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MERCOSURIntroductionThe Sectoral Commission for MERCOSUR (COMISEC) was created on April 1, 1991 by Executive Decree No. 176/991. It is made up of presidency Representatives and Delegates from the Office of Planning and Budget sleeping accommodation of Industry of Uruguay National Chamber of Commerce Mercantile Chamber of Uruguay Unions (PIT/CNT) Rural Association of Uruguay Rural confederacy of Uruguay Agrarian Cooperatives Association State-owned Enterprises This decree entrusts COMISEC with the following functions a) Advise the Executive offshoot as regards the adoption of internal measures aimed at the application, pursuit and evaluation of the military operation of regional integration. b) Coordinate and supervise the performance of the subcommittees. c) Obtain and disseminate breeding on integration. For its part, Decree 175/991 dated April 1, 1991, created the Inter-Ministry Committee on MERCOSUR and gave the theater director of the MERCOSUR Sectoral Commission authori ty to do the following a) Plan and propose, to the Inter-Ministry Committee, measures necessary for the instrumentality of the internal aspects of the Common Market, paying special attention to the reconversion of economic activities and the adaptation of the country to the common market. b) Carry out the necessary surveys, and to request the alike technical assistance. Uruguay was the first country within MERCOSUR that developed this institutional twist - which is foreseen in the constitution - so that the different sectors involved could participate in the integration process. Some Argentine Provinces and some Brazilian States have implement institutional mechanisms in which the presence of their own social and economic agents is participatory. Paraguay has fair recently created, under the Ministry of Integration, the National Committee on Integration and has invited government representatives (ministries), business groups and unions to participate. One of the goa ls of COMISEC is to improve the knowledge of the productive sectors and to create mechanisms for the distribution of information throughout the country. In sum, COMISEC is an working environment where the Uruguayan cultured society can be represented in order to go around pursue, understand, and disseminate, in a timely manner, the key topics that are relevant to Uruguays future(a) with regard to its insertion in MERCOSUR. As Uruguayans, we all have our concerns in particular when we think of the size of our partners, Argentina and Brazil. However, we have already been associated with these countries for many historic period through preferential commercial agreements. MERCOSUR and Its Origins