Reports include: Price compensation measures applied under paragraph 1 of article 21 of the Convention; Emergency measures introduced in Portugal; Experience of the procedure for the notification of new or amended compulsory technical regulations (the INST procedure ) and suggestions for improvements; Coordination between EFTA countries concerning the dates of implementation of new or revised technical regulations; Experience of the arrangements for the mutual recognition of tests and inspections and suggestions for new areas in which such arrangements might be set up; Problems arising from the present prices of certain agricultural raw materials; Cooperation among EFTA countries concerning the elimination of technical barriers to trade; Border charges; Finnish cash payment scheme; Vienna follow-up with particular reference to non-tariff barriers to trade; Portuguese balance of payments difficulties: further measures taken by the Portuguese government; Austrian price surveillance system; Non-tariff barriers in intra-EFTA trade; Non-tarif barriers (other than technical barriers) which cause considerable problems in trade between the EFTA countries and the EC; Portuguese import regime for motor vehicles.

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