European and External Relations Committee, 20 Jun 2006

Meeting date: Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Official Report 131KB pdf

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Sift

Agenda item 5 is the sift. I draw members' attention to the section on documents of special importance, the first of which is on the indicators and benchmarks for the Lisbon objectives on education and training. That is relevant to the Education Committee and the Enterprise and Culture Committee and it might be relevant to our Lisbon inquiry, which will start in the summer with a call for submissions and continue in the autumn with oral evidence taking.

The second document is relevant to us and the Enterprise Committee and is on the seventh framework programme. We will continue to monitor developments in relation to FP7. In discussing the matter earlier, we thought that it might be worth adding it to our tracker paper because it is such an important issue. We discussed it when we were in Brussels and we regularly return to it, so let us add it to our tracker. Is everyone happy with that?

Members indicated agreement.

The third and final document is relevant to us and to the Environment and Rural Development Committee. It provides an analysis of the consultation responses to the green paper on energy efficiency. That might be useful in our energy efficiency inquiry, which responds to a related green paper.

Does the committee agree to refer the documents to the committees that I mentioned?

Members indicated agreement.