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Historical Archives of the European Union 2 Robert Hull Table of contents Robert Hull __________________________________________________________________________________________________4 Association of South East Asian Nations ____________________________________________________________________4 Euro Arab Dialogue ____________________________________________________________________________________6 European Commission-Gulf Cooperation Council _________________________________________________________6 European Commission-GCC Meetings __________________________________________________________________8 Environment Policy ____________________________________________________________________________________9 Sustainability ______________________________________________________________________________________9 Conference and research papers ____________________________________________________________________ 12 External Policy - Integration: Environment _____________________________________________________________ 16 DG XI: Executive Policy ____________________________________________________________________________ 17 La représentation des administrations ________________________________________________________________ 18 Joint Services and DG XV ______________________________________________________________________________ 19 Historical Archives of the European Union 3 Robert Hull Hull, Robert 23/01/1947 Sedgefield [United Kingdom] Robert Hull was educated at the University of Leicester, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in History in 1968, and at the Manchester Business School, where he completed a Masters in Business Administration in 1973. He began his professional career at the UK Atomic Energy Authority in London, working there from 1969-1971. Following that, in 1971, he was employed at the Long Range Forecast Unit for Post Office Telecommunications, London. In 1973, following completion of his MBA he became Director of Industrial Development with the North of England Development Council, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1974. The following year he joined the European Commission working as Desk Officer for the Customs Union Service from 1974-1976, before becoming Desk Officer for South-East Asia in the Directorate General for External Relations, 1976-1979. He then moved to the UK Civil Service working as Principal in the Scottish Office, Edinburgh, as Head of UK and EU Regional Policy Branch and then EC Agricultural Policy Branch. He rejoined the Directorate General for External Relations, working as Desk Officer for Generalised System of Preferences from 1982-1983. During 1983-1986 he was Desk Officer for Gulf Countries, Euro-Arab Dialogue and International Energy Relations, and from 1986-1990 he was Assistant to the Director General for Financial Institutions and Company Law coordinating input to the Single Market process. From 1990-1994 he was the Adviser to the Director General for the Environment and was Commission representative on the Board of the European Foundation for Living and Working Conditions and a member of the Environmental Advisory Council of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He later became the Head of Division for Policy Coordination, responsible for the integration of environment into other policies, and the development of action programmes for the environment, in the Directorate General for the Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection during the 1994-1998 period. From 1998-2002 he was Director of Joint Services, for the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Most recently, 2002-2006, he was Director of Consultative Work for the European Economic and Social Committee. Robert Hull Documents from 07/05/1975 to 08/04/2005 This fonds concerns Robert Hull’s career in the European Commission. The collection includes press releases, official statements, reports and publications relating to the varied nature of Hull’s career. It covers the role that Hull played in furnishing working relationships between the Commission and Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the Euro Arab Dialogue, his role in developing European environment policy, and later career in Joint Services. The fond provides an important insight into the Commission’s relationship with South East Asian countries, and Gulf countries, as well as the development of European environmental policy. Custodial history: This fond was donated to the Historical Archives of the European Union by Robert Hull in 2015. System of arrangement: Original order has been maintained. Size: 28 boxes, 70 files Materials: Paper file Languages: English, French, German, Spanish Access level: Open Document, Open Description Association of South East Asian Nations Documents from 07/05/1975 to 03/12/1983 This series relates to Robert Hull’s time as Desk Officer in DG I of the European Commission. Hull kept papers on the negotiations of the Cooperation Agreement signed between the Commission and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1980. Size: 8 Files Materials: Paper file Languages: English, French Access level: Open Document, Open Description file: RH-1 07/05/1975 - 21/04/1980 European Commission–ASEAN Joint Study Group File concerning the joint study group between Commission and ASEAN, includes: press releases, statements, reports, project proposals, and list of participants for each meeting (26/6/1975 – 10/4/1979); press communications, ambassador level meeting between EC and ASEAN countries (1/12/1977), ministerial level meeting between EC and ASEAN countries (21/11/1978), ‘Signature of the Cooperation Agreement, EEC-ASEAN’ (7/3/1980), ‘Joint Declaration by the EEC and ASEAN countries on bilateral Cooperation, South-East Asian and the Afghan problem (12/4/1980); letters from ASEAN Brussels Committee Secretariat (7/5/1975). Materials: Paper file Languages: English, French Access level: Open Document, Open Description Historical Archives of the European Union 4 Robert Hull file: RH-2 11/1975 - 09/07/1983 European Commission-ASEAN Press and Publications (1) File concerning press publications and briefing notes regarding Commission and ASEAN, includes: interview with Mr. Goh Chok Tong, Minister for Trade and Industry, Singapore: Vol. 2, No. 3, July-Aug, 1980; newspaper clippings, The Asian Wall Street Journal (30/3/1978), ‘Europa’; briefing note on EEC-ASEAN relations, EEC/ASEAN international relations (31/1/1979 – 15/3/1980). Materials: Paper file Languages: English, French, German Access level: Open Document, Open Description file: RH-3 30/09/1977 - 03/12/1983 European Commission-ASEAN Press and Publications (2) Includes: copies of Bangkok Press Review which covers papers from Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Sinapore, Jakarta, Manila and The Asian Wall Street Journal; ASEAN/European Banks International (EBIC)/EEC Industrial Collaboration Conference (4-6/4/1977), list of delegates, papers prepared by EBIC and Commission, profiles of companies involved; ‘Official Journal of the European Communities, 23:10, 10/6/1980’; Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol: XX, No. 4 (6/1982); journal articles concerning ASEAN and international trade, and Bangkok declaration. Materials: Paper file Languages: English, French Access level: Open Document, Open Description file: RH-4 05/12/1977 - 23/12/1977 Visit to ASEAN Countries by Vice-President Wilhelm Haferkamp Includes: rapport de W. Haferkamp dans les cinq pays de l’ASEAN (5-23/12/1977); meeting of Haferkamp with Datuk Hamzah, Minister of Trade and Industry, Malaysia (5/12/1977), Narm Phunwathu, Minister of Commerce, Thailand (14/12/1977), Mr. Paterno, Philippines Secretary of Industry (22/12/1977); programme; publications. Materials: Paper file Languages: English, French, German Access level: Open Document, Open Description file: RH-5 26/02/1979 - 28/02/1979 European Commission – ASEAN Conference on Industrial Cooperation, Jakarta File concerning the ASEAN conference on industrial cooperation, includes: list of participants, information book, copy of ‘Business Times: Malaysia’s Financial Newspaper’ (24/2/1979); speeches by Wilheim Haferkamp, Gerardo P. Sicat (Minister of Economic Planning, Republic of the Philippines), M. Laure (Chairman of Societe Generale), H.E. Dato’ Seri Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade and Industry), Mr. Goh Chok Tong (Senior Minister of State for Finance); record of meeting between W. Ernst (Special Adviser to the Commission) and Dr. Mochtar Kusumaatmaja (Foreign Minister of Indonesia and Chairman of ASEAN Standing Committee), Jakarta, 16/1/1979, programme for visit of Wolfgang Ernst (Sinapore, 17-18/1/1979), objective case study of DG XV (9/1988). Materials: Paper file Languages: English Access level: Open Document, Open