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Sir P Craddock Sir W Harding

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Mr Clift Hong Kong Dept

Mr Burrows Legal Advisers

Mr Thomson FED

Miss Neville-Jones, Planning Staff Mr Roberts, News Dept

Protocol Dept

ECD(I) with copy of Mr Rickett's

minute to Mr Clift of 7 March

VISIT BY SECRETARY OF STATE TO PEKING AND HONG KONG

1.

Please refer to the final paragraph of your minute to Mr Clift of 7 March.

2.

You ask for useful precedents for White Papers stemming, for instance, from the negotiations leading up to our joining the European Community. I attach a representative selection of White Papers covering a 7 year period from 1967 to 1975. This representative selection consists of the following:

(a) Membership of the European Communities (May 1967):

Cmnd 3269. (This consists of a statement made by the then Prime Minister to the House of Commons on 2 May 1967 relating to the second application to join the European Communities);

(b) Legal and Constitutional Implications of United

Kingdom Membership of the European Communities (May 1967): Cmnd 3301. (This consists of a brief analysis of the impact of European Community law on domestic law in the United Kingdom);

(c) The United Kingdom and the European Communities

(July 1971): Cmnd 4715. (This was, according to my recollection, issued in anticipation of the major two-day debate held in both Houses of Parliament in October 1971: it sets out arguments for entry and contains a detailed statement of the outcome of the negotiations between 30 June 1970 and July 1971);

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