TNAG-1150-FCO40-1430-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-the-European-Community-1982 — Page 89

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

ANNEX I

1.

In 1959, 1961 and 1973 the Council issued directives relating to the joint reports of the Commercial Counsellors in non-member countries. The Council's discussions on updating these arrangements once again, begun at the end of 1978,, were terminated in 1979.

The main purpose of the updated directives is rationalization. As well as the Commission, the Member States should also profit more from the joint reports. These provide a basis to which the Commercial Counsellors might refer when preparing reports for their

They could supersede reports for their own

own countries.

countries.

There is also a need for increased co-operation between Commercial Counsellors and between them and the Commission's offices abroad.

2.

As a result, Annexes II to IV contain the following points: The Commercial Counsellors

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should meet regularly and should involve the Commission's offices in non-member countries in the preparation of reports

should in future draw up only one report a year

should also pass on more information about current issues affecting the interests of the Community

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