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(b) Common administration procedure for import quotas. regulation establishes common rules for the administration of quotas and procedures for allocating the quotas agreed upon. It therefore makes possible the implementation of the decisions on the protection of the Community, their object being to enable the Council to establish quantitative Community quotas, either autonomously or through negotiations with the Member States. A Committee for the administration of quotas is to be set up. will be manned by representatives of the Member States, with a Commission representative in the chair.
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(c) A special procedure. This regulation will form a dynamic component of commercial policy: the regulation lays down that those products which, at the outset, can be neither liberalized nor allocated a quota throughout the Community should be watched closely and then, according to the information acquired, they can
Desides either be finally liberalized or allocated a quota. these alternatives there exists a third possibility for trade in these particular products, this is to make special arrangements with the non-member countries concerned, especially as to the prices to be charged and the quantities to be exported. the task of the Community institutions to determine the products
The and countries to be included in this special procedure. regulation specifies that a Consultative Committee shall be set up.
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The regulations apply to all products. agricultural products their geographic application is general. The same holds good in respect of other products except in cases where special rules become necessary because of a particular economic or political situation in certain non-member countries. An attempt must be made to find a solution to this problem before the end of the transitory period.
Besides this, it should be stressed that there is still much work to be done in several important branches of commercial policy, particularly:
(i) Overall export policy (export aid, credit insurance, etc.);
(ii) The question of "active commercial policy", that is action
to be taken if non-member countries importing Community products adopt abnormal attitudes or, more specifically, discriminate against such products.
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