Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Dieter Stiefel, Alice Teichova (Hrsg.): Sonderband 9. „Zarte Bande” – Österreich und die europäischen planwirtschaftlichen Länder / „Delicate Relationships” – Austria and Europe’s Planned Economies (2006)
Žarko Lazarević /Jože Prinčič: Slovene-Austrian Economic Relations, 1945-1991 (A View from Slovenia)
Zarko Lazarev ic/Joie PrinCiC well as on cooperation with Austria. It contains data on exports-imports flows, trade plans, payments, foreign exchange transactions, import licences and trade represent- tations in Austria. A mass of materials related to Austria from the period 1953-1970 is available in the fond of the Federal Executive Council (the government), which is properly organised and easily accessible through a comprehensive inventory. It includes various plans of agreements, protocols on cooperation, on the scope and structure of trade, turnover, abolition of visas, employment of Yugoslav workers in Austria and their social insurance, cross-border cooperation, exchange through fairs, etc. Similar materials can also be found in the department which used to be in charge of cooperation with EFTA countries. Within the Federal Executive Council, the Federal Secretariat for International Trade used to be responsible for international economic cooperation. The materials are available only for the period 1956-1966, after which this body was reorganised and renamed into a Federal Secretariat for International Economic Relations. The Secretariat’s fond comprises documents from the period 1966-1997. Both comprehensive fonds have basic inventories, but are still about to be processed in detail according to archiving rules. They contain documents revealing data on international economic cooperation: agreements on trade and economic cooperation, trade balances with individual countries, scientific and technical cooperation, establishing joint ventures, representations, licences, transport and forwarding, credit transactions, balances of payment, payment transactions, foreign exchange system, etc. It should be noted at this point that in the 1990s, the documents from this fond relating to the period before the break-up of the former Yugoslavia were classified by individual republics. This means that all the documents related to one republic were collected under this republic. In Slovenia's fond, we can thus find agreements on long-term economic cooperation, foreign investment in Slovenia and investment of Slovenian companies abroad, on business and technical cooperation, on operation of Slovenian companies abroad, on mixed enterprises, on activities of foreign companies in Slovenia, etc. The documents on Slovenia's economic relations with Austria can also be found in the fonds held by economic interest associations. The Federal Chamber of International Trade (1952—1963) thus associated companies which had their business partners abroad. Within this association, companies defended their interests, obtained import or export licences, sought information on foreign partners, and solved problems related to customs or to implementation of international trade and economic agreements. In the late 1970s, Interest Grouping for International Economic Relations was established (1978-1985). The fond of this association contains the memos from meetings of individual committees (committee for promotion of international economic cooperation, for balance of payments and foreign exchange balance, for foreign exchange system and general affairs), where different aspects of international economic cooperation were 234
