Records of meetings of Joint Deputies, items discussed include: 15% rule – Portugal: 1968 and 1969 examination, scheme for reciprocal recognition of tests and inspections carried out on pressure vessels, Portuguese revenue duties, Austrian turnover equalisation tax, different price levels for agricultural raw materials, working party on pharmaceutical inspections, UNCTAD origin rules, coordination regarding the GATT examination of Iceland’s accession to EFTA, Danish value added tax, UK export control, question of registering EFTA decisions with the UN, rules of competition, scientific research and technology, reciprocal recognition schemes, review of EFTA information policy, maintenance of free trade: agricultural and fishery goods, East-West trade, pharmaceutical convention: accession of third countries, expert group on origin questions, GATT: information for submission by EFTA member states on the development of EFTA; Note of Mr Sommaruga’s statement on the preparation of a paper for the Reykjavik meeting on the Maintenance of Free Trade.

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