The Presidents of the Council and of the Commission recognise that the decision-making process must be improved if any progress is to be made on substantive matters and if the ability of the Community to work is to be guaranteed in the long term. They also make a number of practical proposals. Sir Christopher Soames, Vice-President of the Commission, emphasises the need to strengthen international cooperation and to continue working towards the more and more extensive liberalisation of world trade. The OECD Council adopts a declaration stressing the seriousness of the economic difficulties in the member countries, particularly those relating to deficits on international payments. June 4 The Council considers the procedures it should adopt for the examination of problems raised by the United Kingdom and discusses the way the Community institutions work.
Some agreement is reached on the improvements to be made in the decision-making progress.
The Council takes two decisions on the granting of assistance from the European Social Fund towards certain specific measures on behalf of handicapped persons and migrant workers. 21 Reyners ruling. The European Court of justice rules that whenever a national of a Member State wishes to set up in business in another Member State, the other Member State is obliged to refrain from applying any law, regulation or administrative provision or practice which might discriminate against him as opposed to its own nationals. July 1 France takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Communities. The European Court of Justice transmits a paper on the European Union to the other Community institutions.