Minutes of Council and Joint Council combined meetings, items discussed: import deposit scheme introduced by the UK government; Control and marking of articles of precious metals; Technical barriers to trade – electrical field; Agriculture – annual review of trade; Rules of competition and review of the escape clauses in the Stockholm Convention; Application for membership by the Government of Iceland: procedures to be followed; Information and publicity; EFTA tariff levels after the Kennedy Round; Convention on the mutual recognition of the inspection of the production of pharmaceutical products; Public undertakings; 15% rule: 1967 examination of Portugal; Technical barriers to trade – EFTA-EEC cooperation; Contribution of Finland to the EFTA budget; External; economic relations; proposals for common action between EFTA and the EEC (Vienna instruction): scientific research and company law; Accession of Finland to the Convention on the OECD; Patents: the obligation to work an invention in the country where it is patented; Timetable of tariff reductions after 1 January 1970; The feasibility of a double taxation convention within EFTA; Hungary and EFTA; Intention of the Swiss Government regarding the application of the Kennedy Round agreement.

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