Meetings of the Consultative Committee, items discussed include: trade and customs questions, rules of competition, agriculture, EFTA cooperation in: Kennedy Round, Economic Development Committee, industrial standardisation, patents, the avoidance of double taxation, external relations, European integration: consequences of continued divisions in Europe, restrictive business practices
As annexes: Article on the UK balance of payments background to the surcharge controversy; Report by the Ad Hoc Working Group on social questions; Economic developments in EFTA countries in the first half of 1965; Texts of articles of the Convention: 14 (public undertakings), 15 (restrictive business practices) and 16 (Establishment); List of various requirements for the establishment and operation of economic enterprises encountered in Member States’ legislation and practice with working party comments.

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