Recommends that the Committee of Ministers invite the Governments of the Member States of the Council of Europe and of the 0. E. E. C. to pursue with renewed vigour an active policy to bring about a greater degree of economic co-operation, mutual help and integration in Western Europe with particular reference to the following considerations :
a The desirability of achieving conditions which would favour convertibility, and the necessity to plan and provide in advance for the problems which convertibility may create, in regard to full employment, balance of payments and trade liberalisation;
b In the pursuit of trade liberalisation and tariff reduction, to aim at the removal of trading practices within Western Europe, such as dual pricing in the export of raw materials, dumping of manufactured goods and export subsidies, which are frequently the cause for the adoption or maintenance of protective counter-measures;
c The setting up of a voluntary procedure whereby Member States would be invited in specific cases to examine their trading and protective policies with a view to affording assistance to other Member States whose unemployment or balance of payment position is difficult;
d The preparation of plans in advance for taking concerted action to meet possible economic difficulties due to inflationary or deflationary pressures;
e The development and utilisation of atomic and other sources of energy for peaceful purposes by the Member States on a co-operative basis and the simultaneous examination and anticipation of economic and industrial repercussions which will result from the introduction of atomic energy in industry and transport;
f The need to achieve a more efficient use of the agricultural resources of Europe by improved methods of production and by increased local specialisation, accompanied by improved methods and concerted policies of international distribution and marketing;
g The harmonisation and co-ordination of transport, particularly in the field of investments and international rates;
h Having regard to the multiplicity and heterogeneous structure of the many international organisations that deal with similar aspects of the Western European economy, the urgent need to integrate the work of these organisations, in so far as they relate to Western Europe, within the framework of the Council of Europe and the 0. E. E. C;
i The development of closer co-operation between the Council of Europe and the 0. E. E. C, and in particular the adoption of provisions to enable :
2.9.1 A representative of the Assembly to attend meetings of the Council of the 0. E. E. C. at ministerial level;
2.9.2 A representative of the Secretariat-General of the Council of Europe to attend meetings of the Council of the 0. E. E. C. at the official level;
