ABSTRACT
Toplevel political involvement peaked at July's Houston summit of the group of seven leading industrial nations (G7). The European Community (EC) internal preparation process was in full gear in the run-up to the July G7 summit in Houston and the high-level meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee at the end of the month. The Houston G7 compromise qualified De Zeeuw's paper as one of the bases for the agricultural negotiations, but also stated that export subsidies, domestic support and import protection would be reduced in a related way. The EC's comprehensive proposal on agriculture was agreed by the Council just in time for the Trade Negotiations Committee in December 1989, which was the deadline set at the Mid-Term Review. In December 1989, the communication on the EC's comprehensive proposal on agriculture showed the Commission as more than the subservient initiator of the intergovernmentalist model.
