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INFO ROUTINE BONN, COPENHAGEN, DUBLIN, LUXEMBOURG, PARIS, THE HAGUE WASHINGTON INFO ROUTINE LISBON, MADRID, ATHENS, ROME, UKMIS VIENNA, INFO ROUTINE MOSCOW, PRAGUE, WARSAW, BUDAPEST, EAST BERLIN, BELGRADE INFO ROUTINE BUCHAREST, OSLO, STOCKHOLM, HELSINKI

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CHERNOBYL: REVISED LIST OF PROHIBITED AGRICULTURAL IMPORTS

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE: 16 MAY 1986

SUMMARY

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IN A SPECIAL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, COMMISSION PRESENTED A REGULATION REVISING LIST OF PROHIBITED IMPORTS. ANIMAL/DAIRY PRODUCTS UNCHANGED, BUT RESTRICTIONS ON FRUIT AND VEGETABLES LIMITED TO PRODUCTS LIKELY TO PRESENT RISK OF CONTAMINATION.

2. ALL DELEGATIONS VCTED IN FAVOUR EXCEPT NETHERLANDS, WHO

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3. FURTHER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE POSSIBLE ON 20/21 MAY TO DISCUSS APPLICATION OF IMPORT MEASURES TO EFTA AND (POSSIBLY) YUGOSLAVIA.

4. SUMMARY LIST OF PROHIBITED PRODUCTS IN M.I.F.T.

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5. IN A SPECIAL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE CONVENED AT SHORT NOTICE, BARTHELEMY (COMMISSION) EXPLAINED THAT EXPERIENCE AT FRONTIERS · SHOWED THE NEED TO BE MORE PRECISE ABOUT THE PRODUCTS LISTED IN THE ANNEX TO REGULATION 1388/86, TO ENSURE UNIFORM APPLICATION AND TO LIMIT SUSPENSION OF IMPORTS TO THOSE PRODUCTS WHICH PRESENTED A RISK OF CONTAMINATION, IE WHICH HAD BEEN HARVESTED ON OR AFTER 26 APRIL 1986. HE PRESENTED A DRAFT COMMISSION REGULATION REVISING THE ANNEX TO 1388/86. IN RESPECT OF ANIMAL AND DAIRY PRODUCTS, ONLY MINOR PRESENTATIONAL CHANGES WERE INVOLVED. FOR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT, HOWEVER, THE COMMISSION PROPOSED TO DELETE CCT SUBHEADINGS FOR PRODUCTS WHICH WERE EITHER NOT IMPORTED FROM THE COUNTRIES CONCERNED (EG EXOTIC FRUITS), OR FOR WHICH THE 1986 HARVEST HAD NOT STARTED (EG OLD POTATOES, OLVIES, APPLES, NUTS) OR PROCESSED PRODUCTS (OTHER THAN FROZEN). IN ADDITION, AN ARTICLE 3 WOULD ALLOW MEMBER STATES TO DEROGATE FROM THE BAN ON FROZEN IMPORTS IF THEY WERE SATISFIED (BY WHATEVER PROOFS THEY REQUIRED) THAT THE PRODUCE WAS FROZEN BEFORE 26 APRIL.

5. AFTER DELAYS FOR CONSULTATIONS WITH CAPITALS, ITALY OBJECTED TO ARTICLE 3, WITH FRENCH AND DANISH SUPPORT, AND BARTHELEMY EVENTUALLY WITHDREW IT. THIS DISPLEASED GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS, CONCERNED ABOUT IMPORTS OF FROZEN FRUIT, ESPECIALLY CHERRIES, FROM THE 1985 HARVEST. GERMANY PRESSED FOR SOUR CHERRIES ("GRICTTES'') TO BE EXEMPTED BUT CAVE WAS WHEN THE COMMISSION CONFIRMED THAT HARVESTING OF THESE STARTED IN MAY.

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