Having regard to the Resolution of the Council of 21st January 1975 Establishing a Committee on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises (hereinafter called the "Committee") and, in particular, paragraph 2 thereof [C(74) 247 (Final)];

Taking note of the Declaration by the Governments of OECD Member countries of 21st June, 1976 on international investment incentives and disincentives; On the proposal of the Committee on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises [C(76) 99];

DECIDES

1. Consultations will take place in the framework of the Committee at the request of a Member country which considers that its interests may be adversely affected by the impact on its flow of international direct investments of measures taken by another Member country specifically designed to provide incentives or disincentives for international direct investment. Having full regard to the national economic objectives of the measures and without prejudice to policies designed to redress regional imbalances, the purpose of the consultations will be to examine the possibility of reducing such effects to a minimum.

2. Member countries shall supply, under the consultation procedures, all permissible information relating to any measures being the subject of the consultation.

3. This Decision will be reviewed within a period of three years. The Committee shall make proposals for this purpose as appropriate.

BIOGRAPHIES

EUROPEAN PARTICIPANTS

GÉRARD BORDU (replacing Mr. Ansart), born April 21, 1928, in Melun, France. Member of the Parti communiste francais, Assemblee Nationale; Member of the Communist Party of the European Parliament. Vice president of the European Parliament. Member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

PIERRE-BERNARD COUSTE, born June 29, 1920, in Rochefort-Sur-Mer, France. Member of the Union des Democrates pour la Republique Party (UDR), Assemblée Nationale; Member of the Group of European Progressive Democrats (DEP) of the European Parliament. Member of the Political Affairs Committee, the Committees on Economic and Monetary Affairs, on External Economic Relations, and the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the EEC-Turkey Association. ACHILLE CORONA, born July 30, 1914, in Rome, Italy. Member of the Partito Socialista italiano (PSI), Senato della Repubblica; Member of the Socialist Group of the European Parliament. Vice President of the European Parliament. Member of the Political Affairs Committee, the Committee on Development and Cooperation, and the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the EEC-Turkey Association.

PETER CORTERIER, born June 19, 1936, in Karlsruhe, Germany. Member of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD), Deutscher Bundestag; Member of the Socialist Group of the European Parliament. Member of the Political Affairs Committee, the Committee on External Economic Relations, and the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the EEC-Greece Association.

MAURICE FAURE, born January 2, 1922, in Azerat, France. Member of the Mouvement des radicaux de gauche, Assemblée Nationale; Member of the Socialist Group of the European Parliament. Member of the Political Affairs Committee and the Committee on Budgets.

AART GEURTSEN, born January 17, 1926, in Schiedam, Netherlands. Member of the Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie, Tweede Kamer der StatenGeneraal; Member of the Liberal and Allies Group of the European Parliament. Member of the Legal Affairs Committee, and the Committee on Social Affairs. ROGER HOUDET, born June 14, 1899, in Angers, France. Member of the Républicains Indépendants, Senate; Member of the Liberal and Allies Group of the European Parliament. Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture: Member of the Committee on Regional Policy, Regional Planning and Transport. NORBERT HOUGARDY, born November 1, 1909, in Etterbeek, Belgium. Member of the Parti de la liberté et du progrès, Senate; Vice-Chairman of the Liberal and Allies Group of the European Parliament. Member of the Committees on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and on Energy and Research.

HANS-EDGAR JAHN, born November 21, 1914, in Neustettin (Pomerania). Studied history, law, and political science in Berlin and Graz. Doctorate in political sciences. War service. Author and publisher since 1947. Chairman of "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Demokratischer Kreise" 1951-69. Vice chairman of the refugee federation. Member of CDU since 1947. CDU Land Chairman for Brunswick and Member of the CDU Land executive for Lower Saxony. Member of Bundestag since 1965. Member of the European Parliament since January 1970. LIAM KAVANAGH, born February 9, 1335, in Wicklow, Ireland. Member of the Labour Party. Dáil Eireann; Member of the Socialist Group of the European Parliament. Member of the Committee on Social Affairs. Employment and Education and the Committee on Regional Policy, Regional Planning and Transport. JAN DE KONIG, born August 31, 1926. in Zwartsluis, Netherlands. Member of the Anti-revolutionaire partij, Tweede Kamer de Staten-Generaal. Member of the Christian-Democratic Group of the European Parliament. Member of the Committee on Agriculture, on External Economic Relations, and the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the EEC-Greece Association.

ERWIN LANGE, born May 10, 1914, in Essen, Germany. Member of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD), Deutscher Bundestag. Member of the Socialist Group of the European Parliament. Chairman of the Committee on Budgets; member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

BRIAN J. LENIHAN, born November 17, 1930, in Dundalk, Ireland. Member of the Fianna Fail Party, Seaad Eireann; Vice-Chairman of the Group of European Progressive Democrats of the European Parliament. Vice Chairman of the Political Affairs Committee.

CHARLES B. MACDONALD, born June 11, 1935, in Larchfield, Ireland. Member of the Fine Gael Party, Dail Eireann; Member of the Restricted Bureau of the Christian-Democratic Group of the European Parliament. Vice Chairman of the Committee on Regional Policy, Regional Planning and Transport; member of the Committee on Agriculture, and the Committee on Rules and Procedure and Petitions.

TOM NORMANTON, born March 12, 1917, in Rochdale, United Kingdom. Member of the Conservative Party, House of Commons. Member of the European Conservative Group of the European Parliament. Vice Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Research; member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

FERRUCCIO PISONI, born August 6, 1936, in Sarche di Calavino (Trento), Italy. Member of the Democrazia Cristiani, Camera dei Deputati; member of the Christian-Democratic Group of the European Parliament. Member of the Committee on Social Affairs, Employment and Education, the Committee on Energy and Research, and the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the EECTurkey Association.

JOHN LESLIE PRESCOTT, born May 31, 1938, in Prestatyn, United Kingdom. Member of the Labour Party, House of Commons; member of the Bureau of the Socialist Group of the European Parliament. Member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and the Committee on Social Affairs, Employment and Eduction.

JAMES SCOTT-HOPKINS, born November 29, 1921, in London, United Kingdom. Member of the Conservative Party, House of Commons; Vice Chairman of the European Conservative Group of the European Parliament. Vice Chairman of the Committee on External Economic Relations. Member of the Political Affairs Committee, and the Committee on Agriculture.

MARIO VETRONE, born January 26, 1914, in Benevento, Italy. Member of the Democrazia Cristiana, Camera Die Deputati; member of the ChristianDemocratic Group of the European Parliament. Vice Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture; member of the Committee on External Economic Relations, and the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the EEC-Greece Association.

AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS

BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, Democrat, of Elmhurst, Long Island, N.Y.; born in New York City, N.Y., June 8, 1923; educated in the public schools of the city of New York; attended Long Island University and City College; L.L.B. Brooklyn Law School (1949), L.L.M. New York University (1952); married Lila Moskowitz, two children-Debra and Edward: attorney, admitted to New York Bar 1949; admitted to practice before United States Supreme Court 1954; served in United States Army March 1943 to January 1946, 18 months in Iceland; elected as Democrat-Liberal to the 87th Congress in special election February 20, 1962; reelected to the 88th, 89th, 90th, 91st, 92d, 93d, and 94th Congresses; appointed member of National Commission on Food Marketing during 88th and 89th Congresses.

DONALD MACKAY FRASER, Democratic-Farmer-Labor, of Minneapolis. Minn.; attorney and former State senator 1954-62; born in Minneapolis, February 20, 1924; educated in Minneapolis public schools and University of Minnesota, B.A., cum laude, 1944. L.L.B., 1948; served in Pacific Theater, World War II; 1969-71-chairman, Democratic Study Group; chairman, Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection; Democratic Advisory Council; vice chairman of the Commission on the Democratic Selection of Presidential Nominees, 1968; participating member, Anglo-American Parliamentary Conference on Africa, 1964 to present; active in D.F.L. Party since 1947; chairman, Minnesota Citizens for Kennedy, 1960; former officer, Minneapolis Foreign Policy Association;

Minneapolis Citizens' League; Minneapolis Citizens' Committee on Public Education; delegate to 1972 and 1973 Conference on Disarmament; Congressional adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the U.N. Seabeds Committee; 1973 national chairman, Americans for Democratic Action; married to former Arvonne Skelton; six children (one deceased); partner in former firm of Lindquist, Fraser & Magnuson; elected to the 88th Congress November 6, 1962; reelected to the 89th, 90th, 91st, 92d, 93d, and 94th Congresses.

LEO J. RYAN, Democrat, of South San Francisco; born in Lincoln, Nebr., May 5, 1925; M.S., Creighton University, 1951; enlisted in U.S. Navy, 1943, served in submarine service; teacher; school administrator; appointed to South San Francisco Recreation Commission; elected city councilman and served as mayor; authored book entitled "Understanding California Government and Politics"; also edited the book "The USA: From Where We Stand"; elected to California State Assembly, 1962; elected to the 93d Congress, November 7, 1972; reelected to the 94th Congress.

STEPHEN J. SOLARZ, Democrat, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; born in New York City, September 12, 1940; attended New York public schools; graduated from Brandeis University, received master's degree in public law and government from Columbia University; elected to New York State Assembly, three terms, 1968 through 1972; ranking minority member, Higher Education Committee; member: Executive Board of American Jewish Congress, League School for Seriously Disturbed Children, B'nai B'rith; married to the former Nina Koldin; two children: Randy and Lisa; elected to the 94th Congress on November 5, 1974; member, International Relations Committee (Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Subcommittee on International Resources, Food, and Energy), Post Office and Civil Service Committee (Subcommittee on Manpower and Civil Service, Subcommittee on Employee Political Rights and Intergovernmental Property); member: DSG, Members of Congress for Peace through Law, Environmental Study.

GUS YATRON, Democrat, of Reading, Pa.; born in Reading, October 16, 1927; son of George H. and Theano (Lazos) Yatron; graduated from Reading High School; was president of the student body; Kutztown State Teachers College; was active in athletics, boxed professionally as a heavyweight while going to college and lettered in varsity football; was a successful businessman in Reading before elected to the U.S. Congress; entered politics in 1955 with a successful bid for a 6-year term on Reading School Board, which includes the Reading Publie Museum and Art Gallery; member of the Reading Hospital Board of Managers; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1956 and 1958; elected to three consecutive terms to the Pennsylvania State Senate, 1960–66; elected to the 91st Congress, November 5, 1968; reelected to the 92d, 93d, and 94th Congresses; spoke before the European Parliament, 1973 and 1974; presented a major white paper on NATO Burden-Sharing Resolution; resides in Reading; married to the former Millie Menzies; two children; George (a law student at Georgetown) and Theana (a junior at the University of Maryland); serves on the House International Relations Committee.

JAMES P. JOHNSON, Republican, of Fort Collins, Colo.; born in Yankton, S. Dak., June 2, 1930; B.A., Northwestern University, 1952; LL.B., University of Colorado, 1959; served in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1952-56; prosecuting attorney, Eighth Judicial District, Colorado; municipal judge, Ault, Colo., 1962-65; member, Pondre R-1 School Board,, Fort Collins, Colo., 1969-71; president, Larimer County Bar Association; elder, First United Presbyterian Church, Fort Collins, Colo.; member: board of trustees, San Francisco Theological Seminary; board of directors, Fort Collins, Colo., Chamber of Commerce, 1968-70; charter member, Dean's Law Club, University of Colorado; married Nancy Brown of Oconomwoc, Wis., 1952; three children: Dea Lynn, Julie Conner, and Drake Bartel; elected to the 93d Congress, November 7, 1972; reelected to the 94th Congress, November 6, 1974.

RICHARD M. NOLAN, Democrat-Farmer-Labor, of Waite Park, Minn.; born in Brainerd, Minn., December 17, 1943; married, the former Marjorie Langer; four children: Michael, Leah, John, and Katherine; attended St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn., 1962; B.A., political science, University of Minnesota, 1966; postgraduate work in public administration and public policy formation at the University of Maryland, 1967; educational director of Headstart for three central Minnesota counties, 1968; curriculum coordinator for Adult Basic Education for Little Falls School District, 1968; social studies teacher in Royal

ton, Minn., 1968-69; project coordinator for the Center for the Study of Local Government at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., 1971; staff assistant to U.S. Senator Walter F. Mondale, 1966-68; elected to Minnesota House of Representatives in 1968 and reelected in 1970; Federal/State coordinator for the Minnesota House of Representatives 1973 legislative session; general labor at United Parcel Services, 1964-66; member of Teamsters Union; administrative assistant to the senior vice president of Fingerhut Corp., 1973-74; elected to the 94th Congress, November 5, 1974.

JOHN WILLIAM STANTON, Republican, of Paineville, Ohio; born in Painsville February 20, 1924; graduated from Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind., in 1942; entered the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in July 1942; left studies to enter the U.S. Army in December 1942; served overseas in the Pacific theater for 33 months and discharged as a captain January 1, 1946; reentered Georgetown University, majored in government and economics, and received B.S. degree in 1949; member, St. Mary's Catholic Church in Painesville; Lake County commissioner 1956–64; married December 3, 1966, to the former Peggy Smeeton; one daughter, Kelly Marie, born November 11, 1967; elected to the 89th Congress, November 3, 1964; reelected to each succeeding Congresses.

HERMAN BADILLO, Democrat-Liberal, of the Bronx, N.Y.; born in Caguas, P.R., August 21, 1929, emigrated to New York City at age of 11; first person of Puerto Rican birth to sit with a vote in the Congress of the United States; educated in Puerto Rico and New York City public schools; graduated magna cum laude from City College of New York in 1951 with a bachelor of business administration degree (majored in economics and accounting) and cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 1954 where he received the first scholarship prize, was class valedictorian and a member of the Law Review, admitted to the New York Bar, 1955, has practiced law in New York City; became certified public accountant, 1956; appointed deputy commissioner, New York City Department of Real Estate by Mayor Robert Wagner, January 1962, Commissioner of New York City Department of Housing Relocation, November 1962 to August 1965; elected borough president of the Bronx, November 1965 to December 1969; adjunct professor at Fordham University's Graduate School of Urban Education, 1970 to present; board member, Mount Sinai Hospital, as well as other civie organizations in New York City; recipient, honorary doctor of law degree, City College of New York; author, "A Bill of No Rights: Attica and the American Prison System," 1972; married Irma Deutsch, May 7, 1961; three children: David, Mark, and Loren; elected to the 92d Congress November 3, 1970 re-elected to 93d and 94th Congresses.

WILLIAM LEONARD HUNGATE, Democrat, of Troy, Mo.; born in Benton, Ill., December 14, 1922; son of the late Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Hungate of Bowling Green, Mo.; attended public schools in Bowling Green, Mo.; Central Methodist College; University of Michigan; graduated from Missouri University, A.B. degree, 1943; and Harvard Law School, LL.B. degree, 1948; Culver Stockton College (honorary); partner in the law firm of Hungate & Grewach, Troy, Mo., 1956-68, admitted to practice in the courts of Missouri, Illinois, District of Columbia, and before the Supreme Court of the United States; received a bicentennial award from the St. Louis Bar Association for outstanding achievement in public service; served three terms as prosecuting attorney of Lincoln County, and special assistant to the attorney general, 1958-64; a veteran of World War II, served in Europe as a private, first class, with the 95th Infantry Division; past lieutenant governor of Kiwanis International Division; past president, Harvard Law School Association of Missouri, 1962-64; past chairman of the board. First Christian Church, Troy, Mo.; member, American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; ASCAP; Masons; Shriners; board of trustees, William Woods College, Fulton, Mo.; in 1956 did research work with the American Bar Foundation in its "Survey of the Administration of Criminal Justice"; married Dorothy N. Wilson of Cyrene, Mo.; two children, David and Kay (Mrs. Branson L. Wood III); elected to the 88th Congress, November 3, 1964, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Clarence Cannon; reelected to the 89th, 90th, 91st, 92d, 93d, and 94th Congresses; member, House Judiciary Committee, chairman, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice; Committee on Small Business, chairman, Subcommittee on Regulatory Agencies.

BILL ARCHER, Republican, of Houston, Tex.; born in Houston, Tex., March 22, 1928; graduated from St. Thomas High School, salutatorian, 1945;