It is the EU equivalent of the freedom of information regimes found in the UK and other states. The Commission has proposed a revision of this Regulation.

In recent years it has been the Committee's practice to take evidence regularly from the Ambassador of each incoming Presidency country and from the Minister for Europe after each European Council.

Progress of scrutiny, 1 August 2005

The right of patients from EU Member States to travel to another Member State to receive healthcare is a principle that has been confirmed on a number of occasions over the last ten years by the European Court of Justice, but uncertainty ...

Negotiations are underway to agree the details of the European Union budget for the period of 2007 to 2013 (known as the Financial Perspective), covering the newly enlarged EU of 25 member states.

The effect of this Protocol is that the UK does not take part in the negation and adoption of such measures.

Includes evidence taken before Sub-committee G (Social and Consumer Affairs)

A report that welcomes the proposal from the European Commission for a Directive on patients' rights to cross-border healthcare but calls for improvements and warns that, due to the unpredictable impact of the provisions in the Directive, ...

This report describes the work of the House of Lords EU Select Committee and its seven Sub-Committees over the past year, and considers the Committee's work in the coming year.