Catalogue description Commonwealth Office: Common Market Department: Registered Files (EC Series)

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Details of FCO 20
Reference: FCO 20
Title: Commonwealth Office: Common Market Department: Registered Files (EC Series)
Description:

This series contains the records of the Common Market Department relating to United Kingdom and Commonwealth relations and the application by the United Kingdom to join the European Economic Community.
Date: 1967-1968
Arrangement:

By former file reference
Related material:

For earlier Commonwealth Relations Office records relating to the first application to join the European Economic Community see DO 159
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EC file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Office, Common Market Department, 1967-1968
Physical description: 102 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Administrative / biographical background:

During the United Kingdom's first, unsuccessful application to join the European Economic Community, a separate Common Market Department had been established in the Commonwealth Relations Office to consider policy matters affecting other Commonwealth states should the United Kingdom have joined.

The same pattern was followed in the Commonwealth Office when the United Kingdom renewed its application in 1967, and a second Common Market Department was established. This remained in place until the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968, when responsibility for Commonwealth relations and the Community passed to the European Economic Integration Department, formed from the respective Commonwealth Office and Foreign Office departments which had previously been dealing with the issue in tandem.

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