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EFTA Bulletin 60 th - Anniversary Papers - December 2020

2 Dec 2020

But it also as the formation of new ones and the financing of extended to the government level – normally in the technical assistance.37 form of visits of national experts  – with the EFTA Secretariat playing a logistical role allowing members From the moment the Industrial Development Fund to exchange with the Portuguese information cover- for Portugal (to give the package its formal name) ing ev. [...] so and also the role to be played by the countries of Knowing very well his country’s economic and politi- Western Europe in that task’ and within this environ- cal relationship with the Soviet bloc, Olli Mennander, ment, he concluded, the ‘EFTA countries had to join the head of the Finnish delegation to the Association, in the efforts to form a new European architecture’.50 would for example emph. [...] I analyse the contents of the cases brought to the Council, if they considered that a Convention under Article 31 and the extent to which the pro- benefit or an objective of the Association was being cedure helped to solve the disputes. [...] The Committees would greatly enhance the quality and Portuguese delegate requested the United Kingdom speed of their work’.64 In an internal memorandum ‘not to consider the matter closed nor to press for of 12 April 1966, the Secretariat also reflected on the a decision on the narrow basis of the Examining procedure. [...] In its accompanying letter sent with the draft report of 2 March, the Committee noted that ‘under the Convention the final decisions and the setting in motion of remedies or measures of execution were within the province of the Council, not the Committee’.
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