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It would be important to ensure that, so far as possible, attention was directed to the first two subjects rather than the last two.
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Environment Council
08 November
HE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT said that, although s meetings had been lengthy, the Environment Council had had a then agenda. It had reached political agreement on the setting a European Environment Agency. The role of the Agency world be to collect environmental information on a standard baske it would have no enforcement powers and would not duplicate the work of other organisations. The site of the agency had not been discussed. He had put forward the United Kingdom but it was necessary to narrow possible locations down to one and be considered that this should be Cambridge. chances of seguring the agency for the United Kingdom were not good: Berlin was being pressed, for political reasons. Council had also discussed draft Directives
Directives on nitrates, habitats and freedom of access to environmental information, but little progress
been made: it would be for the Irish Presidency to tak hem further.
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The
Internal Market Council
23 November
THE SECRETARY OF STATT FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY said that the Internal Market Counci
come close to agreement on the regulation to control mérgehe The Germans were fighting a rearguard action: they wanted national control agencies to be able to take a second look at bargers already cleared by the Commission. Pressure was being put on them to abandon this approach and he hoped that Council would adopt the regulation at its next meeting. The regulation would not itself make it any easier for takeover bids in Germany to succeed, and he had been mounting a campaign against barriers to takeovers that existed in other member states. Commission had been supportive and had promised to bring forward measures. Even so, a number of non-legislative barriers, such as the practice of banks voting nomine shareholdings, would remain.
The
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER said that he would circulate next week, in advance of the Strash meeting, a note to Conservative Members of Parliament on the press made in achieving the Single Market.
President of
the Deutsche Bank
THE PRIME MINISTER noted the President of the Deutsche Bank:
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