§ Mr. Grocottasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list for each continent the numbers of grade 1, grade 2 and grade 3 embassies.
246Whas been taken to the European Court of Justice for infringing the terms of the Rome treaties.
§ Mr. JuddThe information is set out below. Table A lists the judgments in infraction proceedings under Articles 93(2) and 169 of the EEC Treaty by year of judgment. Table B shows for 1973 to 1978 infraction proceedings instituted before the Court. None of these has yet come to judgment. Of the cases in Table A only those against Germany in 1973 and the Netherlands in 1977 were not upheld by the Court.
§ Dr. OwenAmbassadors of High Commissioners are placed in a particular grade on a number of grounds, but there is no automatic grading attached to the post they are in. The current spread across the grades is as follows:
Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Africa 2 2 15 Americas 2 3 11 Asia and Australasia 2 9 19 Europe 4 8 16