Competitiveness
Council Working Parties on Competitiveness
- Working Party on Customs Union (Common Customs Tariff)
- Working Party on Competitiveness and Growth
- Working Party on Intellectual Property
- Working Party on Company Law
- Working Party on Customs Union (Customs Legislation and Policy)
- Working Party on Foodstuffs
- Working Party on Competition
- Working Party on Consumer Protection and Information
- Working Party on Technical Harmonisation
- The Council Research Working Group
Entrepreneurship and free movement in focus
The Competitiveness Council usually meets four times a year and brings together ministers for enterprise and energy, research or EU affairs, depending on the agenda. Issues addressed here cover areas such as the free movement of goods and services, measures to encourage enterprise in Europe and EU support for research. In October 2009, an informal meeting of the competitiveness ministers will take place in Umeå, under the leadership of the Minister for Trade Ewa Björling, the Minister for Enterprise and Energy, Maud Olofsson and the Minister for Higher Education and Research Tobias Krantz.
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