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(Annex V)
XIII.
M. BRENIER'S PROPOSAL
The principal characteristic of M. Brenior's
plan which is very similar to the French plan, but contains more
detailed provisions is a system of a very Etrict control which,
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in its author's view, would result in an indirect limitation of the
raw products and drugs in question to legitimato medical and scien-
tific meds alone. M. Brenier emphasises the fact that such lim-
tation, by whatever method it is attained, is the essential purpose
to be aimed at, and is much more important than the method itself.
He does not believe in the practicability of rationing, especially
when the rations have perpetually to be revised.
The Note reviews the two aspects of the problem and shows:
(1) How a country could be made to receive and allow to remain
in circulation within its territories only the quantities
corresponding to its own legitimate medical and scientific needs;
(2) How a country could be prevented from sending to other coun-
tries quentities exceeding the legitimate medical and scientific
needs of the latter.
The measures by which these two needs can be attained may be
gummarised as followu : (1) Strict supervision of the persons
licensed to import and export (2) strict supervision of ports
and frontier towns by which the products in question can enter a
country; these products must always bo enclosed in spocial
packagee; (3) by rendering it compulsory to store these pro-
ducts in special warehouses in ports and frontier towns and even
in the interior of the country (cf. tobacco in France). (4)
Movement of the produote in question when coming from abroad to
be permitted only under the system of the "acquit à caution" with
cash deposit. (5) Registers to be kept in the regula ti an form. (6) Limitation of quantities importod, (tho figure to be volun-
tarily chosen on the basis of what the investigati ons of the