The Governments of the Member Stat
es and the European Commission were represented as follows: Belgium: Mr Herman VAN ROMPUY Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Budget Denmark: Mr Jørgen ØRSTRØM MØLLER State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Germany: Mr Jürgen STARK State Secretary for Finance Greece: Mr Ioannis KOUSSOULAKOS General Secretary, Ministry of Finance Spain: Mr Fran
cisco Javier ELORZA Ambassador, Permanent Representative France: Mr Pierre de B
OISSIEU Ambassador, Permanent ...[+++] Representative Ireland: Mr Hugh COVENEY Minister of State at the Department of Finance, with special responsibility for public expenditure Italy: Mr Luigi GUIDOBONO CAVALCHINI Ambassador, Permanent Representative Luxembourg: Mr Marc FISCHBACH Minister for the Budget Netherlands: Mr Michiel PATIJN State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Austria: Mr Manfred SCHEICH Ambassador, Permanent Representative Portugal: Mr António Carlos dos SANTOS State Secretary for Tax Affairs Finland: Mr Raimo SAILAS State Secretary for Finance Sweden: Mr Peter LAGERBLAD State Secretary for Finance United Kingdom: Mr Stephen WALL Ambassador, Permanent Representative Commission: Mr Erkki LIIKANEN Member CONTINUATION OF THE 1997 BUDGETARY PROCEDURE 1.