European and External Relations Committee, 13 Sep 2005

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Official Report 250KB pdf

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Sift

Agenda item 5 is the sift of EU documents. Two items have been highlighted for particular attention. The presidency conclusions document from the European Council on 16 and 17 June obviously has the most direct impact on us. Associated with that is the declaration from the heads of state or Government on ratification of the treaty to establish a constitution, which we are all pretty much aware of from media reports.

The second item is the state aid action plan material which, it is suggested, we should pass to the Enterprise and Culture Committee because it is considering that issue, although the matter has some crossover to the Lisbon strategy and into other remits, as we discussed a moment ago.

The committee should note the outcome of the European Council, which we discussed with Mr McCabe earlier, and the state aid papers, which will go to the Enterprise and Culture Committee.