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COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNIONBrussels, 14 June 2003 10462/03
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NOTE
From :The PresidencyTo :CouncilSubject :European Council
(19/20 June 2003) -
Annotated draft agenda
In line with the Seville
European Council Conclusions and the Council's Rules of Procedure
the
General Affairs and External Relations Council at its meeting on 19 May, acting
on a
Presidency proposal, drew up an annotated draft agenda for the meeting
of the European
Council on 19/20 June 2003.
Progress achieved
in work to date has enabled the
Presidency to draw up the revised
annotated draft agenda reproduced hereafter. It should be noted that
preparatory work on a
number of agenda items will only be finalised at the
meeting of the GAERC on 16/17 June.
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o
o
The Presidency intends to limit the agenda to the following
items:
1.
Convention / IGC
2.
Immigration, Frontiers and
Asylum
3.
Enlargement
4.
Cyprus
5.
Western Balkans
6.
Wider Europe / New Neighbourhood
7.
Follow-up of the 2003
Spring European Council
8.
External relations, CFSP and ESDP
The
meeting will be preceded by an exposé by the President of the European
Parliament,
Mr. Pat Cox, followed by an exchange of views.
1.
CONVENTION / IGC
1.
The European Council welcomes the Draft
Constitutional Treaty presented by
the President of the
Convention, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. This
presentation
marks a historic step in the direction of furthering the
objectives of European
integration, bringing the Union closer to its
citizens, strengthening its
democratic character and its
capacity to make decisions especially after
its
enlargement, enhancing its ability to act as a coherent and
unified force in the
international
system
meeting
the
challenges
of
globalisation
and
interdependence.
2.
The European Council expresses its gratitude to the President of the
Convention Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the
Vice-Presidents, Jean Luc Dehaene
and Giuliano
Amato, the members and the alternate members of the
Convention for
the work they have accomplished. The
experiment of the
Convention as a forum
for democratic dialogue between representatives
of
governments, national parliaments, the
European Parliament, the European
Commission and
civic society has been proved useful.
The European Council considers that the presentation of the
Draft
Constitutional Treaty, as it has
received it, marks the completion of
the
Convention's tasks as set out at Laeken and, accordingly, the end
of its work.
However, some purely technical work on drafting Part III is
still required, this
work needing to be finished by 15 July at the latest.
3.
The European Council decided that the text of the Draft
Constitutional Treaty
should be [the starting point for] [a good basis for]
[a good basis on which to
start] the Intergovernmental Conference. It
requests the future Italian
Presidency to initiate, at the Council meeting
in July, the procedure laid down in
Article 48 of the
Treaty in order to allow this
Conference to be convened in
October 2003.
The Conference should complete its work and agree the
Constitutional Treaty
as soon as possible and in time for it to become known to
European citizens
before the June 2004 elections for the European Parliament.
The acceding
states will participate fully in the Intergovernmental Conference on
an
equal footing with the current Member States. The Constitutional Treaty will
be signed by the Member States of the enlarged Union as soon as possible
after
1 May 2004.
4.
Heads of State or Government, assisted by
the members of the General Affairs
and External Relations
Council, including the participants of the
acceding
countries, will have the overall political responsibility
for the Conference. The
representative of the Commission
shall participate in the Conference. The
General Secretariat of the Council will
provide the secretariat support for the
Conference. The European Parliament will be closely associated and involved in
the work of the Conference.
5.
Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey will
take part in all meetings of the Conference as
observers.
2.
IMMIGRATION, FRONTIERS AND ASYLUM
1.
The European Council of Seville
emphasised the need to speed up the
implementation of all aspects of the
programme approved at Tampere, especially
on matters relating
to the development of a common
European policy on
asylum and migration.
2.
Given the top political priority ascribed to migration, there is a marked need
for
a more structured EU policy, which will cover the whole spectrum of
relations
with third countries including the prompt conclusion of
readmission agreements
with key third countries of origin as well as the
promotion of further
cooperation with them to be
views as a two-way process in order
to combat
illegal migration and to explore legal migration
channels under specific terms of
reference. In this context, the issue of
smooth integration of legal migrants in
the EU societies should also be
further examined and enhanced. Furthermore,
the existing
financial means at our disposal for
the coming years 2004-2006
should be carefully
reviewed, and taking into account the overall framework and
the need
for budgetary discipline, the post-2006
financial perspectives should
reflect this political
priority of the Community.
3.
The European Council has reached the
following conclusions with reference to:
The development of a common policy
on illegal immigration, external borders,
the return of illegal migrants
and cooperation with third countries
Visas
4.
Referring to the
Council conclusions of 5 June 2003 on the development of the
Visa
Information System (VIS), the European
Council deems necessary that,
following the
feasibility study by the Commission on
the VIS, orientations
should be determined
as soon as possible, in order to
satisfy the preferred
options, with regard
to the planning for the development of
the system, the
appropriate legal basis which will permit
its establishment and the engagement
of the necessary financial means,
while respecting the financial perspectives. In
this framework a coherent
approach is needed in the EU on biometric identifiers
or biometric
data, which would result in harmonised
solutions for documents
for third country nationals, EU
citizens' passports and information systems (VIS
and SIS II).
The European Council invites the Commission
to prepare the
appropriate proposals, starting with
visas.
Management of external borders
5.
Taking into
consideration the common interest of all
EU Member States to
establish a more effective
management of the external borders of EU Member
States and noting the
results achieved from the implementation of the various
operational
programmes, pilot projects, risk analysis, training of border
personnel
etc., as well as the conclusions to be drawn from the study undertaken
by
the Commission, at the request of the Council, relating to the complex and
sensitive question of sea border controls,
the European Council stresses the
importance
of assuring the continuity and coherence
of Community action in
this field by setting out
priorities and determining a more structured framework
and methods.
6.
The European Council recognises the progress
made in fully activating the
operational
branch of SCIFA required by the
Seville conclusions, and more
particularly, the
tasking of the Common Unit of External Border Practitioners
with the
operational implementation and coordination of the measures
contained
in the Plan for the management of
the external borders, which
includes coordination
and monitoring of "Centres" and operational activities, as
well as
preparation of strategic decisions, for the more effective and integrated
management of the external borders of EU Member States. As mentioned in the
conclusions adopted by the Council on 5 June 2003 to that effect, the
General
Secretariat of the Council will
ensure the preparation and follow-up of
the
meetings of the Common Unit and could be assisted in this task,
at the initial
phase, by experts detached by the Member States.
7.
The European Council invites the
Commission to examine, in due course,
drawing on experience by the Common Unit activities, the necessity of creating
new institutional mechanisms, including the possible creation of a
Community
operational structure, in order to
enhance operational cooperation for the
management of external borders.
8.
The European
Council emphasises the need for the
acceleration of the works
for the
adoption of the appropriate legal instrument
formally establishing the
ILOs network in third
countries, at the earliest possible date and before the end
of 2003.
9.
The European Council invites the Commission to present, as soon as
possible,
proposals on the recast of the
Common Manual, including the stamping of
travel documents of third-country nationals.
Return of illegal
migrants
10. The implementation of a common policy on return of illegally
residing persons
belongs to the responsibility of Member States. However,
greater efficiency can
be achieved by reinforcing existing cooperation and
setting up mechanisms to
this end, including a financial component.
11.
In this context, the European Council
invites the Commission to examine all
aspects relating to the establishment of a
separate Community instrument in
order to
support, in particular, the priorities as
set out in the Return Action
Programme
approved by the Council, and to report
back to it by the end of
2003.
Partnership with third countries
12. In the context of integrating
migration issues in the European Union's relations
with third countries,
the European Council reaffirms that the EU dialogue and
actions with third
countries in the field of migration should be part of an overall
integrated, comprehensive and balanced approach,
which should be
differentiated, taking
account of the existing situation in
the different regions
and in each
individual partner country. In this respect,
the European Council
recognises the
importance to develop an evaluation
mechanism to monitor
relations with third countries which
do not cooperate with the EU in combating
illegal immigration, and
considers the following topics to be of primary
importance: