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Select Committee on European Legislation Fifteenth Report
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Subsequent changes in the membership
have been: Friday 12 June 1992: Mrs Jacqui Lait discharged; Mr Hartley Booth appointed. Friday 30 October 1992: Mr Jimmy Wray discharged; Mr Jimmy Boyce appointed. Friday 4 December 1992: Mr Hartley Booth discharged; Mr Peter Atkinson appointed. Tuesday 25 January 1994: Mr Jimmy Boyce died. Thursday 17 February 1994: Mr Kevin Hughes appointed. Friday 13 January 1995: Dr Norman A Godman discharged; Ms Rachel Squire appointed. Tuesday 31 October 1995: Mr Derek Enright died. Tuesday 28 November 1995: Mr George Stevenson appointed. Mr Jimmy Hood was elected Chairman, 17 June 1992. Monday 11 November 1996: Mr Kevin Hughes discharged; Mr John McAllion appointed.
Resolved,
That, in the opinion of this House:-
(1) No Minister of the Crown
should give agreement in the Council of Ministers to any proposal
for European Community legislation-
(a) which is still subject
to scrutiny (that is, on which the Select Committee on European
Legislation has not completed its scrutiny) or
(b) which is awaiting consideration
by the House (that is, which has been recommended by the Select
Committee for consideration pursuant to Standing Order No.102
(European Standing Committees) but in respect of which the House
has not come to a Resolution, either on a Resolution reported
by a European Standing Committee or otherwise).
(2) In this Resolution, any
reference to agreement to a proposal includes, in the case of
a proposal on which the Council acts in co-operation with the
European Parliament, agreement to a common position.
(3) The Minister concerned may,
however, give agreement:-
(a) to a proposal which
is still subject to scrutiny if he considers that it is confidential,
routine or trivial or is substantially the same as a proposal
on which scrutiny has been completed;
(b) to a proposal which
is awaiting consideration by the House if the Select Committee
has indicated that agreement need not be withheld pending consideration.
(4) The Minister concerned may
also give agreement to a proposal which is still subject to scrutiny
or awaiting consideration by the House if he decides that for
special reasons agreement should be given; but he should explain
his reasons-
(i) in every such case,
to the Select Committee at the first opportunity after reaching
his decision; and
(ii) in the case of
a proposal awaiting consideration by the House, to the House at
the first opportunity after giving agreement.
(5) In relation to any proposal
which requires adoption by unanimity, abstention shall, for the
purposes of paragraph (4), be treated as giving agreement.
Notes
1. Three separate numbering
systems are used in this Report to designate Community documents.
Numbers in brackets are the
Committee's own reference numbers.
Numbers in the form 5467/97
are Council of Ministers reference numbers; this system
is also employed by United Kingdom Government Departments and
the Vote Office and for the purpose of proceedings in the House.
Numbers preceded by the letters
COM or SEC are Commission reference numbers; this style
is also employed by the European Parliament.
The absence of both a Council
of Ministers and Commission reference number usually indicates
that at the time of the Report only an unnumbered Explanatory
Memorandum from the responsible Government Department was deposited
in the House.
2. Details of the progress
of European Community Documents recommended by the Committee for
further consideration may be found in the European Community Documents
List which is circulated every sitting Monday in the Vote Bundle.
3. The financial data in
European Community Documents are normally expressed in European
Currency Units (ECU). Following sterling's suspension from the
Exchange Rate Mechanism, conversions into sterling relating to
present and future years included in the Government's Explanatory
Memoranda are normally made at the market rate for the last working
day of the previous month. For Explanatory Memoranda submitted
in February 1997, the conversion rate is £1 = 1.3485 ECU
(1 ECU = £0.7415).
4. The following terms and
abbreviations are used regularly in Reports from the Committee:-
`A' point An item on the
Council Agenda which is not controversial, and needs no discussion.
If any Member State objects to an item being taken as an `A'
point, that business is dropped from the agenda.`B' points are
those expected to give rise to debate.
CCA Compliance Cost Assessment
COREPER Committee of Permanent
Representatives
ECJ European Court of Justice
ECSC European Coal and Steel
Community
ECU European Currency Unit
EM Explanatory Memorandum
OJ Official Journal
SEM Supplementary Explanatory
Memorandum.
Tag An italic rubric attached
to a Motion in the House or European Standing Committee, listing
documents relevant to debate on that Motion.
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