COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION GENERAL SECRETARIAT			Brussels, 1 October 2004
			CM 3508/04
			OJ CONS AGRI PECHE
	COMMUNICATION
	NOTICE OF MEETING AND PROVISIONAL AGENDA
	Contact:	maria-angela.travella@consilium.eu.int
	Tel./Fax:	+32.2-285.6333 / + 32.2.285.8270
	Subject:	2611st of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Agriculture and Fisheries) Date: Monday 18 October 2004 at 11h.00 Venue: Conference Centre - FIL 5, rue Carlo Hemmer 1734 — LUXEMBOURG

1. Adoption of the agenda

2. Approval of the list of "A" items

AGRICULTURE

3. Report from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the simplification of the common market organisation in fruit and vegetables

- Policy debate

docs 11889/04 AGRIORG 40

+ ADD 1

4. (poss) Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament : European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming

- Council conclusions

docs 10436/04 AGRILEG 108

+ ADD 1

5. International Trade Negotiations

- Information from the Commission

FISHERIES [1]

6. Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing a Community Fisheries Control Agency and amending Regulation (EC) No 2847/93 establishing a control system applicable to the Common Fisheries Policy (LA)

- Policy debate

(public debate)

doc. 9149/04 PECHE 177

+ ADD 1

7. Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing measures for the recovery of the Southern hake and Norway lobster stocks in the Cantabrian Sea and Western Iberian peninsula and amending Regulation (EC) No 850/98 (LA)

- Policy debate

doc. 5202/04 PECHE 3

8. Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing measures for the recovery of the sole stocks in the Western Channel and the Bay of Biscay (LA)

- Policy debate

doc. 5199/04 PECHE 2

9. Norway - Bilateral Agreement EU-Norway

- State of play

10. Any other business

(a) Bioterrorism Act

(Requested by the Italian delegation)

doc. 12941/04 AGRILEG 134

(b) School Milk

(Requested by the Danish delegation)

(c) Initiative to ensure the co-existence of GMO crops and other crops, including the setting up of a European Task Force

(Requested by the Danish and Italian delegations)

doc. 12834/04 AGRI 242 MI 268 ENV 506 DENLEG 49 CONSOM 70 SAN 137

(d) BSE

(Written information from the Commission)

(e) Rabies

(Information from the French delegation)

(f) International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources (for Food and Agriculture)

(Communication from the Spanish delegation)

(g) Organisation of future work

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NB Since this will be the last Council meeting attended by Commissioners Fischler and Byrne, the President of the Council invites his fellow ministers to a lunch in their honour."

NB: Please send the Conferences Division a list of your delegates to this meeting as soon as possible: E-mail address: conferences.participants@consilium.eu.int

Fax: +32.2 285 78 26

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[1] Fisheries items will be dealt with from 3.30 pm.