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INFO ROUTINE BONN, COPENHAGEN, DUBLIN, LUXEMBOURG, PARIS, THE HAGUE INFO ROUTINE LISBON, MADRID, ATHENS, ROME, UKDEL OECD, UKMIS VIENNA INFO ROUTINE WASHINGTON, STOCKHOLM, HELSINKI, MOSCOW, OSLO, PRAGUE INFO ROUTINE WARSAW, BUCHAREST, EAST BERLIN
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CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT : EC DISCUSSIONS
SUMMARY
1. BRIEF DISCUSSION UNDER OTHER BUSINESS AT THE INTERNAL MARKET AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS COUNCILS.
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2. AT THE INTERNAL MARKET COUNCIL, MARTIN (FRANCE) EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT THE RISK OF DISPARATE ACTIONS BY MEMBER STATES
ANY MEASURES SHOULD CONCERNING ALLEGEDLY CONTAMINATED FOODSTUFFS.
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BE STRICTLY JUSTIFIED, AND SHOULD NOT ACT AS BARRIERS TO TRADE. STRESSED THE NEED FOR AN URGENT CO-ORDINATED COMMUNITY POSITION. VAN EEKELEN (DUTCH PRESIDENCY) SAID THAT THE COMMISSION PROPOSALS ON THE COMMUNITY MEASURES (COM(86)276) HAD BEEN RECEIVED THAT MORNING. PRESIDENCY HAD ARRANGED FOR AN ATTACHES GROUP TO EXAMINE THEM AT ONCE, AND THEY INTENDED PUTTING THE CONCLUSIONS TO COREPER AT 11 A.M. ON 7 MAY, WITH A VIEW TO ANY INSTRUMENTS BEING ADOPTED BY WRITTEN PROCEDURE.
3. GOEBBELS (LUXEMBOURG) TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT THE ADEQUACY OF EURATOM CONTROLS, AND REFERRED TO A LETTER TO CLINTON DAVIS EALRIER THIS YEAR. VAN EEKELEN COMMENTED THAT THE PRESIDENCY HAD CONSIDERED CONVENING AN EMERGENCY EURATOM MEETING, BUT HAD TAKEN THE VIEW THAT THE ACTION ON CONTROLS AND NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES LAY WITH THE IAEA.
4. IN THE CONSUMER AFFAIRS COUNCIL, VAN ZEIL (PRESIDENCY) DREW ATTENTION TO THE CONSUMER INTERESTS INVOLVED IN THE AFTER-EFFECTS OF THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT. FOR THE UK, MR HOWARD WELCOMED THE WORK IN HAND IN COREPER ON POSSIBLE CO-ORDINATION OF A COMMUNITY RESPONSE, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE CONSUMER INTEREST. THE DETAILED
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