9. Other supplying countries
The first step towards uniformi- sation, in our view, should be full notification by the Member States to the Commission of all existing bilateral agreements and all quantitative restraints of whatever kind, including global import quotas. Any other measures or practices (such as minimum import price schemes) which tend to limit low-cost imports should also be notified. The Community should then consider as it will, under the provisions of the new international agreement, be obliged to do how these restrictions can be abolished or amended to bring them into line with the criteria of the agreement. Where a situation of actual or threatened market disruption exists in the Community as a whole, a mandate should be given to the Commission to negotiate new bilateral agreements and existing national restrictions should be phased out. The new agreements should, as
far as possible, be drawn up in terms of quantitative limits for the whole Community, without sub-division into Member State's shares, or with no more than generous national sub-limits or back- stops, the sum of which would greatly exceed the Community quota. Where on the other hand the market disruption is confined to one or only a few Member States, the objective of liberalisation, including free circulation of the products in question within the Community, should be firmly adopted, and the Member States should be authorised by the Community to introduce or maintain temporary unilateral restraints until such time as the problems in that sector or region of the Community's textile industry have
been resolved.
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