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REGULATION. THIS GROUP WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR TECHNICAL QUESTIONS CONCERNED WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REGULATION, INCLUDING THE

MODIFICATION FOR TECHNICAL REASONS OF THE CONTENTS OF THE ANNEX.

QUESTIONS OF THE MODIFICATION OF THIS REGULATION WOULD BE DISCUSSED

IN THE COUNCIL MACHINERY.

10. SCHEER ASKED. WHETHER THE NEW REGIME WOULD APPLY TO MEAT AND

LIVE ANIMALS, WHICH WERE NOT COVERED BY REGULATION 1388/86. BESELER

SAID THAT IT WOULD. THE COMMISSION SAW NO CASE FOR MAINTAINING THE

EXISTENCE OF THE TWO EXISTING REGIMES ONCE THE NEW REGULATION WAS ADOPTED.

DURATION.

11. IN AN INITIAL TOUR DE TABLE LARSEN ARGUED THAT THE REGULATION

SHOULD RUN TO 31 JULY 1986, UNGERER THAT IT RUN TO THE END OF THE

YEAR, AND THE NETHERLANDS THAT IT BE REVIEWED ON 30 SEPTEMBER. BYRNE

(IRELAND) AND I RESERVED OUR POSITIONS UNTIL THE DISCUSSION ON

LEVELS TOOK PLACE.

LEVELS.

12. IN AN INITIAL TOUR DE TABLE ALL DELEGATIONS SUPPORTED THE

COMMISSION PROPOSAL EXCEPT THE FOLLOWING:

(A) LUXEMBOURG WANTED 375 BQ/KG FOR GENERAL PRODUCTS AND 100 BQ/KG

FOR MILK:

(B) BELGIUM WANTED 300 BQ/KG FOR GENERAL FOODS AND 50 BQ/KG FOR

MILK:

(C) IRELAND AND GERMANY WANTED 500 BQ/KG FOR ALL PRODUCTS:

(D) GREECE WANTED 1,000 BQ/KG FOR GENERAL FOODS AND 500 BQ/KG FOR

MILK:

(E) FRANCE AND UK WANTED 1,000 BQ/KG FOR ALL PRODUCTS.

13. IT THEN EMERGED THAT THE ARTICLE 31 EXPERTS MEETING IN

LUXEMBOURG ON 23 MAY HAD CONCLUDED THAT THERE WERE NO SCIENTIFIC

GROUNDS FOR A LEVEL MORE STRINGENT THAN 1,000 BQ/KG FOR ALL PRODUCTS. AS I OBSERVED, THIS SOMEWHAT REMOVED THE GROUND FROM UNDER

THE FEET OF THOSE ARGUING FOR THE COMMISSION PROPOSAL OR ANYTHING

MORE STRINGENT. CALAMIA (ITALY) STRUGGLED DESPERATELY BUT

UNPERSUASIVELY TO ARGUE THAT THE EXPERTS HAD NOT TAKEN ALL RELEVANT

CONSIDERATIONS INTO ACCOUNT. BESELER SAID THAT THE COMMISSION

PROPOSAL TOOK FACTORS INTO ACCOUNT WHICH WERE OUTSIDE THE EXPERTS'

REMIT SUCH AS THE POSSIBLE EFFECT ON COMMUNITY EXPORTS OF SETTING

TOO HIGH A LEVEL. I OBSERVED THAT SUCH A POSITION DID NOT FIT WELL

WITH THE COMMISSION'S EARLIER CLAIMS THAT THE LEVEL SHOULD BE SET ON

PURELY SCIENTIFIC GROUNDS.

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