§ Mr. RosindellTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list EU funds available for information campaigns in applicant countries; what the United Kingdom's share is; what measures exist to ensure impartiality; if he will list organisations which are recipients; and if he will make a statement. [58772]
§ Peter HainIn the Candidate Countries for accession to the European Union, information activities are carried out by the European Commission's Delegations.
The following table shows the EC funding in euros for each delegation in 2001.
Country Budget 2001—€ Bratislava 650,000 Bucharest 850,000 Budapest 1,000,000 Ljublijana 720,000 Prague 900,000 Riga 670,000 Sofia 550,000 Tallinn 611,375 Vilnius 680,000 Warsaw 1,559,000 Turkey 600,000 Cyprus 200,000 Malta 200,000 In accordance with normal budgetary principles, the own resources contributions of the Member States are not allocated to specific expenditure lines.
The overall strategy for the information initiatives has been endorsed by the Council and implementation on the ground takes place in full consultation with the national Government concerned as well as with the embassies of the Member States in the relevant capital.