| Description | This file includes material regarding both the administration and meetings of the City Liaison Committee (agendas, minutes and associated correspondence). Issues for discussion at Committee meetings included specialist committees (the City Taxation Committee, the Company Law Committee, the Capital Markets Committee, the City Public Relations Working Party, the City Telecommunications Committee); the City Communications Centre; the Wilson Committee (the Committee to Review the Functioning of Financial Institutions); the Companies Bill; the Banking Act 1979; the Arbitration Act 1979; a World Commodities Centre in London; the Directorate General (of the European Union) IV and self-regulation; the City/European Economic Community (EEC) Liaison Committee; insider trading; the Council for the Securities Industry; EEC harmonisation in the fields of company law and securities market regulation; proposed economies at the Companies Registration Office; and UK institutions' portfolio investment in the United States. This file includes briefing notes on some of these issues. |