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Europaudvalget 2004-05 (1. samling)
Det Europæiske Råd 4-5/11-04 Bilag 1
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Medlemmerne af Folketingets Europaudvalg

og deres stedfortrædere

Bilag

Journalnummer

400.C.2-0

Kontor

EUK

4. oktober 2004

Til underretning for Folketingets Europaudvalg vedlægges Formandskabets

udkast til kommenteret dagsorden vedrørende Det Europæiske Råds møde i

Bruxelles den 4.-5. november 2004, 12983/04.

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COUNCIL OF

THE EUROPEAN UNION

Brussels, 4 October 2004

12983/04

POLGEN 36

NOTE

From :

To :

Subject :

The Presidency

Permanent Representatives Committee/Council

European Council (4-5 November 2004)

– Annotated draft agenda

In accordance with Article 2(3) of the Council's Rules of Procedure the General

Affairs and External Relations Council, acting on a Presidency proposal, shall draw

up an annotated draft agenda at least four weeks before the meeting of the Euro-

pean Council.

The Presidency accordingly submits the following annotated draft agenda, which

sets out the main items it expects the European Council to address in Brussels on

4-5 November. Work on many of those questions is in hand or will begin shortly

and the Presidency will draw on the outcome of that work when submitting a

further version of the annotated draft agenda.

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The Presidency intends to limit the agenda to the following items:

Economic issues in view of preparation of the Mid Term Review of

the Lisbon Strategy

II.

A new multi-annual agenda for the Area of Freedom, Security and

Justice

III.

Communicating Europe

IV.

Enlargement

External Affairs/CFSP/ESDP

The meeting will be preceded by an expose by the President of the European Parli-

ament,

Mr Josep

Borrell, followed by an exchange of views.

ECONOMIC ISSUES IN VIEW OF PREPARATION OF THE MID

TERM REVIEW OF THE LISBON STRATEGY

Mid Term Review

The European Council will hear a presentation by

Mr Wim Kok,

Chairman of the

High Level Group advising the European Commission on its preparations for the

Mid Term Review of the Lisbon strategy in March 2005. The presentation will be

followed by a brief exchange of views. The European Council may invite the

Commission to take the report by the High Level Group into consideration when

preparing its recommendations to the Spring European Council.

The Heads of State or Government will discuss informally the management of change in the

framework of the Lisbon strategy at their working dinner on Thursday 4 November.

Better regulation

The European Council is expected to welcome the endorsement by the Council

(Ecofin) on 21 October of common principles for measuring the

administrative

burden

of legislation on business. The European Council is further expected to

welcome the foreseen decisions of the Council (Ecofin) in October on the coopera-

tion between the Commission and Member States on pilot projects to help define

the envisaged common methodology to be applied in impact assessments of Euro-

pean legislation.

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The European Council may call on the Council (Competitiveness) to continue its

efforts to agree – before the end of 2004 – on specific legislation or areas of legisla-

tion to be simplified as a matter of priority.

II.

MULTI-ANNUAL AGENDA FOR THE AREA OF FREEDOM, SE-

CURITY AND JUSTICE

The European Council is expected to adopt a new

Multi-annual Agenda

for the

European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. This agenda – prepared by the

Council (Justice and Home Affairs) in particular at its meeting of 25/26 October

2004 – will build on the present programme ("Tampere") and take into account the

results of the evaluation by the Commission as welcomed by the European Council

in June.

The comprehensive Multi-annual Agenda will address the broad scope of the JHA

policy, notably: asylum and migration including border management, integration,

the fight against terrorism, justice and police cooperation, fundamental rights and

civil law.

The European Council is likely to invite the Commission to present an action pro-

gram in 2005 based upon the new Multi-annual Agenda, containing proposals and a

timetable for their adoption and implementation.

III. COMMUNICATING EUROPE

The European Council is expected to consider how to strengthen a sense among

the citizens of Europe of the importance of the work of the Union and its relevan-

ce to their daily lives. The informal ministerial meeting on 5 October is to provide

input for this.

The European Council is expected to invite the Commission to develop a

com-

munication strategy

in this respect, including concrete proposals.

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IV.

ENLARGEMENT

The European Council will hear a presentation by the President of the European

Commission on the Progress Reports, the Strategy Paper on Enlargement and Re-

commendations regarding the

four candidate states,

as published by the Commis-

sion on 6 October.

The European Council will confine itself to confirming that, in line with previous

conclusions, it will take the necessary decisions, prepared by the GAERC, on out-

standing enlargement issues at its meeting in December 2004.

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS/CFSP/ESDP

The European Council is expected to examine progress on engagement with

Iraq.

To this end it will discuss with Prime Minister Allawi future cooperation between

the Union and Iraq. Ministers for Foreign Affairs will prepare this discussion at

their working dinner.

Ministers are furthermore expected to discuss, also in view of current international

developments, other internationals affairs, including the situation in the Middle

East and Iran.

The European Council is expected to adopt conclusions on these matters as well as

on relations with Asian partners following the summit meetings of October.