BITHY 1948 FREE FOR UK.
4 UK WAS VERY STRONGLY PRESSED BY THE OTHER EIGHT AND THE COMMISSION TO SAY THAT THE UK MEASURES WOULD ENTER INTO FORCE ON A PARTICULAR DATE: THE STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT THAT IT WOULD BE AS 3OON AS POSSIBLE WAS NOT SUFFICIENTLY PRECISE. AFTER CONSULTATIONS WITH LONDON, UK SAID THAT IT WAS THE GOVERNMENT'S INTENTION TO MAKE ITS ORDER DURING NEXT WEEK, WHICH MEANT THAT THE REGULATIONS WOULD COME INTO EFFECT NEXT WEEK. OTHER DELEGATIONS STILL PRESSED FOR THE UK TO DECIDE A PRECISE DATE TOMORROW, AND TO REPORT IT TO OTHER MEMBER STATES, AND TO REPORT IT TO OTHER MEMBER STATES, AND ALSO
HOPED THAT ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE REGULATIONS WOULD BE AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE NEXT WEEK.
RETROACTIVITY.
5. OTHER DELEGATIONS ACCEPTED WITH RELUCTANCE AND REGRET THAT UK WAS POLITICALLY UNABLE TO APPLY SANCTIONS RETROACTIVELY TO THE EXPORT OF GOODS UNDER CONTRACTS MADE AFTER 4 NOVEMBER 1979, ALTHOUGH ALL OTHER MEMBER STATES WOULD BE DOING THIS. THE PRESIDENCY, SUPPORTED BY THE COMMISSION AND SEVERAL OTHER STATES, POINTED OUT THAT IT HAD BEEN CLEAR FROM 22 APRIL THAT THE GOVERNMENT INTENDED TO INTRODUCE SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN, AND THEY SUGGESTED THAT UK MIGHT THEREFORE BAN EXPORTS UNDER CONTRACTS MADE SUBSEQUENT TO THAT DATE. UK POINTED OUT THAT MINISTERS HAD GIVEN COMMITMENTS TO PARLIAMENT THAT THE REGULATIONS WOULD NOT APPLY TO ANY EXPORT UNDER CONTRACTS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF THE REGULATIONS THEMSELVES. THE COMMISSION EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT THE DISTORTION OF TRADE WHICH KOULD FOLLOW, PARTICULARLY BETWEEN 22 MAY WHEN OTHER STATES' REGULATIONS WOULD ENTER INTO FORCE, AND THE DATE OF ENTERING INTO FORCE OF UK REGULATIONS. THE PRESIDENCY ASKED WHETHER UK COULD MAKE SOME ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT'S INTENTIONS NOT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FACT THAT TRADE WITH IRAN WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE BY OTHER MEMBER STATES, BUT WOULD BE POSSIBLE FOR UK. UK AGREED TO REPORT THIS REQUEST.
COVERAGE OF SANCTIONS.
6. UK MENTIONED THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT, TO ENSURE PASSAGE THROUGH PARLIAMENT OF THE REGULATIONS MADE TO APPLY SANCTIONS, TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY WERE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS MADE BY OTHER MEMBER STATES. SEVERAL MEMBER STATES ASKED WHETHER THE DELAY IN THE INTRODUCTION OF THE SANCTIONS REGULATION WAS A PRELUDE TO A DECISION BY THE UK NOT TO APPLY THE FULL RANGE OF SANCTIONS AS AGREED AT NAPLES, UK REFERRED TO THE STATEMENTS BY MINISTERS IN PARLIAMENT ON 20 APRIL, AND TO THE COREU TELEGRAM OF 19 APRIL, WHICH REFERRED TO UK INTENTIONS TO APPLY FULL RANGE OF SANCTIONS APPLIED BY OTHER MEMBER STATES. THE COMMISSION AGAIN REFERRRED TO POSSIBLE. DISTORTION IN THE COMMON MARKET IF THE COVERAGE OF UK MEASURES DIFFERED FROM THAT OF OTHER MEMBER STATES, AND REFERRED TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LEGAL ACTION BEING TAKEN UNDER ARTICLE 225 OF THE TREATY OF ROME,
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