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1982 Apr 1 - 1983 Feb 8
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1018
European policy (Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)) (Part 10)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 300
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83 Jan 5 We Major European Policy: New Zealand High Commission letter to No.10 (New Zealand, Great Britain and the European Community) [article in 'The Times' by Prime Minister Muldoon] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 30 We Major European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Agriculture and Fisheries Statement") ["The Opposition... claimed that the Commission's proposals were a sell-out of the UK fishing industry.. [and] a flagrant breach of the Conservative Manifesto commitment"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 12 We Major European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Council of Agriculture Ministers Meeting on 10 - 11 May") [Walker statement to Parliament: "Presidency proposals on a number of major elements in the 1982/83 price fixing"; UK sole voice of dissent] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Apr 5 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Agricultural Council - 31 March and 1/2 April 1982) [Walker statement to Parliament: CAP price package] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 26 We Major European Policy: No.10 minute to Sir Richard Butler (fixing farm prices) ["important developments since you wrote, which the Minister of Agriculture described in his statement to the House of Commons on 19 May"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 20 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Walker, Pym, Jenkin, Tebbit, Cockfield) ["Common Agricultural Policy: 1983/84 Price Fixing"; the green pound] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 26 Fr Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym) ["Relations with France": restrictions on exports to Soviet Union] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 7 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Walker, Pym, Brittan, Lord Cockfield, Percival, Adam Butler, Lord Mansfield) ["UHT milk: European Court judgement] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 1 We Major European Policy: Pym minute to Lord Cockfield ("European Council: import restrictions against the Soviet Union") ["in response to events in Poland"; review in event of Polish government lifting martial law on 13th December] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 25 Th Major European Policy: Pym minute to Walker ("Sales of butter to the USSR") [restrictions on exports to Soviet Union] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 10 Mo Major European Policy: Pym PS letter to No.10 (CAP price fixing: Agriculture Council 10/11 May) ["a telegram... which Mr Walker has sent Mr Pym, asking for action to be taken before tomorrow morning to discourage our partners, and in particular the French and the Commission, from attempting to circumvent our use of the Luxembourg compromise to prevent a decision being reached tomorrow on CAP price fixing"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 17 We Major European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT (1983 CAP Price Fixing and the Green Pound) [UK negotiating strategy] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 18 Tu Major European Policy: UKrep Brussels telegram 1997 to FCO (1659Z) ("Council of Ministers (Agriculture) 17/18 May") ["decisions were taken on the 1982 farm price proposals by majority vote even though the... [UK] had very important interests at stake and wanted the discussion to continue... This procedure is quite without precedent in the Agriculture Council... if the Community is to avoid a really acute crisis, a decision must be reached on the budget problem at the Foreign Affairs Council next week"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Apr 2 Fr Major European Policy: UKrep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Council of Ministers (Agriculture) 31 March/2 April") [report] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 23 We Major European Policy: Walker letter to Pym ("New Zealand Butter") [No.10: "[MT] has commented that a figure less than 90,000 tonnes for the permitted level of imports of New Zealand butter in 1983 would not be acceptable"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 4 Fr Major European Policy: Walker letter to Pym ("UHT milk: European Court judgement") [proposed course of action following legal advice] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Apr 19 Mo Major European Policy: Walker letter to Pym (Common Agricultural Policy: assessment of benefits to France) ["Given that for many years France has shown a singular lack of appreciation of this country's difficulties as a major contributor... it is helpful to have on the record a French assessment of the benefits which accrue to her"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 19 Fr Major European Policy: Walker minute to MT (EC restrictions of exports to the Soviet Union) [consternation about "illegal" French trade agreement with Soviet Union & wider issue of France's lack of cooperation in EC affairs] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 19 We Minor European Policy: Walker PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Agriculture Ministers: 17-18 January 1983") [statement to Parliament: cover letter only] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 4 Tu Major European Policy: Walker PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Agriculture Ministers: 28-30 April 1982") [CAP price package: statement to Parliament regarding "substantial disagreements"] [declassified Aug 2013]