EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS.

Council meetings scheduled for the rest of December 13 - 14 Environment Council 14 - 15 Farm Council 15 EU/US Summit (Washington) 16 - 17 Fisheries Council 16 EU/Canada Summit (Ottawa) 21 EU/China Summit (Beijing) Plenary session in Strasbourg from December 13 to 17 (titles refer to reports unless stated otherwise) KEY * Consultation in single reading (simple majority vote) **I Cooperation procedure - first reading (simple majority) **II Cooperation procedure - second reading (simple majority needed to approve the Council's common position, 314 votes needed to amend or reject the common position) *** Assent (314 votes in favour required, but simple majority in cases involving Articles 8a,105, 106,130d and 228 of the EU Treaty) ***I Co-decision procedure - first reading (simple majority) ***II Co-decision procedure - 2nd reading (simple majority to approve the common position, 314 votes to adopt the declaration of intention to reject the common position and to amend or confirm the rejection of the common position) ***III Co-decision procedure - 3rd reading (simple majority to approve the joint text, 314 votes to reject the Council text) December 13 - Commission statement on the WTO Millennium Round - Presentation of Court of Auditors' annual report - Ana Palacio Vallelersundi (EPP/ED, Spain): Verification of credentials of MEPs elected in June 1999 ***II - Anneli Hulthn (PES, Sweden): Substances that deplete the ozone layer - Motion for Resolution on genetically-modified foods ***III - Doris Pack (EPP/ED, Germany): Socrates programme * - Niels Busk (ELDR, Denmark): Multilateral cooperation in North-East Atlantic fisheries ***II - Willi Rothley (PES, Germany): Civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles ***I - Pedro Aparicio Sanchez (PES, Spain): Transit of heavy goods vehicles through Switzerland December 14 - Joint debate on European Council/Finnish Presidency, Chechnya/OSCE - Council report and Commission statement on Helsinki Summit on December 10/11 - Statement by Finnish Council Presidency on the Finnish Presidency, Chechnya and the OSCE - Joint debate on EU Draft General Budget for 2000 - Jean-Louis Bourlanges (EPP/ED, France) / Ky"sti Virrankoski (ELDR, Finland): 2000 Budget - Joan Colom i Naval (PES, Spain): Decision on the flexibility instrument annexed to the Inter-Institutional Agreement of May 6, 1999 -...