§ Baroness Davidasked Her Majesty's Government:
What the forthcoming business is in the Council of the European Union for December; and what the major European Union events are for the period between 31 December and May 2002. [HL1785]
§ Baroness Symons of Vernham DeanSee attached.December 4—ECOFIN Meeting—Brussels
1. Adoption of the Agenda
2. Approval of the list of "A" items
3. Preparation for the Laeken European Council.
Report on Aims and working methods in the field of pensions
Report on structural indicators
Report on progress concerning the fiscal package
4. Fiscal Package
Taxation and savings
= Directive, including main features of a standardised form for exchanging information
= Interim reports by the Member States concerned on discussions with dependent or associated territories
Code of Conduct
= Progress report from Code of Conduct group
5. (Poss.) VAT invoicing (may become "A" item)
6. Financial Services
—(Poss.) Financial Services Action Plan, 5 Progress report from the Commission
—(Poss.) Proposal for a Directive on financial collateral arrangements
= General Approach
Prospectus
= Presidency report on progress
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= Presidency report on progress UCTIS
= Adoption
7. Annual report of the Court of Auditors for the financial year 2000
Presentation by the Court of Auditors
8. Galileo
Progress report
9. Economic situation in the air transport sector (insurance)
Report on developments in the situation
10. Preparation for ministerial meeting with the candidate countries
11. Conference on Financing for Development—Common Position
12. Other Business
Other business
3—Brussels—Employment and Social Affairs Council
4—Bruges—Culture Council (Ministerial Informal)
4—Brussels—Energy Council
5—Brussels—Industry Council
6–7—Brussels—Transport and Telecommunications Council
6–7—Brussels—Justice and Home Affairs Council
10—Brussels—Research Council
10–11—Brussels—General Affairs Council
12–13—Brussels—Environment Council
14—Laeken—ECOFIN
14–15—Laeken—European Council
17–18—Brussels—Fisheries Council
18–19—Brussels—Agriculture Council
No agendas for the above are available yet.
The following are the principle events in the EU between 1 January and May 2002 (certain relevant events are also included: the list is based on the information available at the date of issue).
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Date Location Event January 10 Brussels Fisheries Council 17 Brussels Budget Council (Ev) 21–22 Brussels Agriculture Council 21 Brussels Eurogroup (Evening) 22 Brussels ECOFIN 25–26 Brussels Meeting of Employment Ministers (Ministerial Informal) 28–29 Brussels General Affairs Council February 9–10 Brussels Gymnich (Ministerial Informal) 11 Brussels Eurogroup (Evening) 14 Brussels Education and Youth Council 14–15 Brussels Justice and Home Affairs Council (Ministerial Informal) 18–19 Brussels General Affairs Council 18–19 Brussels Agriculture Council
Date Location Event 22–23 Brussels Telecoms and Information Society Council (Ministerial Informal) 28 Brussels Justice and Home Affairs Council March 1 Brussels Justice and Home Affairs Council (Evening) 1 Brussels Internal Market, Consumers and Tourism Council 4 Brussels Eurogroup (Evening) 5 Brussels ECOFIN 7 Brussels Employment and Social Affairs Council 11 Brussels Research Council 11–12 Brussels General Affairs Council 15–16 Barcelona European Council 18–19 Brussels Agriculture Council 21 Brussels Environment Council 23–24 Brussels Defence Meeting (Ministerial Informal) 25–26 Brussels Transport and Telecom Council April 5–6 Luxembourg Migrations Council (ASEM Ministerial Informal) 8 Luxembourg Fisheries Council 13–14 Luxembourg ECOFIN (Ministerial Informal) 15–16 Luxembourg General Affairs Council 22–23 Valencia Euromed Conference 22–23 Luxembourg Agriculture Council 25–26 Luxembourg Justice and Home Affairs Council 27–30 Luxembourg Agriculture Council (Ministerial Informal) May 3–4 Brussels Tourism Council (Ministerial Informal) 6 Brussels Eurogroup (Evening) 7 Brussels ECOFIN 9 EUROPE DAY 13 Brussels General Affairs and Defence Council 17–18 Madrid EU-LAC Summit 21 Brussels Internal Market, Consumers and Tourism Council 23 Brussels Culture and Audio-visual Council 24–26 Brussels Environment Council (Ministerial Informal) 27–28 Brussels Agriculture Council 30 Brussels Development Council 30 Brussels Education and Youth Council 31–1 June Brussels Transport Council (Ministerial Informal)