Ziehier de agenda, in het Engels:

The Presidency intends to limit the agenda to the following items:

I. Enlargement

II. Kaliningrad

The European Council will also hear a progress report on work in the European Convention from its President, Mr. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.

The meeting will be preceded by an exposé by the President of the European Parliament, Mr. Pat Cox, followed by an exchange of views.

1. In the light of the Commission’s regular reports and strategy paper and based on a
recommendation from the Commission the European Council is expected:

- to decide on the candidate countries which fulfil the Copenhagen criteria and with
which the negotiations can be concluded by the Copenhagen European Council on 12-13 December, so that the Accession Treaty can be finalised and signed by Spring 2003;

- to have an exchange of views on the situation of the other candidate countries and on that basis mandate the General Affairs and External Relations Council to prepare the decisions to be taken at the Copenhagen European Council on:

= an updated pre-accession strategy and roadmap for Bulgaria and Romania;

= the elements of the next stage of Turkey’s candidature.

2. On the basis of the financial framework agreed at the Berlin European Council, the European
Council is expected to decide on the open financial and budgetary issues in order to be able to
present the relevant Common Positions to the candidate countries in early November. In that
context, it will decide on the following specific issues:

(a) Agriculture:

- Overall allocation, including the question of granting direct payments to new Member States, including any transitional measures,

- Possible guidelines for solving other major outstanding issues;

(b) Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund:

- Overall allocations, including allocations for each candidate country;

(c) Internal policies

- Overall allocation, including the financial package for the decommissioning of Ignalina and Bohunice NPPs and the institution building facility;

(d) Decision in principle on a possible programme for Northern part of Cyprus;

(e) The question of possible transitional budgetary compensation measures for the candidate countries, as well as the form they should take and the criteria on which they
should be based.

3. The European Council is expected to agree on the framework for continued effective
monitoring of progress achieved by candidate countries in transposing and implementing the  and the commitments taken in the negotiations, with emphasis on strengthening
judicial and administrative capacity.

4. The European Council is expected to take a position on:

(a) the QMV threshold to apply after 1 January 2005;

(b) the principles for allocating EP seats for 2004 - 2009;

(c) the necessary transitional arrangements concerning:

= the weighting to be given to each new Member State in 2004,

= the QMV threshold in 2004,

= the allocation of EP seats up to June 2004;
(d) the order of the rotation of Presidencies in the enlarged Union.


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5. The European Council is expected to determine:

(a) the modalities of the participation of new Member States in the European Development Fund;

(b) arrangements for the participation of the new Member States in the ECSC Fund.

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6. The European Council is expected to take stock of issues relating to transit between
Kaliningrad and other parts of the Russian Federation and to take any decisions necessary in
view of the EU-Russia Summit on 11 November in Copenhagen.Work on many of the questions listed above has already started and will continue in the
Enlargement Working Party (assisted by relevant experts when appropriate) and in COREPER. A
report on institutional issues and a report on budgetary and financial issues are being submitted to
this session of the Council. The Presidency will draw on that work in preparing papers setting out
the state of play on the topics on which political guidelines should be given or a decision will have
to be made to facilitate final negotiation of a balanced, overall package in the European Council,
prepared by the General Affairs and External Relations Council immediately preceding it.






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