§ Mr. JenkinTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the statement of 24 May in European Standing Committee B,Official Report, column 12, by the Minister of State, the hon. Member for Boothferry (Mr. Davis), on the 16 new areas of competence sought by the European Commission during the Maastricht negotiations, if he will list the areas of competence to which he referred; and which were conceded at Maastricht. [27493]
§ Mr. David DavisDuring the Maastricht negotiations, new or extended Community competence was proposed in the following 16 areas: education and training; health; environment; research and technological development; development co-operation; civil protection; tourism, culture, industry; energy; trans-European networks; consumer protection; external trade in services; social policy; free movement of persons; the common foreign and security policy.
The result of the negotiation was complicated: for example the CFSP has been established in a separate pillar outside Community competence and social policy was covered in a separate protocol. It was decided not to introduce new chapters on energy, tourism or consumer protection. Community action in the majority of new chapters which were included in the treaty is either subject to unanimity or to limitations on the scope for harmonising legislation.