| Description | The Collective Approach Committee, 'to watch over the progress of the Collective Approach to Freer Trade and Currencies ...' was a Treasury Committee under Sir Bernard Gilbert with Bank membership (Bolton). For full terms of reference and other members, see 18 May 1954. The file contains background papers for the Committee (which was also known as the Gilbert Committee). There are also notes on conversations at Bank for International Settlements (BIS) meetings in Basle and other meetings elsewhere, and a paper about United Kingdom (UK) accession to the Common Market, dated 25 October 1955. |