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1997/2634(RSP) Resolution on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 3 to be held in Kyoto from 1 to 10 December 1997

Progress: Procedure completed

Legal Basis:
RoP 132-p2

Events

1998/03/23
   CSL - Debate in Council
Documents
1998/03/23
   CSL - Council Meeting
1997/12/16
   CSL - Council Meeting
1997/12/08
   Final act published in Official Journal
1997/11/19
   EP - Text adopted by Parliament, topical subjects
1997/11/19
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Documents
1997/11/19
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
1997/11/17
   EP - Motion for a resolution
1997/10/29
   ESC - Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report
Documents
1997/10/16
   CSL - Resolution/conclusions adopted by Council
Details

In view of the Kyoto negotiations on a protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Council adopted conclusions in which it: - confirmed the targets which would be defended by the EU (reduction by at least 7.5% in emission levels of greenhouse gases in 2005 and by 15% in 2010); - reaffirmed its commitment to the adoption at Kyoto of an effective protocol containing binding targets, and other policies and measures, some of which should be legally binding; - pointed out that the burden sharing between EU Member States should be further clarified; - regretted the absence of concrete negotiating proposals from important industrialised countries, or their inadequacy.

1997/10/16
   CSL - Council Meeting
1997/10/01
   EC - For information
1997/06/19
   CSL - Resolution/conclusions adopted by Council
1997/06/19
   CSL - Council Meeting
1997/03/03
   CSL - Resolution/conclusions adopted by Council
1997/03/03
   CSL - Council Meeting
1996/12/09
   CSL - Debate in Council
Details

The debate showed that there was cause for continuing to work on certain issues in order to narrow the gap between the different positions. Consequently, it had not been possible to adopt the conclusions that had been drawn up by the presidency. This matter was to be included on the agenda for the next sitting of the Environment Council that was scheduled for March 1997. The starting point for the Council’s discussions was the ministerial declaration that had been adopted at the second sitting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), which was held in July 1996. This declaration called for more rapid progress on the negotiations for a protocol to the FCCC, which was to set out the relevant policies and measures, as well as the mandatory targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and for achieving significant reductions in global emission levels by certain specified dates. The questions that had been at the centre of the discussions were the emission reduction targets, the ‘distribution of the burden’ between the Member States and the form in which the targets should be expressed (as absolute values or otherwise). These issues were closely interlinked and were further complicated by the fact that the situation in respect of emissions output (previous, current and anticipated levels) varied considerably from one Member State to the next.

Documents
1996/12/09
   CSL - Council Meeting
1996/11/08
   EC - For information

Documents

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)

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  • date: 1997-03-03T00:00:00 body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Environment meeting_id: 1990
  • date: 1997-06-19T00:00:00 body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Environment meeting_id: 2017
  • body: CSL meeting_id: 2033 council: Environment date: 1997-10-16T00:00:00 type: Council Meeting
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  • date: 1997-12-08T00:00:00 type: Final act published in Official Journal
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    • body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Environment meeting_id: 2033 url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2033*&MEET_DATE=16/10/1997 date: 1997-10-16T00:00:00
    • body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Environment meeting_id: 2017 url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2017*&MEET_DATE=19/06/1997 date: 1997-06-19T00:00:00
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    • date: 1997-10-01T00:00:00 docs: url: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=COMfinal&an_doc=1997&nu_doc=481 title: EUR-Lex title: COM(1997)0481 summary: type: For information body: EC
    • date: 1997-10-29T00:00:00 docs: url: https://dm.eesc.europa.eu/EESCDocumentSearch/Pages/redresults.aspx?k=(documenttype:AC)(documentnumber:1192)(documentyear:1997)(documentlanguage:EN) title: CES1192/1997 summary: type: Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report body: ESC
    • date: 1997-11-17T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B4-1997-944&language=EN title: B4-0944/1997 url: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:1997:371:TOC title: OJ C 371 08.12.1997, p. 0007 type: Motion for a resolution body: EP
    • date: 1997-11-19T00:00:00 docs: url: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:1997:371:SOM:EN:HTML title: OJ C 371 08.12.1997, p. 0047-0079 title: T4-0560/1997 type: Text adopted by Parliament, topical subjects body: EP
    events
    • date: 1996-12-09T00:00:00 type: Debate in Council body: CSL docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=1978*&MEET_DATE=09/12/1996 title: 1978 summary: The debate showed that there was cause for continuing to work on certain issues in order to narrow the gap between the different positions. Consequently, it had not been possible to adopt the conclusions that had been drawn up by the presidency. This matter was to be included on the agenda for the next sitting of the Environment Council that was scheduled for March 1997. The starting point for the Council’s discussions was the ministerial declaration that had been adopted at the second sitting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), which was held in July 1996. This declaration called for more rapid progress on the negotiations for a protocol to the FCCC, which was to set out the relevant policies and measures, as well as the mandatory targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and for achieving significant reductions in global emission levels by certain specified dates. The questions that had been at the centre of the discussions were the emission reduction targets, the ‘distribution of the burden’ between the Member States and the form in which the targets should be expressed (as absolute values or otherwise). These issues were closely interlinked and were further complicated by the fact that the situation in respect of emissions output (previous, current and anticipated levels) varied considerably from one Member State to the next.
    • date: 1997-03-03T00:00:00 type: Resolution/conclusions adopted by Council body: CSL
    • date: 1997-06-19T00:00:00 type: Resolution/conclusions adopted by Council body: CSL
    • date: 1997-10-16T00:00:00 type: Resolution/conclusions adopted by Council body: CSL summary: In view of the Kyoto negotiations on a protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Council adopted conclusions in which it: - confirmed the targets which would be defended by the EU (reduction by at least 7.5% in emission levels of greenhouse gases in 2005 and by 15% in 2010); - reaffirmed its commitment to the adoption at Kyoto of an effective protocol containing binding targets, and other policies and measures, some of which should be legally binding; - pointed out that the burden sharing between EU Member States should be further clarified; - regretted the absence of concrete negotiating proposals from important industrialised countries, or their inadequacy.
    • date: 1997-11-19T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: title: T4-0560/1997
    • date: 1997-11-19T00:00:00 type: End of procedure in Parliament body: EP
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