§ Mr. Mike HallTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the(a) forthcoming business in the Council of the European Union for December and (b) major European Union events for the period between 31 December and May 2002. [20966]
§ Peter HainThe information is as follows:
4 December—ECOFIN meeting—Brussels
- 1. Adoption of the Agenda
- 2. Approval of the list of 'A' items
- 3. Preparation for the Laeken European Council
- Report on aims and working methods in the field of pensions
- Report on structural indicators
- Report on progress concerning the fiscal package
- 4. Fiscal Package
- Taxation and savings
- Directive, including main features of a standardised form for exchanging information
- Interim reports by the member states concerned on discussions with dependent or associated territories
- Code of Conduct
- Progress report from Code of Conduct group
- 5. (Poss.) VAT invoicing (may become 'A' item)
- 6. Financial Services
- (Poss.) Financial Services Action Plan, 5 Progress report from the Commission
- (Poss.) Proposal for a Directive on financial collateral arrangements
- General approach
- Prospectus
- Presidency report on progress
- Financial conglomerates
- Presidency report on progress
- UCTIS
- Adoption
- 7. Annual report of the Court of Auditors for the financial year 2000
- Presentation by the Court of Auditors
- 8. Galileo
- Progress report
- 9. Economic situation in the air transport sector (insurance)
- Report on developments in the situation
- 10. Preparation for ministerial meeting with the candidate countries
- 11. Conference on Financing for Development
- Common Position
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- 3—Brussels—Employment and Social Affairs Council
- 4—Bruges—Culture Council (Ministerial Informal)
- 4—Brussels—Energy Council
- 5—Brussels—Industry Council
- 6–7—Brussels—Transport and Telecommunications Council
- 6–7—Brussels—Justice and Home Affairs Council
- 10—Brussels—Research Council
- 10–11—Brussels—General Affairs Council
- 12–13—Brussels—Environment Council
- 14—Laeken—ECOFIN
- 14–15—Laeken—European Council
- 17–18—Brussels—Fisheries Council
- 18–19—Brussels—Agriculture Council.
No agendas for the above are available yet.
The following are the principle events in the EU between 1 January and May 2002 (certain relevant events are also included: the list is based on the information available at the date of issue).
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Date Location Event January 10 Brussels Fisheries Council 17 Brussels Budget Council1 21 to 22 Brussels Agriculture Council 21 Brussels Eurogroup1> 22 Brussels ECOFIN 25 to 26 Brussels Meeting of Employment Ministers2 28 to 29 Brussels General Affairs Council February 9 to 10 Brussels Gymnich2 11 Brussels Eurogroup1 14 Brussels Education and Youth Council 14 to 15 Brussels Justice and Home Affairs Council2 18 to 19 Brussels General Affairs Council 18 to 19 Brussels Agriculture Council 22 to 23 Brussels Telecoms and Information Society Council2 28 Brussels Justice and Home Affairs Council March 1 Brussels Justice and Home Affairs Council1 1 Brussels Internal Market, Consumers and Tourism Council 4 Brussels Eurogroup1 5 Brussels ECOFIN 7 Brussels Employment and Social Affairs Council 11 Brussels Research Council 11 to 12 Brussels General Affairs Council 15 to 16 Barcelona European Council 18 to 19 Brussels Agriculture Council 21 Brussels Environment Council 23 to 24 Brussels Defence Meeting2 25 to 26 Brussels Transport and Telecom Council April 5 to 6 Luxembourg Migrations Council3 8 Luxembourg Fisheries Council 13 to 14 Luxembourg ECOFIN2 15 to 16 Luxembourg General Affairs Council 22 to 23 Valencia Euromed Conference 22 to 23 Luxembourg Agriculture Council 25 to 26 Luxembourg Justice and Home Affairs Council 27 to 30 Luxembourg Agriculture Council2 May 3 to 4 Brussels Tourism Council2 6 Brussels Eurogroup1 7 Brussels ECOFIN
Date Location Event 9 Europe Day 13 Brussels General Affairs and Defence Council 17 to 18 Madrid EU-LAC Summit 21 Brussels Internal Market, Consumers and Tourism Council 23 Brussels Culture and Audio-visual Council 24 to 26 Brussels Environment Council2 27 to 28 Brussels Agriculture Council 30 Brussels Development Council 30 Brussels Education and Youth Council 31 to 1 June Brussels Transport Council2 1Evening 2Ministerial informal 3ASEM Ministerial informal