Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: European Economic Organisations...

FCO 30

1967-1994

This series contains records of the European Economic Organisations Department of the Foreign Office, and its successors. The records cover the period from the start of the ultimately successful application by the UK to join the European economic communities, and the UK's consequent withdrawal from the European Free Trade Association. The series also deals with UK relations with other economic organisations operating in Europe, work of the Anglo-Danish Liaison Committee and the Anglo-Irish Free Trade Area Agreement.

Former file reference order within file cycles

For further records relating to the UK's application to join the EEC see CAB 170

ME and MW file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968-1968
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, European Integration Department, 1969-1973

11670 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 1998 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

Trade and commerce

Europe and Russia

Ireland

Series is accruing

The European Economic Organisations Department of the Foreign Office dealt with the UK's relations with the European Economic Community, Euratom and the European Coal and Steel Community, with the European Free Trade Association, with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the Western European Union, with the European Movement in the UK, and with the proposed North Atlantic Free Trade Area.

In April 1969 the European Economic Organisations Department was renamed the European Economic Integration Department, though its functions were basically unaltered, and in 1973, in the run up to the UK's accession to the communities, the Department split in two, the European Integration Department (External), dealing with European political co-operation and Community relations with third countries, and the European Integration Department (Internal) dealing with the internal working and development of the Community, and parliamentary and legal aspects of UK membership.