Summary of consultation responses has been published.
The purpose of this consultation exercise is to seek views on the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on a European agenda for culture in a globalizing world. (This will referred to below as the Communication.)
The Communication was published by the Commission in May 2007 and, after consulting with the Scrutiny Committees of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the Department for Culture Media and Sport is now undertaking a UK-wide consultation on the Communication.
We understand that the Portuguese Presidency of the European Council (1 July – 31 December 2007) wishes to take forward discussions on this Communication with a view to the Communication being the subject for a discussion at the proposed informal meeting of Ministers of Culture in Lisbon 26 September 2007.
We would like to hear your views on the current text of the draft Communication.
This is an “Inventory of Community actions in the field of culture” drawn up by the Commission. It is a useful, 40 page paper setting out which Community programmes and actions involve culture. This is within the framework of Article 151.4, as the Communication highlights. The Annex mentions the culture and citizens programmes, and similar programmes with fairly obvious culture elements. However, it also sets out how other, less obvious programmes, such as the Common Agricultural Policy (p.13) or Maritime policy (p. 24) can involve important cultural elements.
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This consultation has now ended. The consultation period was 29 June - 10 September 2007.
If you have any queries regarding this consultation please contact:
Michael Helston
International Unit
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
2-4 Cockspur Street
London SW1Y 5DH
commissionpaper@culture.gsi.gov.uk
A summary of responses will be published after the closing date for consultation. All information in responses, including personal information, may be subject to publication or disclosure under Freedom of Information legislation. If a correspondent requests confidentiality, this cannot be guaranteed and will only be possible if considered appropriate under the legislation. Any such request should explain why confidentiality is necessary. Any automatic confidentiality disclaimer generated by your IT system will not be considered as such a request unless you specifically include a request, with an explanation, in the main text of your response.
If you have any questions or complaints about the process of consultation on this paper please contact:
Consultation Co-ordinator
Strategy Division
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
2-4 Cockspur Street, London
SW1Y 5DH.
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