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framework could be respected. We did not for example, like
t when poople rushed out of private meetings and said, socaking for themselvos, that our ideas were very disappoint- ing.
5. ir. Lardinois took up Dr. Rippon's point about fisheries. He said that the Community had been trying to make a fisheries rogulation since 1000 and that the consideration of a draft on 30 Juno was a genuine coincidence. The regulation would probably be decided next rock. But it would not be immutable. The Six would change it when the Four came in, thereby changing the market from an import to an export one. great deal remained to be negotiated with the Norwegians. The Norwegians might be given some exception as regards fishery limits North of Bergon, for example. He had told the Norwegians they might get an exception North of Hammerfest. Sir C. O'Neill said that we would thus expect a similar exception worth of Broadstairs. Ir. Rippon asked whether Mr. Lardinois could say publicly that the forthcoming fisheries regulation would be revised on the enlargement of the Community. Mr. Lardinois said that this was his own view and, so far as he knew, that of his agricultural colleagues. But the Ministars of Foreign Affairs might think differently. As for the possibility of the Community adopting other regulations during the negotiations, the more that the Six knew of the interests and wishes of the candidate countries the easier it would be to rosist demands for such regulations. He thought, for example, it very unlikely there would be one on bananas or sheep peat. But the Community could not stop doveloping, though this kind of question would be easier if there were "light and progress" in the enlargement negotiations.
3. Mr. Lardincis said that the differences between the British and community agricultural systems naturally concerned him post. The Ten Ministers of Agriculture should meet and work together as full members of the Community from
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