TRUM TIR DASKET ** MECRANTON WHICH APPETED
THER MFA SUPPLIERS.
6 DENIAU (FRANCE) REMINDED THE COUNCIL THAT FRANCE'S AGREEMENT TO THE ARRANGEMENT WITH PORTUGAL HAD BEEN CONDITIONAL ON TWO POINTS:
AT FRANCE SHOULD BE ASSURED OF COMPENSATION IN 1979 AND BEYOND FOR THE PRICE SHE HAD ACCEPTED IN THE PORTUGUESE DEAL: AND THAT THE COMMISSION WOULD TAKE FIRM ACTION TO PREVENT IMPORTS FROM GREECE EXCEEDING THE NOTIFIED LEVELS IN FRANCE. ON NEITHER POINT WAS HE SATISFIED. THE COMMISSION SHOULD THEREFORE AT ONCE TAKE THE MEASURES IN THEIR POWER TO ENSURE RESPECT OF THE 20 DECEMBER COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS. THE TURKISH INDUSTRY WERE NOW SHOWING SIGNS OF RENEGING ON THEIR AGREEMENT: IF THE COMMISSION DID NOT SHOW FIRMNESS ON GREECE, THEY WOULD FIND THEMSELVES HAVING TO ACT AGAINST A GROWING NUMBER OF PREFERENTI AL SUPPLIERS.
7. SENSA (ITALY) WARNED SIMILARLY THAT WEAKNESS WITH PORTUGAL WOULD SET A BAD EXAMPLE TO OTHER SUPPLIERS. HE INVITED THE COMMISSION TO
ASSUME THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES AND TAKE THE NECESSARY SAFEGUARD
MEASURES.
8. REPLYING, COMMISSIONER HAFERKAMP REITERATED THAT THE COMMISSION WOULD DO EVERYTHING NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THE UNDERTAKINGS MADE ON
DECEMBER. ON GREECE, THE COMMISSION WOULD ACT RAPIDLY TO TAKE THE RECESSARY MEASURES, IN THE FIRST INSTANCE FOR THOSE PRODUCTS WHERE AGREED LEVELS HAD ALREADY BEEN BREACHED. ON PORTUGAL, A NUMBER OF TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS HAD BEEN HELD WHICH SHOULD MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR OUTSTANDING RESERVES TO BE LIFTED EXCEPT THAT THESE KERE BASED ON DIFFICULTIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREAS AS A WHOLE, AND WERE THEREFORE NOT SUSCEPTIBLE TO SOLUTION SIMPLY WITH PORTUGAL. DI SCUSSIONS WITH SPAIN WOULD BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK, IN THE HOPE OF PROVIDING A HIGHER DEGREE OF SECURITY FOR COMMUNITY INDUSTRIES. AS FOR TURKEY, THE COMMUNITY HAD THE OPTION OF RECOURSE TO THE SAFEGUARD CLAUSE IF OR WHEN THE NECESSARY CONDITIONS WERE MET. HAFERKAMP CONCLUDED BY PROMISING THAT THE COUNCIL WOULD SHORTLY BE SEIZED OF COMMISSION PROPOSALS FOR MANAGING THE AGREEMENTS THAT WOULD PROVIDE MUCH GREATER SECURITY IN THE AREA OF MEDITERRANEAN TEXTILES IF DIFFICULTIES AROSE.
9. SUPPORTED BY DENI AU, MR DELL INTERVENED TWICE MORE TO SEEK FURTHER PRECISION FROM THE COMMISSION. HOW QUICKLY WOULD THE COMMISSION ACT ON THE PRODUCTS WHICH HAD ALREADY EXCEEDED THE CEILING? AND ON THE REMAINING PRODUCTS? IT WAS UNSATISFACTORY TO DO NOTHING UNTIL FURTHER PRODUCTS HAD BREACHED THE CEILING. HE ALSO SOUGHT AN ANSWER ON THE BASKET EXTRACTOR MECHANISM: THE COMMUNITY HAD NOT ASKED A LARGE NUMBER OF LDC'S TO ACCEPT RESTRICTIONS ON THEIR EXPORTS IN ORDER FOR THIS SLACK TO BE TAKEN UP BY MEDITERRANEAN