Items discussed include: drawback, time limited origin criteria, review of the present situation and preparation of future activity of EFTA: general statements from member countries, drawing up an official mandate for the official Council , bilateral negotiations, restrictive business practices, revision of the timetable of the Convention, cooperation in economic and financial matters, quantitative import restrictions, EFTA and Latin America, multilateral action in the field of agriculture, export subsidies on agricultural goods, EFTA information policy, conference on Western European fishing countries, working party on different price levels for agricultural raw materials, EEC on 20% tariff reduction, Danish complaint on importation of Danish "Rockwool" into Austria, European integration problems, relations with third countries and other international organisations.
Text of press communiqué from the 5th meeting of the Council at Ministerial level, 18-19 February 1963: Lord Privy Seal informed the Ministers of the circumstances in which the members of the EEC had been prevented from continuing the negotiations with the UK.

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