Minutes of Council and Joint Council simultaneous meetings, items discussed:scheme for the mutual recognition of evaluation reports on pharmaceutical products (PER Scheme); Accession of Portugal and Spain to the EC: consequences for EFTA; EFTA Industrial Development Fund for Portugal: conversion of arrears into statutory capital to be held by the Fund; Government aids; Convention on the control and marking of articles of precious metals (Hallmarking Convention); Draft general guidelines for the cooperation between EFTA and the European standards institutions CEN and CENELEC; EFTA scholarships 1984-1985; Fish and other marine products: action under the EFTA work programme; EFTA- EC relations: followup of the Luxembourg and Visby Declarations, withdrawal of Portugal from the Association and accession to the EC and accession of Spain to the EC; EFTA-EC cooperation on further improvement and simplification of the rules of origin; EFTA guidelines for standardisation in information technology; Developments in the field of international trade policy

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