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TO ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC REALTIONS AND TO NON-EFFECT ON INNER-GERMAN RELATIONS, ALONG EXPECTED LINES. TRADE AGREEMENT WITH SOVIET UNION TO BE PURSUED, OTHER AGREEMENTS NOT EXCLUDED. EACH EAST EUROPEAN TO BE TREATED ON OWN MERITS. RELATIONS WITH CMEA TO BE GIVEN LESSER PRIORITY. POSITIVE RESPONSE FROM MEMBER STATES, UK COUNSELLED PRUDENT APPROACH BASED ON FIVE KEY POINTS. COMMISSION CALLED FOR COMMUNITY AS SUCH TO BE REPRESENTED AT ECONOMIC CONFERENCE OF CSCE. COREPER TO DISCUSS ON 27 JULY. COREPER INSTRUCTIONS NEEDED BY 26150OZ BOTH ON POLISH REQUEST AND CSCE CONFERENCE.
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
6. AGREEMENT ON JURISDICTION, OMITTING ANTI-DUMPING CASES SUBJECT TO A CLAUSE PROVIDING FOR RE-EXAMINATION OF THE ECJ'S PROPOSAL WITHIN TWO YEARS OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE STARTING TO FUNCTION. ANODYNE STATEMENT ON THE NEED FOR A BALANCED APPROACH TO SALARIES ALSO AGREED.
NOMINATION OF JUDGES AND ADVOCATES-GENERAL TO THE ECJ
7. NO AGREEMENT ON THE APPOINTMENT OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDGE. ISSUE REFERRED TO SEPTEMBER FAC WITH THREE POSSIBLE METHODS: INDICATIVE VOTE, PERMANENT ADVOCATE GENERAL POST FOR SPAIN, OR DRAWING LOTS. DESPITE HEAVY PRESIDENCY PRESSURE SPAIN REFUSED TO AGREE TO APPOINT THE CANDIDATES SO FAR NOMINATED. IT WAS AGREED TO RECORD THAT THERE WAS NO OBJECTION TO THE NAMES, BUT THE FORMAL DECISION WOULD BE POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER.
DATE OF EP ELECTIONS
8. TO BUDGET COUNCIL TOMORROW (26 JULY) AS AN 'A' POINT.
LUNCH: EC/ACP
LOME IV (Z)
9. NATALI (COMMISSION) GAVE A SHORT PERSENTATION ON THE PROSPECTS FOR THE RENEGOTIATION WHICH WOULD START IN OCTOBER, FOLLOWING A FULL DEBATE IN THE COUNCIL IN SEPTEMBER. HE URGED MEMBER STATES TO SHOW THE FLEXIBILITY NECESSARY TO ENABLE THE MANDATE TO BE ADOPTED AT THE
SEPTEMBER COUNCIL.
LUNCH: EC/VIETNAM AND ASEAN
10. STRONG PRESSURE FROM CHEYSSON FOR COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH VIETNAM. COREPER TO DISCUSS FURTHER ON 27
JULY.
LUNCH:
EC/USSR
11.
PANGALOS TO PURSUE MEETING WITH SHEVARDNADZE IN NEW YORK DURING UNGA.
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