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1983 Dec 1 - 1984 Dec 20
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1224
European policy (Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)) (Part 12)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 354
Themes: Agriculture, European Union (general), European Union Budget

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Date Value Title
83 Dec 1 Th Major European Policy: Jopling PS letter to Howe PS (House of Commons Debate on the Common Agricultural Policy) [Jopling opening speech] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo Major European Policy: Department of Agriculture minute to No.10 ("CAP") [Common Agricultural Policy: EC negotiations/milk levy] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We Major European Policy: Jopling letter to Howe ("New Zealand Butter Quota") ["a legal hiatus in the special arrangements... would be seized on by the French and others as an important step towards dispensing with [them]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 10 Sa Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Henry Plumb) [EC Budget deficit] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: financing in 1984") ["difficulties can be foreseen for the latter part of 1984... We should not, however, forecast disaster too soon"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu Minor European Policy: No.10 letter to Stephen Crampton (Common Agricultural Policy reform) [request for meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 4 We Major European Policy: MT letter to President of the National Farmers' Union (National Farmers' Union views on agricultural issues before the European Council) [UK contribution to EC Budget; milk levy; green pound; cereals prices; EC Commission proposals on lamb] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 10 Tu Major European Policy: Department of Agriculture record of conversation (Agriculture Council and related issues) [Jopling, John MacGregor, Michael Franklin, Rocard] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 13 Fr Minor European Policy: Northern Ireland Office letter to Cabinet Office (UK domestic support for agriculture) [nominee to represent Northern Ireland Office on proposed Official Group] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 30 Mo Major European Policy: MT letter to President of the National Farmers' Union (European Commission price proposals for 1985-86 and the 'green pound') ["need for the CAP to be operated cost-effectively... On the green pound... I am not... able to give you a definite Government view at this stage"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 1 We Major European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Fisheries Ministers: 31 January 1984") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 3 Fr Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Agricultural Structures") [legal basis for payment of grants to hill farmers] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 3 Fr Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("1984/85 Agricultural Prices and Related Issues") [MT requests neutral stance on the issue of French/German dispute over positive monetary compensatory amounts] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 7 Tu Major European Policy: Jopling PS letter to Howe PS (Common Agricultural Policy: reform & price-fixing negotiations) [German Minister of Agriculture visit to UK] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 9 Th Major European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Agriculture Ministers: 6-7 February 1984") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 13 Mo Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Community Agriculture: Green Rates and Positive Monetary Compensatory Amounts") ["attached extract... does set out rather precisely how this question is viewed in the Commission and in the seven member states which do not have positive monetary compensatory amounts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 28 Tu Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Howe report on meeting with French Minister for EC affairs; East/West relations; funding for ESPRIT information technology programme; agriculture 1984 price proposals; upcoming meetings & engagements] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 1 Th Major European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Agriculture Ministers: 27-28 February 1984") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 2 Fr Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Monetary compensatory amounts") ["The French invented this system and are now regretting it... [MT] should continue to object and to assert our own interest"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 7 We Major European Policy: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Coles ("CAP: Monetary Compensation Amounts") ["The UK position on this item is unconvincing and negative": strategy proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]