European Union - Eleventh Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 18 July 2000.
CONTENTS
REPORT
Structure of the Report
Conduct of the Inquiry
Work being undertaken by other UK Parliament
Committees
PART 2: BACKGROUND
The Cologne European Council
The Helsinki European Council
Preparing the Union for Enlargement
PART 3: THE MAIN AGENDA ITEMS
The Portuguese Presidency Report
The "Amsterdam Triangle" of issues
The size and composition of the Commission
Re-weighting of votes in the Council
Qualified Majority Voting
Enhanced co-operation or "flexibility"
The European Parliament
Legislative procedures
The Court of Justice and Court of First Instance
The other Institutions
Recommendation
Appendix 1-Minutes of Proceedings on the
Report
Appendix 2-Membership of the Select Committee
Appendix 3-List of witnesses
Appendix 4-Previously Published Documents
Considered by the Committee
Appendix 5-Other issues examined by the Conference
NOTE: Pages of the Report are numbered in bold type,
pages of evidence are numbered in ordinary type. 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.
Graham Mather, President, European Policy Forum
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 23 February 2000
Mr Nigel Sheinwald, Director, EU Command and Mr Mark Lyall
Grant, Head of European Union Department (Internal), Foreign and
Oral evidence, 7 March 2000
The Rt Hon The Lord Brittan of Spennithorne QC
Oral evidence, 28 March 2000
Professor Helen Wallace CMG, Sussex European Institute
Written evidence
Supplementary evidence
Oral evidence, 11 April 2000
HE Senhor José Gregório Faria, Portuguese Ambassador
and Mr Gorge da Fonseca, Counsellor, Portuguese Embassy
Oral evidence, 9 May 2000
HE Monsieur Daniel Bernard CMG, CBE, French Ambassador, and
HE Dr Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz, German Ambassador
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 15 May 2000
Commissioner Michel Barnier, Mr Ronnie Hall and Mr Mark Gray,
European Commission
Oral evidence, 18 May 2000
Mr Elmar Brok, MEP
Oral evidence, 23 May 2000
Mr Andrew Duff, MEP
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 23 May 2000
Supplementary written evidence
HE Monsieur Pierre Vimont, Permanent Representative of France
to the European Union
Oral evidence, 23 May 2000
Mr Michel Petite, Chief de Cabinet of Commissioner President
Prodi, European Commission
Oral evidence, 23 May 2000
Sir Stephen Wall, United Kingdom Permanent Representative to
the European Union, and Mr Alex Ellis, Adviser
Oral evidence, 23 May 2000
Mr Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, MEP and Ms Marina Bampaliari
Oral evidence, 24 May 2000
Mr Christopher Beazley, MEP
Oral evidence, 24 May 2000
Mr Dimitrios Tsatsos, MEP, and Ms Odilia Henriques, Assistant
Oral evidence, 24 May 2000
Mr Giorgio Napolitano, MEP
Oral evidence, 24 May 2000
Mr Simon Murphy, MEP
Oral evidence, 24 May 2000
HE Mr Gábor Szentiványi, Hungarian Ambassador to
London
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 6 June 2000
Mr Keith Vaz, MP, Minister for Europe and Mr Angus Lapsley, Foreign
and Commonwealth Office
Oral evidence, 27 June 2000
Written evidence
Mr Richard Corbett, MEP
Dr Andrew Jordan
European Environment Bureau
The United Kingdom European Movement
European Parliament Resolution on the IGC
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