European Union - Thirty-Sixth Report
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CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
FOREWORD—what this Report is about
Chapter 1: Background
This Report
The work of the Committee
Box 1: How the Committee Conducts Scrutiny
Chapter 2: The Committee's work in the Parliamentary Session 2006-2007
The Further Enlargement of the EU: threat or opportunity?
The Further Enlargement of the EU: follow-up Report
The Commission's 2007 Legislative and Work Programme
The Commission's Annual Policy Strategy for 2008
Evidence from the Minister for Europe on the Outcome of the December European Council
Evidence from the Ambassador of the Federal
Republic of Germany on the German Presidency; and Evidence from
the Ambassador of Portugal on the Priorities of the Portuguese
Presidency
Evidence from the Minister for Europe on
the June European Council and the 2007 Inter-Governmental Conference
EU Reform Treaty: work in progress
Government Responses; and Correspondence
with Ministers
Financial Management and Fraud in the European
Union: Perceptions, Facts and Proposals
Financial Management and Fraud in the European
Union: Responses to the Report
Stopping the Carousel: Missing Trader Fraud
in the EU
Funding the European Union
The 2008 EC Budget
Television Without Frontiers?
Mobile Phone Charges in the EU: Curbing the
Excesses
Europe in the World
The EU and Africa: follow-up Report
Current Developments in European Defence
Policy
Current Developments in European Foreign
Policy; and Current Developments in European Foreign Policy: Kosovo
The EU and the Middle East Peace Process
The EU Strategy on Biofuels: from field to
fuel
Water Framework Directive: Making It Work
European Wine: A Better Deal for All
European Wine: A Better Deal for All; Final
Report with Evidence
Rome III—choice of law in divorce
Breaking the deadlock: what future for EU
procedural rights?
The Criminal Law Competence of the EC: follow-up
Report
An EU Competition Court
European Supervision Order
After Heiligendamm: doors ajar at Stratford-upon-Avon
Schengen Information System (SIS II)
Prüm: an effective weapon against terrorism
and crime?
The EU/US Passenger Name Record (PNR) Agreement
Proposed European Institute for Gender Equality:
Supplementary Report
"Improving the mental health of the
population": can the European Union help?
Cross Border Health Services in the European
Union
Proposal to establish the European Institute
of Technology: Interim Report
Proposal to establish the European Institute
of Technology
Modernising European Union labour law: has
the UK anything to gain?
Other significant items of scrutiny
Sub-Committee B:
Sub-Committee C:
Sub-Committee D:
Sub-Committee E:
Sub-Committee F:
Sub-Committee G:
Debates
Visits
Table 1: Committees taking evidence abroad
Contact and co-operation with the House of
Commons and with other parliaments
Select Committee:
Sub-Committee A:
Sub-Committee B:
Sub-Committee C:
Sub-Committee D:
Sub-Committee E:
Sub-Committee F:
Sub-Committee G:
IPEX:
The EU Liaison Officer and the distribution
of the Committee's work
Chapter 3: Look ahead to 2007-08
Inquiries and Reports in the coming months
Commission's Annual Work Programme
The Euro
The Commission's review of the Single Market
The EU and Russia
The future of the Common Agricultural Policy
(CAP)
The Commission's Green Paper on Wills and
Succession
The impact of the Reform Treaty on the Area
of Freedom, Security and Justice
Frontex
The proposed Directive on timeshare and other
long-term holiday products
Organ donation and transplantation
Chapter 4: Procedural developments and the
evolution of the Committee's work
Table 2: Details of Lords scrutiny overrides July-December 2006
Table 3: Details of Lords scrutiny overrides
January-June 2007
Table 4: Overrides statistics for July-December
2006
Table 5: Overrides statistics for January-June
2007
Table 6: Overrides of the Scrutiny Reserve
in the Lords since January 2003
Figure 1: Overrides of the Scrutiny Reserve
in the Lords since January 2003
The Scrutiny Reserve Resolution: a cautionary
tale
General Approaches
Delays to the Committee's scrutiny
Regulatory Impact Assessments
Comitology
Government website for Explanatory Memoranda
Including fundamental rights analysis in
Explanatory Memoranda
References to the interests of the Devolved
Administrations in Explanatory Memoranda
Working with the Commission
Commission Responses to the Committee's Reports
Table 7: Reports sent to the Commission
COSAC
Looking ahead to changes to our work in 2007-08
Appendix 1: List of all the Select Committee
Reports published in the last year
Appendix 2: Scrutiny Reserve Resolution and
the Committee's Terms of Reference
Appendix 3: Commission 2006 Annual Report
on Relations between the Commission and the National Parliaments
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