RESTRICTED
3. THE COMMISSION PROMISED TO BRING FORWARD EARLY THIS WEEK A
PROPOSAL FOR THE COUNCIL REGULATION WHICH WILL REPLACE THE COMMISSION REGULATION AND THE COMMISSION DECISION WHICH HAVE BEEN.
THE LEGAL BASIS FOR RESTRAINTS ON IMPORTS FOR THE FIRST 6 WEEKS
OF THE YEAR. THE INTENTION TO AMALGAMATE THE TWO TEMPORARY INSTRUMENTS INTO ONE, AND FOR THE COMMISSION TO MAKE A FORMAL PRESENTATION TO THIS WEEK'S COREPER PART 1. THE ARTICLE 113
COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN ON THURSDAY AND WILL THEREFORE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CLEAR UP ANY TECHNICAL ERRORS THAT HAVE CREPT
INTO THE COMMISSION INSTRUMENTS.
C. PROBLEMS WITH PREFERENTIAL SUPPLIERS
4. THE COMMISSION AGAIN CAME UNDER PRESSSURE, NOTABLY FROM THE FRENCH, TO PRODUCE PRACTICAL AND EFFECTIVE PROPOSALS FOR THE SURVEILLANCE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE AGREEMENTS. MEMBER STATES' REPRESENTATIVES AGREED THAT IN THE CASE OF TURKEY, FOR INSTANCE, IT WOULD BE ADVISABLE TO WARN THE EXPORTERS WHEN THEIR SHIPMENTS OF A PARTICULAR CATEGORY HAD REACHED A GIVEN DANGER
LEVEL IN TERMS OF THE PERCENTAGE OF THE YEAR'S QUOTA, THEY SHOULD BE LEFT IN NO DOUBT THAT IF THEY CONTINUED TO SHIP AT THAT RATE THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE WOULD BE THE IMPOSITION BY THE COMMUNITY, ON THE STRENGTH OF THE SAFEGUARD CLAUSE IN THE COOPERATION AGREEMENT, OF A ZERO QUOTA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR. THE COMMISSION WILL TAKE THIS SUGGESTION INTO ACCOUNT WHEN PREPARING THE PAPER THAT THEY HAVE PROMISED FOR THIS WEEK ON THE PREFERENTIAL
PROBLEM.
5. THE COMMISSION ADDED THAT THE PROBLEM WITH TURKEY HAD NOW DIMINISHED: BUT THEY WERE STILL SETTING UP A MEETING WITH TURKISH REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE END OF THIS WEEK OR THE BEGINNING OF NEXT. THE COMMUNITY HAD TO TREAD CAREFULLY IN MANAGING ANY SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ON TURKISH EXPORTS: THE LEGAL JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS WAS AMBIGUOUS. ACCORDING TO ONE VIEW THE IMPOSITION OF SURVEILLANCE LICENSING WAS A MEASURE OF EQUIVALENT EFFECT TO THE IMPOSITION OF QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS AND WOULD ACCORDINGLY BE ILLEGAL UNDER THE ANKARA AGREEMENT. THIS WARNING WAS NOT HOWEVER TAKEN SERIOUSLY
BY THE COMMITTEE.
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RESTRIEMED
16. THERE HAVE