European Parliament 11 October 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-2871/02 by Charles Tannock (PPE-DE), Neil Parish (PPE-DE)and Theresa Villiers (PPE-DE) to the Commission. France's illegal ban on the import of British beef.

This annual report is still not available and there are rumours that the action programme is merely to be included in the European Commission’s general annual report. 1. Will the European Commission honour its promise to report separately on this action programme? 2. If not, why did it promise to do so earlier? 3. How does the European Commission define the word ‘shortly’?