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CONFIDUCIAL
II. Industrial roducts
1. Safeguard rocedure and death of tariff cute
The majority of the deleg tions expressed approval of the sein
calines given below of a sefeguerð forwla applioable both to sensitive
end non-sensitive products (1). These delege tions infot considered that
bath for technical reasons (since the concept of sensitive roducts is
a fairly fluid one: of. questio.grek.ting to "potentiil" scnsitivity)
submitting
andoli tioal reasons (ússibility of Sum honugeneous procedure
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to the developing countries) it should le possible to rule all products
concisive end nor-zonbitive subject to an rutostic safegurd ploc-dure.
In fact, such an a promen woulų buke it possible on the ne hard to achieve
the objectives desired by the developing countries (i.e., genuine opportunities
for exparting and industrialisation, duty free entry and a minimum of
exceptions) and on the other hand to avoid the drebacke for the Community of a system based on a non-cutcratic sefound clrure (comperetively long
Corurity precedure; law suite possibly arising from application of a
non-automatic sofeguera cleuse).
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e) antit tave reciviction on rreferatul access
On this point the delegationsnade & distinction between the way
in which this formule would be applied externally and its operation within the Cortunity.
(1) Reservation by the Geran delegation with regard to the application
of such a formule to non-son.itive profucts. In order to frɑiliteto tle "subriscion" of the Community propocna to the developing countries, this delegation wondered whether it would not be preferable to rete in fredo: f entry for these products corb ned with a general safeguard clause,
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