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Debate on Wednesday, 2 May 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Tony McNulty. The answering member was Lord Garnier.

Protection of Critical Infrastructure

Debate on a motion to take note of European Union Documents No. 16932/06, Commission Communication on a European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection, and No. 16933/06 and ADDs 1-2, Draft Council Directive on the identification and designation of European Critical Infrastructure and the assessment of the need to improve their protection; and supports the Government’s intention to secure adoption of these documents in Council, subject to a satisfactory resolution of outstanding concerns. Agree to on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
459 c1518-42 
Session
2006-07
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Kelvin Hopkins | 459 c1538-9 (Link to this contribution) First, I make a small apology. I have only recently been appointed to the European Scrutiny Committe...
Simon Hughes | 459 c1535-8 (Link to this contribution) I do agree about that, and I want to deal next with article 308. It states:"““If action by the Commu...
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Speaker | 459 c1526 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. and learned Gentleman is really pushing the boat out now. We know that the trial rel...
Speaker | 459 c1526 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. and learned Gentleman knows better than to talk about the Crevice trial in the conte...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1523 (Link to this contribution) In part, I make no apology for being theoretical, as, with the best will in the world, I cannot, and...
Simon Hughes | 459 c1523 (Link to this contribution) To follow up my earlier intervention and that of the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow), given...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1524 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I can safely assure the House that toilets—or lavatories, as we are supposed to call the...
Kelvin Hopkins | 459 c1523-4 (Link to this contribution) May I be helpful in following what the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow) said about examples?...
John Bercow | 459 c1522 (Link to this contribution) In so far as it is possible, it would greatly assist our deliberations to move from the realm of met...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1522 (Link to this contribution) In relation to matters European, I have learned that woe betide the Minister who seeks to mind-read ...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 459 c1522-3 (Link to this contribution) The Minister mentioned national responsibilities. Does the directive extend to international negotia...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1523 (Link to this contribution) As I understand the matter, the hon. Gentleman’s description of a directive is valid in relation to ...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 459 c1521 (Link to this contribution) The Minister mentioned article 308, which, as he will know, is used to introduce exceptional measure...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1521-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the right hon. Gentleman, save for his rather churlish points at the end, which I entir...
Lord Garnier | 459 c1526 (Link to this contribution) You may have been temporarily distracted, Mr. Speaker. What I am suggesting is that the Crevice tria...
Lord Garnier | 459 c1525-6 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has commended the motion to the House, but with a degree of scepticism and lack of enth...
Lord Garnier | 459 c1526-7 (Link to this contribution) Well, there we are. I am sure that you are entirely right, Mr. Speaker. I shall endeavour to resist ...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 459 c1527 (Link to this contribution) My hon. and learned Friend has referred to a voluntary approach. He will know—this follows from his ...
Michael Connarty | 459 c1524 (Link to this contribution) As I think will be clear to anyone who has read the original Commission proposal, the Green Paper an...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1524 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, our starting definition of the European element of European critical infrastructure ...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1524 (Link to this contribution) I was just deprecating my hon. Friend’s extrapolation from article 308 in connection with national s...
William Cash | 459 c1540-2 (Link to this contribution) No. The Minister might find it quite useful to listen to some of the arguments of those of us who ha...
William Cash | 459 c1540 (Link to this contribution) The Minister might find it quite useful to hear some of the arguments—
Tony McNulty | 459 c1540 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
William Cash | 459 c1539-40 (Link to this contribution) As I indicated in an intervention on the Chairman of the Committee earlier, to a certain extent my c...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1540 (Link to this contribution) I was speaking to the Deputy Speaker. I was not prowling about like any sort of lion.
Michael Connarty | 459 c1533-4 (Link to this contribution) On this occasion, I fundamentally agree with the hon. Gentleman. The Government do not need to do th...
Simon Hughes | 459 c1534-5 (Link to this contribution) The House certainly has highs and lows. We have had the high drama, intensity and complete transpare...
William Cash | 459 c1535 (Link to this contribution) In our report, we state:"““We have considerable misgivings over the adoption of an EC directive in t...
Michael Connarty | 459 c1530-1 (Link to this contribution) I have to tell the Minister that my one disappointment with the motion is that, at a time when there...
Lord Garnier | 459 c1531 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not find this situation perhaps a little disappointing? Assuming that his Co...
Michael Connarty | 459 c1531-3 (Link to this contribution) I hope that we do not get to the point of voting. I hope that the Government will take on board the ...
William Cash | 459 c1533 (Link to this contribution) I am a member of the Committee and I endorse everything that the hon. Gentleman says. However, will ...
Lord Garnier | 459 c1528-30 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend points to a matter that I hope will be thoroughly negotiated out of these docum...
Kelvin Hopkins | 459 c1518-9 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that there is a significant difference between national matters such as w...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1518 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House takes note of European Union Documents No. 16932/06, Commission Commu...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1521 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but only at the point at which there was a dispute about what sectors and specific sites should...
Michael Connarty | 459 c1521 (Link to this contribution) The Minister mentioned article 308, and I am sure that other people will do so. Under paragraph 2 of...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1521 (Link to this contribution) I will give way first to my hon. Friend, just in the interest of the to and fro.
Simon Hughes | 459 c1520 (Link to this contribution) The Minister highlights the area of greatest concern. Could the Government give us a list of the bil...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1520 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that we do not. Such bilateral or multilateral arrangements might exist across government ...
John Bercow | 459 c1520 (Link to this contribution) In seeking to ensure that only projects that are critical and that can genuinely be classified as tr...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1520 (Link to this contribution) As with most of these matters, this goes in part towards the whole debate about subsidiarity. I am s...
Tony McNulty | 459 c1519-20 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will bear with me, I will come to that point in a moment. First, however, it is im...
EC documents
16932/2006; 16933/2006
Subjects
Finance Energy Infrastructure EU action Emergencies EU common foreign and security policy National security Terrorism Natural disasters
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