The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation 
(O.E.E.C.) was constituted in Paris on 16th April, 1948. 
Its members are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, 
Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, the 
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, 
Trieste, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. The United 
States and Canada, although not members of the Organ- 
isation, participate in its work. At O.B.E.C.’s headquarters 
at the Chateau de la Muette, Paris, representatives of 
each of these countries meet to discuss their economic 
problems and to work out a common plan of action. It 
has been through O.E.E.C. that the national recovery 
programmes of the Member countries have been co- 
ordinated so as to ensure the most effective use of American 
aid. Among the measures that European countries have 
agreed in O.E.E.C. to adopt, have been the liberalisation 
of trade and payments and the setting up of a European 
Payments Union. 
