: List of non-tariff barriers operated by Member States 31 No 1853/82 by Mr Ernest Glinne to the Commission Subject: European Regional Development Fund 31 No 1854/82 by Mr Ernest Glinne to the Commission Subject: Pollution caused by the titanium dioxide industry 31 No 1864/82 by Mr Pol Marck to the Commission Subject: Reduction of intervention prices 32 No 1871/82 by Mr Jaak Vandemeulebroucke to the Commission Subject: ERDF aid for projects in the province of Antwerp 32 (Continued overleaf) Contents (continued) No 1872/82 by Mr Jaak Vandemeulebroucke to the Commission Subject: ERDF aid for projects in the province of Limburg 33 No 1873/82 by Mr Jaak Vandemeulebroucke to the Commission Subject: ERDF aid for projects in the province of East Flanders 33 No 1874/82 by Mr Jaak Vandemeulebroucke to the Commission Subject: ERDF aid for projects in the province of West Flanders 33 No 1875/82 by Mr Jaak Vandemeulebroucke to the Commission Subject: ERDF aid for projects in the arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde 33 Joint answer to Written Questions Nos 1871/82, 1872/82, 1873/82, 1874/82 and 1875/82 34 No 1878/82 by Mr Jens-Peter Bonde to the Council Subject: Publication of opinion polls 34 No 1885/82 by Mr Roberto Costanzo to the Commission Subject: Situation in the dried fruit market 34 No 1893/82 by Mrs Jeanne Pauwelyn to the Commission Subject: International Cocoa Agreement 1980 35 No 1956/82 by Mr Michael Welsh to the Council Subject: Spierenburg Report 36 No 1985/82 by Mrs Anne-Marie Lizin to the Commission Subject: Relations between the EEC and Turkey: management of the information office in Turkey 36 No 1994/82 by Mr Pierre-Bernard Couste to the Commission Subject: Project for a canal to link the Rhine and Rhone 36 No 2003/82 by Mr Charles Delatte to the Commission Subject: Christmas butter sales 37 No 2005/82 by Mr Robert Battersby to the Commission Subject: Tourism 37 7. 4. 83 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 93/1 (Information) EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER WRITTEN QUESTION No 835/82 review, taking special account of any information by Mr Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg (S - F) supplied to it by Member States. to the Commission of the European Communities (S July 1982) The question put by the Honourable Member falls into the general context of the problem of standards including, therefore, German standards. This problem is currently Subject: Obstacles to trade created by German insurance being looked into by the Commission's departments. Its companies unusual nature stems from the fact that, in many cases, German insurance companies require certain industrial the standards have been drawn up by private institutions products to bear certificates stating that they conform to and do not in themselves have legally binding force. certain technical standards (DIN) before they can be marketed in the Federal Republic of Germany. Unless It is only where, as a result of action by the State, products products originating in other Member States meet these imported from other Member States have de jure or de requirements, their users cannot insure them. The facto to conform to German standards alone that such products in question are, in most cases, imported capital requirements or practices are to be assessed in the light of equipment. the EEC Treaty's provisions on the free movement of Does the Commission not consider that this practice goods (Articles 30 to 36). Such a situation could arise, for constitutes an ingenious but effective form of example, if the arrangements in force in Germany for camouflaged protectionism designed to give German preventing industrial accidents and the correspondings industry an advantage on the domestic market? insurance scheme were to have the practical effect of impeding access to the German market for goods from other Member States that did not meet the specific standards in force in Germany but did satisfy the safety Supplementary answer given by Mr Narjes requirements applicable in the country of manufacture.