§ Mr. Leightonasked the Minister for Trade if he will list the non-tariff barriers to trade which exist between member states of the European Community.
§ Mr. Peter ReesNo such list is available. However, the Commission has recently produced a list of the types of national administrative or legal requirements which can have the effect of hindering the free flow of trade within the Community. This list is annexed to Commission Document 5079/83 of 23 February 1983, which is already available in the Library. The report on the internal market by the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities (HL 204), which was debated in another place on 13 December 1982, also contains evidence on those legal and administrative barriers to trade remaining within the Community.
Since the beginning of this year, I have attended two sessions of the Council of Ministers devoted specifically to the removal of the remaining barriers to trade in goods and services within the Community. A statement on the second session is contained in the Official Report for 9 March 1983.— [Vol. 38, c. 404.] Further meetings of the Council on this subject are planned.