The next item on the agenda is the scrutiny of European documentation. Page 1 of our paper gives a series of recommendations to refer those items to other committees. Does anyone have an alternative view to those recommendations? If not, can we agree to them?
Can we have a copy of document SP 769 (EC Ref No 5208/00, COM(99) 710), please? I need it for my report on European enlargement.
Anyone who wants copies of any documents should see Stephen at the end of the meeting.
For the following documents, the recommendation is to refer to other committees:
Members indicated agreement.
For the following documents, the recommendation is to defer the decision until a future meeting:
Members indicated agreement.
For the following documents, the recommendation is for no further action, but to copy them to another committee for interest:
Members indicated agreement.
The committee recommended that no further action be taken on the following documents:
SP 556 (EC Ref No 12992/99 COM(99) 576)
SP 572 (EC Ref No 13274/99 COM(99) 517)
SP 605 (EC Ref No 13617/99 COM(99) 631 final)
SP 728 (EC Ref No 13998/99 COM(99) 668)
SP 729 (EC Ref No 14220/99 COM(99) 668)
SP 730 (EC Ref No 5121/00 COM(99) 697)
SP 731 (EC Ref No 5148/00 COM(99) 753)
SP 732 (EC Ref No 5151/00 COM(99) 735)
SP 735 (EC Ref No 13476/99 BUDGET 24)
SP 739 (EC Ref No 5199/00 COM(99) 746 COD 00/0006)
SP 741 (EC Ref No 5233/00 COM(99) 899)
SP 745 (EC Ref No 5237/00 COM(99) 678)
SP 746 (EC Ref No 5239/00 COM(99) 683)
SP 748 (EC Ref No 5258/00 COM(99) 745 COD 2000/20)
SP 749 (EC Ref No 5272/00 COM(99) 743)
SP 750 (EC Ref No 5273/00 COM(99) 742)
SP 751 (EC Ref No 5277/00 COM(99) 741)
SP 752 (EC Ref No 5278/00 COM(99) 740)
SP 753 (EC Ref No 5283/00 COM(99) 739)
SP 754 (EC Ref No 5284/00 COM(99) 738)
SP 756 (EC Ref No 5300/00 COM(99) 749)
SP 758 (EC Ref No 5382/00 COM(99) 748)
SP 760 (EC Ref No 5196/00 COM(99) 728 AVC 00/0002)
SP 761 (EC Ref No 5197/00 COM(99) 727 AVC 00/003)
SP 762 (EC Ref No 5209/00 COM(99) 729)
SP 763 (EC Ref No 5212/00 COM(99) 730)
SP 764 (EC Ref No 5511/00 COM(00) 3)
SP 765 (EC Ref No 5621/00 COM(00) 12)
SP 766 (EC Ref No 5622/00 COM(00) 16)
SP 767 (EC Ref No 5629/00 COM(00) 13)
SP 769 (EC Ref No 5208/00 COM(99) 710)
SP 770 (EC Ref No 13140/1/99 REV 1 FISC 255)
SP 737 (EC Ref No 5705/00 PESC 32 COWEB 14)
SP 736 (EC Ref No 2530-50r1)
SP 742 (EC Ref No 13450/99 DROIPEN 21)
SP 743 (EC Ref No 14102/99 DROIPEN 23)
I have a brief point about document SP 470 (EC Ref No 12031/99 COM(99) 486 final). The document was initially provided on 23 November and we are finally referring it to the Rural Affairs Committee. Although that is not really down to us—I think that at the time we were awaiting some explanatory memorandum—it follows on from what I said before. By the time we get the document back from the Rural Affairs Committee, the process will have taken a long time. After all, this is a final document from the European Community.
We lodged the document in November and again today because we have been back and forth to the Executive, waiting for information and asking subsequent questions. The general principle about the time that the process takes is relevant to the last item on our agenda.
I want to thank the clerk for giving me full information on SP 755 (EC Ref No 5287/00 COM(99) 752), which relates to the EC waste directive. I have contacted Robin Harper, who is the link person on sustainability in the Transport and the Environment Committee, and I will pursue this issue with him. The document is very worrying.