§ Mr. Jonathan EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish a statement on the forthcoming business in the Council of the European Union.
§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryThe following meetings are planned:
- 4 March: Research Council
- 7–8 March: Foreign Affairs Council
- 10 March: Internal Market Council
- 21 March: ECOFIN Council
- 23 March: Justice and Home Affairs Council
- 24–25 March: Environment Council
- 28–29 March: Agriculture Council
The following subjects are likely to be discussed:
- Research Council: 4 March
- Fourth framework programme
- Comitology
- Joint Research Centre
- Coal and steel research
- socio/economic research programme
- EURATOM
- White Paper—follow-up
- Foreign Affairs Council: 7–8 March
- White Paper: Follow-up
- Relations with Hungary
- Relations with Poland
- CFSP financing
- Dual use goods
- EEA: Interim acquis and implementing regulation
- Ex-Yugoslavia
- Middle east
- South Africa
- (poss) Relations with the EP
- (poss) Cohesion fund
- Budget discipline
- Own resources decision
- (poss) Russia
- Steel imports from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan
- Trade policy
- (poss) Anti-dumping: cement imports from Turkey, Tunisia and Romania
- Asylum and immigration
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- AOB: Relations with FSU countries
- Enlargement, completing negotiations with Norway
- First association councils with Hungary and Poland
- Internal Market Council: 10 March
- Operation of the internal market
- progress report on strategic programme
- progress report on trans-European networks
- Counterfeit goods regulation
- Amendment to directive 83/189 on technical standards
- (poss) Vehicle coupling device
- Legal protection of data bases
- (poss) Motor cycle speed, torque and power
- Novel foods
- Food additives other than colours and sweeteners
- Equipment for use in explosive atmospheres
- ECOFIN Council: 21 March (draft agenda)
- Danish convergence programme
- Own resources decision
- Court of Auditors 1992 report
- Relations with central and eastern Europe
- Planning for the IMF interim committee meeting
- Taxation of savings
- Transitional VAT system
- Anti-fraud programme
- White Paper follow-up
- Justice Council: 23 March
- agenda not yet available
- Environment Council: 24–25 March (draft agenda)
- Commission White Paper
- VOCs—volatile organic compound—stage I Birds directive
- Landfill
- Large combustion plants amendment
- Noise from earthmoving machinery
- Four-year statistics programme
- (poss) Car emissions
- Coastal zones resolution
- Integrated pollution control
- Agriculture Council: 28–29 March
- agenda not yet available