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b)

will need to be made during 1973 to enable the

Community's Generalised Preference Scheme to

be applied à dix from 1 January 1974"

to give a statement on these lines in confidence

to the Presidency and the Commission in the

week beginning 18 October thus avoiding any

charge that we delayed unduly giving the

Community our views on adaptation to the

Community scheme and suggesting that we

might make a statement on these lines in

Deputies on 3 November if we could be assured

in advance by the Presidency that the Community

would simply note our statement and agree the

date we proposed for adaptation of 1 January 1974

c) not to raise again with the Community the question

of the applicability to us after entry of their

Article 4 agreements. If asked we would simply

say that, since we were not asking for a derogation,

the agreements would apply subject to renegotiation

but that it was extremely important politically

to avoid any public reference to this until we

had had a chance to considerfurther the present-

ational issues involved.

Conclusions

15

Ministers are asked to authorise the Delegation to

proceed on the lines set out in paragraph 1