Remaining EC Member States

Provisional nominations of competent authorities have been made from Italy, Greece, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal and Ireland but no advanced regulatory system appeared to be in place by the end of 1992. 

Ireland operates a r-DNA committee which produced a Guide on r-DNA Regulation in Ireland in 1987. Italy and Spain responded to a 1989/ 1990 OECD survey that neither had national guidelines nor specific regulation in existence. Portugal and Luxembourg were the only EC Member States not responding to that survey. 

1991 saw agreement in principle between the EC and EFTA (the European Free Trade Association) on the formation of the European Economic Area 

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