European Communities - Tenth Report

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Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 25 November 1997.

CONTENTS

	Paragraph
PART 1 INTRODUCTION	1
PART 2 SUMMARY OF THE OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE	6
PART 3 BACKGROUND	26
Commitment to enlargement: the Copenhagen criteria	27
Enlargement statistics	28
Financial perspectives: 1993-1999 and 2000-2006	30
Structural operations	33
PART 4 WITNESSES' EVIDENCE
Introduction	43
What will Member States pay for enlargement?	44
Growth rates	45
The own resources ceiling of 1.27 per cent of EU GNP	47
Reform of Community policies: (i), (ii) and (iii)	48
(i): Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund	48
(ii): the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)	50
(iii): The Community Budget: net contributions and rebates	54
The EMU effect	55
Will Member States deliver the funds proposed in Agenda 2000?	56
Statistics	57
Costs of accession to the applicant countries	58
Environmental standards	59
Health and safety and social standards	60
The acquis and transitional periods	61
The Community and other sources of investment funding	62
Institution building	64
Absorption capacity	65
Timing considerations: the interaction of economics and politics	66
NATO	69
Starting and finishing negotiations	70
PART 5 OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE
Introduction	74
What will the Member States pay for enlargement?	78
Growth rates	79
Faster or slower growth	82
The own resources ceiling	84
Reform of the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund	85
Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.	87
Net contributions and rebates	89
The EMU effect	90
Environmental standards	91
Health and safety and social standards	92
Institution building	95
NATO	98
Timing issues	99

Appendix 1-Membership of Sub-Committee A

Appendix 2-List of witnesses

References in the text of the Report are as follows:

(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence.

(p) refers to a page of written evidence.

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Prepared 1 December 1997