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Finally the d legati ma agreed to re-examine the questions referred to above

in order to define the attitude of the community to the countries eligible to enjoy

preferences.

b) Safond procedures

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This question occupied the attention of the delegations for a long time is

considered that the question of safeguard procedures constituted a determining

element on which depended the solutions which would be found to the problems

relating to beneficiary products and sountries. 11 the delegations did indeed

remark that an effective safeguard procedure, applicable in an autonɔwɔus way and

capable of being brought into effect ripidly, could consider bly reduce the doubts

felt by the Comuni's industries concerned about the preferential aystem (1).

In this connecti in a distinction ves made between sensitive products and other

products:

1) Sensitive prɔdlets

The delegati ɔns expresssù 4. favourablə reaction to the working hypothesis

advanced in this connection which provides for an automatic safegerá procedure

making it possible to suspend the preference as soon as imports ranch a

prode terminud cailing.

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However, hert.in hesitations bec me apparent relating both to the level

clifferential

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(unifora percentage of arcent mannins sording to sector) and to

the basic factors (cons wiption, Laporta) which it wis necessary to take into

account in order to determine this ceiling: in this connectim the Comission's

representative suggested that the ceiling could be deterained with reference

tɔ present iaports because of the technical difficulties in establishing

accurate dete, in particular in the case of consumption.

The French d·leg tion,

for its art, considered that it would be proferable to determine such a ceiling

with reference to consumption. Finally the Group agreed to study this question

further the besis of studies to be undertaken by the Member States and the

Commission gencies on the merits and demerits of the various methods on

(1) In addition, the delegitiɔns pointed out that it was necessary to study the

question of the consultati̟ms tɔ be arranged both between donɔr countries and with the developing countries.

CONFTUNTEL

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