Letter to Parliamentary and Relations
Devolution Team, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The Committee is looking forward to the oral
evidence sessions on the IGC with the Minister for Europe on 12
September and with the Foreign Secretary on 10 October.
The Committee has asked me, in advance of the
first of those sessions, to seek detailed answers to the following
questions. What is the legal status of the Declaration on CFSP
contained in the mandate agreed at the June Council? If the Declaration
and the Treaty provisions are perceived to conflict, what will
be the mechanism for determining which takes primacy? In what
circumstances will decisions on the role of the High Representative
of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in CFSP implementing
measures be subject to QMV?
I would be grateful to receive a response to
this letter by 5 September.
Steve Priestley
Clerk of the Committee
26 July 2007
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