Armonizacio?n de la Poli?tica Industrial en la Comunidad Europea

The Mercosur countries face the challenge of consolidating the progress madein the integration process and deepening this process in the direction of building a truecommon market. There is an issue that, in this sense, takes on special importance on thenegotiating agenda: the harmonization of microeconomic policies (industrial, commercial, technological and regional). The purpose of this paper is to analyze the way in which theharmonization of these policies was developed in the case of the European Communityto extract useful lessons to face this process in Mercosur. An attempt is made to analyzehow the conflicts generated around the following dilemmas were resolved in said experience:which policies should converge to ensure fair game rules in the regional market? Whatmethodology (explicit harmonization or institutional competence) is the most adequate toensure this convergence? What philosophy should guide the implementation of communitymicroeconomic policies? What is the role of directly supranational institutions in the harmonizationof policies and in the audit of national policies? JEL Classification: L52; F15.