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	Council of the European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The President of the Council is a Minister of the state currently holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union; while the Secretary-General is the head of the Council Secretariat, chosen by the member states by unanimity.
		The Council is assisted by the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER), which consists of the ambassadors or their deputies from the diplomatic representations of the Member States to the European Communities.
		The Council of the European Union is the main legislative institution of the EU.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union (1316 words)

	12th GCC-EU Joint Council / Ministerial Meeting - Joint Communique
		The EU and the GCC reaffirmed the importance of the Syrian and Lebanese tracks for a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East, in accordance with UNSC resolutions 242 and 338 and the principles agreed at Madrid in 1991, notably the principle of land for peace.
		The EU and the GCC noted the gradual improvement of relations with Iran and hoped that it would be possible to address outstanding issues of serious concern.
		As the Joint Council was meeting for the first time since the terrorist attacks committed in the US on 11 September 2001, the Ministers reiterated their utter condemnation of these attacks.
	ec.europa.eu /comm/external_relations/gulf_cooperation/intro/12thgcc_eu.htm (2040 words)

	PARLIAMENT and EU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The decision-making bodies of the EU are the European Council (in which each member state is represented by Head of State or Government) the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and the European Parliament.
		EU matters that are being debated in the Union in early stages of the decision -making process may, by a decision of the Speaker s Council, also be submitted for consideration at a plenary session of Parliament.
		In an extreme case the consideration of the EU policy of the Government may lead to the proposal of a vote of no-confidence and to a division on the question of the confidence enjoyed by an individual Minister or by the entire Government.
	www.eduskunta.fi /efakta/opas/tiedotus/esiteen7.htm (2067 words)

	UK EU Presidency 2005 Latest News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The European Council emphasises that the European Union's commitment to support the development efforts of countries of origin and transit is part of a long-term process to respond to the opportunities and challenges of migration, as outlined in the Hague Programme.
		The European Council underlines the importance of a comprehensive and proportionate response to the threat from terrorism.
		The European Council emphasises the importance of the elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council foreseen for January 2006.
	www.eu2005.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1107293561746&a=KArticle&aid=1134648491679 (4911 words)

	Turkey’s EU Bid - Council on Foreign Relations
		Austria is the remnant of the Habsburg and Austro-Hungarian Empires, historic rivals of the Ottoman Empire that preceded Turkey; Ottoman Turks laid siege to Vienna in 1529 and 1683.
		Austrian EU Ambassador Gregor Waschnagg said September 21 that much has changed since Europe granted Turkey the right to begin accession talks in December 2004: France and the Netherlands rejected the EU Constitution this summer, EU ministers haven’t agreed on a new budget, and opposition to Turkey’s membership in the EU is growing rapidly.
		EU ministers have demanded Ankara recognize the divided island or jeopardize the accession negotiations.
	www.cfr.org /publication/8939/turkeys_eu_bid.html (1573 words)

	ei: EU Council Conclusions (7 November 2005)
		The Council noted James Wolfensohn's letter of 2 November in which he requested on behalf of the parties that the EU consider playing a third party monitoring role at the Rafah crossing point on the Gaza-Egypt border.
		The Council urged the Israeli government to cease all activities in the Palestinian territories, including settlement building, the construction of the separation barrier as well as the demolition of Palestinian homes, which are contrary to international law and threaten to make any solution based on the co-existence of two states physically impossible.
		The Council called for the re-opening of Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem in accordance with the Roadmap, in particular the Orient House and the Chamber of Commerce.
	electronicintifada.net /bytopic/historicaldocuments/409.shtml (928 words)

	EU@UN - EU Council Conclusions on Uganda
		The Council calls on the Government of Uganda to continue the democratisation process in a multiparty environment, in particular with regard to the functioning of the Parliament, the dialogue between the government and the opposition parties and civilian control of the military in a democratic society.
		The Council notes with concern that the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have increasingly taken on a regional dimension, posing a threat to the peace processes in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
		The EU calls on the Ugandan Government to actively work for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Northern Uganda in collaboration with countries in the region, noting that it would contribute greatly to the promotion of lasting peace and security in the Great Lakes region.
	europa-eu-un.org /articles/en/article_5961_en.htm (839 words)

	The EU's relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council - Overview
		In 2004 the EU exports to the GCC were around 40 billion whereas the EU imports from the GCC amounted to around 25 billion.
		EU imports from the GCC consist mostly of fuels and derivatives (70% of total EU imports from the GCC countries).
		EU capital employed in the Gulf (8) has increased from 0.4% of total EU outward stock in 2001 to 0.9% in 2003.
	europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/gulf_cooperation/intro (1292 words)

	The EU's relations with the Council of Europe
		At the Tampere European Council in October, 1999, three priority areas for action were recognised: better access to justice, mutual recognition of judicial decisions and increased convergence in the field of procedural law.
		The Commission requested the Council for authorisation to negotiate with the Council of Europe the terms and modalities of the Community’s subsequent participation in GRECO (http://www.greco.CoE.int/).
		Synergies and complementarity are the basis of relations between the EU and the CoE.
	ec.europa.eu /comm/external_relations/coe (2706 words)

	EU Environment Council meetings
		Council meetings take place four times a year and a meeting report is published directly after each one.
		Decision in the EU are taken by the Council of the European Union, normally referred to as the Council of Ministers.
		Council meetings are preceded by intensive negotiations both within Coreper and the environmental working group at the Council of Ministers and with the European Parliament.
	www.regeringen.se /sb/d/2951/a/17129/m/wai (279 words)

	EU Council Plans to Scrap Parliamentary Vote without Discussion
		The EU Council of Ministers is demonstrating that the concept of democracy is alien to the EU.
		As the Council is trying to look for a compromise with the European Parliament on the proposal for patenting of computer-implemented innovations (software patents), it should base its work on the final decision taken by the plenary session of the Parliament, not on that of the Commission or of the Legal Affairs Committee.
		The Council proposal documents 8253/04 and 8253/04 ADD from April 6 are not accessible "due to the sensitive nature of the negotiations and the absence of an overriding public interest" according to the Council's General Secretariat.
	swpat.ffii.org /news/04/cons0507 (1765 words)

	ACP-EU Council of Ministers
		The institutions of this Agreement are the Council of Ministers, the Committee of Ambassadors and the Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
		The office of the President of the Council of Ministers shall be held alternately by a member of the Council of the European Union and a member of the government of an ACP State.
		The Council shall meet as a rule once a year on the initiative of the President and whenever it seems necessary, in a form and a geographical composition appropriate to the issues to be addressed.
	www.acpsec.org /en/acp-eu_council.htm (440 words)

	EU Environment Council Redefines European Environmental Policy
		To this end, the Council demanded the creation of a "clearer relationship between trade and environment as a result of all trade agreements having to be analysed from the sustainable development perspective".
		The Council unanimously adopted a common position on a new EAP, which constitutes the basis of EU environmental policies for the next 10 years.
		At a press briefing prior to the forthcoming European Council meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, Swedish EU officials announced on 11 June that key environmental issues such as climate change and the EU chemicals policy will be put on the agenda of the 15-16 June European summit (see Events and Resources).
	www.ictsd.org /html/weekly/12-06-01/story4.htm (840 words)

	European Council on Refugees and Exiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The report concludes that many EU Member States are not providing an adequate minimum standard of living for asylum seekers and that some states risk being in breach of the Directive with regards to the reduction and withdrawal of reception conditions and with granting access to the labour market for asylum seekers.
		The Council Decision establishing the European Refugee Fund for the period 2005-2010 (ERF II) was adopted on 2 December 2004.The purpose of the ERF II is to support and encourage the efforts made by Member States in receiving and bearing the consequences of receiving refugees and displaced persons.
		This report examines whether the EU legislation developed and adopted to date meets the original commitments made by EU Member States at the Tampere Summit in 1999 and assesses the level to which it complies with international and regional human rights and refugee law.
	www.ecre.org (3312 words)

	The Danish EU Presidency - eu2002.dk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		With the end of 2002, the Danish EU Presidency came to a close.
		The Danish EU Presidency has from the beginning placed great importance on fostering good and close relations with the European Parliament because we need a great deal of help from the Parliament if our ambitious plans for the Presidency are to succeed, for example regarding EU enlargement.
		Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the launch of the EU Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
	www.eu2002.dk /main (466 words)

	2501st EU Council Meeting - External Relations
		The Council welcomed the accession of Serbia and Montenegro to the Council of Europe and expressed its expectation that the country would honour fully the commitments and obligations undertaken upon accession.
		The Council supported the actions taken by the High Representative Lord Ashdown concerning the ORAO affair on the illegal export of weapons to Iraq and its aftermath.
		The Council, in order to support, with concrete actions, the efforts already undertaken by the countries of the region concerned to fully co-operate with ICTY, decided to adopt a Common Position, with which measures to prevent entry into or transit through the EU will be applied against individuals who assist ICTY indictees.
	www.seerecon.org /Calendar/2003/events/c20030414_re.htm (808 words)

	Uppsala University Library: Law Library. EU & Council of Europe
		The collection is kept on Level 3 and contains, in part, the official documentation for the different organs of the Council of Europe and, in part, general publications concerning the Council's various activities.
		Some Council of Europe material in the collection can be searched for in DISA, while other material can be traced in the printed catalogue, located on the short side of the first bookshelf in the collection.
		EU Legal Information Sources A guide to using the EC's legal information sources.
	www.ub.uu.se /sam/jur/e_eu.cfm (582 words)

	Presidency of the Council 2006
		Federal Chancellor Schüssel on the EU Presidency: joined-up thinking and action on a European level
		The President in office of the European Council, Wolfgang Schüssel, Vice-Chancellor Hubert Gorbach, and EU Council President and Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik reviewed Austria’s Presidency of the EU at a joint press conference.
		The Concert for Europe scheduled for 2 June, which had to be cancelled because of bad weather, took place on 30 June 2006, the last day of the Austrian Presidency, in the park of Schönnbrunn Palace.
	www.eu2006.at /en (235 words)

	DRC: Security Council endorses EU force
		The Council passed the resolution on Tuesday, authorising the reserve force - to be known as Eufor R.D. Congo - to support United Nations troops seeking to stabilise the vast country and provide protection to civilians "under imminent threat of physical violence".
		The decision to engage the EU reserve force in its assigned tasks will be taken by the European Union, upon a request by the UN Secretary-General or, in emergency cases, in consultation with MONUC, with MONUC providing the necessary logistical support to EU force on a cost-reimbursement basis.
		At the same time, the Security Council called upon all Congolese parties to demonstrate their commitment to democracy by ensuring that the forthcoming general elections are free, fair, peaceful and transparent and would be held in accordance with the timetable of the country's Independent Electoral Commission.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2006/04/mil-060426-irin03.htm (605 words)

	EU Council 2004 Proposal on Software Patents
		The JURI report itself was based on the Council working party paper of November 2002 and largely ignored the recommendations of the other two involved committees, CULT and ITRE (CULT and ITRE).
		EU participation is welcome as long as this means that the EU will rubberstamp the Party's policies without questions.
		In their public discourse, the promoters of the EU software patent directive proposal say they do not want patents on "pure software" but only on "computer-implemented inventions", by which they say they mean "washing machines and mobile phones".
	swpat.ffii.org /papers/europarl0309/cons0401/index.en.html (6354 words)

	EU Immigration: Latest news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		EU Business also cites Chris Patten, EU External Relations Commissioner, who warned that European airlines would face fines and travellers lengthy security checks without the agreement, and said Brussels had negotiated the best deal possible with the US government.
		Also cited in the newspaper, the EU ambassador in Israel Giancarlo Chevallard said that according to the figures, some 1.1 million Israelis are descendants of citizens of the 10 new EU member states.
		EU Immigration weblog is a news source on developments in EU immigration law and EU immigration policy, a place where you can find interesting web-links on immigration topics, and also a forum for debates between readers.
	blogs.law.harvard.edu /euimmigration (2614 words)

	Letter to the Council: What happened on 7th March 2005 ?
		In its press release of this monday, the Luxembourg Council Presidency claims to have adopted a Common Position backed by a qualified majority, but it appears that this majority does not exist and that there were multiple violations of procedural rules.
		The Council Presidency in its initial speech mentions that Denmark, alongside with Poland and Portugal, indeed asked for a B-Item, but that their request was inadmissible.
		This means that so long as the Council makes sure it does not incite motions from 4 Parliaments and declarations of concerns from 9 member states (7 last Monday, 2 in May 2004) regarding its political agreement text, there is little chance of a request like that coming up and actually surviving a vote.
	wiki.ffii.org /LtrFfiiCons050308En (1756 words)

	EU votes through software patent changes - ZDNet UK News
		If the Parliament is successful in that vote, then it will go back to the Council for a second reading, and then if the Council still disagrees then it will go to a 'sudden death' reconciliation committee, which will have six weeks to settle the matter.
		However, the European Council, which is a body that represents all the governments of the European Union, gave the amended text of the proposal to an independent body of experts for redrafting.
		The EU is just asking for a flood of litigation if their patent e...
	news.zdnet.co.uk /business/legal/0,39020651,39155028,00.htm (1060 words)

	EU@UN - EU Council Conclusions – Syria and Lebanon
		The Council takes note with extreme concern of the report's conclusions that there is converging evidence pointing at the involvement of both Lebanese and Syrian officials in the assassination of Rafic Hariri.
		The Council deplores the clear indication that Syria has not co-operated fully with the investigating team and calls upon Syria to co-operate unconditionally with the investigators as they continue their efforts to shed light on these appalling crimes and to bring about justice.
		The Council underlines the importance it attaches to the full implementation of 1559, including disbanding and disarming of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias, and strict respect of the sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and political independence of Lebanon.
	europa-eu-un.org /articles/en/article_5244_en.htm (356 words)

	European_Council - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance
		The Council is the main decision-making body of the European Union.
		EU concerned as Israel bombs aid corridor in Lebanon
		This is not the final step however: all the member states of the EU now have to ratify the Constitution according to the national procedures.
	www.eubusiness.com /European_Council (892 words)

	EU - Council on Foreign Relations
		Council Fellows Steven A. Cook and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall joined presider Marc Grossman, former ambassador to Turkey, in a presentation of a new Council Special Report.
		Henry Farrell, a political science assistant professor at The George Washington University, says the European Court of Justice's recent ruling against an agreement with the United States to share airline passenger data is merely "an internal EU dust-up." He says the deal is likely to be renegotiated with the same terms but stronger legal footing.
		Council Experts are based in the Council’s New York and Washington offices.
	www.cfr.org /region/394/eu.html (787 words)

	EU Energy Council Greeted With Inflatable Dinosaur, Nuclear Plant
		At today's EU Energy Council meeting, industry and economy ministers from the 25 EU member states agreed on a New Energy Policy for Europe that aims to secure energy supply, improve competitiveness and ensure environmental sustainability.
		The EU has the tools to help, said Piebalgs, because it leads the world in tackling energy efficiency and promoting renewable energy and low carbon technologies.
		To make its contribution to stabilizing global climate change, the EU will need to reduce its CO2 emissions by at least 50 percent over the next decades, and other countries will have to play their part, said the commissioner.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/mar2006/2006-03-14-03.asp (1676 words)

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