To recommend that
the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe should:
a establish permanent committees especially
those on Economic Questions and on Social Questions;
b modify
Article 37 of its Rules of Procedure and thereby set up an Agriculture and Food
Committee;
c request the Committee of Ministers for the
immediate inclusion of the following items on its Agenda for the present
Session so that committees concerned may study them without delay:
3.1 changing of 0. E. E. C. into a permanent
organisation which will prepare the gradual execution of European Economic
Unity;
3.2 study of the steps necessary for the stabilization
of the European market for agricultural products;
3.3 study of
the organisation of the basic European industries (steel, coal, electricity,
transport);
3.4 establishment of a system of supervision of
industrial agreements and cartels by suitable European institutions;
3.5 establishment of common legislation for the investment in one
Member-State of capital from another Member-State;
3.6 study of
a general tourist policy. And also to recommend that the Committee of Ministers
should set aside in the budget of the Council of Europe, such credits as may be
necessary to enable the Secreteriat to submit adequate documentation to the
committees of the Consultative Assembly, concerning the economic work both of
the National Parliaments and of existing international organisations (Social
and Economic Council of the United Nations, International Monetary Fund,
International Labour Organisation, 0. E. E. C, etc.) and also to provide
whatever staff may be necessary to deal with it. And to recommend further that:
a the Committee of Ministers, consider the
immediate setting up of a European Institute of Statistics;
b the Committee of Ministers prepare a Constitution of Member-States to
set up a single postal system and to bring about the co-ordination of all means
of communication and transport;
c Member-States increase
contacts between their specialists and technicians so as to pave the way for
the unification of national social and national fiscal legislation;
d Member-States employ every means to increase their exchanges with
Eastern Europe.
