| Description | This file includes material regarding both the administration and meetings of the City/EEC Liaison Committee (agendas, minutes and associated correspondence). Issues for discussion at Committee meetings included taxation (value added tax, indirect taxes on securities transactions, corporation tax and witholding tax); insurance (non-life and life insurance); merger control and regulation of take-overs and other capital market matters; harmonisation of company law; the co-ordination of banking legislation; and the consumer action programme. This file also includes reports submitted to the Committee regarding the relevant activities and opinions of various interested parties including the United Kingdom (UK) Insurance Brokers' European Committee and the Association of Investment Trust Companies. Furthermore, this file includes the transcript of a speech given by Christopher Tugendhat at the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce entitled 'Financial Institutions in the European Community'. |