Acronyms that contain the term committee of permanent representatives 

Committee of Permanent Representatives

For the OIC Committee of Permanent Representatives, see OIC Committee of Permanent Representatives.COREPER, from French Comité des représentants permanents, is the Committee of Permanent Representatives in the European Union, made up of the head or deputy head of mission from the EU member states in Brussels.Its defined role is to prepare the agenda for the ministerial Council of the European Union meetings; it may also take some procedural decisions. It oversees and coordinates the work of some 250 committees and working parties made up of civil servants from the member states who work on issues at the technical level to be discussed later by COREPER and the Council. It is chaired by the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. There are in fact two committees: COREPER I consists of deputy heads of mission and deals largely with social and economic issues; COREPER II consists of heads of mission (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary) and deals largely with political, financial and foreign policy issues.Representatives of the Council Secretariat from the relevant Directorates and from the Legal Directorate are also present. Weekly meetings are held in private; the agenda of the meeting is divided into a part "I" (I points, items scheduled without debate) and a part "II" (II points, items scheduled for debate).

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