Meetings of the Consultative Committee, items discussed include: European economic relations, the future role and work of EFTA, implementation of the Convention, EFTA cooperation in other fields, relations with EFTA groups and other organisations, regional policy in EFTA, current monetary relations, rules of competition, the elimination of technical obstacles to trade in EFTA, agriculture, general international economic developments.
As annexes: Règles de concurrence: les dispositions de la convention de Stockholm, du traité de Rome et des accords de libre-exchange sur les practiques commerciales restrictives ; Some cases concerning restrictive business practices dealt with under the Stockholm Convention ; Technical barriers to trade in the electrical field –closer competition between testing stations ; Scheme for reciprocal recognition of tests and inspections carried out on ships’ equipment ; Convention on the control and marking of articles of precious metals ; History of and experience with the procedure for notification of new or amended compulsory technical regulations « INST Procedure »; Work done by other international organisations on the elimination of technical barriers to trade; European Committee for Standardisation: co-operation between CEN and the Commission of the European Communities in relation to the latter’s activities in the field of harmonisation of disparate technical legislation of member states and the use of harmonised standards in Community directives.

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