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5. In the next paragraph on beneficiaries, the subject also of your memorandum 143, you raise the question whether there It will will ever be any proper discussion within the OECD. of course be our concern to make sure that there is e full exchange of views and that everyone will have to make his position clear. As before, this will probably have to be done in restricted meetings without the presence of the four developing members of OECD. Although each donor will decide on his own list of beneficiaries, it is essential in my view that all these lists should be exchanged and discussed before. they are finally decided. This is probably the most that we can hope for.

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Lastly, in your concluding paragraph 17 you make a pucsS that some schemes might enter into force from about the middle of next year. ly understanding is that only the Japanese will be in a position to

this. Although the DC Commission have talked in terms of implementation by then, in fact the member states are more conerned than the Commission that they should keep in time with the Americans and I think it is pronature to make a guess whether the BBC would be prepared to implement their scheme without the Americans.

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