På forslag fra Kommissionen vedtog Rådet den 30. marts 1981 at Fællesskabet skal undertegne Den internationale Kakaooverenskomst uden derved at foregribe dens indgåelse på et senere tidspunkt.
On 17 March the Council endorsed certain Commission decisions by ruling that the Commission could supply Salvadorian refugees with an initial emergency food aid consignment of 1 050 tonnes of cereals equivalent in the form of maize and rice, without prejudice to the provision of further aid in the form of skimmed-milk powder (200 ton nes) and butteroil (120 tonnes).