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COUNCIL OF MINISTERS (FOREIGN AFFAIRS)
BRUSSELS, 19/20 SEPTEMBER 1977
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PROPOSAL FOR BILATERAL TEXTILES AGREEMENTS
Discussion Document:
References:
COM(77)430: Commission recommendation
on negotiating directives for
bilateral agreements under the Multi- Fibre Arrangement.
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INTRODUCTION
1.
The Commission will ask the Council to approve the
broad lines of its overall approach on future import
seels arrangements for textiles. It will eck the Council te
[ment to] agree the five points in section IV of the Discussion
Document. The most important of these, Point 5, would,
subject to subsequent resolution of the remaining problems,
give the Commission authority to open negotiations for
bilateral agreements with the Community's major supplying
countries. The breakdown of the quota figures between the
Community's various supplying countries, which will form
the core of the Commission's negotiating mandate with each
individual country, has not yet been completed. The break-
down will be submitted, after the Council, to the Member
States at Working Group and COREPER level.
LINE TO TAKE
2. The UK's overriding concerns for the Community's textile
approach are well known:
(a) any commitment to sign a renewed MFA must be
firmly conditional on full satisfaction in the
bilateral agreements;
/(b)