TNAG-1497-FCO40-2055-Guangdong-nuclear-power-station-project-at-Daya-Bay-safety-c-1986 — Page 121

GRS 2000 CONFIDENTIAL

FM UKREP BRUSSELS

TO IMMEDIATE FCO

TELNO 1758

OF 2319OOZ MAY 26

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INFO ROUTINE BONN, COPENHAGEN, DUBLIN, LUXEMBOURG, PARIS, THE HAGUE INFO ROUTINE LISBON, MADRID, ATHENS, ROME, WASHINGTON, UKMIS VIENNA INFO ROUTINE WARSAW, MOSCOW, SOFIA, BUCHAREST, BUDAPEST, BELGRADE

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INFO SAVING BRUSSELS

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ник RECEIVED:

28 MAY 1986

COREPER (AMBASSADORS) 23 MAY

INDEX

CHERNOBYL

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SUMMARY

1. COMMISSION PRESENT GREATLY SIMPLIFIED PROPOSAL ON IMPORTS FROM

THIRD COUNTRIES UNDER WHICH FIXED CONTAMINATION LIMTS FOR IMPORTS

WOULD BE SET, AND ENFORCED BY MEMBER STATES.

2. ON CONTAMINATION LIMITS PROPOSED, THREE MEMBER STATES (UK,

GREECE AND IRELAND) SUGGEST THEY SHOULD BE RAISED, THREE (NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG) WANT THEM LOWERED, MOST OTHERS

SEEMED WILLING TO ACCEPT COMMISSION PROPOSAL. OBJECTIONS TO THE

PROPOSED LEGAL BASE AND DURATION.

3. FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION AT 3 P.M. ON 26 MAY. WE WILL NEED

INSTRUCTIONS THERE ON HOW CLEARLY WE NEED THE REGULATION TO SPELL

OUT OUR RIGHT TO INTRODUCE A NATIONAL SYSTEM OF CERTIFICATION IF

NECESSARY, AS WELL AS ANY POSITION YOU MAY WISH TO TAKE ON THE

VARIOUS PROCEDURAL QUESTIONS RAISED AND ON THE PROPOSED DURATION.

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4. BESELER (COMMISSION) PUT FORWARD A DRAFT REGULATION (COPY BY

BAG) WHICH DIFFERED IN A NUMBER OF KEY RESPECTS FROM THE IDEAS AIRED

ON 22 MAY. IT HAD THE FOLLOWING FEATURES:

(A) IT COVERED IMPORTS INTO THE COMMUNITY OF ALL FOODSTUFFS ERGA

OMNES

(B) CONTAMINATION LIMITS WERE SET OF 100 BQ/KG FOR MILK AND BABY

FOODS AND 500 BQ/KG FOR ALL OTHER GOODS

(C) ENFORCEMENT OF THOSE LIMITS WOULD BE FOR MEMBER STATES

(D) THE REGIME IN ANY OF ITS PARTICULARS COULD BE VARIED BY THE

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES

(E) THE REGULATION WOULD LAST FOR ONE YEAR, UNLESS PROLONGED BY THE

COUNCIL ACTING BY QUALIFIED MAJORITY

(F) IT WOULD REPLACE REGULATION 1398/86

(G) THE LEGAL BASIS WAS ARTICLE 113

5. IN AN INITIAL ROUND OF COMMENTS I ASKED WHAT WAS THE BASIS OF

THE LEVELS PROPOSED, AND OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TWO LEVELS.

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