Brussels, 31/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - The seven bilateral agreements concluded between the EU and Switzerland take effect on Saturday 1 June. They relate to the free movement of persons, air transport, rail and road transport, trade in agriculture, mutual recognition of evaluations of conformity, public procurement and scientific and technical co-operation. On that occasion, the European Commissioner for external relations, Chris Patten recalled that he hoped that negotiations on co-operation against fraud would be "rapidly concluded" and that negotiations of the tax of savings would be "launched immediately". The Commission has a negotiating brief for these two issues, and has just presented the Council with draft briefs for four other sectors: Schengen, asylum, services, audio-visual (see EUROPE of 10 April, p.13). Switzerland wants a global negotiation for all these issues. Discussions on fraud are excessively difficult (EUROPE of 20 April, p.7).