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YOUR TELEGRAMS NOS 1166 AND 1167: EEC TEXTILE POLICY,,

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1. THIS IS A WELL-CONCEIVED USE OF THE SUBTLETIES OF COMMUNITY

PROCEDURE, HOWEVER THE 'EXPOSE DES MOTIFS' AS DRAFTED WAS NOT IN

FACT IN THE REQUIRED FORM, AN EXPOSE DES MOTIFS WHICH ACCOMPANIES A DRAFT COUNCIL DECISION IS A STATEMENT BY THE COMMISSION ON ITS

RESPONSIBILITY, THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT BIND THE MEMBER STATES AND

UNLESS THE MEMBER STATES HAVE PREVIOUSLY AGREED TE IN REGULATIONS

OR OTHER COUNCIL DECISIONS IT IS NOT OPEN TO THE COMMISSION TO SAY

IN AN EXPOSE WHAT THE MEMBER STATES WILL OR WILL NOT DO. WE ACCORD-

INGLY REDRAFTED THE TEXTS AND DROPPED COPIES ON ERNST, MEYNELL AND TRAN (DGI) AND FRIZ, PACHT AND MALTZAHN (DG 111).

2. COPIES IN MIFT.

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3. WE DID NOT PUT IN DRAFT DECISIONS SINCE THESE FOLLOW NATURALLY

FROM THE LANGUAGE OF THE EXPOSE AND CAN BE DRAFTED AT CONVENIENCE.

4. IT IS NOT CRYSTAL CLEAR WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO SECURE THAT THE

TWO DECISIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN SIMULTANEOUSLY. THE ESSENTIAL POINT

OF TIMING IS RATHER THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE PREPARED TO ALLOW THE

DECISION TO BE TAKEN ON GPS UNTIL THE DECISION HAS BEEN TAKEN ON

THE PROGRAMME OF MEASURES AND TIME-TABLE' GIVING US WHAT WE WANT

ON TEXTILE POLICY GENERALLY,

FCO PLEASE PASS ADVANCE COPIES TO:-

FCO

HART.

DTI MISS LOWNE, HOPE (CT), MISS ELLIOTT (CRE), HAGESTADT.

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PALLISER.

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COPIES TO:

MR. RIDLEY, CT DIV, DTI, MILLBANK