Background
1. Each year the Commission produces a Work Programme
for the following calendar year, containing both legislative and
non-legislative proposals. The previous Committee considered the
2005 Work Programme in March 2005 and made a separate Report on
it.[1] Each Work Programme
is preceded by an Annual Policy Strategy, and we reported on the
Annual Policy Strategy for 2006 in July 2005.[2]
2. Since the Seville European Council of June 2002,
the two Presidency countries for a particular calendar year have
presented to the Council a paper containing their main objectives
for the Council's work. The first such paper to be deposited in
Parliament was the programme for 2005 by the Luxembourg and United
Kingdom Presidencies: we reported on this in February and March
2005.[3] We thought it
convenient this year to report on the Commission and Council programmes
together.
1 The European Commission's Work Programme for 2005,
HC 38-xiii (2004-05) (23 March 2005). Back
2
The European Commission's Annual Policy Strategy for 2006, HC
34-iii (2005-06) (13 July 2005). The Commission agreed its Annual
Policy Strategy for 2007 - Boosting trust through Action
- on 14 March (7571/06, COM(06) 122), and we shall report on it
in due course. Back
3
(26198) 15503/04; see HC 38-viii (2004-05), para 9 (10 February
2005) and HC 38-x (2004-05), para 9 (2 March 2005). Back
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