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could be adopted.
Furthermore, the Commission's representative draw attention to the fact
that it would also be advantageous to consider the possibility of excluding
one or several countries for a particular product where it is ascertained that
this.or these countries are likely on their own to reach the calling laid down,
to the detriment of other less competitive developing countries.
ii) Non-sensitive products
The French delegation was of the opiniɔn that,1th for technical reasons (the co.crt of a sensitive product being rather fluid) and for political
ones (advantage of presenting a hɔwɔge équɛ system to the developing countries),
all products, sensitive and non-sensitive, needed to be subject to an automatic
safe; mrd procedure if, on the one hand, the objectives desired by the
developing countries were to be attained (amely: duty free treat.ut nd the
maximum limitation xcepting and, on the other, hamiliarint the
donor countries on void the uncertsinusulting from a non-autontic
sluse. Such a solution should alt entuil Vie est blishment of a complicated
administrative prosedure since the effective intransution of a triff quota
which would not be planned for proclèts other thin that gave rise to cart Lin
difficJties.
were to
The other.delegations expressed approval in principle of the working
hypothesis of the Commission.gencies which provics or duty free trentuant
together with a general safe i ri cl use for non-sensitive products. However,
delegutions L
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sert indicted that they cigo examine the possibility of idoptin
rapidly
a special procedure which ould make it pɔssible Avidy tɔ ward off) ny
specific
problems caused by working roducts.
2. Preliminary list of sensitive prolusta (1)
(1) The rapresent-tive of the Commission referred to the fact that the Commission
Agencies, in order to astablish the list of sensitive products, had been guided by the following criteria:
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adequate volume of trade (£100,000);
the fact of being included on the list of total or partial exceptions of the Kennedy count;
the existence of quantitative restrictions in ɔns or saver.l 1⁄4sabır States; the interests of the RANK.
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