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ADMINISTRATIVE OBSTACLES TO INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC 

 AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION 



International cooperation in scientific research and technological 

 development must be considered increasingly as a fundamental component of 

 world economic growth and for that reason deserves special attention from 

 the highest authorities. 



Although in most sectors the need to cooperate arises spontaneously between 

 research workers, the development of cooperation, on the other hand, 

 requires the presence of optimum conditions which, in most cases, only 

 governmental authorities are capable of creating. 



This is particularly true at administrative level, where numerous obstacles 

 hinder; in particular, freedom of trade in scientific and technical 

 equipment and instruments and exchanges of research personnel, both research 

 workers and technicians, or of scientific and technical information. The 

 national and international regulations, most of them laid down several 

 decades ago, are no longer in keeping with modern technological development 

 and, in the present case, form barriers that should be removed or at least 

 lowered in order to make possible and encourage expansion in international 

 scientific and technical cooperation. 



The working parties on High Energy Physics and controlled Thermonuclear 

 Fusion set up after the summit meeting of Heads of State and Government held 

 in Williamsburg, USA, in May 1983 considered that these obstacles should be 

 especially examined in order to determine and to suggest ways and means of 

 by-passing them. 



This report is the result of that examination with respect to the two areas 

 concerned. 



