Ms P A Major
Hong Kong Department
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Par 245
Reference
HKC370/8
21
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME, 1991/92 : EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
(AMENDMENT) BILL
1.
78
Your minute of 30 April refers.
2. We attach the highest priority to the above Bill, which
was included by FLG on a contingency basis.
Conference.
3. The aim of the Bill is to ratify the treaty on Political
Union which is likely to emerge from the Inter-Governmental
It is still too early to give a firm assessment
on timing but negotiations are unlikely to be concluded
before the Maastricht European Council on 9/10 December.
Policy clearance and instructions would follow as soon as
possible and the Bill is unlikely to be ready for
introduction before early 1992.
CODE 18-77
1 May 1991
MA4AHV/1
noth
M A Arthur
European Community Department
(Internal)