i.  Documents cleared from scrutiny by the Chairman of the Committee on 6 and 12 January 2010.

Documents deposited under Titles V or VI of the Treaty on European Union (the Inter-governmental Pillars) are marked (P).

NOTE: Documents cleared as un-numbered documents, on the basis of the Government explanatory memorandum alone, are included in this list. After the document has been deposited in Parliament they are shown in this list with an asterisk (*) with a note indicating when they were cleared.

Cleared in Chairman's sift of 6 January 2010:

15897/09 + ADD 1 COM (09) 640	Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Key competences for a changing world; Draft 2010 joint progress Report of the Council and the Commission on the implementation of the "Education & Training 2010 work programme" (DCSF)
16245/09	Report on the Annual Accounts of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the Financial Year 2008 together with the Agency's Replies (DfID)
16256/09	Report on the annual accounts of the European GNSS Supervisory Authority for the financial year 2008 together with the Authority's replies (DfT)
16607/09 COM (09) 637	Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1911/2006 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of solutions of urea and ammonium nitrate originating, inter alia, in Russia (BIS)
16646/09 + ADD 1	Commission Staff Working Document: Progress towards the Lisbon objectives in education and training indicators and benchmarks 2009 (DCSF)
16708/09 COM (09) 639	Communication from the Commission: Key Messages from the Employment in Europe 2009 Report (DWP)
16913/09 COM(09) 663	Proposal for a Council Regulation concluding the "new exporter" review of Regulation (EC) No 1338/2006 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of chamois leather originating in the People's Republic of China, levying retroactively and imposing an anti-dumping duty with regard to imports from one exporter in this country and terminating the registration of these imports (BIS)
17079/09	Report on the annual accounts of the European Schools for the financial year 2008 together with the Schools' replies (DCSF)
17185/09 + ADD 1,2	Communication from the Commission on the European Competitiveness Council Report 2009 and Commission Staff Working Document accompanying documents to the Communication from the commission on the European Competitiveness Report 2009 (BIS)
17199/09 + ADD 1-4 COM (09) 677	Fifth National Communication from the European Community under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); Commission staff working document (DECC)
17301/09 COM (09) 621 17302/09 COM (09) 620	Proposal for a Council Decision on the signing and the provisional application of a protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tunisia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union; Proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion of a protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tunisia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union (FCO)

17342/09 COM (09) 668

Proposal for a Council Decision authorising the Republic of Lithuania to extend the application of a measure derogating from Article 193 of Directive 2006/112/EC on the common System of Value Added Tax (HMT)

Cleared in Chairman's sift of 12 January 2010:

17021/09 COM(09) 659	Proposal for a Council Regulation repealing the anti-dumping duty imposed by Regulation (EC) No 172/2008 on imports of ferro-silicon originating in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (BIS)
17430/09 COM (09) 661	Report from the Commission: State Aid Scoreboard - Autumn 2009 update (BIS)

II.  DOCUMENTS CONSIDERED AND CLEARED BY THE SELECT COMMITTEE OR ONE OR MORE SUB-COMMITTEES. THE SUB-COMMITTEE TO WHICH THE DOCUMENT WAS REFERRED IS GIVEN IN BRACKETS.

†Unnumbered	European Court of Auditors (ECA) Annual Report on Implementation of the Budget concerning the financial year 2008 (2009/C 26901) [2.12.09] (HMT) (A) Sifted 8 December 2009; Letter to the Government 13 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny - Ian Pearson MP, Economic Secretary
†Unnumbered	Head of European Defence Agency's Report to the Council [ 3.12.09] (MOD) (C) Sifted 15 December 2009; Considered at meeting 7 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny
†Unnumbered No COM number Not on IPEX	Council Joint Action replacing Joint Action 2007/406/CFSP on the Security Sector Reform Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo [14.9.09] (FCO) (C) Sifted 23 September 2009; Override of scrutiny; Letter to the Government 19 Oct 09 - Chris Bryant MP, Minister for Europe; Letter to the Chairman 22 Dec 09; Considered at meeting 7 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny
*16682/07 COM (07) 764 IPEX	Communication from the European Commission - a Strategy for a stronger and more competitive European Defence Industry (MoD) (C) Sifted 29 January 2008; Letter to the Government 3 Mar 08 - Rt. Hon Des Browne MP, Secretary of State; Letters to the Chairman 28 Apr 08 , 10 Jun 08; Considered at meeting 7 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny
†14845/09	Special Report No 12/2009 on the effectiveness of the Commission's projects in the area of Justice and Home Affairs for the Western Balkans (HO) (C) Sifted 10 November 2009; Considered at meeting 7 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny
†15929/08 + ADD 1, 2 COM (08) 780 15929/08 SEM COM (08) 780 IPEX	Proposal for a re-cast of Directive 2009/91/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (DCLG) (B) SUPPLEMENTARY EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM Proposal for a re-cast of Directive 2002/91/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD) (DCLG) (B) Sifted 20 January 2009; SEM sifted 7 July 2009; Letters to the Government 27 Jan 09, 14 Jul 09, 13 Oct 09, 14 Dec 09, 12 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny - Ian Austin MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State; Letters to the Chairman 27 Feb 09, 2 Jul 09, 16 Sep 09, 10 Dec 09
†11734/09 COM (09) 325 IPEX	Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the VAT group option provided for in Article 11 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC (HMT) (A) Sifted 28 August 2009; Letters to the Government 23 Oct 09, 13 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny - Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, Financial Secretary; Letter to the Chairman 4 Dec 09
†12905/09 + ADD 1-3 COM (09) 442 IPEX	Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: "Reviewing Community innovation policy in a changing world (BIS) (B) Sifted 13 October 2009; Letters to the Government 20 Oct 09, 12 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny - Rt Hon Lord Drayson, Minister of State; Letter to the Chairman 9 Nov 09
†12958/1/09 12956/1/09 12960/09 12957/1/09 SEC (09) 1194 SEC (09) 1195 SEC (09) 1196 SEC (09) 1197 SEC (09) 1198	Commission staff working document - Assessment Community innovation policies in the period 2005-2009; Commission staff working document - Challenges for EU support to innovation in service: Fostering new markets and jobs through innovation; Commission staff working document - Financing innovation and SMEs; Commission staff working document - Making public support for innovation in the EU more effective: Lessons learned from a public consultation for action at Community level; Commission staff working document - Lead Market Initiative for Europe Med-term progress report (BIS) (B) Sifted 24 November 2009; Letter to the Government 12 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny - Rt Hon Lord Drayson, Minister of State
†15020/09 COM (09) 547 15054/09 COM (09) 548	Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council 2nd financial report on the financial implementation of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) Year 2008; Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council 2nd financial report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund 2008 Financial year; Commission staff working document (DEFRA) (D) Sifted 15 December 2009; Letter to the Government 7 Jan 10 - Cleared from scrutiny
†15279/09 COM (09) 479	Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council , the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on 'A public-private partnership (PPP) on the Future Internet' (BIS) (B) Sifted 24 November 2009; Considered at meeting 11 Jan 10 - Cleared from scrutiny
†15361/09 COM (09) 595	Communication from the Commission: a financial package for the accession negotiations with Croatia (HMT) (A) Sifted 1 December 2009; Considered at meeting 12 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny
†15615/09 CON/2009/88	Opinion of the European Central Bank of 26 October 2009 on a proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community macro-prudential oversight of the financial system and establishing a European Systemic Risk Board and a proposal for a Council Decision entrusting the European Central Bank with specific tasks concerning the functioning of the European Systemic Risk Board (HMT) (A) Sifted 15 December 2009 Considered at meeting 12 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny
†15801/09 + ADD 1 COM (09) 614	Green Paper: The interconnection of business registers (BIS) (B) Sifted 1 December 2009; Considered at meeting 11 Jan 10 - Cleared from scrutiny
†16275/09	European Defence Agency Three Year Financial Framework 2010-2012 postponement and 2010 Budget adoption (MOD) (C) Sifted 15 December 2009; Considered at meeting 7 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny
†16462/09	Council Guidelines for Agency Work in 2010 (MOD) (C) Sifted 15 December 2009; Considered at meeting 7 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny
*16990/09 REV 1 COM (09) 648 16989/09 COM (09) 644	Amended Proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the cooperation agreement of between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part and the principality of Liechtenstein, of the other part, to combat fraud and any other illegal activity to the detriment of their financial interests and to ensure exchange of information on tax matters; Amended Proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of the cooperation agreement of between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part and the principality of Liechtenstein, of the other part, to combat fraud and any other illegal activity to the detriment of their financial interests and to ensure exchange of information on tax matters (HMT) (A) Sifted 6 January 2010; Considered at meeting 12 Jan 10 - Cleared from Scrutiny
*17369/09 COM (09) 670	Proposal for a Council Decision repealing Decision 2009/472/EC of 6 April 2009 and concerning the follow-up to the consultation procedure with the Islamic Republic of Mauritania under Article 96 of the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement (FCO) (C) Sifted 6 January 2010; Considered at meeting 7 Jan 10 - Cleared from scrutiny