File concerning the setting up and activities of the Consultative Committee with regard to members, details of meetings, records of meetings, attendance, observer status, includes: paper on the future of EFTA giving factual information on the history and activities of the Consultative Committee from 1961 – 1972; Report on non-tariff barriers to trade at the disposal of the Consultative Committee: non-tariff obstacles to international trade in pharmaceutical products; Report on interest shown by the CSC on the Economic Development Committee study of industrial: notes on VAT; Proposals for improved procedures; Proposal for an Economic and Social Sub-committee of the Consultative Committee and notes by delegations and draft Council decision; Memo on the initial objects of study by the Economic and Social Sub-Committee of the Consultative Committee; Note by the secretariat on recent economic developments in EFTA; Stockholm Plan for a Free Trade Area: Statement agreed at a meeting of the Outer Seven Trade Union Centers

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