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OF 2314OOZ SEPTEMBER 86
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INFO ROUTINE COPENHAGEN, THE HAGUE, ROME, DUBLIN, PARIS, BONN INFO ROUTINE LUXEMBOURG, ATHENS, LISBON, MADRID, UKMIS VIENNA INFO ROUTINE SINGAPORE, MANILA, EASTERN EUROPEAN POSTS
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AD HOC WORKING GROUP 23 SEPTEMBER: POST CHERNOBYL FOOD
RESTRICTIONS: SUCCESSOR TO REGULATION 1707/86
SUMMARY
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1. COMMISSION REVEALS THAT PROCEDURES FOR ARRIVAL AT PERMANENT
FOOD CONTAMINATION STANDARDS WILL CERTAINLY TAKE LONGER THAN 4
MONTHS PROPOSED AND MAY WELL TAKE UP TO 9 MONTHS.
2. WIDESPREAD SUPPORT FOR COMMISSION PROPOSAL TO EXTEND SCOPE OF
FOOTNOTE TO ARTICLE 3 WITH MODALITIES OF IMPLEMENTATION REFERRED TO
ARTICLE 6 GROUP.
3. AGREEMENT TO RECOMMEND TO COREPER LINE FOR COMMUNITY TO TAKE
WITH THIRD COUNTRIES.
4. WHOLE PACKAGE FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION AT COREPER ON 25
SEPTEMBER. INSTRUCTIONS REQUIRED.
DETAIL
DURATION OF PROLONGATION
5. UNDER PRESSURE FROM FRANCE AND THE UK, THE COMMISSION SAID
THAT IT WAS NOT ENTIRELY CLEAR WHAT PROCEDURE THEY WOULD USE TO
ACHIEVE A PERMANENT REPLACEMENT FOR THE EXISTING REGULATION. THE
ARTICLE 31 COMMITTEE HAD COME UP WITH AN INTERIM REPORT (WHICH THEY
AGREED TO CIRCULATE ON AN INFORMAL BASIS) PROPOSING SOME EMERGENCY REFERENCE LEVELS. BUT THESE, FROM WHICH IN ANY CASE 3 MEMBERS OF THE ARTICLE 31 COMMITTEE HAD DISSENTED, WERE NOT CONTAMINATION STANDARDS FOR TRADE PURPOSES. THEIR APPLICATION DEPENDED UPON THE PRECISE CIRCUMSTANCES, NATURE OF THE ACCIDENT CONCERNED, ETC. THIS INTERIM REPORT WOULD BE CONSIDERED BY THE COMMISSION'S GROUP OF WISE
MEN BEGINNING ON 27 SEPTEMBER AND WOULD THEN GO FOR FINALISATION
BACK TO THE ARTICLE 31 COMMITTEE. THIS PROCESS MIGHT BE CAPABLE OF
SOME ACCELERATION BUT NOT MUCH. THE COMMISSION WAS THEREFORE
UNLIKELY TO BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH A PROPOSAL BEFORE THE END OF THE
YEAR AND HAD STILL NOT DECIDED WHAT WAS THE RIGHT LEGAL FORM FOR
THIS. IT MIGHT BE AN ADDITION TO THE EURATOM BASIC STANDARDS BUT
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