European Parliament 10 October 2001, WRITTEN QUESTION E-2813/01 by Sebastiano Musumeci (UEN) to the Commission. Shipwreck in the Sicilian Channel.

4. Can the Commission record and indicate how much time, on average, it took, per Commissioner, to reply between 20 July 1999 and 1 October 2001? Does the Commission agree that a clearer understanding of how long it actually takes to answer questions is likely to generate healthy peer pressure among Directorates-General and within Commissioners’ offices which will speed up replies? 5.