JH/POL/EUR/29/5 - [Sugar - background and briefing notes]

JH/POL/EUR/29/5

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[Sugar - background and briefing notes]

1966-1974

24 items Mixed

Winnifrith, John,
Rose, O. S.

United Kingdom. Parliament. House of Commons. Library
Conservative Party -- Research Department
United Kingdom. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
European Parliament -- European Conservative Group
Conservative Parliamentary Agriculture Committee

Contains a memorandum on the sugar position in the EEC, a 1966 speech of the Assistant Director General of the Committee of Agriculture of the EEC, background and briefing notes by the House of Commons Library, the Conservative Research Department, MAFF, the European Conservative Group on the role of sugar in the negotiations for British entry to the Common Market, sugar policy, the organisation of the sugar market, the refiners' margin, future sugar policy, and Commonwealth sugar. Also contains a paper by O.S. Rose on sugar beet growing in the United Kingdom; minutes of a Conservative Parliamentary Agriculture Committee meeting on sugar; the text of a speech by Sir John Winnifrith on prices within the EEC; a draft resolution on future sugar policy and sugar imports prepared by the European Conservative Group; the text of amendments to a European Parliament regulation on sugar prices; tables setting out sugar production and prices; an Aims of Industry press release calling for an end to the Government-Controlled sugar monopoly; and a paper on the Government's Commitment to Commonwealth producers, British refiners, and the Common Market.