§ Mr. CashTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to use the unanimity rule under article K4.3 of the Maastricht treaty to refuse to sign any final text of the external frontiers convention which includes a two thirds majority rule under the proviso to article K3. [19482]
§ Mr. Nicholas BakerThe Government do not accept the Commission's proposal that all the implementing measures for the external frontiers convention should be adopted by a two-thirds majority and have made their view clear in discussions of the draft text.