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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)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 354
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84 Mar 23 Fr Major European Policy: Jopling letter to Howe ("Agricultural Council, 26/27 March 1984") ["to let you... know how I would approach next week's negotiations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 23 Fr Major European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Agricultural Council, 26-27 March 1984") ["making no commitment to finance expensive measures"; MT concerns about proposed strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 22 Th Major European Policy: Director of the Federazione Lombarda delle Unioni Provinciali Agricoltori letter to MT (Brussels Summit) [cover letter for copy of telegram to Craxi & Pandolfi] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 17 Sa Major European Policy: COI London telegram to FCO ("Minister Fail To Agree EC Farm Package") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 15 Th Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jopling, Richard Butler) [EC negotiations on the Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 15 Th Major European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 (Common Agricultural Policy negotiations: latest position) [milk & Monetary Compensation Amounts] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 15 Th Major European Policy: Jopling letter to Nigel Spearing MP ("CAP prices for 1984/85") ["it could be that next Thursday evening's debate will be held when decisions on some or all of this year's price proposals have already been taken"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 14 We Major European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Agriculture Ministers: 11-13 March 1984") [statement to Parliament: milk & monetary compensation amounts] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 14 We Major European Policy: Department of Agriculture briefing for MT (meeting with President of the National Farmers' Union) [milk levy; monetary compensation amounts] [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]
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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]