COMMISSION DECISION of 24 May 1994 on the establishment of overall quantities of food aid for 1994 and a list of products to be supplied as food aid (94/328/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3972/86 of 22 December 1986 on food-aid policy and food-aid management (1), as last extended by Regulation (EEC) No 1930/90 (2), and in particular Article 5 thereof,

Whereas, in order to implement Regulation (EEC) No 3972/86, it is necessary to lay down the total quantities of each product to be supplied under the food aid operations for 1994, and to specify the products involved;

Whereas the overall quantities of food aid for 1994, should be decided and food aid operations implemented on the basis of the budgetary resources available;

Whereas the sum of ECU 36 million pursuant to Article B7-511 of the budget will be administered by the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) to provide emergency food aid, the products to be supplied being decided case by case according to the nature of the emergency;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Food Aid Committee,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Sole Article

1. The total quantities of each product to be supplied to developing countries and aid organizations are set out in Annex I.

2. The products which may be supplied as food aid are listed in Annex II.

Done at Brussels, 24 May 1994.

For the Commission

Manuel MARÍN

Vice-President

(1) OJ No L 370, 30. 12. 1986, p. 1; corrigendum OJ No L 42, 12. 2. 1987, p. 54.

(2) OJ No L 174 7. 7. 1990, p. 6.

ANNEX I

Quantities of food aid to be made available in 1994: - Cereals:

(a) a minimum of 927 700 tonnes under the Food Aid Convention;

(b) 459 800 tonnes in the form of supplementary allocations (1),

- Milk powder and equivalent products: 50 000 tonnes,

- Butteroil: 41 000 tonnes,

- Sugar: 17 000 tonnes (1),

- Vegetable oil: 68 000 tonnes (1),

- Other products: a maximum of ECU 51 million (1).

(1) The quantities set out above may be increased by up to 20 %, provided that this does not affect the overall budget.

ANNEX II

"" ID="1">0202> ID="2">Meat of bovine animals, frozen"> ID="1">0203> ID="2">Meat of swine, frozen"> ID="1">0204> ID="2">Meat of sheep or goat, frozen"> ID="1">0210> ID="2">Meat of bovine animals, of swine, sheep or goat, salted, in brine, dried or smoked"> ID="1">0305> ID="2">Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; fish-meal fit for human consumption"> ID="1">ex 0402> ID="2">Milk and cream, in powder, granules or other solid forms, or milk substitutes"> ID="1">ex 0405 00> ID="2">Butteroil"> ID="1">0406> ID="2">Cheese and curd"> ID="1">0713> ID="2">Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split"> ID="1">0806 20> ID="2">Dried grapes"> ID="1">ex Chapter 10> ID="2">Cereals"> ID="1">1101> ID="2">Cereal flours"> ID="1">1102"> ID="1">1103> ID="2">Cereal groats, meal and pellets"> ID="1">1104> ID="2">Cereal grains otherwise worked, except rice of CN code 1006; germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground"> ID="1">1106 10 00> ID="2">Flour and meal of the dried leguminous vegetables of CN code 0713"> ID="1">ex 1202> ID="2">Groundnuts"> ID="1">1509> ID="2">Olive oil"> ID="1">ex 1507> ID="2">Vegetable oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified, for human consumption"> ID="1">ex 1508"> ID="1">ex 1511"> ID="1">ex 1512"> ID="1">ex 1513"> ID="1">ex 1514"> ID="1">ex 1515"> ID="1">1602> ID="2">Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood"> ID="1">ex 1604 13 to> ID="2">Prepared or preserved fish: sardines; tunas; mackerel; anchovies; other"> ID="1">1604 19"> ID="1">1701> ID="2">Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form"> ID="1">ex 1901> ID="2">Food preparations of flour, meal, etc., not elsewhere specified or included"> ID="1">ex 1902> ID="2">Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared"> ID="1">ex 1905> ID="2">Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers"> ID="1">2002> ID="2">Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid"> ID="1">ex 2106> ID="2">Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included: protein concentrates and textured protein substances derived from milk"> ID="1">n.a.> ID="2">Fresh products to be bought locally in developing countries, such as fruit and vegetables (1)"> ID="1">n.a.> ID="2">Freeze-dried products and ready prepared meals (1) "">

(1) Non-governmental organizations and international bodies only, priority to be given to refugees.