Fortieth review of the Council's work

Council Of The European Union

Description

The Secretary-General's report
Activities of the institutions and bodies

Sujets

• Annual report
• Common Agricultural Policy
• Council of the European Union
• Common Fisheries Policy
• Economie gestion

Informations

• Publié par: COUNCIL-OF-THE-EUROPEAN-UNION
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

General Secretariat of the Council
of the European Union
FORTIETH REVIEW
OF THE
COUNCIL'S WORK
(The Secretary-General's Report)
1 JANUARY — 31 DECEMBER 1992 General Secretariat of the Council
of the European Union
FORTIETH REVIEW
OF THE
COUNCIL'S WORK
(The Secretary-General's Report)
1 JANUARY — 31 DECEMBER 1992 Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication.
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities,
1994
ISBN 92-824-1052-8
© ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels · Luxembourg, 1994
Printed in Italy Contents
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Foreword IX
Part — Summary
I — Towards European Union 3
II — Medium-term structural and financial measures 5
HI — Functioning of the institutions and institutional affairs .... 8
Relations with the European Parliament 8
Institutional affairs 9
IV — Internal market and free movement of persons 11
Controls on goods — Customs union 1
Free movement of persons
Harmonization of legislation2
Financial services and insurance
Abolition of fiscal frontiers 13
V — Creation of an economic area — General and
sectoral aspects5
General economic trends
Coordination of economic policies and growth initiative... 1
Industrial policy — General aspects6
Sectoral aspects 17
Transport
Telecommunications — HDTV8
Energy9
Research 20
Economic and social cohesion and regional policy 2
VI — Common agricultural policy1
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VII — Common fisheries policy 24
VIII — Europe and the citizen: policy on social affairs,
employment, education, culture, health, consumer
protection and the environment5
Social and employment policy
Education 26
Culture
Health7
Environment
Consumers8
IX — External relations and development cooperation 29
Uruguay Round 2
European Economic Area — prospects for enlargement ... 2
Countries of Central and Eastern Europe — Former USSR 30
Former Yugoslavia 31
Mediterranean — Gulf States
ACP States2
Latin America — Asia
Japan3
X — Political cooperation4
Central and Eastern Europe 3
Former Yugoslavia
Middle East5
Asia 36
Africa7
Latin America8
Preventive diplomacy and an agenda for peace 3
CSCE
Human rights
Non-proliferation and arms exports 39
Administrative cooperation
XI — Intergovernmental cooperation in the fields of
justice and home affairs 40
XII — Budgetary matters2
IV Part II
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Chapter I — Functioning of the institutions
and institutional affairs 45
A — Council 4
Β — Relations with the European Parliament9
C —s with the other institutions or bodies 52
D — Statistics 53
E — Institutional affairs — Community law
Chapter II — Internal market — Freedom of movement 5
A — Abolition of physical frontiers9
Β —n of technical and legal frontiers 61
C — Abolition of fiscal frontiers: VAT and excise duties 8
D — Future operation of the single market 84
E — Competition policy 85
F — Free movement of persons and intergovernmental cooperation 8
Chapter III — Economic and monetary policy — Sectoral policies
(industry, research, energy, transport,
telecommunications and postal services) —
Economic and social cohesion 93
A — Economic and monetary policy
Β — Industrial policy 101
C — Research and technology policy6
D — Energy policy8
E — Transport policy 120
F — Telecommunications and postal services 133
G — Economic and social cohesion — Regional policy4
Chapter IV — Common agricultural policy and common
fisheries policy 137
I — Common agricultural policy
A — Guidelines
Β — Management of the common agricultural policy 142
C — Agricultural structures policy 156
D —l statistics 161
E — Agri-monetary sector
F — National aid4
G — Agri-financial matters
H — International agricultural matters8
I — Harmonization of legislation 170
J — Food quality and organic production5 II — Common fisheries policy 176
A — Community arrangements for the conservation and manage­
ment of resources
Β — Technical conservation measures7
C — Common organization of the markets8
D — Structural policy 179
E — Fisheries relations between the Community and certain third
countries
F — International organizations 184
Chapter V — Policy on social affairs, employment, education, culture,
health, consumer protection and the environment.... 185
A — Social and employment policy5
Β — Education 196
C — Culture9
D — Health 202
E — Consumer affairs8
F — Environment
Chapter VI — External relations and development cooperation 217
A — Commercial policy 21
Β — Relations with non-European industrialized countries 22
C —s with EFTA countries 224
D — Enlargement 226
E — Relations with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe 227
F — Mediterranean — Andorra — San Marino — Gulf States —
Euro-Arab Dialogue 241
G — Relations with the ACP States and the overseas countries and
territories, South Africa7
H — Relations with Latin America and Asia 25
I — General development cooperation policy — North-South Dialo­
gue 26
Chapter VII — Financing of Community activities 27
A — Financial perspective 271
Β — 1993 budgetary procedure3
C — Follow-up to the 1992 budgetary procedure 28
D — Other budgetary matters 285
E — Staff Regulations6
VI Annexes
/ — Attendance by Presidents-in-Office of the Council at meetings
of European Parliament Committees - Portuguese Presi­
dency (First half of 1992) 289
II — Attendance bye of the Council at meetings
of European Parliament Committees - United Kingdom Pre­
sidency (Second half of 1992) 293
III — Table of Decisions concerning specific Community research
programmes adopted by the Council in 1992 297
IV — Number of days spent on Council meetings and meetings of
preparatory bodies8
V — Terminology 299
VI Abbreviations and acronyms 30
VII — Index 307
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