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Enlargement Negotiations

Meeting of Deputies: 17 November

Dependent Territories

Sachs said that there was nothing of substance to report. There had however been a number of procedural steps:

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(ii)

Hong Kong. The Community working group had begun the study of this question. It had held one meeting and

The working group another would be held this week.

He could not say when the would then report to the Six. question would be ready to come up in the Deputies.

Gibraltar. Here again a working group had begun to study the consequences of the special customs status of the territory.

They were awaiting further information from

the Commission.

(iii) Other dependent territories. There had been a fairly

thorough discussion between UK and Commission experts. A number of questions had been answered and some problems looked clearer. The discussion had also revealed a number of additional fields where clarifiction was need-

This ed and written material had been promised. question was not yet ready to be brought back to the Deputies.

2. I said that I hoped the Community's work on Hong Kong and

As to the material we had Gibraltar could progress rapidly. promised to provide on the other dependent territories, this would be submitted as soon as possible.

Sir C. O'Neill

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