Udział międzynarodowych ekonomicznych grup interesów w procesie decyzyjnym na szczeblu EWG

Abstract

Observation of the process of formation and consolidation of international economic groups of interests within th e EEC points at a relationship between this process and progress in the West European integration. An attempt could be made to explain the nature of this relationship by putting and answering the following questions: — what are the prerequisites of the interest displayed by international economic groups of interests in their participation in the decision-making process at the level of the institutions of European Community? — what is the access of these groups to the decision-making pirocess in the EEC? The answer to these questions is a task of the present article. It is also a starting point for explanation of the crucial issue concerning the analyzed problem,and namely — whether and to what extent activities of the groups of interests determine the contents and direction of integration processes within the EEC. The author analyzes two categories of prerequisites behind participation of international economic groups of interests in the decisionmaking process at th e EEC level, i.e. transfer of goals and competences of the economic policy into the supranational level, and desire of economic units associated in groups of interests to optimize external conditions of their functioning through ex tramarket activities.