COHESION POLICY IN SUPPORT OF GROWTH AND
JOBS: COMMUNITY STRATEGIC GUIDELINES, 2007-13 (11706/06)
Letter from the Chairman to Lord Sainsbury
of Turville, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Science
and Innovation, Department of Trade and Industry
Thank you very much for your Explanatory Memorandum
11706/06. This was considered by Sub-Committee A at their meeting
on 17 October. Given that agreement has already been reached on
the Guidelines the Committee has lifted the scrutiny reserve.
As you are aware, the Committee is very keen
to avoid scrutiny overrides where possible. In this situation
we do understand that negotiations progressed over the summer
recess when the Committee did not sit. We also acknowledge that
agreement was necessary to ensure that the start of the programmes
themselves was not delayed. In this regard we were grateful to
receive letters from DTI Ministers on 10 August and 18 September
updating us[3].
Nonetheless, we would be interested to hear
more on how the text was amended so that the Guidelines now constitute
an indicative framework of priorities from which Member States
can choose, thus appeasing your reservations regarding the issue
of subsidiarity.
24 October 2006
Letter from Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Minister
of State for Industry and the Regions, Department of Trade and
Industry, to the Chairman
On 18 September my colleague Jim Fitzpatrick
wrote to you to explain that regretfully he expected to have to
override the scrutiny reserve on 11706/06. I am writing to inform
you that The Community Strategic Guidelines were adopted on 6
October.
The Guidelines are the last element in the set
of Community legislation to govern the Structural Funds 2007-13.
Work is now moving ahead on Programmes across the Community.
30 October 2006
3 2 Correspondence
with Ministers, 40th Report of Session 2006-07, HL Paper 187,
p 7 Back
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