TNAG-1497-FCO40-2055-Guangdong-nuclear-power-station-project-at-Daya-Bay-safety-c-1986 — Page 116

GRS 1950

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TO DESKBY 27080OZ FCO

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OF 2623OOZ MAY 86

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MICK 166/1

RECEIVED 15

COREPER (AMBASSADORS): 26 MAY.

2.9 MAY 1986

CHERNOBYL: EC FOOD BAN.

SUMMARY.

1. TEXT OF DRAFT REGULATION REPLACING BAN WITH NATIONAL CONTROLS

LARGELY AGREED. NATIONAL CERTIFICATION SYSTEMS INCLUDED IN TEXT.

DURATION TO 30 SEPTEMBER. LEGAL BASIS WHOLE TREATY.

2. QUESTION OF PERMITTED LEVELS REMAINS TO BE RESOLVED. PRESIDENCY

PROPOSES POLITICAL COMPROMISE OF 370 BQ/KG FOR MILK AND BABY FOOD

AND 600 BQ/KG FOR OTHER PRODUCTS. FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION ON 27 MAY.

DETAIL.

LEGAL BASIS.

3. RUTTEN (PRESIDENCY) SAID THAT SINCE THERE WAS OPPOSITION TO USE

OF ARTICLE 113 THE BASIS SHOULD BE 'VU LE TRAITE''.

AFTER A TOKEN PROTEST FROM THE COMMISSION, NO-ONE ELSE INTERVENED.

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL REGIMES.

4. I ARGUED THAT ADOPTION OF THIS REGULATION SHOULD NOT PRECLUDE THE

POSSIBILITY OF CHANGING THE LEVELS SET IN IT TO ACCORD WITH ANY

WHICH MIGHT EVENTUALLY BE ARRIVED AT FOR INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE. ALL

OTHER DELEGATIONS AGREED WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF THIS BUT A NUMBER

ARGUED THAT THE COMMUNITY SHOULD NOT DISPLAY ITS DIRTY LINEN BY

ADMITTING IN THE TEXT PROPER THAT WE CURRENTLY HAD NO AGREED INTRA-COMMUNITY STANDARD. I FINALLY ACCEPTED THAT THE POINT WOULD BE ADEQUATELY COVERED BY A GENERAL ENTRY IN THE PREAMBLE SUPPLEMENTED

BY A VERY SPECIFIC AGREED ENTRY IN THE MINUTES (TEXT BY BAG).

EXISTING NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY PROVISIONS.

5. IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION FROM LARSEN (DENMARK), BESELER (COMMISSION) MADE IT CLEAR THAT ARTICLE 2 MEANT THAT EXISTING NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY MEASURES (E.G. CUSTOMS PROCEDURES) NOT SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO CHERNOBYL WERE NOT AFFECTED BY THIS REGULATION. MEASURES SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO CHERNOBYL WERE HOWEVER SUPERSEDED BY IT. LARSEN INSISTED ON ENTERING A DANISH DECLARATION FOR THE MINUTES THAT THIS DID NOT PREJUDICE NATIONAL FREEDOM TO

REACT TO FUTURE NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS (COPY BY BAG).

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