ANNEX III.6

COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS of 20 June 1994 on the Commission communication on immigration and asylum policies

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

EXPRESSES its gratitude for the Commission communication of 23 February 1994 on immigration and asylum policies, which has the great merit of encompassing the various aspects of these policies;

NOTES that the various chapters of the Commission communication have been discusses by the General Affairs Council, the Social Affairs Council, the Development Council and, in accordance with the procedural decisions taken at its meeting on 23 March 1994, the preparatory bodies for the JHA Council;

RECALLS the exchange of views at the informal meeting of the Ministers for Internal Affairs in Salonika on 6 and 7 May 1994;

REITERATES the importance it attaches to the action plan and the priority work programme for 1994 which were adopted at the end of 1993;

CALLS upon the competent bodies to examine, at the time of preparation of a new work programme, the desirability of including in it the topics in that communication which come under Title VI of the Treaty on European Union but which are not included in the priority work programme for 1994.