Project to build a tunnel under the Channel

Order 108 (1957)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

See attached table.

Appendix – Orders adopted

May 1957

No.	Sitting and date	Directed to :	Subject
106	9th Sitting 4th May 1957	Bureau of the Assembly	Nuclear and thermonuclear test explosions The Assembly instructs its Bureau to transmit to the Assembly of Western European Union Recommendation 140 on nuclear and thermonuclear test explosions and Amendment No. 1 in the name of Mr. Edwards, for an Opinion.
107	9th Sitting 4th May 1957	Political Committee	General policy of the Council of Europe The Assembly instruct the Political Committee to prepare for the second part of the Session draft recommendations on such problems as it may consider appropriate to submit to it then under the general title of the "Policy of the Council of Europe in the light of recent developments in the international situation".
108	10th Sitting 4th May 1957	Economic Committee	Project to build a tunnel under the Channel The Assembly, Considering that a project to build a tunnel under the Channel linking the United Kingdom and France has been under examination for many years ; Considering that the realisation of this project would be an important factor in developing closer contact between the United Kingdom and the countries of Continental Europe ; Considering, moreover, that improved communications between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe would be particularly important for the successful operation of the proposed Free Trade Area ; Considering that the realisation of such a project would affect not merely the two countries directly concerned but also have far wider implications, which it is only right that a European parliamentary assembly should consider, Instructs its Economic Committee to make a detailed study of the Channel Tunnel project, including its economic and financial implications, and to report thereon to the Assembly.
109	10th Sitting 4th May 1957	Committee on non-represented Nations	Assembly of Captive European Nations The Assembly, Having been informed that the Assembly of Captive European Nations regularly carries out valuable surveys of the political, economic, social and cultural situation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe ; Considering that such surveys are of particular interest to the Consultative Assembly, Instructs the Committee on Non-represented Nations to follow their development and report to the Consultative Assembly in due course.