Meetings of the Consultative Committee, items discussed include: the international economic situation and prospects, the economic situation in the EFTA countries (1981 and 1982), the EFTA countries in the present European and world economic situations: issues for discussion, Industrial Policy: report by K.M. Frederiksen, Federation of Norwegian Industries, The Role of EFTA in the Future: joint report by J.R. Zeller (Union of the Swiss Import and Wholesale Trade) and K. Sandegren (Norwegian Federation of Trade Unions). Report by Erik Braunerhielm on "The Implications for Cooperation in Europe of the Second Enlargement of the European Communities". The present state of the EC negotiations with Greece, Portugal, Spain and Turkey (timetables, issues at stake). Relations of the EFTA countries with the NICs. Report by the Ad Hoc Group of Rapporteurs "Structural Adaptation of Industry in all its Aspects". Report by Hans Swedberg on obstacles to international trade in services, the international economic situations: the US-European monetary policy EXUS, inflation and wages, main features of the economic outlook for the OECD area, inflation and wages, balance of payment, government aids and free trade in relation to industrial and regional policies in EFTA countries, how could the EFTA countries co-operated in an international environment of low growth and high unemployment to promote free trade and to fight protectionist pressures inside and outside the EFTA area? EFTA trade with the USA.

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