Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation) – in the House of Commons at 10:00 pm on 3 November 2009.
That this House takes note of European Union Document No. 8977/09, Commission Communication on the Green Paper-Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy; and supports the Government in working with the European Commission to improve the governance framework of the Common Fisheries Policy, thereby contributing to the delivery and maintenance of sustainable fisheries. -(Mark Tami.)
Question agreed to.
The European Commission is the politically independent institution that represents and upholds the interests of the EU as a whole. It is the driving force within the EU’s institutional system: it proposes legislation, policies and programmes of action and it is responsible for implementing the decisions of Parliament and the Council.
Like the Parliament and Council, the European Commission was set up in the 1950s under the EU’s founding treaties.
A Green Paper is a tentative report of British government proposals without any commitment to action. Green papers may result in the production of a white paper.
From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_paper
