Forty-second Review of the Council's Work. The Secretary-General's Report 1 January — 31 December 1994

Council Of The European Union

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General Secretariat of the Council
of the European Union
FORTY-SECOND
REVIEW
OF THE COUNCIL'S WORK
The Secretary-General's Report
1 January — 31 December 1994 General Secretariat of the Council
of the European Union
FORTY-SECOND
REVIEW
OF THE COUNCIL'S WORK
The Secretary-General's Report
1 January — 31 December 1994 Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication.
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1996
ISBN 92-824-1272-5 (Parts I and II)
ISBN92-824-1261-X(Partl)
© ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels · Luxembourg, 1996
Reproduction is authorized, except for commercial purposes, provided the
source is mentioned.
Printed in Luxembourg Contents
Page
Introduction IX
Part I — Summary
1. Institutional questions 3
2. Internal market 8
3. Fiscal harmonization 11
4. Export credits2
5. Progress towards economic and monetary union 13
6. Industrial policy8
7. Research and technological development 2
8. Energy 26
9. Transport7
10. Regional policy 30
11. Social policy
12. Education3
13. Youth4
14. Culture5
15. Health
16. Environment 37
17. Consumer protection — civil protection8
18. Common agricultural policy9
19.n fisheries policy 4
20. External economic relations
21. Common foreign and security policy (CFSP) 56
22. Justice — home affairs 63
23. Budget — financing the Community7
III Part II
Chapter I — Functioning of the institutions 73
A — Council 73
Β—Relationswith the EuropeanParliament75
C—swith other institutionsorbodies79
D—Statistics82
E—Institutionalaffairs — Community law82
Chapter II — Internal market/White Paper 87
A — Abolition of physical frontiers87
Β — n of technical s89
C — Financial area 95
D — Creationofafavourablelegal and fiscal business environment 98
E ■— Intellectualproperty99
F — Dataprotection101
Chapter HI—Economicand monetary policy — Sectoral policies—
Regionalpolicy103
A — Economic and monetary affairs — Fiscal harmonization — Export
credits 103
Β—Industrialpolicy109
C—Research112
D—Energy:Inventory of work in progress and decisions adopted 127
E—Transport137
F—Telecommunications and postal services 155
G—Regionalpolicy165
ChapterIV—Common agriculturalpolicyandcommon fisheries
policy169
/ — Common agricultural policy 169
A — Guidelines forthecommonagricultural policy169
Β — Management ofthecommonl policy174
C — Agricultural structurespolicy181
D — l andresearchstatistics184
E — Agri-monetaryandagri-financialmatters185
F — Harmonizationoflegislation189
G — International affairs with respect to agriculture 192
IV // — Common fisheries policy 194
A — Integration of the Iberian fleets into the common fisheries policy .... 19
Β — Community arrangements for the conservation and management of
resources5
C — Technical conservation measures7
D — Common organization of the markets8
E — Control and monitoring 201
F — Structural policy3
G — Fisheries relations between the Community and certain third countries 204
H — International organizations 212
Chapter V — Social policy — Education — Culture — Youth —
Health — Environment — Consumer protection —
Civil protection5
A — Social policy
Β — Education 226
C — Culture8
D — Youth 231
E — Health3
F — Environment9
G — Consumer protection 250
H — Civil protection
Chapter VI — External economic relations5
A — Enlargement
Β — European Economic Area6
C — Commercial policy 260
D — Bilateral relations with the EFTA States8
E — Relations with non-European industrialized countries 271
F —s with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe3
G — Relations with the States of the former USSR9
H —s with the Mediterranean countries and the Gulf States 284
I — Relations with the ACP States, the overseas countries and territories
and Southern Africa - Development policy 292
J — Relations with Asia and Latin America 308
Chapter VII — Common foreign and security policy 315
A — Functioning and financing of the common foreign and security policy 31
Β — Political dialogue 316
C — Former Yugoslavia7 D — Countries of Central and East Europe — New States of the CIS,
including Central Asia 320
E — Southern Europe5
F — Mediterranean — Maghreb/Mashreq6
G — Middle East peace process9
H — Gulf and Middle East 333
I — Africa
J — Relations with Asia 342
K — Latin America4
L — Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) 346
M — Stability Pact7
N — Security
Ο — Transatlantic relations 35
Ρ — Human rights 353
Q — United Nations
R — Drug trafficking
S — Terrorism5
Chapter VIII — Cooperation on justice and home affairs 357
A — Policy on asylum and immigration
B —e and customs cooperation 36
C — Judicial cooperation 370
D — Relations with third countries and participation in the work of
international organizations and conferences 374
E — Fight against racism and xenophobia5
Chapter IX — Financing the Community's activities7
A — Budget 37
B — Adjustment of the financial perspective (1995-99) 38
C — Financial legislation 38
D — Staff Regulations9
VI Annexes
Annex I — Greek Presidency (First half of 1994) — Attendance by
Presidents-in-Office of the Council at meetings of the
European Parliament committees 391
Annex II — German Presidency (Second half of 1994) — Attendance by e of the Council at meetings of the
European Parliament committees6
Annex III — Number of days spent on Council meetings and meetings of
preparatory bodies 400
Annex IV — List of joint actions adopted by the Council since the entry
into force of the Treaty on European Union
(1 November 1993)1
Annex V — List of common positions adopted by the Council since the
entry into force of the Treaty on European Union ( 1
November 1993)4
Annex VI — List of CFSP statements, 1994 406
Annex VII — Abbreviations and acronyms 41
Annex VIII — Index 41
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