§ Mr. ChopeTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects the European Commission to complete its investigation into price discrepancies for goods within the EU initiated at the York meeting of ECOFIN. [51667]
§ Mrs. Liddell[holding answer 21 July 1998]: The European Commission are developing an extended scoreboard of indicators of effective market integration including price differentials, as set out in the Broad Economic Guidelines report agreed at the Cardiff European Council on 15 to 16 June. The Government expect the Commission to report on its work on price differentials at the Cologne European Council at the end of Germany's Presidency of the EU in spring 1999.