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Overseas Development Administration and successors: European Community Department,...
Catalogue reference: OD 121
What's it about?
OD 121
This series contains records on UK policy on multilateral aid from European Community/Union Funds, including the European Fund for Development, the European Development Bank and Lome Conventions agreements. It also contains records on UK food aid...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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OD 121
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Title (The name of the record)
- Overseas Development Administration and successors: European Community Department, European Community and Food Aid Department, and European Union Department
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Date (When the record was created)
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1982-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records on UK policy on multilateral aid from European Community/Union Funds, including the European Fund for Development, the European Development Bank and Lome Conventions agreements. It also contains records on UK food aid policy and aid from the World Food Programme.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Records arranged by former reference.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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EUR, IDA, IDB, IDC, IDD and IDL
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English and French
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department for International Development, European Union Department, 1997-2006
- Overseas Development Administration, European Community and Food Aid Department, 1991-1995
- Overseas Development Administration, European Community Department, 1982-1991
- Overseas Development Administration, European Union Department, 1995-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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194 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2020 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
From 2014 Department for International Development
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The European Community Department was created in 1982; in 1991 it became the European Community and Food Aid Department until 1995 when it became European Union Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14225357/
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Overseas Development Administration and successors: European Community Department, European Community and Food Aid Department, and European Union Department
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