EC move to end EFTA borders
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• EC efforts are to be made to synchronise the 1992 completion of a Single European Market with a move towards a much bigger market, including the European Free Trade Association (Austria, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland).
A meeting in Brussels attended by foreign ministers of the EC, EFTA and Liechtenstein agreed to negotiations leading to a treaty late this year on a 19-nation 'European Economic Space' in which virtually all barriers to free movement of goods, services, capital and people would be removed at the end of 1992.
Austria has already applied for EC membership, and it is thought that Norway and Sweden may follow suit.
The working party comprises 20, mainly European representatives.
The IRU, which has 120 member associations in 50 countries, says that it plans to integrate the Road Haulage Association's Green Code into a worldwide application.