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TO PRICRITY FCO TELNO 4685 OF 2 OCTOBER. 1973
YOUR TELEGRAMS NOS 1166 AND 1167: EEC TEXTILE POLICY,,
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1. THIS IS A WELL-CONCEIVED USE OF THE SUBTLETIES OF COMMUNITY
PROCEDURE, HOWEVER THE 'EXPOSE DES MOTIFS' AS DRAFTED WAS NOT IN
FACT IN THE REQUIRED FORM, AN EXPOSE DES MOTIFS WHICH ACCOMPANIES A DRAFT COUNCIL DECISION IS A STATEMENT BY THE COMMISSION ON ITS
RESPONSIBILITY, THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT BIND THE MEMBER STATES AND
UNLESS THE MEMBER STATES HAVE PREVIOUSLY AGREED TE IN REGULATIONS
OR OTHER COUNCIL DECISIONS IT IS NOT OPEN TO THE COMMISSION TO SAY
IN AN EXPOSE WHAT THE MEMBER STATES WILL OR WILL NOT DO. WE ACCORD-
INGLY REDRAFTED THE TEXTS AND DROPPED COPIES ON ERNST, MEYNELL AND TRAN (DGI) AND FRIZ, PACHT AND MALTZAHN (DG 111).
2. COPIES IN MIFT.
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3. WE DID NOT PUT IN DRAFT DECISIONS SINCE THESE FOLLOW NATURALLY
FROM THE LANGUAGE OF THE EXPOSE AND CAN BE DRAFTED AT CONVENIENCE.
4. IT IS NOT CRYSTAL CLEAR WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO SECURE THAT THE
TWO DECISIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN SIMULTANEOUSLY. THE ESSENTIAL POINT
OF TIMING IS RATHER THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE PREPARED TO ALLOW THE
DECISION TO BE TAKEN ON GPS UNTIL THE DECISION HAS BEEN TAKEN ON
THE PROGRAMME OF MEASURES AND TIME-TABLE' GIVING US WHAT WE WANT
ON TEXTILE POLICY GENERALLY,
FCO PLEASE PASS ADVANCE COPIES TO:-
FCO
HART.
DTI MISS LOWNE, HOPE (CT), MISS ELLIOTT (CRE), HAGESTADT.
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