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RESTRICTED
TO SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR IMPORTS FROM THE SUPER
COMPETITIVE SUPPLIE 5.
SUPPLIE 5. IN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM
UK, ENNST AGREED THAT THERE COULD BE NO IMMUTABLE LIST
OF SUCH COUNTRIES OR PRODUCTS SINCE DIFFERENT PRODUCTS
FROM DIFFERENT SUPPLIERS WOULD BE SENSITIVE AT DIFFERENT
TIMES.
(3) THE IDEA OF A STANDSTILL WAS UNACCEPTABLE TO THE COMMUNITY
WHICH WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING A COMMON IMPORT
POLICY FOR TEXTILES AND MUST BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THIS
PROCESS.
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(4) THERE SHOULD BE A SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL CONTROL SOING AT
LEAST AS FAR AS THE SUGGESTION MADE BY THE UK IN THE
COURSE OF THE DISCUSSION VIZ THAT THERE SHOULD BE AN
HOVEST AND EFFECTIVE SYSTEM OF REPORTING AND A PROCEDURE
FORE DEALING WITH COMPLAINTS. HOWEVER ERNST FELT THAT
THE GATT SECRETARIAT'S IDEAS OF A KIND OF INTERNATIONAL
COURT OF JUSTICE" WENT TOO FAR AND WERE UNREALISTIC.
CONTROL SHOULD BE BASED ON OBJECTIVE CRITERIA AND ANNEX
C OF THE LTA PROVIDED A ''POINT DE DEPART' FOR THE DRAWING UP OF A LIST OF SUCH CRITERIA. THE CRITERIA
SHOULD NOT BE USED TOO RIGIDLY: SUCH FACTORS AS THE
UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION AND SECTORAL OR REGIONAL
CONCENTRATION SHOULD BE REGARDED AS INDICATORS IN ASSESSING
(5)
MARKET DISRUPTION.
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THE IDEA OF INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OVER BILATERAL AGREE~
MENTS, IN SO FAR AS IT WENT BEYOND A COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE,
WAS NOT IN ERNST'S VIEW REALISTIC, SINCE TWO COUNTRIES
COULD HARDLY BE PREVENTED FROM ENTERING INTO AGREEMENTS
WHICH THEY FOUND TO BE IN THEIR MUTUAL INTEREST.
3. THIS LINE WAS BROADLY ENDORSED BY THE MEMBER STATES. THE GERMANS HOWEVER AGREED ONLY WITH RELUCTANCE TO THE PROCEDURÉ
PROPOSED AND WOULD HAVE PREFERRED THE GROUP TO SUBMIT A PAPER
TO THE COMMITTEE OF PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES (COREPER). THEY
WERE NOT IN FULL AGREEMENT WITH THE IDEAS PUT FORWARD BY ERNST,
THEY WERE IN FAVOUR OF A PERMANENT PANEL WITH POWERS TO EXERCISE
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/INTERNATIONAL
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