§ Mrs. GormanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to the reply given to the hon. Member for Gedling (Mr. Mitchele,Official Report, 27 March, columns 117–18, if he will publish in the Official Report the representations from the United Kingdom which were considered at the Environment Council on 22 March during the debate on whether to establish a European environmental agency.
§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryThe main terms of the regulation to establish a European Environment Agency were agreed at the Environment Council on 28 November 1989. The Environment Council on 22 March 1990 considered a number of amendments to the regulation put forward by the European Parliament. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment stressed the importance of recognising that the European Parliament had tried hard to produce amendments which would be acceptable to the Council and that the European Parliament's proposal for a review of the agency's tasks after two years made good sense. This view was accepted by the Council.