§ Mr. Lyellasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the internal barriers to trade within the European Economic Community affecting those industries and trades for whose interests his Department has responsibilities.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe European Commission's White Paper "Completing the Internal Market" provides the most comprehensive list of barriers to trade within the Community. The most important from my Department's point of view are those limiting the free movement of goods, services and capital and in particular the following: physical barriers to the free movement of goods within the Community created by various frontier and customs formalities; technical barriers to the free movement of goods (including differing national product standards); various obstacles to the development of a free and competitive market in financial services and transport; various restrictions on freedom of establishment for the professions; and controls limiting freedom of capital movements.