European Parliament 22 April 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-1128/02 by Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Obstacles to the provision of drinking water in the Netherlands as a result of the increasing chemical pollution of the Rhine.

Will the Commission state whether, in implementing Community directives, Member States are allowed to create conditions of competition between fleets belonging to different regions of the same country or between fleets from the same region (as is currently the case in Italy, in the Marches Region, because the decision of the Ministry for Agricultural and Forestry Policy to authorise vessels from