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1983 Feb 9 - 1983 Nov 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1019
European policy (Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)) (Part 11)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 265
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83 Feb 9 We Major European Policy: Walker minute to MT ("Statement on the Agriculture Council") [Walker responds to questions on UHT milk & New Zealand butter imports] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 16 We Major European Policy: Pym minute to Walker ("EC/US agriculture") ["I am increasingly concerned about the threat of a competitive escalation of agricultural subsidies"; Pym & Walker visits to US; MT prefers not to write to Reagan on the issue] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 1 Tu Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker ("Green Pound: UK negative MCAs") ["I am happy for you to try to persuade the Commission to delay for a further week the creation of the negative MCA... I must emphasise that my agreement is given on the understanding that this delay is for one week only"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 2 We Major European Policy: Walker letter to MT ("UHT milk: implementation of the European Court judgement") [proposed course of action] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 3 Th Major European Policy: Walker letter to MT (CAP price fixing) [clarification of the Netherlands position; MT makes note to speak to Prime Minister Lubbers at European Council] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 30 We Major European Policy: Walker minute to MT ("UHT milk: implementation of the European Court judgement") ["we remain vulnerable to further challenge in the Courts against our interim measures and need to get our legislation in place as soon as possible"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 30 We Major European Policy: Walker letter to Lord Cockfield ("UHT milk: implementation of the European Court judgement") [Trade/Agriculture Departments demarcation; negotiations with Irish Dairy Board] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 7 Th Major European Policy: Pym PS letter to Walker PS ("UHT milk: implementation of European Court judgement") [reasons for, and timing of, UK legislation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 12 Tu Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker ("CAP price fixing and prospects for FEOGA expenditure") ["You suggest that the Commission will not be prepared at this stage to give any kind of commitment about observing the guideline in...[1984]... I think that we must press now for... [an] undertaking"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 13 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: community affairs") [EC: CAP price fixing; the Budget; EC/Association of South East Nations meeting; Finance Council; Energy Council] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 15 Fr Major European Policy: MT message to Gaston Thorn (agricultural expenditure) [messages to Thorn & Tugendhat voicing her concern at "lack of effective measures for dealing with the growing surpluses and the consequent rise in agricultural expenditure"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 18 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("CAP price settlement") [MT "wishes it to be clearly understood that... all proposals to increase prices above the level originally proposed by the Commission should be resisted" and notes that UK still to receive its budget settlement agreed as a counterpart to EC concession to dairy farmers] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 19 Tu Major European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("CAP price settlement") ["Mr Walker wanted to bring this to your attention in view of Chancellor Kohl's visit this week. He believed that CAP price fixing would now become a major issue at the Summit"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 21 Th Major European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Agriculture Council: Mr Walker's Statement") [summary of the reception to his statement to Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 22 Fr Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer message to Christopher Tugendhat (agricultural spending and refund to the UK from the EU Budget) ["I am now even more alarmed... any price rises this year mean yet further increases in agricultural spending, which is clearly out of control... risk to our refunds"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 26 Tu Major European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("CAP price fixing") [Agriculture Council negotiations: "proposal is that we should agree that the central rate for sterling in the ECU should be realigned"; MT: "leave tactics to Peter Walker. He is a very good negotiatior"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 8 Mo Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Improving the Common Agricultural Policy") [MT notes D.F. Williamson paper to be "excellent and illuminating"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 13 Tu Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Howe ("UK papers on the safety net and the strict financial guideline") [response to Jopling concern that publication will be counterproductive to UK negotiating position] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 5 We Major European Policy: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (German agriculture) [Jopling PS: "The letter illustrates some of the confusion which is unfortunately to be found in German, and indeed some other member state, thinking about the supposed virtues of small farmers... not economically sound"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 19 We Major European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 (Agricultural Council: the Mediterranean Acquis) [outline of agreement reached; note of an additional Jopling concern about an issue outstanding with the French: "extension of our less favoured areas"] [declassified Aug 2013]