Papayannakis (GUE/NGL). – (EL) Commissioner, I thank you on behalf of my honourable friend, Mr Alavanos. I too am extremely interested in this question.

If I understood correctly, and I should like you to confirm this, so far the Commission has not carried out any inspection based on this article, which gives it the facility to check if these biological purification plants are operational. Because I should like to repeat what is said in the question, and I know this from my own experience from travelling round Greece, that most biological plants are either not operational or operate defectively or operate from time to time.

This is a very important matter. Complaints have also been sent to the Commission and reports have been sent to the European Parliament. When do you intend to conduct these inspections? You said that you would conduct them. When do you intend to conduct them?