§ Mr. Hunterasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps have been taken to implement the Community Heads of Government agreement of December 1982 that a priority goal should be to strengthen the Common Market and intensify action to eliminate practices and measures which restrict trade and distort competition.
§ Mr. ChannonThe European Council in December 1982 requested the Council of Ministers to decide on a series of priority measures proposed by the Commission to strengthen the internal market by reducing technical barriers to trade and frontier formalities. Nearly all the measures proposed have now been adopted and most are already in operation.