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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1494/98
of 13 July 1998
on the supply of cereals 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-aidmanagement and special operations in support of foodsecurity (
1), and in particular Article 24(1)(b) thereof,
Whereas the abovementioned Regulation lays down the
list of countries and organisations eligible for Communityaid and specifies the general criteria on the transport offood aid beyond the fob stage;
Whereas, following the taking of a number of decisions
on the allocation of food aid, the Commission hasallocated cereals to certain beneficiaries;
Whereas it is necessary to make these supplies in
accordance with the rules laid down by CommissionRegulation (EC) No 2519/97 of 16 December 1997 layingdown general rules for the mobilisation of products to besupplied under Council Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 asCommunity food aid (
2); whereas it is necessary to specify
the time limits and conditions of supply to determine theresultant costs,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Cereals shall be mobilised in the Community, as
Community food aid for supply to the recipient listed inthe Annex, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No2519/97 and under the conditions set out in the Annex.
The tenderer is deemed to have noted and accepted all
the general and specific conditions applicable. Any othercondition or reservation included in his tender is deemedunwritten.
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, 13 July 1998.
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
LOT A
1.Action No: 1520/95
2.Beneficiary (2): Peru
3.Beneficiary’s representative: Programa Nacional de Asistencia Alimentaria (PRONAA), av. Argentina
3017, El Callao (fax (551) 33 76 35)
4.Country of destination : Peru
5.Product to be mobilised : common wheat flour
6.Total quantity (tonnes net): 2 340
7.Number of lots: one
8.Characteristics and quality of the product (3)(5)(9): see OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1 (II.B(1)(a))
9.Packaging (7): see OJ C 267, 13.9.1996, p. 1 (2.2, A(1)(c), (2)(c) and B(1))
10.Labelling or marking (6): see OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1 (II.B(3))
— language to be used for the markings: Spanish— supplementary markings: ‘Distribucin gratuita’
11.Method of mobilisation of the product: the Community market
12.Specified delivery stage: free at destination (
8)
13.Alternative delivery stage: free at port of shipment
14. (a) Port of shipment: —
(b)Loading address: —
15.Port of landing: —
16.Place of destination: entrept PRONAA (see point 3)
— port or warehouse of transit: —— overland transport route: —
17.Period or deadline of supply at the specified stage:
— first deadline: 27.9.1998— second deadline: 11.10.1998
18.Period or deadline of supply at the alternative stage:
— first deadline: 17 — 30.8.1998— second deadline: 31.8 — 13.9.1998
19.Deadline for the submission of tenders (at 12 noon, Brussels time):
— first deadline: 28.7.1998— second deadline: 11.8.1998
20.Amount of tendering guarantee: ECU 5 per tonne
21.Address for submission of tenders and tendering guarantees (
1): Bureau de l’aide alimentaire, Attn
Mr T. Vestergaard, Btiment Loi 130, bureau 7/46, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200, B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel
telex 25670 AGREC B; fax (32 2) 296 70 03/296 70 04 (exclusively)
22.Export refund (
4): refund applicable on 24.7.1998, fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1345/98
(OJ L 184, 27.6.1998, p. 10)
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Notes:
(1) Supplementary information: Andr 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 Stateconcerned, have not been exceeded. The radioactivity certificate must indicate the caesium-134 and -137and 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 thisAnnex.
(
5) The supplier shall supply to the beneficiary or its representative, on delivery, the following documents:
— phytosanitary certificate.
(6) Notwithstanding OJ C 114, point II.B(3)(c) is replaced by the following: ‘the words “European Com-
munity”’.
(7) Since the goods may be rebagged, the supplier must provide 2 % of empty bags of the same quality as
those containing the goods, with the marking followed by a capital ‘R’.
(8) 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 Memo-randum of Understanding on Port State Control (Council Directive 95/21/EC, (OJ L 157, 7.7.1995, p. 1)).
(
9) The flour must be enriched by the addition of 30 mg iron per kilogram.