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European Commission Spokesman's Briefing for 98-03-09
From: EUROPA, the European Commission Server at <http://europa.eu.int>
MIDDAY EXPRESS
News from the Spokesman's midday briefing
Nouvelles du rendez-vous de midi du Porte-Paroleb
09/03/98
CONTENTS / CONTENU
[01] Commission launches 9 pilot projects for the electronic identification
of animals (IDEA)
[02] Le taux d'inflation de l'UE tombe de 1,6% à 1,3% en janvier 1998
[03] High Level Group on tourism and employment
[04] Europeans on Holiday - results of the first Eurobarometer Survey
[01] Commission launches 9 pilot projects for the electronic identification
of animals (IDEA)
The European Commission is granting ECU 10 million towards the total cost
of ECU 17 million for the implementation of nine pilot projects for the
electronic identification of animals (IDEA) in six Member States (Germany,
Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal). The IDEA is based on
the use of a transponder implanted in the animal so as to allow effective
monitoring of its location and movements by radio frequency. The projects
will take place over three years and must be completed by 31 December 2000.
The Commission shall at the end of this period decide on the possibility of
introducing more general electronic identification arrangements in the
light of the result of the pilot projects.
[02] Le taux d'inflation de l'UE tombe de 1,6% à 1,3% en janvier 1998
En janvier, le taux d'inflation de l'Union européenne a chuté
considérablement à 1,3%, par rapport à 1,6% en décembre 1997, selon les
chiffres publiés aujourd'hui par Eurostat, l'Office statistique des
Communautés européennes à Luxembourg. En janvier 1997, il avait atteint 2,
2%. Le taux d'inflation de l'Espace Economique Européen s'est élevé
également à 1,3% en janvier de cette année, contre 2,2% en janvier 1997.
Les taux les plus bas ont été constatés en Belgique (0,5%), en France (0,
6%) et en Allemagne (0,9%). Les taux les plus élevés ont été enregistrés
en Grèce (4,3%) et en Suède (2,1%). Cinq Etats membres se sont situés en-
dessous de la moyenne communautaire. Tous les Etats membres, à l'exception
de le Grèce et de la Suède sont restés en-dessous de 2%. Le taux
d'inflation est descendu à zéro en Suisse. Il a baissé à 1,6% aux Etats-
Unis, tout en restant stable au Japon, avec 1,8%.
[03] High Level Group on tourism and employment
A High Level Group on tourism and employment has been set up with the
mandate to examine the conditions in which tourism could make a greater
contribution to growth and stability in employment in Europe and to make
recommendations to the European Commission by October 1998. This Group was
announced by Tourism Commissioner Christos Papoutsis last Saturday, 7 March
1998, in Berlin at the opening of the Internationale Tourismus Börse. It
will consist of eighteen tourism entrepreneurs and experts of recognised
competence from all Member States. The Group will have its first meeting
on 24 March 1998 in Brussels.
[04] Europeans on Holiday - results of the first Eurobarometer Survey
More than half the citizens of the European Union's Member States have
taken holidays in 1997. The forecasts for 1998 show that there will be an
increase in departures and a longer stay in their destination for a third
of European holiday-makers. Six out of ten Europeans stay in their own
country for the longest holidays and when they are travelling abroad their
main destination is another Member State, and the vast majority have not
experienced problems, including in terms of personnal safety, during their
holidays.
MIDDAY EXPRESS
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