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TO PRIORITY FCO TELMO 4709 OF 5 CCTORER. 1973

MEETING OF COMMISSION GROUP ON GSP FOR TEXTILES: 4 AND 5 OCTOBER.

1. THE MEETING COMPLETED THE TECHNICAL EXAMINATION OF THE COMMISS- ION'S PROPOSAL FOR THE COMMUNITY'S GSP FOR TEXTILES FOR 1974, SUBJECT ONLY TO A NUMBER OF RESERVES D'ATTENTE. AGREEMENT WAS REACHED ON THE TRANSFER OF A NUMBER OF PRODUCTS FROM THE SENSITIVE TO THE SEMI- SENSITIVE LIST. NO PRODUCTS WERE ADDED TO THE SENSITIVE LIST, HOW-- EVER, TWC MAJOR POINTS RELATING TO THE SHAPE-OUT OF THE OVERALL COMMUNITY QUOTAS BETWEEN MEMBER STATES ARE OUTSTANDING. (PARAS 4 AND 5 BELOW).

2. WE MADE IT CLEAR TO THE GROUP THAT OUR PARTICIPATION IN ITS WORK

ENTIRELY WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE POSITIONS WE HAD TAKEN UP ON WAS THE COMMUNITY'S TEXTILE POLICY MORE GENERALLY AND ON THE RELATION- SHIP OF THE GSP THERETO. THIS POSITION WAS ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE

CHAIRMAN.

3. THE FRENCH DELEGATION SAID THAT THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE GROUP'S WORK WAS ALSO SUBJECT TO A CONDITION: VIZ THAT PREFERENCES FOR TEXTILES SHOULD BE EXTENDED ONLY TO THOSE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

WHICH SIGNED THE MULTI-FIBRE AGREEMENT ON TEXTILES CURRENTLY BEING

NEGOTIATED IN GENEVA OR UNGERTOCK EQUIVALENT OBLIGATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE COMMUNITY. THIS WAS THE LOGICAL EXTENSION OF THE COMMUNITY'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS BENEFICIARIES OF GPS FOR TEXTILES IN RELATION TO

THE LTA. AS A RESULT OF QUESTIONING IT EMERGED THAT THE FRENCH WERE NEVERTHELESS PREPARED TO AGREE TO THE COMMUNITY GRANTING PREFERENCES

FOR TEXTILES FOR AT LEAST THE FIRST HALF AND POSSIBLE THE WHOLE OF 1974 ON THE SAME BASIS AS IN PAST YEARS, PROVIDED THAT IN THE COURSE OF 1974 THE SITUATION WOULD BE LOCKED AT AGAIN WITH A VIEW TO PUTTING THE CRANTING OF PREFERENCES ON THE DASIS THEY HAD DESCRIBED,

THERE WAS NO DISSENT BY OTHER DELEGATIONS.

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