§ Baroness LLEWELYN-DAVIES of HASTOEMy Lords, a Statement was made yesterday in another place about business to be taken in the EEC Council of Ministers during February. With the leave of the House, I shall as usual arrange that the Statement be made available in the Official Report.
§ Following is the Statement referred to:
§ "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I will make a Statement about business to be taken in the Council of Ministers of the European Community during February. The monthly forecast for February was deposited on the 28th of January.
§ "At present 4 meetings of the Council of Ministers are proposed for February. Foreign Ministers will meet on the 8th; Finance Ministers on the 14th and Agriculture Ministers on the 14th and 15th and 28th of February and the 1st of March.
§ "Ministers at the Foreign Affairs Council will consider problems in the Fisheries sector, preparation for further work in the Conference of International Economic Co-operation, and the Euro-Arab dialogue. They will discuss the Community's relations with Portugal, Japan, Spain and Cyprus and a financial protocol with Turkey. Financial and economic co-operation protocols with Israel will be signed.
§ "The agenda for the Finance Ministers Council has not yet been settled, but among the subjects Ministers could discuss are the fourth medium-term economic policy programme and export credit policy.
§ "At the Agriculture Council on the 14th and 15th of February, Ministers are expected to have their first discussion of the Commission's proposals for agricultural prices for 1977–8, and they will also consider proposals on potatoes and for increasing financial limits under the farm structure directives. In addition they may discuss proposals on hops, and, depending upon the outcome of the Foreign Affairs Council on the 8th of February, they are likely to consider fisheries conservation measures. They will resume their consideration of the price proposals at the Agriculture Council on the 28th of February and the 1st of March."