§ Mr. Soamesasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he is taking to extend competition and to remove non-tariff barriers in the European Economic Community's internal market.
§ Mr. ChannonThe Government believe that the creation of a genuinely free Community internal market392W for both goods and services will provide a major stimulus for competition. A good start has been made by the Internal Market Council to dismantle the remaining non-tariff barriers to goods. A list of the Council's achievements in 1983 was set out in the answer given by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for corporate and consumer affairs to my hon. Friend the Member for Clwyd, North-West (Sir A. Meyer) on 29 February, at columns 180–81. The Internal Market Council on 8 March had a useful exchange of views on a wide range of internal market issues and agreed to extend the coverage of the temporary use regulation to commercial samples.