Meetings of the Consultative Committee, items discussed include: comparative study of developments in EFTA and the EEC, economic developments and short term prospects: country notes, wages and prices, implementation of the convention: trade and customs questions, agriculture, rules of competition. EFTA cooperation in other fields: economic development committee, double taxation, patents, Portuguese iron and steel industry, study of trade in fish, the division of Europe – study. External studies: exchange of technical information with the EEC, EFTA parliamentarians, Council of Europe, Nordic Council
As annex: explanatory note on the proposal for a two-part scheme for a European patent; Draft of an open European Patent Convention forming the first convention in the two-part scheme.

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