Under an agreement reached by representatives of the eighteen Western European nations receiving Marshall Plan aid and voiced through the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, these countries will in the future pool much of their scientific and technical knowledge with the aim of mutually increasing productivity. The agreement was contained in two pronouncements issued by the council of the OEEC; the first calling for documents from each government on all scientific, technological, and economic aspects of industrial production; the second requesting member states to submit suggestions for cooperative research and development projects beyond the individual capacity of any single nation.

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