§ Mrs. Ann WintertonTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her answer of 12 February 2002,Official Report, 828W column 276W, on Poland, if she will list the transitional derogations relating to agriculture and fisheries upon which Malta and Poland are negotiating with the European Union. [44100]
§ Mr. MorleyIn the fisheries and agriculture negotiations Malta and Poland have put forward a range of requests relating to issues such as access to their waters by other EU vessels, marketing specifications for agricultural products, and to food processing establishments. These are set out in negotiating documents submitted to the Intergovernmental Conference on enlargement. Detailed disclosure is at the discretion of the candidate country.
Negotiations on agriculture are continuing, but fisheries negotiations with all candidates except Malta and Poland have been provisionally concluded. Details of the requests provisionally agreed are available on the Commission's website: http://www.europa.eu.int/ comm/enlargement/negotiations/chapters/index.htm.