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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: European Integration Department (External): Registered...
Catalogue reference: FCO 98
What's it about?
FCO 98
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...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 98
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: European Integration Department (External): Registered Papers and Digital Files (E(MX) Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1976-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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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).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also FCO 30
For records of the European Integration Department (External) for 1973-1975 and records of European Integration Department (Internal)
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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)
- E(MX) Series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 8458 paper files and digital records
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 2006 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1973-1994
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- 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.
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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 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16447/
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: European Integration Department (External): Registered Papers and Digital Files (E(MX) Series)
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