Industry Council (Hansard, 20 June 1990)

§ Mr. Buchan
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the European Economic Community Industry Council meeting of 28 May.

§ 36. Mr. Nicholas Brown
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the European Economic Community Industry Council meeting of 28 May.

§ Mr. Douglas Hogg
I refer the hon. Gentlemen to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Brown) on 14 June 1990, at column305.

§ 108. Mr. Foulkes
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he last attended a meeting of the European Council of Industry Ministers at which the subject discussed was steel.

§ Mr. Ridley
I attend meetings of the European Council of Industry Ministers whenever necessary. The last meeting I attended at which steel was discussed was on 14 November 1989.

§ 74. Mr. Wray
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what was the outcome of the discussions on steel at the European Industry Council.

§ 117. Mr. McLeish
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what was the outcome of the discussions on steel at the European Industry Council.

§ Mr. Ridley
At the 28 May meeting of the Industry Council the European Commission presented its view of the Community steel market over the next five years. There was an exchange of views, but no decisions were taken because the Commission's view is not subject to Council agreement or approval. The Commission also informed the member states that it had started preliminary work examining options for the future of the treaty of Paris which is due to expire in 2002.