§ Mr. Lawrenceasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to oppose in the Council of Ministers or to seek the revocation of any European Economic Community legislation which has been adversely reported upon by the Select Committee on European Legislation &c.
§ Mr. RifkindThe duty laid by the House upon the Select Committee under its terms of reference is to draw the House's special attention to Community legislative proposals and other European Community questions which, in the opinion of the Committee, raise important questions of principle. If the Committee so recommends, a debate is then arranged on the Floor of the House or in Standing Committee. the Government have given an undertaking, embodied in a resolution of the House of Commons, that Ministers will not give agreement in the Council of Ministers to a proposal recommended for further consideration by the House before the House has given it that consideration, except in special circumstances.