Catalogue description HM Treasury: Overseas Finance Sector, European Community Group, European Community Division 2: Records (ECB series)

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Reference: T 431
Title: HM Treasury: Overseas Finance Sector, European Community Group, European Community Division 2: Records (ECB series)
Description:

Records of HM Treasury's European Community Division 2 regarding its functions concerned with the European Community.

The records comprise evidence of a continuation of the function and records located for earlier years in T 386.
Date: 1979-1989
Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically and in file reference order.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ECB
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Creator:

Treasury, Overseas Finance Sector, European Community Group, 1981-1995
Physical description: 353 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2013 Treasury
Accumulation dates: 1981-1989
Selection and destruction information: Acquisition themes: 3.1.1 - Management of government revenues and expenditure. 3.1.4 - Regulation and Support of Economic Activity by Government.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

European Community Division 2 was one of two divisions under the European Community Group, and all thereunder the Overseas Finance Sector of HM Treasury created in 1981.

The Division was concerned with: European Community (EC) budget; budgetary aspects of EC policies; financing the budget; coordination of work on EC economic policy (eg preparations for EC financial ministers); co-ordination of HM Treasury's response to the interests of Parliament in EC matters and enlargement of the EC; monetary questions (including the European Monetary System (EMS)); EC credit facilities; EC Monetary Committee and the European Investment Bank (EIB).

Its sister Division 1 was concerned with the reform of EC Policies and Budget and the implementation of an Agreement to reduce the UK's net contribution to the budget during the 1980s.

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