Internal Market Council (Hansard, 2 December 1986)

§ Mr. Alan Clark

The Internal Market Council which I chaired agreed 12 measures in the United Kingdom presidency's internal market action programme. These were a regulation on controlling the circulation of counterfeit goods within the Community; and package of five measures on procedures governing the marketing and testing of human and veterinary medicines; directives on the introduction of good laboratory practices for chemical and other products, on standards for roll-over protection structures on narrow track agriculture and forestry tractors, on legal protection of the original designs for the internal layout of semiconductor products, and on the labelling of noise of domestic appliances; a recommendation on measures to improve the safety of hotels against fire; and a regulation on the abolition of customs formalities on exit from one member state to another. The Council also made excellent progress on a number of other

Analysis of ERDF quota commitments to the United Kingdom 1983, 1984 and 1985 (mecu)
	1983	1984	1985
	Mecu	Percentage	Mecu	Percentage	Mecu	Percentage
North	57.4	12.5	65.2	10.5	42.6	7.3
Yorkshire and Humberside	27.3	5.9	86.2	13.9	36.3	6.2
East Midlands	7.4	1.6	7.3	1.2	30.1	5.2
South West	19.8	4.3	47.6	7.7	17.7	3.0
West Midlands	6.7	1.5	30.0	4.8	78.5	13.4
North West	73.5	16.1	95.8	15.5	126.3	21.6
Wales	82.4	18.0	96.2	15.5	96.6	16.5
Scotland	145.5	31.7	155.0	25.0	117.8	20.1
Northern Ireland	38.4	8.4	34.7	5.6	39.4	6.7
Multi Regional	—		1.8	0.3	—
Total	458.4	100	619.8	100	585.3	100

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internal market items so that it should be possible to agree further measures before the end of the presidency, including on information technology, telecommunications standards, and amendment to the Public Procurement (Supplies) Directive.

The Commission also adopted a directive on the approximation of member states' laws, regulations and administrative provisions on consumer credit.