INSTITUTE FOR GENDER EQUALITY (9195/06)
Letter from the Chairman to Meg Munn MP,
Deputy Minister for Women and Equality, Department for Communities
and Local Government
Thank you for the copy of your letter of 9 November
to Mrs Margaret Beckett MP. This was seen for information by Sub-Committee
G on 23 November.
We are pleased to note that the Finnish Presidency
has put forward a new proposal for a smaller management board
for the proposed European Institute for Gender Equality, comprising
representatives from 18 Member States rather than 25 as previously
envisaged.
As you point out in your letter, this smaller
board is in line with the recommendations set out in our Gender
Institute Inquiry Report which we published earlier this year.
We therefore support the Government's intention to indicate agreement
to the Presidency proposal.
May I take the opportunity to let you know that
we are publishing another Report relating to this proposal on
Thursday 30 November.[145]
This Supplementary Report records the events before and after
the European Employment Council meeting of 1 June 2006, at which
the UK voted for the Commission's Gender Equality Institute Proposal.
We will send you a copy of the Supplementary Report.
29 November 2006
Letter from Meg Munn MP to the Chairman
Thank you for your letter of 29 November in
which you supported the UK proposed negotiating position on the
European Gender Institute.
I am pleased to inform you that the Council
and the European Parliament have adopted the regulation establishing
the Institute on 19 December based on the UK proposed negotiating
strategy for a middle-sized Management Board in which you have
indicated your support.
January 2007
145 Proposed European Institute for Gender Equality:
Supplementary Report, 51st Report of Session 2005-06, HL Paper
271. Back
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