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The report before us follows up the Council decision on the conclusion of the agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation in the field of statistics.
As we know, relations between the EU and Switzerland have grown closer over the course of the years, at economic, social and political levels. The plan here is for those relations to extend into the area of statistical cooperation.
I, personally, fully endorse the proposal before us, which, as far as we are concerned, should have been implemented long ago. Switzerland was actually a party to the agreement on the European Economic Area – an agreement that covered statistical cooperation – but was unable to ratify it, because of a ‘no’ vote in a national referendum on the issue in 1992.
Accordingly, following various bilateral agreements, some of which were more formal than others, it is time to draw a definitive line under the 1992 reverse, and definitively to conclude the negotiations mandated in 2000, thereby establishing a complete framework for cooperation with Switzerland extended to the area of statistics."@en1
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