Example sentences of "of the ec [noun sg] of ministers " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the Italian Government , which takes over the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers , in July should ‘ convene and open ’ the treaty revision conference before handing over its presidency in December next year . |
| 2 | The main responsibility will fall on the Irish Government , which takes over the presidency of the EC council of ministers at the end of the month , and the Italians , who take over in July . |
| 3 | The commercial aspect of this 18-nation common market are relatively uncontentious but what remains to be resolved is how far the EFTA governments will be consulted before decisions of the EC Council of Ministers . |
| 4 | The mergers agreement , and progress on a range of other single market issues such as rules for public procurement , the harmonisation for testing and market veterinary medicines and the labelling of irradiated food , were seen as a triumph for the French presidency of the EC Council of Ministers which has ensured that the legislative timetable for the 1992 single market remains on course . |
| 5 | Yesterday , the European Commission and the political secretariat of the EC Council of Ministers continued to refuse to comment officially on President Bush 's decision to send forces into Panama to overthrow the Noriega regime . |
| 6 | In his role as president of the EC Council of Ministers , Mr Gummer hosted a mini-agricultural show for his European colleagues at his home at Winston Grange , near Debenham , Suffolk . |
| 7 | Led by the Irish Foreign Minister and Chair of the EC Council of Ministers , Gerard Collins , the delegation also comprised the EC Commission Vice-President Frans Andriessen and the French and Italian Deputy Foreign Ministers . |
| 8 | On his return from Baghdad on Jan. 14 Pérez de Cuéllar consulted in Paris with Jacques Poos , the Luxembourg Foreign Minister and President of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1991 . |
| 9 | In two days of talks in Belgrade on May 30-31 , during which they met federal leaders and all the presidents of the republics , Jacques Delors , President of the EC Commission , and Jacques Santer , the Luxembourg Prime Minister and current chair of the EC Council of Ministers , had confirmed that the EC was ready to help a democratized and reformed Yugoslavia , with unchanged internal and external borders . |
| 10 | The European Communities ( EC ) were represented by European Commission President Jacques Delors and by the current President of the EC Council of Ministers , Ruud Lubbers ( the Prime Minister of the Netherlands ) . |
| 11 | Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , EC Commission President Jacques Delors and Ruud Lubbers , the Netherlands Prime Minister who held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1991 , held their first formal EC-Japanese summit in The Hague on July 18 immediately after the London G-7 summit [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 12 | The Commission had pressed for a 35 per cent reduction , while the latest compromise proposal by the Portuguese government ( which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1992 ) argued for a reduction of 27 per cent . |
| 13 | Late on Sept. 20 UK Prime Minister John Major ( whose country held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 ) announced that he would call an emergency summit to discuss ratification of the Treaty and to " deal with the particular problems in the foreign exchange markets in recent days , that have revealed shortcomings in the exchange rate mechanism system " . |
| 14 | John Major , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 , declared that Edinburgh would " be remembered as the summit that put the Community back together " . |