European Parliament 3 April 2001, WRITTEN QUESTION E-1036/01 by Maria Sanders-ten Holte (ELDR) and Jules Maaten (ELDR) to the Commission. Payments arising from the Enschede firework disaster.

The Commission: 1. Why did it reject the waiver request, without, moreover, stating its reasons? 2. Given that the poorer harvests were due entirely to a natural cause, does it not believe that enforcement of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 3887/92, in this particular case, was an excessively harsh step to take? 3.