Select Committee on European Scrutiny Seventeenth Report

11.We consider that the following documents do not raise questions of sufficient legal or political importance to warrant a substantive report to the House :-

HM CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

(24374) 7591/03 COM(03) 116	Draft Council Decision authorising Germany to apply a measure derogating from Article 17 of the Sixth Directive (77/388/EEC) on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to turnover taxes.
(24375) 6022/1/03 REV 1 —	Council Act of drawing up a Protocol amending the Convention on the use of information technology for customs purposes as regards the creation of a customs files identification database.
(24379) 7620/03 COM(03) 122	Commission Communication concerning a request by France in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 8(4) of Council Directive 92/81/EEC for authorisation to apply a differentiated rate of excise duty to diesel fuel used by commercial vehicles.

DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

(24355) 7375/03 COM(03) 107	Draft Council Regulation on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters concerning the extension of the 2000­2001 Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Government of the Revolutionary People's Republic of Guinea on fishing off the Guinean coast for the period 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2003.
(24356) 7377/03 COM(03) 108	Draft Council Decision on the signing, on behalf of the European Community, and provisional application of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters concerning the extension of the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Government of the Revolutionary People's Republic of Guinea on fishing off the Guinean coast for the period 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2003.
(24390) — —	Draft Decision providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment and amending with regard to public participation and access to justice Council Directives 85/337/EEC and 96/61/EC.

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

(24391) 7594/03 —

Draft exchange of letters between the Council and the Commission on security matters.

DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY

(24337) 6525/03 COM(03) 69	Commission Report on the evaluation of the application of Directive 98/34/EC in the field of information society services.
(24367) 7323/03 COM(03) 98	Commission Annual Report on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men in the European Union 2002.

HM TREASURY

(24306) — —	Fifth Progress Report on the implementation of the Monetary Committee's report.
(24338) 6908/03 SEC(03) 230	Preliminary draft amending budget No.1 to the budget for 2003 — Statement of revenue and expenditure by section — Section III — Commission.
(24365) 7536/03 COM(03) 114	Draft Council Decision on the statistical data to be used for the adjustment of the key for subscription to the capital of the European Central Bank.

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Prepared 15 April 2003