Catalogue description Foreign and Commonwealth Office: European Integration Department (External): Registered Papers and Digital Files (E(MX) Series)

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Details of FCO 98
Reference: FCO 98
Title: Foreign and Commonwealth Office: European Integration Department (External): Registered Papers and Digital Files (E(MX) Series)
Description:

This series contains records of the European Integration Department (External) of the Foreign and Commonweatlh Office. The records cover European Economic Community (EEC) policy on aid to third countries, EEC relations with non-Community countries, enlargement of the EEC by accession of new member states and implementation of the Lomé Convention (a trade and aid agreement between the EEC and African, Caribbean and Pacific (APC) countries).

Date: 1976-1994
Arrangement:

The records are arranged by original file reference within annual cycles of registered files.

References for born-digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' after a forward slash, which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records.

Related material:

For records of the European Integration Department (External) for 1973-1975 and records of European Integration Department (Internal)

See also FCO 30

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: E(MX) Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, European Community Department (External), 1980-1994

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, European Integration Department (External), 1973-1980

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, European Union Department (External), 1994-2022

Physical description: 7806 paper files and digital records
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2006 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accumulation dates: 1973-1994
Selection and destruction information: Records selected by the FCO under The National Archives supervision under section 2.2.2.3 of TNA's acquisition policy, dealing with the history of the conduct of the UK's external relations.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The European Integration Department (External) was formed in 1973, during the run up to the UK's accession to the European Economic Community (EEC), although a separate file series was not established for the department until 1976. It dealt with matters involving European political cooperation and the Community's relations with third countries and with western countries outside the EEC. In 1980 it became the European Community Department (External) and in 1994 the European Union Department (External).

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