Draft minutes of the 894th Commission meeting, principal elements discussed: ERDF – allocation of the margin for the period 1985-87. Accession of Spain and Portugal – calculation of successive tariff reducations. Summertime arrangements – proposal for a fourth Council Directive. Post-Chernobyl – maximum levels of radioactivity in foodstuffs. Relations with non-member countries: Fusion programme, US – airbus, Central and South America. World economic and financial situation.
Note on meeting of Chefs de Cabinet and memo for Members of the Commission on results of weekly Chefs de Cabinet’s meeting and working documents.
Notes for Commissioner: COREPER – VAT directive, Airbus, Development Council – Sub-Saharan Africa, environment and development, technical aid in favour of South American and Asian countries,, women in development, Mezzogiorno case, post-Chernobyl. State Aids chefs: Netherlands – two general aid schemes for R&D, Germany – social aid to Maxhutte, France – aid to Renault, Belgium- industrial renovation fund, Italy – aid to sulphur mines, relations with third countries - press release on thermonuclear fusion: EC, USA, USSR & Japan agree to design an experimental reactor.

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