European Parliament 12 March 2003, WRITTEN QUESTION E-0763/03 by Patricia McKenna (Verts/ALE), Inger Schörling (Verts/ALE)and Claude Turmes (Verts/ALE) to the Commission. Nitrofuran residues in imported shrimp and poultry.

collection and treatment of waste tyres. Therefore, Member States are free to establish such rules at national level. Furthermore, the Commission has no indication that the Flemish EPA on waste tyres is not in conformity with relevant Community legislation, such as Directive 2000/53/EC of the Parliament and of the Council of 18 September 2000 on end-of-life vehicles (3).