EU General Affairs Council Conclusions

PRESS RELEASE: 2690th Council Meeting, General Affairs and External Relations, General Affairs Council Conclusions (Provisional) Brussels

Main Results of the Council

The Council held an exchange of views on the EU's budgetary framework for the 2007-13 period, focusing on the issues of EU own resources, the future direction of the budget and a timetable for its review.

The issue will be discussed again at an informal ministerial meeting on 7 December on the basis of comprehensive presidency proposals, with a view to the European Council on 15 and 16 December.

CONTENTS: ITEMS DEBATED

EU BUDGETARY FRAMEWORK FOR 2007-13

PREPARATION OF THE DECEMBER EUROPEAN COUNCIL

OTHER ITEMS APPROVED

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

- Tsunami - Follow-up to the action plan

- Euro-Mediterranean summit preparations

- Mediterranean region - Agreements on services and establishment

- EU - Ukraine summit

- EU-Canada summit

- Relations with Moldova - Cooperation committee

- Industrialised countries of North America, the Far East and Australasia

EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY

- European Defence Agency - Financial provisions

- Crisis management - Agreement with Canada

- EU support to security sector reform

- Sudan/Darfur - EU supporting action

- Sudan/Darfur - EU special representative for Sudan

- Democratic Republic of Congo - EU police mission in Kinshasa

- Western Balkans - EU monitoring mission - Amended mandate

DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

- Annual report 2005 - Council conclusions

- Community external assistance

- ACP - Budget of the Technical Centre for agricultural and rural cooperation

JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS

- Exchange of information extracted from criminal records

INSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRES

- Council's headquarters - Residence Palace building

AGRICULTURE

- Imports of sugar from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia *

FISHERIES

- Herring, Greenland halibut and octopus

APPOINTMENTS

- Economic and Social Committee

TRANSPARENCY

- Public access to documents

See the complete General Affairs Council Conclusions for detailed information.

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• EU Council Conclusions - EU Strategy for Africa (22/11/2005)
• EU External Relations Council Conclusions (22/11/2005)
• EU Council Conclusions - Annual Report 2005 on European Community's Development Policy and Implementation of External Assistance in 2004 (21/11/2005)
• EU Commissioner Fischer Boel urges Council to adopt bold and responsible sugar reform (18/11/2005)
• Response to Tsunami: EU Commission Progress Report  (18/11/2005)
• Speech by EU Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner - Role of Crisis Response in External Relations  (14/11/2005)
• EU Council Conclusions - Western Balkans (7/11/2005)
• Resumption of cooperation with Sudan linked to evolution of situation of Dafur (11/4/2005)