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  Orders of the Day - Clause 2 - Addition to list of treaties
  
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  The Noes defeated an amendment concerning the common fisheries policy, which would have removed marine and biological resources from the policy areas specifically defined as EU competences in the ratified version of the Lisbon Treaty.  The debate suggests fishing policy is already decided at EU level, meaning that passing the amendment in a national parliament would have been purely symbolic.
  
  The text of the Lisbon Treaty is <a href="http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/TREATY%20FINAL%20TEXT.pdf">here</a>.  The draft Bill ratifying it is <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmbills/048/2008048.pdf">here</a>.
  
  The clause in the draft Bill that the amendment would amend is:
  
  <blockquote>2. Addition to list of treaties</blockquote>
  <blockquote>At the end of the list of treaties in section 1(2) of the <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1972/ukpga_19720068_en_1">European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68)</a> addâ</blockquote>
  <blockquote>â; and
  (s) the Treaty of Lisbon Amending the Treaty on European Union
  and the Treaty Establishing the European Community signed at
  Lisbon on 13th December 2007 (together with its Annex and
  protocols), excluding any provision that relates to, or in so far as
  it relates to or could be applied in relation to, the Common
  Foreign and Security Policy;â</blockquote>
  
  and the effect of the amendment would have been to add the Common Fisheries Policy to the Common Foreign and Security Policy as areas of the Treaty which the ratification would exclude.
  
  <blockquote>Amendment proposed: No. 222, in page 1, line 12, after 'excluding', insertâ</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>'(i) Article 2, paragraph 12, new Article 2B TEC (TFEU) ["Treaty Establishing the European Community", which will be renamed "Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union" if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified], paragraph 1(d), relating to the conservation of marine biological resources under the common fisheries policy; and</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(ii) '.</blockquote>
  
  <p pid="a.1032.4/2"><i> The Committee divided:</i> Ayes 175, Noes 285.</p>
  
  
  
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