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FRAME GENERAL
TO FCO : SAVING TELEGRAM NUMBER 10 OF 21 APRIL 1988
AND SAVING TO ALL EC POSTS, UKDEL STRASBOURG, GIBRALTAR
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY SESSION, 11-15 APRIL 1988
SUMMARY
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Relative tranquility on the draft 1988 budget, though key MEPS are maintaining the link between adoption of the budget at the 16-20 May plenary and satisfaction for the EP in the "parallel" trilogue negotiations over an Inter-Institutional Agreement on budget discipline.
2. Otherwise, an uneventful plenary, with eg. EP endorsement of several Council common positions under the Cooperation Procedure. No mention this time in plenary of the EC/Israel protocols, though Lord Plumb accepts that the ball is now in the EP's court and that a renewed attempt to secure EP assent must be made in due course.
3. John Tomlinson and other Socialist MEPS made a fuss in the plenary about the draft revised guidelines for the European Social Fund which, if adopted by the Commission, would disadvantage the UK. A good example of coincidence of HMG and British MEPS interests.
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4. In answer to questions about Mol/Transnuklear and the handling/transport of nuclear waste, Clinton Davis hinted at draft legislation in the area of waste labelling and
tracking.
He may have more to say at the 4-8 July plenary, when the report of the EP Committee of Enquiry is due to be debated.
5.
Tygsen (Denmark) visited Strasbourg for the budget debates. President Garcia of Peru did not come . I visited Strasbourg on 13 April and called on Lord Plumb, Christopher Prout (EDG leader), sundry budgeteers and
Delorozoy (rapporteur for the Political Affairs Committee on the Falkland Islands). I also briefed the British Labour Group on the draft Social Fund guidelines.
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