Spicers European Policy Reports
The Food Sector
Stephen Fallows
Transport Policy
Kerry Hamilton
Youth Policy
Gordon Blakely
Employment Policy
Margaret Holmstedt
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Kenneth Dyson
Regional Policy
Colin Mellors/Nigel Copperthwaite
First published 1990
by Routledge in association with the University of Bradford and
Spicers Centre for Europe Ltd.
Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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1990 University of Bradford/Spicers Centre for Europe Ltd.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Featherstone, Kevin European internal market policy.
1. European Community countries. Economic integration
I. Title II. University of Bradford III. Spicers
Centre for Europe
337.1 '42
ISBN 0-415-03973-8
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data has been applied for
ISBN 13: 978-0-415-03827-0 (pbk)
This volume is one of a series offering an informed guide to particular policies and programmes of the European Community. They are intended for the intelligent reader as well as for the specialist. They assume no prior knowledge of the European Community, but they each offer a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to what the Community is doing, or proposes to do, in important areas of economic, social and political life. The volumes should appeal especially to those involved in business and commerce, public administration, and education.
The volumes guide the reader through the maze of European Community legislation and policy proposals. Their main concern is with the official documents of the European Community institutions: helping the reader to understand Community policies and proposals. By doing so, each volume offers the reader a single reference source, collating all the essential information the reader needs to understand what is going on.
Each volume is structured so as to offer easy access to the specific information needed. A preliminary note explains what the European Community is and how it operates. Each volume focuses on a distinctive policy area, and provides a comprehensive listing of all the relevant Community documents in this policy sphere, with full bibliographical details and a brief note as to their content.
As the reader progresses through each volume, he or she will have been guided from the general to the very specific, and from little or no knowledge to an informed picture of developments in the policy sphere concerned. Moreover, the information has been structured so as to allow the more specialist reader to pursue particular inquiries yet further: the volumes guide the reader to the policy documents specific to his/her interest.
With the drive to complete the single internal European Community market by the end of 1992, more and more attention will be focused on Community policies and actions. By the end of this century, the European Community will be playing a more prominent part in the lives of its citizens and in a way which will have ramifications in other parts of the world also. The European Community is already an important actor on the world stage, and it will be even less possible to ignore it in the 1990s. This series of policy guides is designed to provide the information that is and will be needed to respond to this changing world. High-quality information is the kev to effective action.
This series has been produced by the European Briefing Unit at the University of Bradford (UK) together with Spicers Centre for Europe Limited , a member of Spicer and Oppenheim International. The collaboration between these two bodies has brought together a team of specialist writers' expert in the various policy spheres covered by the volumes. Each writer is actively engaged in the study and research of these policy areas, and each has long experience in communicating their skills to the lay audience. The series has been co-ordinated by Amanda Deaville (Spicers) and Kevin Featherstone (Bradford).
Both the European Briefing Unit (EBU) at the University of Bradford and Spicers Centre for Europe have an active interest in promoting knowledge and awareness of the European Community. The EBU is located in the Department of European Studies at the University of Bradford: the Department is the largest of its kind in the UK, and is actively involved in both teaching and research at all levels. The EBU was created in 1988 as a public resource, operating on a non-profit and open access basis. It acts as a neutral forum for the purpose of disseminating and advancing relevant knowledge about the Single European Market; new trading and business opportunities in Europe; the European Community's Structural Funds and technology programmes; the external trade, business and political relations of the EC; and the social, cultural and educational implications of European integration. The EBU exists to serve the needs of industry, commerce and public authorities as well as those of the University itself and other educational bodies. The EBU has established close collaborative links with a number of relevant bodies across different sectors so as to promote its activities.
Spicers Centre for Europe Ltd is a privately based organization serving the needs of its commercial clients. It offers expert EC advice and information to both private and public sector organizations and enterprises. It assists its clients in obtaining funding from EC sources, and it keeps them informed as to the changes in EC policy which might affect their interests. It advises organizations on how they might respond to the opportunities and challenges of the EC, by reviewing corporate strategies. It also offers a business information service based on its own and EC data bases, involving the Tenders Electronic Daily data base (TED) and the Business Co-operation Network data base (BC-NET). As a member of Spicer and Oppenheim International it is linked to an organization which has 250 offices in more than fifty countries throughout the world.
The collaboration between the EBU and Spicers is intended to produce a continuing series of publications to inform both specialist and lay audiences about the role and impact of the European Community. Readers of these volumes are invited to contact either body directly if they have any comments to make on the volumes, or if they would like to know more about the activities of either orqanization.
Both the EBU and Spicers would like to record their gratitude to Alan Jarvis (Routledge) for his support and patience in dealing with this publishing venture. Moreover, progress would have been more difficult had it not been for the efficient typing, by Christine Pratt of Spicers. More generally, thanks go to the full team of writers and assistants involved in this project for their willingness to see it succeed.
