ANNEX C
FURTHER PREPARATORY WORK
A.
ESSENTIAL
Insider Dealing Bill
1. DTI
medium
To change existing serious criminal offences to take account of EC Directive on Insider Dealing.
A.
PROGRAMME BILL WITH ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
Employment Bill
2. DEmp
medium
to abolish the
To introduce further reform of trade union law; Wages Council System; to implement changes in law required by some EC "Action Programme Directives" and by ECJ EC infraction proceedings.
judgements and
B.
CONTINGENT
3. FCO
Antarctic Environmental Protection Bill
To implement
any obligations
short
imposed on the UK by a new international agreement on Antarctic environmental protection.
4. FCO
Mauritius Republic Bill
very short
To make provision for Mauritius becoming a Republic within the Commonwealth; to ensure that all existing Mauritius law to remains in force; and to ensure the continuation of appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
C.
PROGRAMME
5. MAFF
Covent Garden Market Authority
(Abolition) Bill
short
To abolish the Covent Garden Market Authority and to provide for its functions to be transferred to a plc.
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