included by virtue of Article 227(4),
Obviously was cannot claim that our colonies overseas have a similar relationship with the UK to those which form part of metropolitan France so they could not
be covered in the same way. [As
As I shall explain later]our dependencies
outside Europe are associated with the EC in exactly the same way as are the French overseas territories which do not form part of metropolitan France,
3. The essential point is that the inclusion of Gibraltar in the EC stemmed from the provisions of the original Treaty of Rome and not from any differentiation by the UK between the dependencies in its negotiations on accession.