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PREM19/217
European Policy (Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)) (Part 5)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2010 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 209

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Date Value Title
80 May 1 Th Major EC: Armstrong minute to No.10 ("Community Budget: The Next Steps") [post-Luxembourg European Council action on EC Budget, CAP prices, sheepmeat, fisheries] [declassified 2010]
80 May 1 Th Major EC: Peter Walker letter to Foreign Secretary ("CAP Prices and Related Measures") [advocates withholding if CAP prices vote forced] [declassified 2010]
80 May 2 Fr Major EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Foreign Secretary) ["Community Budget: Next Steps"] [declassified 2010]
80 May 2 Fr Major EC: Foreign Secretary minute to Peter Walker ("Cap Prices and Related Measures") ["we need to avoid overreacting"] [declassified 2010]
80 May 3 Sa Major EC: MT minute to John Wheeler (constituent critical of EC membership) ["the Government are in no doubt about the value of British membership"] [declassified 2010]
80 May 8 Th Major EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-New Zealand Deputy PM Brian Talboys) [proposed EC sheepmeat regime] [declassified 2010]
80 May 12 Mo Major EC: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Could the Eight Circumvent Our Veto on CAP Price Increases?") [declassified 2010]
80 May 13 Tu Major EC: No.10 record of conversation (Peter Walker-Finn Gundelach) ["Sheepmeat, Fisheries and the Community Budget"] [declassified 2010]
80 May 16 Fr Major EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-New Zealand Deputy PM Brian Talboys) [New Zealand concerned about Commission sheepmeat proposals] [declassified 2010]
80 May 19 Mo Major EC: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Peter Walker ("Sheepmeat and the Budget") [must avoid intervention regime] [declassified 2010]
80 May 19 Mo Major EC: MAFF minute to No.10 ("Mutton Regulation: New Zealand") [draft letter from Peter Walker to Finn Gundelach] [declassified 2010]
80 May 20 Tu Major EC: Peter Walker minute to Foreign Secretary ("Sheepmeat Regime") [revised Commission proposals] [declassified 2010]
80 May 21 We Major EC: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Community Budget") [proposes letter to Italian Presidency indicating willingness to negotiate] [declassified 2010]
80 May 21 We Major EC: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Sheepmeat Regime") ["we should reluctantly accept that intervention in France is unavoidable"] [declassified 2010]
80 May 21 We Major EC: Peter Walker note ("A Common Organization of the Market for Sheepmeat") [financial implications for UK] [declassified 2010]
80 May 22 Th Major EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Foreign Secretary) [EC negotiations] [declassified 2010]
80 May 22 Th Major EC: Peter Walker letter to Attorney General ("Response to Illegal Subsidisation of French Agriculture") [declassified 2010]
80 May 23 Fr Major EC: FCO to UKRep (message from Foreign Secretary to Commissioner Gundelach) [possible French national subsidies] [declassified 2010]
80 May 27 Tu Major EC: Cabinet Office to No.10 ("Community Budget") [EC Budget, CAP, sheepmeat, fisheries, tactics] [declassified 2010]
80 May 27 Tu Major EC: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Revaluation of the Green Pound") [strongly against revaluation] [declassified 2010]