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of22July1980
layingdowngeneralimplementingrulesinrespectofcertainfood-aidoperationsinvolvingcereals
andrice
(OJ L 192, 26.7.1980, p. 11)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2984/81 of 19 October 1981 L 299 6 20.10.1981
►M2Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3323/81 of 20 November 1981 L 334 27 21.11.1981
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COMMISSIONREGULATION(EEC)No1974/80
of22July1980
laying downgeneral implementing rules inrespect ofcertain food-
aidoperationsinvolvingcereals andrice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European EconomicCommunity,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 29 October
1975 on the common organization of the market in cereals(
1), aslas t
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1547/79(2), and in particular Article
28 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of 21 June
1976 on the common organization of the market in rice(3), aslas t
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 113/80(4), and in particular Article
25 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2750/75 of 29 October
1975 fixing criteria for the mobilization of cerealsintended asfoodaid(
5), and in particular Article 6 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation No 129 on the value of the unit
of account and the exchange ratesto be applied for the purpos esof thecommon agricultural policy(
6), aslas t amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 2543/73(7), and in particular Article 3 thereof,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,WhereasRegulation (EEC) No 2750/75 laid down the criteria
according to which productsintended asCommunity food aid mus t bemobilized either from the stocks of an intervention agency, on themarket of a specific Community region or, lastly, on the Communitymarket asa whole; whereasArticle 6 of that Regulation providesthat
for a Community operation the Commission must determine the condi-
tionsgoverng mobilization in accordance with the procedure laid downin Article 26 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 or, where appropriate,Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76;
Whereasit hasbeen found advis able, in the light of experience gained
in operating food-aid programmes, to bring the general rules for the
implementation of food aid programmesmore into line with interna-
tional practice as regards supply at the fob and cif stages and with therulesfor interpreting commercial termscontained in ‘Incoterms1953’.
Whereasthe general ruless et out in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC)
No 2750/75 provide that operationsare to be carried out by invitingtenders in order to determine the supply costs and, where appropriate
the purchase price of the cereals;
Whereas, however, Article 7 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2750/75 in
respect of urgent Community action, and Article 1 of Regulation(EEC) No 696/76(
8) in respect of exceptional cases, provide that a
procedure other than tendering may be used in order to expedite supplyof the products; whereas under such circumstances the direct award
procedure may be employed;
Whereas, therefore, the rules laid down in this Regulation must be
applied to cerealsand rice which are to be mobilized in accordancewith the criteria fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 2750/75, by employing1980R1974 — EN — 22.11.1981 — 002.001 — 2
(1) OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.
(2) OJ No L 188, 26. 7. 1979, p. 1.
(3) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1.
(4) OJ No L 16, 22. 1. 1980, p. 1.
(5) OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 89.
(6) OJ No 106, 30. 12. 1962, p. 2553/62.
(7) OJ No L 263, 19. 9. 1973, p. 1.
(8) OJ No L 83, 30. 3. 1976, p. 8.
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the tendering procedure or the direct award procedure, and which are to
be delivered at the fob or cif stages, without prejudice to any specificprovisions which may be adopted by the Commission;
Whereasthe meas uresprovided for in thisRegulation are in accor-
dance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
TITLE I
General provisions
Article 1
Where, pursuant to Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2750/75, it is
decided to undertake a Community operation for the purpose ofsupplying cereals, rice or products falling within those sectors as foodaid, the general implementing ruleslaid down in thisRegulation s hallapply without prejudice to special provisions adopted, where appro-
priate, in specific cases.
The general ruleslaid down in thisRegulation s hall apply to operations
to be carried out either at the fob stage or at the cif stage.
Article 2
1. The intervention agency of the designated Member State shall be
responsible for putting into operation the procedures for the mobiliza-tion and supply of the products.
2. Supply of the productss hall be by contract awarded by tendering
procedure.
However, where, in the exceptional circumstances referred to in Article
7 of Regulation (EEC) No 2750/75 and Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)No 696/76, it isdecided to initiate a direct award procedure, the provi-sions set out in Title III shall apply.
TITLE II
Tenderingprocedure
Article 3
Where it isdecided to employ a tendering procedure, a notice of invi-
tation to tender drawn up in accordance with Annex I to thisRegulation shall be published in the Official Journal of the European
Communities , annexed to the Regulation opening the tendering proce-
dure, not later than 10 daysbefore expiry of the time limit for the
submission of tenders.
Article 4
1. Tenders shall be submitted in writing and either handed in to the
intervention agency designated in the notice of invitation to tender
against a receipt or sent thereto by registered letter, telex or telegram.
Tendersmus t reach the competent intervention agency before 12 noon,
local time, on the closing date for the submission of tenders specifiedin the invitation to tender.
2. Where the tendering procedure concerns several lots, each tender
must relate to only one lot.
The tender shall be valid only if it relates to an entire lot.
3. The tender shall indicate:
(a) the reference number of the tendering procedure;
(b) the name and address of the tenderer;
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(d) a single port of shipment selected from the Community ports acces-
sible to sea-going vessels;
(e) — the amount of the tender, expressed per tonne of product in the
currency of the Member State where the tendering procedure is
taking place; the tender must take into account in particular the
costs listed in Annex II, and in the case of supply at the cifstage must indicate the shipping costs,
— the Member State in which the tenderer undertakesto complete
the customs export formalities, where mobilization includespurchase of the goods on the Community market.
4. The tender shall be accompanied by:
(a) proof that the security referred to in Article 5 was furnished before
expiry of the time limit fixed for the submission of tenders;
(b) an undertaking by the tenderer to comply with the tendering condi-
tions;
(c) an undertaking by the tenderer to apply as soon as possible for an
export licence asprovided for in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC)
No 2042/75 in respect of any quantities for which he is awarded acontract;
(d) where the invitation to tender relatesto the s upply of goodsat the
cif stage, an undertaking by the tenderer to transport the goods bysea in vessels listed in the larger classes in recognized classificationregisters, not more than 15 years old, and attested by a competentbody asmeeting hygiene requirements ;
(e) where the invitation to tender relatesto the s upply of products
drawn from intervention stocks, an undertaking by the tenderer to
supply those products without substitution.
5. A tender which is not submitted in accordance with the provisions
of thisArticle or which containsconditionsother than thos e laid downin respect of the tendering procedure shall not be valid.
6. A tender may not be withdrawn.
Article 5
1. Tenders submitted shall be considered only if security is furn-
ished to serve as a guarantee that the tenderer will fulfil hisobligations. The amount of this security shall be laid down in theRegulation opening the tendering procedure.
2. The security shall be furnished, at the option of the tenderer, in
cash or in the form of a guarantee given by a credit establishmentwhich satisfies the criteria laid down by the Member State to whichthe intervention agency responsible for conducting the tendering proce-dure belongs.
Each Member State shall communicate the criteria referred to in the
preceding subparagraph to the Commission, which shall inform theother Member Statesthereof.
Article 6
Tenderss hall be opened and read in public by the competent depart-
ment of the intervention agency responsible for conducting thetendering procedure, immediately after the time limit for the submis-sion of tenders has expired.
Article 7
1. Without prejudice to paragraphs2 and 3, the contract s hall be
awarded within 48 hours to the tenderer who has submitted the mostfavourable tender, having regard, where appropriate, to the adjustment
referred to in Article 8.
2. Where the most favourable tender is submitted by more than one
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3. If the tendersdo not appear to be in line with the pricesnormally
prevailing on the market, the intervention agency may, with the agree-ment of the Commission, decide not to award the contract.
4. The intervention agency shall communicate the results of the
tendering procedure to all the tenderersby letter or telex s ent not laterthan the first day following the award decision.
Article 8
1. For the purpose of comparing tenders relating to the mobilization
of the product on the Community market, each tender shall becorrected by the accession compensatory amount and by the monetary
compensatory amount, if any, applicable on the closing date for the
submission of tenders to exports from the Member State specified inthe tender in accordance with the second indent of Article 4 (3) (e).
The correction shall be made by:
— increasing the tenders specifying a Member State with negative
monetary compensatory amounts,
— reducing the tenders specifying a Member State with positive
monetary compensatory amounts,
— increasing the tenders specifying Greece by the accession compen-
satory amount.
2. The monetary compensatory amount shall, where appropriate, be
converted into the currency of the Member State in which the tenderingprocedure isopened by us ing:
— where the currenciesin ques tion are maintained within a maximum
spread at any one time of 2·25 %, the conversion rate resulting
from their central rate,
— in other cases, the relationship between the two currencies
concerned established by using the latest statement of their spotexchange ratesmade immediately prior to the clos ing date for thesubmission of tenders as published in the ‘C’ series of the Official
Journal of the European Communities .
TITLE III
Directawardprocedure
Article 9
Where it is decided to determine the supply costs by a direct award
procedure the intervention agency designated for the purpose shall,after ensuring competition between several tenderers, conclude thecontract on the basis of the most favourable terms.
Where the product ismobilized on the Community market the tenders
shall, where appropriate, be compared in accordance with the provi-
sions laid down in Article 8.
Article 10
1. The provisions laid down in connection with the tendering proce-
dure in Article 4 (3) concerning the submission of tenders, in Article 4
(4) (b), (c), (d) and (e) concerning the undertakingsrequired from thetenderer and in Article 5 concerning the furnishing of a security, shallapplymutatis mutandis to the direct award procedure.
2. The provisions laid down in Titles IV, V and VI below shall
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TITLE IV
Obligationsofthesuccessfultendererandconditionsrelatingtothe
supplyofproducts
Article 11
1. The successful tenderer must fulfil his obligations in accordance
with the conditionslaid down in the Regulation opening the tenderingprocedure and comply with the undertakingsreferred to in Article 4 (4)(b), (c), (d) and (e).
2. The successful tenderer may not on his own initiative cancel the
operation for which he hasbeen awarded the contract.
3. The rights and obligations arising from the award shall not be
transferable.
Article 12
In the case of fob delivery the following provisions shall apply:1. The successful tenderer shall agree with the recipient country or its
agent, within the specified period, the date on which the goods areto be made available at the port of shipment specified in his tender.The successful tenderer shall inform the recipient of the berth at
which the goodsare to be made available at the port. He s hall
immediately communicate these particulars to the interventionagency referred to in Article 17.
2. Where the product is drawn from intervention stocks the successful
tenderer shall determine the schedule for removal of the goods in
agreement with the intervention agency concerned, taking into
account, where appropriate, the storage contracts concluded betweenthe intervention agency and the storer.
3. The successful tenderer shall deliver the goods on board the vessel
designated by the recipient in accordance with a loading schedule
adopted in agreement with the latter having regard to the custom at
the port. The successful tenderer shall load and stow the merchan-dise on board the vessel at his own expense.
4. He shall bear all the risks, in particular of loss or deterioration of the
goods, until they have effectively passed the ship's rail at the port of
shipment.
5. In the case of a product drawn from intervention stocks, the
successful tenderer shall insure it until shipment has effectivelytaken place.
The contract shall include a clause whereby, in the event of loss or
deterioration of the goods, the insurer is to pay the intervention
agency responsible for payment compensation related to the valueof the product, namely the intervention price or, in the case of wheatof breadmaking quality, the reference price, applicable on the dateof taking delivery of the quantity in question.
6. Where the recipient isable to take delivery of the goodsneither on
the date specified in paragraph 1 nor on any other date within theperiod fixed for delivery the intervention agency responsible forpaying the successful tenderer shall, with the prior agreement ofthe Commission, extend the said period. Without prejudice to theapplication of Article 18 (1), the successful tenderer shall be
required to comply with any extension which does not exceed 60
days.
In the event of an extension exceeding 60 days the successful
tenderer shall, at his request, be released from his obligations bythe intervention agency which shall so inform the Commission
immediately.
7. Where the recipient isunable to take delivery of the goodsat the
port of shipment referred to in paragraph 1, the intervention agencyresponsible for payment shall, at the recipient's request and with theprior agreement of the Commission, authorize shipment to take1980R1974 — EN — 22.11.1981 — 002.001 — 6
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place at another port, without prejudice to the application of Article
18 (2).
Article 13
In the case of cif delivery the following provisions shall apply:
1. The successful tenderer shall contract on the usual terms at his own
expense for the carriage of the goods by the usual route to the portof destination specified in the Regulation opening the tenderingprocedure.
2. The successful tenderer shall provide at his own expense a marine
insurance policy covering all risks of carriage endorsed to the orderof the recipient, for an amount at least equal to the amount of the
tender.
3. Where the goods are drawn from intervention stocks, the successful
tenderer shall be required to comply with the obligation referred toin Article 12 (2) relating to the schedule for removal of the goods,aswell asthe obligation to take out the s pecial ins urance referred toin paragraph 5 of that Article.
4. The successful tenderer shall communicate to the recipient, as soon
as they come to his knowledge, the name of the vessel, the loading
date and the presumed date of arrival at the port of discharge. He
shall stipulate in the transport document that the captain must advisethe recipient at least 72 hours in advance of the date of arrival at theport of discharge.
5. The successful tenderer shall be responsible for the costs arising
from placing the goods on board the vessel. He shall bear the freightand unloading charges, including wharfage and lighterage charges.
6. Any demurrage at the port of destination shall be charged to the
successful tenderer.
7. The successful tenderer shall furnish the recipient without delay
with the clean non-negotiable bill of lading, endorsed to the order
of the recipient, for the port of destination specified, accompanied
by:
— a copy of the insurance policy, referred to in paragraph 3 and,
where appropriate, the charter party,
— the attestation of inspection for conformity referred to in Article
15, and
— the health certificate referred to in Article 4 (4) (d).
8. The successful tenderer shall bear all the risks relating to the goods,
in particular of loss or deterioration to which goods are subject, untilthey have effectively passed the ship's rail at the port of shipment.
Article 14
The successful tenderer shall as soon as possible give the following
information to the intervention agency responsible for payment referredto in Article 17:
(a) the date on which the goodswere made available for delivery to
the port of shipment;
(b) in the case of a cif delivery, the name of the vessel and its flag, the
loading date, the departure date of the vessel, the proposed arrivaldate and the actual date of arrival at destination;
(c) following the dispatch of each consignment, a declaration showing
the quantitiess hipped and the quality of the product and of thepacking where the goodsare bagged;
(d) any delay in loading and any incident occurring during carriage of
the goodswhich may have come to hisnotice.
Article 15
1. With a view to delivery at the proposed stage the goods must be
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opening the tendering procedure. For thispurpos e the intervention
agency of the country of shipment shall arrange for a check at theport at the time of loading on the nature, quality and packaging of the
goods. Following inspection an attestation shall be issued. The costs
relating thereto shall be borne by the successful tenderer.
Samples intended for analysis shall be taken and the inspection shall be
carried out in accordance with the trade practicesin force in the
country of shipment. The successful tenderer and the recipient's repre-
sentative shall be invited to take part in the operation.
2. The quantitiesdelivered s hall be determined when the goodsare
placed under customs control.
Where the goodsare to be delivered in bulk, a tolerance of minus2 %
of the weight to be delivered shall be allowed.
3. If the inspection referred to in paragraph 1 gives rise to a dispute,
the intervention agency shall arrange for a second inspection by aservice different from that mentioned in paragraph 1, the findings ofwhich shall be final. The costs relating thereto shall be borne by thelosing party.
4. Where the inspection provided for in the preceding paragraphs
reveals that the goods do not satisfy the requirements stipulated, theymust be refused and replaced. Where some quantities are missing thesuccessful tenderer must make up the cargo.
Article 16
1. A taking-over certificate shall be issued by the recipient immedi-
ately following loading at the port of shipment when the inspectionsreferred to in Article 15 have established conformity. The said docu-
ment shall attest the place and date of taking over and give a
description of the goods loaded in accordance with the requirements.
2. Where the recipient fails to issue the certificate, the intervention
agency of the country of shipment shall issue the successful tendererwith a certificate, drawn up in accordance with Annex III, on the basis
of the following supporting documents:
— the export licence with the quantity entered,
— the corresponding customs declarations,— the attestation relating to the satisfactory outcome of the inspection
referred to in Article 15 (1).
In the case of a cif delivery, the successful tenderer must also submit
the health attes tation referred to in Article 4 (4) (d), aswell asa copyof the marine insurance policy and a certified true copy of the non-negotiable bill of lading and, where appropriate, of the contract ofaffreightment.
TITLE V
Conditionsrelatingtopaymentandrelease ofthesecurity
Article 17
1. Payment to the successful tenderer shall be made:
— in the case of a tendering procedure concerning the supply of inter-
vention products, by the intervention agency of the Member Statewhich held the products,
— in the case of a tendering procedure concerning the mobilization of
the product on the Community market, by the intervention agency
of the Member State in which the customs export formalities arecompleted.
2. The amount to be paid shall be that of the tender plus, where
appropriate, the costs referred to in Article 18.
If at the time of shipment some quantities are missing, the amount of
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3. The amount referred to in paragraph 2 shall be paid to the
successful tenderer only on presentation of the original of the taking-over certificate or a certified true copy thereof and the supporting
documentsreferred to in Article 16 (2).
However, if the said taking-over certificate is not issued by the reci-
pient, the intervention agency shall make payment on the basis of thecertificate and the supporting documents referred to in Article 16 (2).
4. The amount referred to in paragraph 2 shall be paid in the
currency of the Member State which is responsible for payment. For
this purpose, this amount shall be converted by using the method
defined in Article 8 (2).
5. No export refund or accession compensatory amount shall be
applied to food-aid supplies in respect of which this Regulation applies.
Article 18
1. If the recipient makes the vessel available outside the period of
loading specified or if the vessel is unsuitable for the cargo or if thecircumstances referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 12 (6)
arise, the costs resulting therefrom shall be determined in agreement
with the Commission by the intervention agency and borne by thelatter.
Such additional costs may inter alia be the following:
— storage and insurance costs,
— costs of financing based on the normal rate prevailing in the
Member State responsible for payment.
Such costs shall be calculated for the period from the day following the
end of the period fixed for shipment until the date on which loading iseffectively completed.
2. Where, pursuant to Article 12 (7) the port of shipment is changed,
the intervention agency responsible for payment shall agree with thesuccessful tenderer any reduction or increase in the costs initially speci-fied. If the costs initially specified are increased, the interventionagency concerned shall bear the increase with the prior agreement ofthe Commission.
Article 19
Except in the case of force majeure the successful tenderer shall bear
all the financial consequences of the non-delivery of the goods underthe conditions laid down if the recipient had made delivery possible
under such conditions.
The costs resulting from the non-delivery of the goods following a case
offorce majeure shall be borne by the intervention agency.
Article 20
1. The security referred to in Article 5 shall be released to:
— every tenderer whose tender was not successful or was not
accepted,
— the successful tenderer in respect of the quantities delivered, having
regard to the 2 % tolerance specified in the second subparagraph ofArticle 15 (2) in accordance with the provisions governing thisdelivery and on presentation of the original of the taking-over certi-ficate referred to in Article 16 or a certified true copy or, where
appropriate, the certificate and supporting documents referred to in
Article 16 (2),
— the successful tenderer in respect of quantities not delivered through
the fault of the recipient,
— the successful tenderer in respect of quantities not delivered on
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— the successful tenderer whose agreement was not obtained to an
extension of the time limit fixed for shipment exceeding 60 days,under the conditionss et out in Article 12 (6).
2. The security shall be released immediately.
TITLE VI
Finalprovisions
Article 21
Where the same food-aid operation involves several intervention agen-
cies in different Member States, the latter shall communicate to eachother with the minimum delay all the information necessary forcarrying out their respective tasks and for the successful conclusion ofthe operation.
Article 22
1. The intervention agencieswhich take part in a food-aid operation
shall communicate without delay to the Commission the information
relating to the implementation of the proceduresfor which they are
responsible and in particular those specified in the following para-graphs.
2. The intervention agency which organizesa tendering procedure or
which concludesa direct contract s hall forward without delay to theCommission the list of firms whose tenders were considered in accor-dance with Article 9, shall communicate in respect of each of them the
tenders submitted, shall indicate the name and the business name of the
successful tenderer or the direct contractor and shall forward in the lastcase a copy of the contract.
3. The agency responsible for payment shall communicate without
delay to the Commission the information referred to in Article 14 andany other information which comesto itsnotice.
4. The intervention agency of the country of shipment shall forward
without delay to the Commission the findings of the inspection referred
to in Article 15. This agency shall take the necessary measures tocheck that the goodstaken over by the recipient leave the geographicalterritory of the Community from the port indicated.
If exportation doesnot take place within 15 dayscalculated from the
date on which the taking-over certificate referred to in Article 16 (1)was issued by the recipient or, failing that, the certificate referred to
in paragraph 2 of that Article, the agency concerned shall inform the
Commission thereof by communicating all the available informationon the reasons why the goods were not exported.
Article 23
ThisRegulation s hall enter into force on the third day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
ThisRegulation s hall be binding in itsentirety and directly applicable
in all Member States.1980R1974 — EN — 22.11.1981 — 002.001 — 10
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ANNEX I
1. Programme
2. Recipient
3. Place or country of destination4. Product to be mobilized
5. Total quantity
6. Number of lots7. Intervention agency responsible for conducting the procedure
8. Method of mobilizing the product: (market — intervention)
9. Characteristics of the goods: quality of the goods10. Packaging:
— in bags(
1)
— in bulk— quality of the bags— net weight of the bags— marking of the bags: letters at least 5 cm high
11. Port of shipment
12. Delivery stage: (fob/cif)13. Port of landing: (to be indicated in the case of cif delivery)
14. Procedure to be applied in order to determine supply costs:
(tendering procedure)(direct award procedure)
15. In the case of a tendering procedure the deadline for the submission of
tendersat 12 noon
16. Shipment period
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(1) Since the goods may be rebagged, the successful tenderer must provide 2 % of empty
bags of the same quality as those containing the goods, with the marking followed by a
capital ‘R’.
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ANNEX II
COSTSTOBETAKENINTOACCOUNTINTHETENDER (1)
A.Tenderinvolvingthesupplyofinterventionproducts
1. Transport costs to the place of delivery
2. Costs arising from the unloading or landing at the place of delivery and
where appropriate, the costs relating to all the operations which immedi-
ately precede the shipping, loading or transshipment operation
3. Costs relating to the completion of the customs formalities
4. Weighing, inspection and analysis costs
5. Packaging costs6. Ancillary costs to be borne by the shipper
7. Costs relating to the insurance referred to in Article 12 (3)
8. Freight and marine insurance
B.Tender involving the mobilization of the product on the Community
market
1. Price of the product and the packaging2. Costs arising from loading and transportation to the place of delivery
3. Costs arising from loading or landing at the place of delivery and, where
appropriate, the costs relating to all the operations which immediately
precede the loading, shipping or transshipment operation
4. Costs relating to the completion of the customs formalities5. Weighing, inspection and analysis costs
6. Ancillary costs to be borne by the shipper
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(1) These lists are not exhaustive.
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ANNEX III
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