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Community Preference and Developing Countries

Community Preference and Developing Countries E~lropean Foreign AfSairs Review 2:235-253, 1997 O 1997 Kluwer Law International. Printed in the Netherlands. I The Emergence of Community Preference When the six original Member States came together in 1957 to form the European Economic Community their task, as set out in Article 2 of the Rome Treaty, was to establish a common market and to bring economic policies closer together. The purpose was to promote 'a harmonious development of economic activities, a continuous and balanced expansion, an increase in stability, an accelerated raising of the standard of living and closer relations between the States ...' (Article 2). Where agriculture was concerned, these goals were to be achieved through the adoption of a common agricultural policy (Article 3d), whose objectives were set out in Article 39. The economic boom of the post-Second World War period was very much an urban-based phenomenon: rural areas were left behind economically and socially. So far as agriculture was concerned, therefore, the task was to integrate this sector and the people who worked in it (about 20 to 25 per cent of the civilian workforce in the late 1950s) into the economic and social mainstream. The proposals for the establishment of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Foreign Affairs Review Kluwer Law International

Community Preference and Developing Countries

European Foreign Affairs Review , Volume 2 (2) – Feb 2, 1997

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E~lropean Foreign AfSairs Review 2:235-253, 1997 O 1997 Kluwer Law International. Printed in the Netherlands. I The Emergence of Community Preference When the six original Member States came together in 1957 to form the European Economic Community their task, as set out in Article 2 of the Rome Treaty, was to establish a common market and to bring economic policies closer together. The purpose was to promote 'a harmonious development of economic activities, a continuous and balanced expansion, an increase in stability, an accelerated raising of the standard of living and closer relations between the States ...' (Article 2). Where agriculture was concerned, these goals were to be achieved through the adoption of a common agricultural policy (Article 3d), whose objectives were set out in Article 39. The economic boom of the post-Second World War period was very much an urban-based phenomenon: rural areas were left behind economically and socially. So far as agriculture was concerned, therefore, the task was to integrate this sector and the people who worked in it (about 20 to 25 per cent of the civilian workforce in the late 1950s) into the economic and social mainstream. The proposals for the establishment of the

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Published: Feb 2, 1997

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