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Delegates from the member countries attend committee and other meetings. Former Deputy Secretary-General Pierre Vinde estimated in 1997 that the cost borne by the member countries, such as sending their officials to OECD meetings and maintaining permanent delegations, is equivalent to the cost of running the secretariat. [77]
On 22 June 1947, in order to be prepared for the official response to Marshall's speech by the countries of Europe, President Harry S. Truman established three committees to study the aspects of the aid program and its impact on the American economy, namely the Council of Economic Advisers, also called the Nourse Committee after its chairman ...
In parallel with his activities in France, Frederic Jenny was elected Chair of the Competition Committee of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) since 1994. In 1997 he was elected Chair of the WTO (World Trade Organization) Working Group on the interaction between competition and international commerce and held that ...
However, due to pressure from the United States, Norway and Denmark joined NATO and the plans collapsed. A "Scandinavian joint committee for economic cooperation" was established which led to a customs union under the Nordic Council which held its first meeting in 1953. [6] Similar economic activity was taking place between the Benelux countries.
He was representative and chairman of the trade and aviation negotiations with various countries and was the chairman of the OECD Steel Commission from 1980 to 1985, and again from 1989. [1] Colliander was also a consultant at the Federation of Swedish Industries ( Sveriges Industriförbund ) from 1990 to 1994. [ 2 ]
The Steel Industry of China: Its Present Status and Future Potential (1999) Hogan, William T. Minimills and Integrated Mills: A Comparison of Steelmaking in the United States (1987) Meny, Yves. Politics of Steel: Western Europe and the Steel Industry in the Crisis Years (1974–1984) (1986) Scheuerman, William.
The Messina Conference of 1955 was a meeting of the six member states of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). The conference assessed the progress of the ECSC and, deciding that it was working well, proposed further European integration. This initiative led to the creation in 1957 of the European Economic Community and Euratom.
The Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) is the interface of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) [1] with organized labour. TUAC has 59 affiliated trade union centres in 31 OECD countries, representing more than 66 million workers. It also has associate members in Brazil, Indonesia, Russia and South ...