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COREPER (AMBASSADORS): 26 MAY.
2.9 MAY 1986
CHERNOBYL: EC FOOD BAN.
SUMMARY.
1. TEXT OF DRAFT REGULATION REPLACING BAN WITH NATIONAL CONTROLS
LARGELY AGREED. NATIONAL CERTIFICATION SYSTEMS INCLUDED IN TEXT.
DURATION TO 30 SEPTEMBER. LEGAL BASIS WHOLE TREATY.
2. QUESTION OF PERMITTED LEVELS REMAINS TO BE RESOLVED. PRESIDENCY
PROPOSES POLITICAL COMPROMISE OF 370 BQ/KG FOR MILK AND BABY FOOD
AND 600 BQ/KG FOR OTHER PRODUCTS. FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION ON 27 MAY.
DETAIL.
LEGAL BASIS.
3. RUTTEN (PRESIDENCY) SAID THAT SINCE THERE WAS OPPOSITION TO USE
OF ARTICLE 113 THE BASIS SHOULD BE 'VU LE TRAITE''.
AFTER A TOKEN PROTEST FROM THE COMMISSION, NO-ONE ELSE INTERVENED.
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL REGIMES.
4. I ARGUED THAT ADOPTION OF THIS REGULATION SHOULD NOT PRECLUDE THE
POSSIBILITY OF CHANGING THE LEVELS SET IN IT TO ACCORD WITH ANY
WHICH MIGHT EVENTUALLY BE ARRIVED AT FOR INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE. ALL
OTHER DELEGATIONS AGREED WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF THIS BUT A NUMBER
ARGUED THAT THE COMMUNITY SHOULD NOT DISPLAY ITS DIRTY LINEN BY
ADMITTING IN THE TEXT PROPER THAT WE CURRENTLY HAD NO AGREED INTRA-COMMUNITY STANDARD. I FINALLY ACCEPTED THAT THE POINT WOULD BE ADEQUATELY COVERED BY A GENERAL ENTRY IN THE PREAMBLE SUPPLEMENTED
BY A VERY SPECIFIC AGREED ENTRY IN THE MINUTES (TEXT BY BAG).
EXISTING NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY PROVISIONS.
5. IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION FROM LARSEN (DENMARK), BESELER (COMMISSION) MADE IT CLEAR THAT ARTICLE 2 MEANT THAT EXISTING NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY MEASURES (E.G. CUSTOMS PROCEDURES) NOT SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO CHERNOBYL WERE NOT AFFECTED BY THIS REGULATION. MEASURES SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO CHERNOBYL WERE HOWEVER SUPERSEDED BY IT. LARSEN INSISTED ON ENTERING A DANISH DECLARATION FOR THE MINUTES THAT THIS DID NOT PREJUDICE NATIONAL FREEDOM TO
REACT TO FUTURE NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS (COPY BY BAG).
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