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Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Rt Hon Maria Miller MP):

Further to the oral statement by my Rt hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs launching the review of the Balance of Competences on 12 July 2012, Official Report, col 468, and his Written Ministerial Statement on the progress of the review on 23 October 2012, Official Report, col 46ws, we are today publishing a Call for Evidence for the Tourism, Culture, and Sport report.

皇冠体育app report will be completed by the autumn of 2013 and will cover the overall application of EU competence in the Tourism, Culture, and Sport sectors. In all three sectors that competence is supporting only, meaning that both the UK and the EU may act: and that action by either does not preclude action by the other. 皇冠体育app report will be an opportunity to consider this relationship, and to examine the evidence concerning the impact of EU competences on the UK鈥檚 national interest in the sectors of Tourism, Culture, and Sport.

皇冠体育app report will not cover EU competences which affect other sectors for which my Department is responsible, including electronic communications, media and the creative industries. This is because the EU does not exercise specific competence for these sectors. It does however act under a wide range of competences which have very significant impacts on them. Many of these relate to the Internal Market in Services, where my Department will be working closely with the Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills in subsequent stages of the Review.

皇冠体育app Government Equalities Unit will be separately contributing to the review of the Social and Employment competence, on which work will start in the autumn of 2013.

皇冠体育app Call for Evidence period will last until early August. My Department will draw together the evidence into a draft, which will subsequently go through a process of scrutiny before publication in the autumn of 2013.

We will take a rigorous approach to the collection and analysis of evidence. 皇冠体育app Call for Evidence sets out the scope of the report and includes both general and more sector-specific questions on which contributors are invited to focus. 皇冠体育app evidence received (subject to the provisions of the Data Protection Act) will be published alongside the final report.

My Department will pursue an active engagement process, consulting widely across Parliament and its committees, the Tourism, Culture, and Sport sectors, and the devolved administrations in order to obtain evidence to contribute to our analysis of the issues. Our EU partners and the EU institutions will also be invited to contribute evidence to the review.

皇冠体育app result of the report will be a comprehensive analysis of EU competence in these sectors, and what this means for the United Kingdom. It will aid our understanding of the nature of our EU membership; and it will provide a constructive and serious contribution to the wider European debate about modernising, reforming and improving the EU. 皇冠体育app report will not produce specific policy recommendations.

I am arranging for Review of the Balance of Competences: Tourism, Culture, and Sport - Call for Evidence to be placed In the Libraries of both Houses.

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