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redistribution between Members of aggregate
Community quotas into quotas proportionate to G.D.P. accompanied in each case by a progressive elimination of restrictions on intra-Community
movement;
b.
C.
d.
less ready granting by the Commission of Article
115 waivers;
free circulation for the growth element in quotas;
free circulation from the start under any new
restrictions.
b,c and d are fairly limited in scope, and c. could work
against us because the growth in other Members' (generally
smaller) quotas is apt to be bigger than in ours.
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Piecemeal progress
Free circulation is not indivisible.
should be possible, with different products or different
sources of supply achieving free circulation. There could
be quantitative limits on freely circulating goods, to be
increased progressively over a period. Certain groups of
Member States could, conceivably, move faster than others.
It is arguable that there is no need for an agreed overall
strategy, which would not be easy or quick to achieve,
since the Community tends to deal with textile trade problems
in compartments, as and when it is forced to do so. Rather
than opposing this method of work, we might take advantage
of it in order to introduce limited bits and pieces of free
circulation here and there. Safeguards against the
possibility of the process working directly against our
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