E.E.C. entry clauses
(N.Z.PA.-Reuter —Copyright.) LONDON, Nov. 28.
Britain’s chief negotiator on the Common Market, Mr Geoffrey Rippon, has attempted to allay Commonwealth fears that the safeguard clauses of the British Common Market entry agreement would not be honoured.
He said at a Royal Commonwealth Society meeting that Britain would hold members of the E.E.C. to the safeguard clause, and. he said, he was sure the E.E.C. nations understood this.
Mr Rippon said the safeguard clause had been criticised because it was not specific. The clause was designed to cover all areas of trade, not only, as in the case of Australia, sugar, dairy products and dried fruits, but even “such things as kangarootail soup if such a market is established,” he said.
“We have got a firm undertaking that the Community will take speedy and effective action to deal with any abrupt dislocation of trade in agricultural products, during the transition,” he added.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32776, 29 November 1971, Page 5
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