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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 Jul 18 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC Commission Presidency; new PM of France; EC Budget issues; aid for olive oil; milk supplementary levy; price-fixing; supplementary Budgets for 1984/85] [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 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 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 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]
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]
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 Dec 11 Tu Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Review of the Common Agricultural Policy") [Jopling proposal for independent review rejected by MT: "We know what's wrong"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 7 Fr Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jopling ("1985 CAP price fixing") [comments on policy lines proposed in Jopling letter to Howe] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 13 Fr Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jopling ("EC Agricultural Structures Proposals and Conservation") ["I... see difficulties in your proposal... [in regard to] holding down the cost of the structures package"] [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 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]
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]
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 Dec 10 Mo Major European Policy: Department of Agriculture record of conversation (Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food meeting with the Netherlands Minister of Agriculture) [John MacGregor, Gerrit Braks, officials: 1985 price fixing; Dutch gas prices; collection of milk supplementary levy] [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 Dec 7 Fr Major European Policy: Howe minute to Jopling ("1985 Common Agricultural Policy Price-Fixing") [comments on Jopling proposals for UK strategy] [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 Dec 20 Th Major European Policy: Howe PS letter to MacGregor PS (French Organisation of Agricultural Journalists debate) ["in the run-up to the 1985 price-fixing negotiation... proposed statement of UK views"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 11 We Major European Policy: Ian Paisley MP letter to MT ("EC 1984-85 Farm Price Agreement and Related Measures") ["Northern Ireland has been disadvantaged vis-a-vis the Irish Republic"] [declassified Jan 2014]