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The main result is that the CMEA member states have made a big step forward in the realisation of the Comprehensive Programme of Integration which looked 15-20 years ahead and stipulated some 200 integration measures in the diverse fields. The activity of CMEA was enriched with new directions and new methods not known before. During the 1970s, the CMEA member states turned to an elaboration and realisation of a coordinated plan of integration measures for 1976-1980 and then for 1981-1985. They worked out and adopted long-range objective programmes of cooperation (LROPC) in energy and raw materials, machine-building and transport, agriculture and production of industrial goods for personal consumption.
Others, first of all the Mitterand government, have chosen the expansion of the economic role of the state. To counterbalance the recognized official doctrine of the 'common market', the concept of 'large-scale internal markets' as the basis for economic activity of EEC member countries, is put forward. Unresolved problems related directly to Community activity have accumulated. They are: protectionism and its negative consequences for competitiveness of West European industry; the need for revision of the Common Agricultural Policy; conflicts about the Community budget; aggravation of regional disparities as a consequence of a 'free market'; an apparent gap between the European monetary system and the lack of a common economic policy for the Community.
Sixteen thousand joint theoretical and applied research works were carried out. Integration gave a new impetus to the progress of science and new technology in the CMEA member states. CMEA and the member countries carried out intense activities in raising living levels, particularly supplies of food and durable goods. The combined supply of these products from the CMEA member states grew faster than their foreign trade turnover as a whole. A number of CMEA measures were directed towards further progress of the socialist market, stimulation of the exchange of specialised products (especially in machinebuilding), regulation of prices, credits, financial settlements etc.