This will be accompanied by enhanced mobility and people to people contacts (e.g. including through the possible establishment of mobility partnerships), economic integration through industrial cooperation, SME development, Foreign Direct Investment and increased trade relations with the EU (e.g. through the establishment of Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas and the conclusions of other agreements, e.g. in agriculture, services and establishment or Agreements on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial products for priority sectors), deeper s ...[+++]ector integration (e.g. through the integration in a pan-European energy market and the participation in EU programmes and agencies in accordance with the opening possibilities granted in each programmes and with the general guidelines regarding the participation in EU Agencies).

Firstly, I would like to stress that we must remember that many agreements with developed countries and sectoral agreements, such as those relating to textile products, agriculture and fisheries, do not yet contain such a clause, and that is clearly a deficiency.

H. whereas many agreements with developed countries and sectoral agreements, such as agreements on textiles, agriculture and fisheries, still lack this clause,

I. whereas many agreements with developed countries and sectoral agreements, such as agreements on textiles, agriculture and fisheries, still lack this clause,

These guidelines replace the Commission guidelines on the applicability of Article 81 of the EC Treaty to horizontal co-operation agreements (14) which were published by the Commission in 2001 and do not apply to the extent that sector specific rules apply as is the case for certain agreements with regard to agriculture (15), transport (16) or insurance (17).

Switzerland The Council adopted Decisions authorizing the Commission to negotiate bilateral agreements with Switzerland in the fields of: - free movement of persons - research and technological development - agriculture - mutual recognition in relation to conformity assessment - public procurement The Council adopted the following conclusions: "In adopting the negotiating directives for the negotiation of bilateral agreements with Switzerland in the fields of the free movement of persons, research, agriculture, mutual recognition in relation to conformity assessment and public procurement, the Council would point out that in the conclusi ...[+++]ons it adopted at its meetings on 8 and 9 November 1993 and 16 and 17 May 1994 it stressed that - it must be the Community's objective to secure a balance of mutual advantage within each sectoral agreement and between the various agreements; - it intends to make sure that, where necessary, there is an appropriate parallelism between the various sectoral agreements concerned.