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Question for written answer  E-001898/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
César Luena (S&D)

Article 34 of the EU Deforestation Regulations states that ‘no later than 30 June 2024, the Commission shall present an impact assessment accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal to extend the scope of this Regulation to include other wooded land’.

It further provides that ‘no later than 30 June 2025, the Commission shall present an impact assessment accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal to extend the scope of this Regulation to other natural ecosystems, such as grasslands, peatlands and wetlands’. The assessment shall also address the need and feasibility of extending the scope to other raw materials and extending or amending the list of products in Annex I.

In light of the above:

• 1.When does the Commission intend to present the impact assessment and proposal to extend the scope to other wooded land required by Article 34, bearing in mind that the deadline for doing so was 30 June 2024?
• 2.When does the Commission intend to present the impact assessment and proposal required by Article 34 to extend the scope to other ecosystems and raw materials, the deadline for which expires on 30 June 2025?

Submitted: 13.5.2025

Question for written answer  E-001730/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Virginie Joron (PfE)

The Commission has provided EUR 230 million in grants to the Euronews channel over 10 years[1]. The European institutions have also signed a framework contract worth EUR 133 million over four years, from September 2023 to September 2027, for media and advertising strategies (COMM/DG/FWC/2023/30)[2]. Over the period 2014-2023, the Commission is reported to have paid EUR 88 million to the Havas group and EUR 37 million to Euractiv[3].

In addition, Parliament, through its Directorate-General for Communication, has earmarked a maximum of EUR 9.1 million in media grants in 2023. For example, in 2023 the newspaper Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace received grants of EUR 150 000, while 20 minutes received EUR 175 000[4].

It is hard to believe that the media can remain independent under these conditions and resist Brussels’ disinformation.

• 1.In total, how many payments and grants were awarded by the Commission to the media, journalists, news agencies, ERA-NET Plus and fact-checking services in 2023 and 2024, bearing in mind that Grok artificial intelligence estimates these payments to be between EUR 78 million and EUR 88 million?
• 2.Which media or journalists who are critical of the Commission were subsidised?
• 3.Are European media subsidies compatible with electoral rules and the rules on free and undistorted competition?

Submitted: 30.4.2025

• [1] https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/02/eu-spending-who-is-getting-the-quiet-billions-from-the-european-commission/
• [2] Framework contract COMM/DG/FWC/2023/30 for media strategy, planning and advertising from September 2023 to September 2027. Invitation to tender COMM/AWD/2022/54. The maximum total amount under this framework contract was EUR 132.82 million over four years, but this amount represented the ceiling for several European institutions, including EUR 50 million for the European Parliament.
• [3] https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/analysis.html
• [4] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/contracts-and-grants/fr/grants/ex-post-publication; https://www.europarl.europa.eu/contracts-and-grants/files/grants/ex-post-publication/en-list-of-grants-awarded-2023.xlsx

Question for written answer  E-001891/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Cristina Guarda (Verts/ALE), Benedetta Scuderi (Verts/ALE), Leoluca Orlando (Verts/ALE), Ignazio Roberto Marino (Verts/ALE)

Amended and converted into Law No 31 of 20 March 2025 and issued in order to ensure that the Acciaierie d’Italia (formerly ILVA) steelworks could continue production, Decree-Law No 3 of 24 January 2025[1] also establishes in Article 1b(2) that the Taranto facility’s health impact assessment (HIA) should use the limit values laid down by Legislative Decree No 155 of 13 August 2010.

In its ruling on Case C‑626/22 of 25 June 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union stated that the emission limit values set by the Air Quality Directives ‘must be considered “environmental quality standards” within the meaning of Article 3(6) and Article 18 of Directive 2010/75’ (paragraph 20) and that ‘if compliance with those standards makes it necessary to impose stricter emission limit values on the installation concerned … additional measures must then be included in the permit’ (paragraph 21).

The European Union has also set stricter emissions limits by means of the new Industrial Emissions Directive[2].

In the light of the above:

• 1.How does the Commission view the Italian Government’s decision to use the limit values laid down by Legislative Decree No 155/2010 for the aforementioned HIA? Does it not agree that this decision is an attempt at circumventing the CJEU’s ruling in Case C‑626/22, which clarified that Italy should comply with the stricter limits laid down by the Air Quality Directives[3]?
• 2.Given that it has recently sent an additional letter of formal notice to Italy over its handling of this case, will the Commission follow up its infringement case against Italy (INFR(2013)2177)?

Submitted: 13.5.2025

• [1] https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2025/03/24/25A01874/sg.
• [2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202401785.
• [3] Which include Directive (EU) 2024/2881 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2024 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe.

Priority question for written answer  P-001974/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Giorgos Georgiou (The Left)

According to Regulation (EU) 2018/858 on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles, national authorities must implement adequate corrective measures and the cost of repairs must not be passed on to vehicle owners.

In Cyprus, two representatives of manufacturing companies, whose vehicles constitute the majority of the recalled vehicles, are indirectly passing on the cost of repairs by charging for mandatory diagnostic tests prior to replacement. The competent national authority was informed by the manufacturers themselves that the vehicles in question had defective airbags and, in turn, informed the vehicle owners.

Despite 57 warnings from the EU and the Commission’s recommendations to Member States, the Government in Cyprus refuses to comply with the relevant regulation and put in place corrective or restrictive measures. Today, around 56 000 vehicles are on the road at risk of having faulty airbags, which can be activated even without the vehicle being involved in an accident. Cyprus already has two confirmed deaths from faulty airbags.

What measures does the Commission intend to put in place to ensure that the Government in Cyprus takes all corrective measures and ends illegal charging, as required by Regulation (EU) 2018/858?

Submitted: 16.5.2025

Question for written answer  E-001920/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Costas Mavrides (S&D)

Based on complaints from Cypriot citizens and the Cyprus Consumers Association, there has been an alarming increase in cases of fraud through misleading videos and other content created using Artificial Intelligence (AI). The material in question includes fake interviews, advertisements and videos, in which prominent and trustworthy individuals appear – without their knowledge or consent – presenting purported ‘investment opportunities’. These are essentially organised digital scams aimed at extorting money from unsuspecting citizens.

Given that this is a rapidly evolving threat with cross-border dimensions, requiring immediate and long-term measures:

• 1.Does the Commission intend to proceed with the design and implementation of an effective European cooperation framework, as well as the legal harmonisation of the Member States, to tackle such forms of digital fraud more effectively?
• 2.Does the Commission intend to proceed immediately with information campaigns at EU level or otherwise, given that this concerns all European citizens, with the aim of properly informing, forewarning and protecting citizens from such misleading practices?

Submitted: 14.5.2025