§ Mr. Spearingasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the full title of the EEC Treaty signed on 22nd July 1975 relating to EEC Audit Boards, the names of member States which have already ratified this Treaty and the stage which ratification has reached in the United Kingdom.
§ Dr. OwenThe Treaty is entitled "Treaty amending certain Financial Provisions of the Treaties establishing the European Communities and of the Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities". The text was published in the European Communities Series No. 138/1975 (Cmnd 6252). The United Kingdom's instrument of ratification was deposited on 29th March 1976 after the approval of both Houses of Parliament of a draft Order in Council under Section 1(3) of the European Communities Act. My latest information is that Denmark, Luxembourg and Germany have also ratified.