The economic and social interest groups of Portugal

European Economic And Social Committee

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Economic policy - Economic and Monetary Union

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• Langue: English
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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE
OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
General Secretariat
THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
INTEREST GROUPS
OF PORTUGAL
DOCUMENTATION
ΦΙΤΙΟΠ5 DaTA ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE
OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
General Secretariat
THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
INTEREST GROUPS
OF PORTUGAL
DOCUMENTATION
Brussels, 1985 This publication has been produced in the following languages
English, French, German and Portuguese
Cataloguing information is attached at the end of this
publication.
Printed in Belgium
©General Secretariat of the Economic and Social Committee of
the European Communities 1985
Publisher and distributor : Editions Delta,
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Tous droits réservés - All rights reserved.
ISBN 2-8029-0055-2 Catalogue N° 84-006-EN
D/2682/1985/2 PRELIMINARY REMARKS
Following the conference on enlargement which was
held at the Economic and Social Committee in June 1980, the
ESC's Studies and Research Division (acting on the
instructions of the ESC Secretary-General, Roger LOUET)
compiled the following documentation on its own
responsibility. It had the assistance of the Portuguese
research workers listed at the end of this publication.
It goes without saying that this publication is in
no way binding on the ESC as a whole, its working bodies or
its Groups.
The publication describes a number of Portuguese
economic and social interest groups, dealing in particular
with their structure, their role in the Portuguese economic
and social context andr principal activities. It does not
claim to give a complete survey of Portuguese organizations.
The publication forms part of a series on the
economic and social interest groups of the Southern European
countries that have either acceded recently to the Community
(Greece) or have applied to join (Spain and Portuga I ).
iA the volume on Greece was published in 1981,
thee on Spain wasd in 1983. II
PREFACE
On 26 and 27 June 1980 the Economie and Social
Committee hosted a conference on the enlargement of the
European Community. To provide participants, Community
authorities and European interest groups with background
material, the Committee compiled a number of papers on the
role and structure of economic and social interest groups in
Greece, Spain and Portugal.
This documentation has now been expanded. The volume
on Portugal, which is the third in the series, contains an
introduction setting out the present and historical socio-
economi c context.
Publication of these papers should not be construed
as recognition (or non-recognition) of the organizations in
question by the Economic and Social Committee with a view to
establishing formal relations in the future.
METHOD "APPLIED
Work on collecting information started in the summer
of 1979. The document was completed in late May 1983. III
A detailed study was made of documents provided by
the organizations, such as their constitution, rules of
procedure and annual reports. In some cases reresentati ves of
the organizations were interviewed. One or more drafts were
submitted to the officers of each organization covered, with a
request for their comments.
Any inaccuracies will be corrected when the
individual sections are revised and updated in about five
years.
The ESC General Secretariat wishes to thank all
bodies and individuals contacted in the course of the
research, in particular the representatives of the Portuguese
organizations, for their cooperation and assistance.
Roger LOUET
Secretary-General IV -
NOTE FOR THE READER
Each section has a cover page giving the name and
initials of the organization concerned, the names of its
officers, addresses and telephone number(s).
For convenience, the organizations are subsequently
referred to by their initials.
In the section on Membership of European economic
and social interest groups, the term "European" refers broadly
to any international organization with a European dimension
and not just to Community-based organizations.