^-^ /•*/"*• • "% "W" *fl ISSN 0378-6986 Official Journal c 39 /» >->, • • Volume 28 of the European Communities u February m* EnglisNoticeh N editioo n ContentInformatios n and Notices Pa«e I Information European Parliament Written Questions with answer: 85/C 39/01 No 2357/83 by Mrs Maria Lisa Cinciari Rodana to the Commission Subject: Unemployment — discrimination against women 1 85/C 39/02 No 2378/83 by Mr Mark Clinton to the Commission Subject: Pricing policies of the Milk Marketing Boards in the UK 1 85/C 39/03 No 362/84 by Mr Jacques Moreau to the Commission Subject: The use of data-programming equipment in the Commission services with a view to its subsequent adoption by the administrations of Member States 2 85/C 39/04 No 567/84 by Mr Ernest Glinne to the Commission Subject: Orders for equipment in the steel industry 3 85/C 39/05 No 592/84 by Mr Francois Roelants du Vivier to the Commission Subject: Community maritime inspectors 4 85/C 39/06 No 670/84 by Mr Mark Clinton to the Commission Subject: United Kingdom Milk Marketing Boards 5 85/C 39/07 No 671/84 by Mr Mark Clinton to the Commission Subject: United Kingdom Milk Marketing Boards 5 85/C 39/08 No 676/84 by Mr Richie Ryan to the Commission Subject: Access to Rhodes from Turkey 5 85/C 39/09 No 766/84 by Mr Llewellyn Smith to the Commission Subject: Ebbw Vale 6 85/C 39/10 No 772/84 by Mr Pierre Pranchere to the Commission Subject: Gas supplies to ammonia producers in the Netherlands 6 1 (Continued overleaf) Notice No Contents (continued) Page 85/C 39/11 No 785/84 by Mrs Johanna Maij-Weggen to the Commission Subject: Conversion by the Council of Directives and resolutions into recommendations in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983 respectively 7 85/C 39/12 No 794/84 by Mr Richard Cottrell to the Commission Subject: Delays and incompetence by the Italian national airline Alitalia and the authorities at Rome Airport ' 85/C 39/13 No 828/84 by Mrs Ien van den Heuvel to the Commission Subject: Veterinary inspection service 8 85/C 39/14 No 846/84 by Mr Gene Fitzgerald to the Commission Subject: Worker-directors 9 85/C 39/15 No 857/84 by Mr Hans-Gert Poettering to the Commission Subject: Medical insurance for students 9 85/C 39/16 No 865/84 by Mr James Ford to the Commission Subject: International Youth Year 10 85/C 39/17 No 867/84 by Mr Ernest Glinne to the Commission Subject: Aid to zones adversely affected by the restructuring of the steel industry 10 85/C 39/18 No 875/84 by Mr Andrew Pearce to the Commission Subject: Porsche automobile company and the Soviet Union 11 85/C 39/19 No 877/84 by Mr Frank Schwalba-Hoth to the Commission Subject: Formaldehyde 11 85/C 39/20 No 899/84 by Mr Pierre Pranchere to the Commission Subject: Suckler cow premiums 13 85/C 39/21 No 900/84 by Mr Paul Verges to the Commission Subject: Price of ACP sugar 13 85/C 39/22 No 914/84 by Mr Klaus Hansch to the Commission Subject: East Timor 14 85/C 39/23 No 916/84 by Mrs Danielle De March to the Commission Subject: Agreements concluded between industrial groups in the field of electronics and data processing 14 85/C 39/24 No 920/84 by Mr Ian Paisley to the Commission Subject: Animal feed in Northern Ireland 15 85/C 39/25 No 923/84 by Mr Jaak Vandemeulebroucke to the Commission Subject: Advertising by the liberal professions 15 85/C 39/26 No 929/84 by Mr Roberto Costanzo to the Commission Subject: ERDF funds for the Region of Campania 15 85/C 39/27 No 940/84 by Sir James Scott-Hopkins to the Commission Subject: Straw degradation methods 16 85/C 39/28 No 955/84 by Mr Hemmo Muntingh to the Commission Subject: Red ibis in French Guiana 16 Contents (continued) 85/C 39/29 No 960/84 by Mr James Fitzsimons to the Commission Subject: Energy demonstration projects 17 85/C 39/30 No 974/84 by Mr Jens-Peter Bonde to the Commission Subject: Purchase prices for butter 17 85/C 39/31 No 994/84 by Mr Emmanuel Maffre-Bauge to the Commission Subject: Norway lobster fisheries 18 85/C 39/32 No 1000/84 by Mr Pierre-Benjamin Pranchere to the Commission Subject: Crisis on the market in store cattle 18 85/C 39/33 No 1008/84 by Mrs Anne-Marie Dupuy to the Commission Subject: The right of establishment and freedom to provide services in hairdressing 19 85/C 39/34 No 1009/84 by Mrs Nicole Chouraqui to the Commission Subject: Benefits for pensioners 19 85/C 39/35 No 1017/84 by Mr Bernard Pons to the Commission Subject: Problems arising from unemployed frontier workers from the interpretation of Article 68 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 19 85/C 39/36 No 1027/84 by Mrs Yvette Fuillet to the Commission Subject: Equivalence of qualifications and freedom of establishment in the Member States of the EEC 20 85/C 39/37 No 1034/84 by Mr Francois Roelants du Vivier to the Commission Subject: Belgium's failure to implement Directive 80/68/EEC 20 85/C 39/38 No 1038/84 by Mr Francois Roelants du Vivier to the Commission Subject: Belgium's failure to implement Directive 78/319/EEC 21 85/C 39/39 No 1041/84 by Mr Francois Roelants du Vivier to the Commission Subject: Three-yearly reports on the prevention and progressive reduction of pollution caused by waste from the titanium dioxide industry 21 85/C 39/40 No 1047/84 by Mr Gerhard Schmid and Mrs Lieselotte Seibel-Emmerling to the Commission Subject: Lead content of lead crystal glass 22 85/C 39/41 No 1054/84 by Mr Michel Debatisse to the Commission Subject: Alternative agricultural and budgetary measures 22 85/C 39/42 No 1070/84 by Mr Frank Schwalba-Hoth to the Commission Subject: Capacity of new penal establishments 23 85/C 39/43 No 1085/84 by Mrs Raymonde Dury to the Commission Subject: Marketing techniques in the pharmaceuticals sector 23 85/C 39/44 No 1095/84 by Mr George Patterson to the Commission Subject: Agreements exempted from EEC competition policy provisions 23 85/C 39/45 No 1169/84 by Mr Ray Mac Sharry to the Commission Subject: Food aid 25 85/C 39/46 No 1218/84 by Mrs Vera Squarcialupi to the Commission Subject: An Italian titanium dioxide factory now in British hands 25 (Continued overleaf) Notice No Contents (c6ntinued) Page 85/C 39/47 No 1239/84 by Mrs Raymonde Dury to the Commission Subject: Dangers of amateur sub-aqua diving 26 85/C 39/48 No 1295/84 by Mr Karl-Heinz Mihr to the Foreign Ministers of the 10 Member States of the European Communities meeting in political cooperation Subject: Dismissal of 200 employees of the vanadium mine in Wapedskloof, South Africa 26 85/C 39/49 No 1617/84 by Mr Emmanouil Glezos to the Foreign Ministers of the 10 Member States of the European Communities meeting in political cooperation Subject: Rapprochement between the USSR and the USA and the opening of negotiations for the prevention of nuclear war and the consolidation of world peace 27 85/C 39/50 No 1618/84 by Mr Emmanouil Glezos to the Foreign Ministers of the 10 Member States of the European Communities meeting in political cooperation Subject: Ending the Iran-Iraq war and resolving the problems of the two warring countries through dialogue and negotiation 28 11. 2. 85 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 39/1 (Information) EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER WRITTEN QUESTION No 2357/83 plaint lodged by an Italian body concerning the sub­ by Mrs Maria Lisa Cinciari Rodana (COM — I) ject of the Written Question was being investigated. to the Commission of the European Communities Having obtained the relevant information from the (26 March 1984) Italian authorities, the Commission has decided to file the matter, given that it would be very difficult (85/C 39/01) to support the assertion that the current recruitment Subject: Unemployment discrimination against system n Italy, as implemented under Law No 79 of women 25 March 1983, leads to discrimination against women Figures published by ISFOL in connection with Although the Commission does not believe that the Italy's application of law No 79/1983 show clearly law as it stands at present gives ground for opening that women are discriminated against: out of proceedings under Article 169 of the EEC Treaty, it 133 565 young people between 15 and 19 years old will remain alert to the question raised by the Hon- who were recruited at the end of their training pe­ ourable Member and will not fail to intervene if riods, 91 220 were male and 42 345 female, although necessary women accounted for more than 70 % of the unem­ ployed in that age group, and out of 104 536 indi­ (•) OJ No C 200, 30. 7. 1984. viduals recruited in general 72 226 were male and 32 310 were female although 60 % of those registered with employment agencies were women. The Italian legislation in question must thus be re­ garded as a form of indirect discrimination against women and therefore in conflict with Directive 76/207/EEC (•) on equal treatment for men and women.