§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will set out each article of the consolidated "Treaties of the European Communities and Union"-cm 3151-which provide for decisions of its 13W Council of Ministers to be determined by unanimity or common accord, stating the purpose of each and the category of the power so bestowed relating to (a) appointment of persons, (b) the execution of principal duties or obligations laid down in the treaties, (c) decisions concerning future use of qualified majority or other forms of voting for specific purposes, (d) requirements for unanimity to prevent action by others, (e) approval of conventions under treaty powers and (f) other. [21157]
§ Mr. David DavisI refer the hon. Member to the European Commission report to the intergovernmental conference study group on the operation of the treaty on European union which was deposited in the House on 12 June. 1995. Annex 7 of the report contains a list of treaty articles subject to unanimity. Unanimity is generally reserved to areas of particular sensitivity. It is not objectively possible to classify articles subject to unanimity on the basis requested by the hon. Member.
§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on what dates and at what locations the Council of Ministers of the European Communities decided under the terms of article 236 of its treaty to convene intergovernmental conferences on(a) economic and monetary union and (b) political union. [21158]
§ Mr. DavisThe European Council meeting in Strasbourg in December 1989 convened an intergovernmental conference on economic and monetary union. The June 1990 European Council in Dublin convened a second intergovernmental conference on political union.