§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Lord Privy Seal what progress has been made in the last month towards a reorganisation of the structure of the European Economic Community budget.
§ Sir Ian GilmourThe Council agreement of 30 May laid down that the Commission should put forward proposals by June 1981. These proposals will form the basis for further consideration by the Council. In the meantime my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my right hon. and noble Friend have taken a number of opportunities over recent weeks, both in bilateral meetings with their colleagues in the Community, and at meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and of the European Council, to emphasise to our partners the importance they 129W attach to this matter and to the need, which is widely accepted in the Community, to reach early conclusions which will prevent unacceptable situations of the sort we faced recurring for any member State.