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Vol. 1983/0 133 
  
 
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concerning the opening to the public of the historical archives of the European Economic 
Community and the European Atomic Energy Communit y (OJ L 43, 15.2.1983, p. 1), as 
amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1700/2003 of 22 September 2003 (OJ L 243, 
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file have been declassified in conformity with Article 5 of the aforementioned regulation. 
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COMMISSION  OF THE  EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 
COM(83) 326 final. 
Brussels,  6 June 1983. 
Communication  from the Commission  to the  Council 
Closer cooperation  between  the Community  and the 
EFTA countries 
COM(83) 326 final. 

Communication  from the  Commission  to the Council 
Closer cooperation  between  the Community  and the  EFTA countries 
In its statement on 20 July 1982 the Council stressed the great importance 
it attached to a  dynamic  approach  towards  cooperation with the  EFTA coun­
tries and that it intended to further - inclose cooperation with the 
Commission  - the work already  under  way in various areas of cooperation in 
order to achieve  definite  results. 
In its statement on 22 July 1982 the  Commission  affirmed its  positive 
and open attitude  towards  improving the operation of  Western  Europe's 
large market  created by the Treaties and the Free  Trade Agreements  with 
the EFTA countries. 
In its resolution of 11 February 1983 the  European  Parliament  called  on 
the Commission  to draw up a  list of sectors for which it believes that 
closer cooperation  between  the Community  and EFTA is both desirable and 
feasible  and to submit  this  list to the Council and to the  European 
Parliament. 
The Council had already  drawn  up a  list in 1978 of possible areas of 
cooperation with the  EFTA countries (Council  document  S/2/54/78  (AELE 32) 
dated 14.12.1978).  Since then a great deal of progress has occurred in 
most of the areas set out in that  list, as well as in other areas. There­
fore, the list of areas of cooperation can be brought up-to-date and 
completed, in accordance with the  European  Parliament's request. And 
therefore  the Commission  submits such a  list (attached) to the Council. 
It will  be making  definite  proposals concerning  work in all these areas 
of cooperation, item by item and in due time. 
The Commission  will also forward the  same  list to the  European  Parliament. 

Annex 
List of sectors 
for which the Commission  believes that  closer 
cooperation  between the Community and the  EFTA countries 
is both desirable  and feasible 
1. Improving  the operation  of the  Joint Committees of the  Free Trade 
Agreements 
2. Origin  rules 
3. Frontier  controls 
4. Trade in  agricultural  products * 
5. Processed  agricultural  products * 
6. Fisheries 
7. Technical  barriers  to trade * 
8. Export  restrictions * 
9. Community  trade mark * 
10. Community  patent 
11. Public  contracts * 
12. State aids * 
13. Competition  rules applying  to undertakings 
14. Industrial  policy 
15. R&D Cooperation 
16. Trans-frontier data flows 
17. Environment * 
18. Consumer  protection 
19. Industrial  hygiene  and safety 
20. Transport * 
21. Economic and monetary  policy 
22. International  economic  relations 
23. Development  cooperation 
24. Cooperation  in international  economic  organizations 
25. Information 
(*) Items marked  with an asterisk  are already featured  in the  Council's 
list of 14 December 1978