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 |
| Any docs withheld? | No |
PREM19/1018 - download whole file (PDF, 43.38 MB)
Selections from this file
| Date |
Category |
Type | Value | Author/Source | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 Feb 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Walker PS letter to Pym PS ("Imports of UHT milk") [statement to Parliament regarding European Court judgement] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Feb 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("UHT milk: European Court judgement") ["what should be done to prevent uncontrolled imports... if the European Court rules that our present arrangements are unlawful"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Jan 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Common Agricultural Policy Price Fixing 1983/84") [clarification of statistics provided in briefing] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Jan 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | 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] |
| 83 Jan 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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 Nov 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community affairs") [Budget; New Zealand butter quota; Common Fisheries Policy; economic situation; steel prices & price rules] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Nov 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community affairs") [Anglo-French summit, 4-5 Nov; Common Fisheries Policy; EC's future development policy; nuclear safety; six-monthly EC White Paper; Jumbo Council] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Sep 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: MT letter to General Secretary of the TUC (EC farm price review and budget arrangements) [concerns about "unconstitutional" measures & inflationary effect on food prices in the UK] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Jun 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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 May 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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 May 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community affairs") [EC budget; CAP price package; negotiations on classification of EC expenditure; Argentine trade embargo; fisheries] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 May 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community affairs") [CAP price package/revaluation of the green pound/milk surplus; mandatory production quotas on steel] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 May 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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] |
| 82 Apr 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community affairs") [EC Budget negotiations; CAP price package] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Apr 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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 Apr 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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 Apr 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community affairs") [Walker "report on the outcome of the 31 March - 2 April Agriculture Council": CAP prices; green pound] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Jun 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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] |
| 82 Dec 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Common Agricultural Policy: 1983/4 Price Fixing and the Green Pound") ["I must strongly disagree with... [Peter Walker's] proposal that we should take a decision now not to revalue the green pound"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 May 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Walker ("CAP price fixing: Green Pound") [Walker/Howe difference of views over revaluation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Feb 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker ("CAP price fixing: 1983") ["I would propose... to urge the case [at next week's Agricultural Council] for a tough price settlement on Stoltenberg, the German Finance Minister"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Oct 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community affairs") [MT talks with Kohl; EC Budget; EC steel imports to USA; New Zealand butter imports; Fisheries Council; trade problems; Anglo-German summit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Feb 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Walker letter to Pym ("UHT milk: European Court judgement") [proposed course of action following legal advice] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Alick Buchanan-Smith PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Agriculture Ministers: 13-14 December 1982") [statement to Parliament summarising the Council's discussions] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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 Dec 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [report on GATT meeting 24/29 Nov; Fisheries Council 29 Nov; restrictions on exports to Soviet Union] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Nov 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Pym minute to Walker ("Sales of butter to the USSR") [restrictions on exports to Soviet Union] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Nov 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Danish PM on fish concessions; Pym/Cockfield report on Foreign Affairs Council, 22-23 Nov; Industry Ministers meeting on 18 Nov to discuss steel industry crisis EU Budget/UK refunds; GATT Ministerial meeting, 24 Nov; Fisheries Council meeting, 29 Nov] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Nov 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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] |
| 82 Nov 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT (1983 CAP Price Fixing and the Green Pound) [UK negotiating strategy] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Sep 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community affairs") [UK's Budget refunds; imports of poultry from France; French blocking of UK lamb exports; New Zealand butter imports; Common Fisheries Policy; dispute with US over steel imports] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 May 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community affairs") [EC budget/CAP price package] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 May 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: UKrep Brussels telegram to FCO ("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 May 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: UKrep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Council of Ministers (Agriculture) 31 March/2 April") [report] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 May 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Chancellor Schmidt letter to MT (EC Budget and agricultural problems) ["The Community can only retain its ability to act if all member states make every effort to reconcile their interests in a fair manner"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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] |
| 83 Feb 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | 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 Nov 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym) ["Relations with France": restrictions on exports to Soviet Union] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Apr 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community affairs") [Foreign Affairs Council: Pym report on discussion of mandate; CAP price package] [declassified Aug 2013] |