Archive

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 Feb 8 Tue European Policy: Walker PS letter to Pym PS ("Imports of UHT milk") [statement to Parliament regarding European Court judgement] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 7 Mon 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]
83 Feb 4 Fri European Policy: Walker letter to Pym ("UHT milk: European Court judgement") [proposed course of action following legal advice] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 4 Fri 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]
83 Feb 4 Fri 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 Tue 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 Wed 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 Wed 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 Dec 20 Mon 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 Dec 17 Fri 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 Dec 15 Wed 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 Wed 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 Wed 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 26 Fri European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym) ["Relations with France": restrictions on exports to Soviet Union] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 25 Thu European Policy: Pym minute to Walker ("Sales of butter to the USSR") [restrictions on exports to Soviet Union] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 24 Wed 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 Fri 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 Wed European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT (1983 CAP Price Fixing and the Green Pound) [UK negotiating strategy] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 17 Wed 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 Wed 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]