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Item 3 is the Commission work programme 2011-12. Our paper proposes that we highlight the CWP to subject committees, invite them to include the relevant sections from the European officer’s analysis in their legacy papers and draw the attention of each committee to the availability of the Commission’s considered opinion on subsidiarity. We are invited to endorse the EU’s priorities for 2011, which are the same as those for 2010 but with the addition of the multi-annual financial framework; to agree that the European officer should continue to provide updates on the priority issues via the “Brussels Bulletin”; and to recommend that our successor committee considers a CWP paper early in the next session.
If we are passing the issue on to our successor committee, we have no right to tie its hands on what it will do.
Are you questioning the recommendation that the successor committee should consider a paper on the CWP?
No. It seems reasonable to me.
Do we agree to the recommendations in the paper?
I thank Ian Duncan for his work on the paper.
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