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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 601/2000
of 20 March 2000
on the supply of milk products as food aid
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 of 27
June 1996 on food-aid policy and food-aid management andspecial operations in support of food security (
1), and in par-
ticular Article 24(1)(b) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) The abovementioned Regulation lays down the list of
countries and organisations eligible for Community aidand specifies the general criteria on the transport of foodaid beyond the fob stage.
(2) Following the taking of a number of Decisions on theallocation of food aid, the Commission has allocatedmilk powder to certain beneficiaries.
(3) It is necessary to make these supplies in accordance withthe rules laid down by Commission Regulation (EC) No2519/97 of 16 December 1997 laying down generalrules for the mobilisation of products to be suppliedpursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 as
Community food aid (
2). It is necessary to specify the
time limits and conditions of supply to determine theresultant costs,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Milk products shall be mobilised in the Community, as
Community food aid for supply to the recipient listed in theAnnex, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 2519/97 andunder the conditions set out in the Annex.
The tenderer is deemed to have noted and accepted all the
general and specific conditions applicable. Any other conditionor reservation included in his tender is deemed unwritten.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 20 March 2000.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 166, 5.7.1996, p. 1. (2) OJ L 346, 17.12.1997, p. 23.
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ANNEX
LOTS A, B, C, D and E
1.Action No: 78/99 (A); 79/99 (B); 80/99 (C); 81/98 (D); 82/99 (E)
2.Beneficiary (2):UNRWA, Supply division, Amman Office, PO Box 140157, Amman, Jordan; telex 21170 UNRWA
JO; tel. (962-6) 586 41 26; fax 586 41 27
3.Beneficiary's representative: UNRWA Field Supply and Transport Officer
A+E: PO Box 19149, Jerusalem, Israel tel. (972-2) 589 05 55; telex 26194 UNRWA IL; fax 581 65 64B: PO Box 947, Beirut, Libanon tel. (961-1) 840 461-7; fax 60 36 83C: PO Box 4313, Damascus, Syria tel. (963-11) 613 30 35; telex 412006 UNRWA SY; fax 613 30 47D: PO Box 484, Amman, Jordan tel. (962-6) 474 19 14/477 22 26; telex 23402 UNRWAJFO JO;
fax 474 63 61
4.Country of destination: A, E: Israel (A: Gaza; E: West Bank); B: Lebanon; C: Syria; D: Jordan
5.Product to be mobilised: whole milk powder
6.Total quantity (tonnes net): 625
7.Number of lots: 5 (A: 204 tonnes; B: 120 tonnes; C: 84 tonnes; D: 121 tonnes; E: 96 tonnes)
8.Characteristics and quality of the product (
3)(5)(8):see OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1 (I.C(1))
9.Packaging (7):see OJ C 267, 13.9.1996, p. 1 (6.1, A, B and C(2)
10.Labelling or marking (6):see OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1 (I.C(3))
— language to be used for the markings: English— supplementary markings: ‘NOT FOR SALE’
lot D: ‘Expiry date...’ (date of manufacture plus 12 months)
11.Method of mobilisation of the product: the Community market
The whole milk powder must be manufactured after the award of the supply contract
12.Specified delivery stage (
9):A, C, E: free at port of landing — container terminal
B, D: free at destination
13.Alternative delivery stage: free at port of shipment
14. a)Port of shipment: —
b)Loading address: —
15.Port of landing: A, E: Ashdod; C: Lattakia
16.Place of destination: UNRWA warehouse in: Beirut (B); Amman (D)
— port or warehouse of transit: —— overland transport route: —
17.Period or deadline of supply at the specified stage:
— first deadline: A, B, C, E: 4.6.2000; D: 11.6.2000— second deadline: A, B, C, E: 18.6.2000; D: 25.6.2000
18.Period or deadline of supply at the alternative stage:
— first deadline: 8-21.5.2000— second deadline: 22.5-4.6.2000
19.Deadline for the submission of tenders (at 12 noon, Brussels time):
— first deadline: 4.4.2000— second deadline: 18.4.2000
20.Amount of tendering guarantee: EUR 20 per tonne
21.Address for submission of tenders and tendering guarantees (
1):Bureau de l'aide alimentaire, Attn. Mr T.
Vestergaard, Bâtiment Loi 130, Bureau 7/46, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200, B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel; telex 25670AGREC B; fax (32-2) 296 70 03/296 70 04 (exclusively)
22.Export refund (
4):refund applicable on 17.3.2000, fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 413/2000 (OJ L 52,
25.2.2000, p. 4)
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Notes:
(1) Supplementary information: André Debongnie (tel. (32-2) 295 14 65), Torben Vestergaard (tel. (32-2) 299 30 50).
(2) The supplier shall contact the beneficiary or its representative as soon as possible to establish which consignment
documents are required.
(3) The supplier shall deliver to the beneficiary a certificate from an official entity certifying that for the product to be
delivered the standards applicable, relative to nuclear radiation, in the Member State concerned, have not beenexceeded. The radioactivity certificate must indicate the caesium-134 and -137 and iodine-131 levels.
(
4) Commission Regulation (EC) No 259/98 (OJ L 25, 31.1.1998, p. 39), is applicable as regards the export refund. The
date referred to in Article 2 of the said Regulation is that referred to in point 22 of this Annex.
The supplier's attention is drawn to the last subparagraph of Article 4(1) of the above Regulation. The photocopy of
the export licence shall be sent as soon as the export declaration has been accepted to fax No (32-2) 296 20 05).
(5) The supplier shall supply to the beneficiary or its representative, on delivery, the following documents:
— health certificate issued by an official entity stating that the product was processed under excellent sanitary
conditions which are supervised by qualified technical personnel. The certificate must state the temperature andduration of the pasteurisation, the temperature and duration in the spray-drying-tower and the expiry date forconsumption,
— veterinary certificate issued by an official entity stating that the area of production of raw milk had not registered
foot-and-mouth disease nor any other notifiable infectious/contagious disease during the 12 months prior to theprocessing, that the standards applicable, relative to PCBs, have not been exceeded and that the product does notcontain any mydiakcene.
(
6) Notwithstanding OJ C 114, 29.4.1991 point I: A (3)(c) is replaced by the following, ‘the words “European
Community”’.
(7) Shipment to take place in 20-foot containers: Lots A, C and D. The contracted shipping terms shall be considered full
liner terms free port of landing container yard and is understood to cover 15 days — Saturdays, and official publicand religious holidays excluded — free of container detention charges at the port of discharge taken from the day/timeof the arrival of the vessel. The 15 day period should be clearly marked on the bill of lading. Bona fide detention
charges levied in respect of container detention(s) in excess of the said 15 days as detailed above will be born byUNRWA. UNRWA shall not pay/not be charged any container deposit fees.
After take-over of the goods at the delivery stage, the recipient will bear all costs of shifting the containers for
destuffing outside the port area and of returning them to the container yard.
Ashdod: The health certificate and the certificate of origin must be signed and stamped by a Syrian Consulate,
including the statement that consular fees and charges have been paid.
(
8) Lot C: The health certificate and the certificate of origin must be signed and stamped by a Syrian Consulate, including
the statement that consular fees and charges have been paid.
(9) In addition to the provisions of Article 14(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2519/97, vessels chartered shall not appear on
any of the four most recent quarterly lists of detained vessels as published by the Paris Memorandum of Under-standing on Port State Control (Council Directive 95/21/EC, (OJ L 157, 7.7.1995, p. 1)).