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EXPIRY OF THE REGULATION, PROPOSALS FOR MORE DEFINITIVE NORMS BOTH

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL. THE SECOND WOULD MAKE CLEAR THE COMMUNITY'S

COMMITMENT TO WORK IN INTERESTED INTERNATIONAL BODIES FOR GENERAL

AGREEMENT ON ACCEPTABLE STANDARDS. I ACCEPTED THIS PROVIDED IT WAS

NOT FRAMED IN A WAY WHICH COMMITTED US ABSOLUTELY TO AGREEMENT ON

UNIFIED NORMS BY 30 SEPTEMBER. TEXTS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY CIRCULATED

(COPIES BY BAG).

LATER DISCUSSION.

9. AFTER A SHORT BREAK TO ALLOW DELEGATIONS TO SEEK MODIFIED

INSTRUCTIONS THE PRESIDENCY TOOK ANOTHER TOUR DE TABLE ON THE

ACCEPTABILITY OF THE COMPROMISE ON LEVELS. OF THOSE MEMBER STATES

WHICH HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY BEEN ABLE TO ACCEPT THE COMPROMISE ALL,

EXCEPT THE U.K AND FRANCE, NOW HINTED THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO CONSIDER DOING SO AS PART OF AN OVERALL AGREEMENT. SCHEER

MAINTAINED HIS SUPPORT FOR 1,000 BQ/KG. ON THE BASIS OF NEW

INSTRUCTIONS FROM LONDON I SUPPORTED HIM.

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RUTTEN THEN SUMMED UP THAT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TWO MEMBER STATES ALL COULD ACCEPT OR ENVISAGE ACCEPTING THE PRESIDENCY COMPROMISE. IT WAS QUITE CLEAR THAT THERE WAS NO PROSPECT OF AGREEMENT BEING REACHED ON 1,000 BQ/KG. HE APPEALED TO THOSE STATES THAT COULD NOT ACCEPT THE COMPROMISE TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBLE GRAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE OPERATION OF THE INTERNAL MARKET AND THE EXTERNAL UNITY OF THE COMMUNITY IF NO AGREEMENT WAS REACHED.

ABSENCE OF A SOLUTION AT COREPER, WHICH WOULD MEET AT 11 A.M TOMORROW TO TAKE THE MATTER FURTHER, THE QUESTION WOULD HAVE TO GO TO THE POLITICAL LEVEL. THE PRESIDENCY WAS READY TO CONVENE A

MEETING OF THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL AT 3 P.M ON FRIDAY FOR THIS

PURPOSE.

IN THE

11. CALAMIA (ITALY) UNDERLINED THE CONSEQUENCES OF A FAILURE TO AGREE. ITALY ALREADY HAD ON THE STOCKS, AND WOULD INTRODUCE BEFORE THE END OF THE WEEK IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY COMMUNITY AGREEMENT, VERY STRINGENT CONTROLS ON CONTAMINATED FOODSTUFFS WHICH WOULD HAVE TO APPLY TO INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE AS WELL AS TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES. WESTENDORP (SPAIN) PUT OVER THE SAME MESSAGE. IN THE ABSENCE OF AGREEMENT SPAIN WOULD INTRODUCE LEVELS OF 500 BQ/KG FOR BABY FOOD, MILK AND CEREALS AND 370 BQ/KG FOR OTHER FOODSTUFFS.

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