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Officials of the European Coal and Steel Community, an 
official affected by the measure provided for in Article 1 
shall be treated as an official who has remained in 
service until the age of 65 provided he continues to pay 
the contribution during the period of receipt of the 
allowance referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article. 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, 
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3331/ 
82 (*), and in particular to the first, fourth, fifth, sixth 
and seventh indents of Article 4 (1) and to Article 4 (2) 
thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par­
liament, 
Whereas, in order to implement Council Regulation 
(EEC) No 3331/82, it is necessary to determine the total 
quantities of each product to be supplied under the 
food-aid programmes in compliance with the 
Community's international commitments; 
Whereas the Community has entered into certain 
commitments under the Food Aid Convention; 
Whereas the Community also intends entering into 
certain commitments under a Convention to be 
concluded whith the United Nations Relief and Works 
Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 
(UNRWA) O; 
Whereas a list of the countries and organizations eligible 
for food-aid operations should be drawn up without 
prejudice to emergency operations; 
Whereas provisions should be made for the possibility of 
making food available to non-governmental organi­
zations; whereas the latter must meet certain conditions 
guaranteeing the successful execution of food-aid 
operations; 
0) OJ No L 352, 14. 12. 1982, p. 1. 
(2) OJ No L 188, 16. 7. 1984, p. 18. Article 5 
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. 
Whereas the basic and derived products which may be 
supplied under food-aid operations should be determined 
by taking account, in particular, of the available stocks 
of the products in question; 
Whereas general criteria should also be established for 
the transport of food aid beyond the fob stage, taking 
into account the financial and geographical situation of 
the countries concerned and the channels and inter­
mediaries via which the aid will be dispatched; whereas 
account should also be taken to this end of the need to 
ensure that the effectiveness of the food-aid operations is 
increased; 
Whereas, in order to ensure that the objectives of 
food-aid operations are attained, it is furthermore 
necessary to stipulate that aid is granted only where the 
recipients undertake to comply with the supply terms laid 
down by the Commission; 
Whereas the methods of mobilizing, transporting and 
delivering the products should be specified; whereas it is 
also necessary to determine the procedure for mobilizing 
the products outside the Community; 
Whereas the Commission must be able to take all the 
measures necessary for the proper execution of food-aid 
programmes and operations; whereas, to this end, 
Member States must provide the Commission with all the 
assistance required and, in particular, with all relevant 
information; 
Whereas, in circumstances and subject to appropriate 
conditions, multiannual food-aid programmes can make 
a positive contribution to the development of the 
recipient country; whereas, howewer, it is not intended 
to lay down multiannual quantities of food aid, Proposal for a Council Regulation laying down implementing rules for Regulation (EEC) No 
3331/82 on food-aid policy and food-aid management 
COM(85) 482 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 18 September 1985) 
(85/C 250/07) 
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
1. The quantities of products to be made available 
each year to certain developing countries and certain 
organizations as food aid are indicated in Annex I. 
The products listed in the fourth, fifth and sixth indents 
of Annex I shall be made available to certain developing 
countries or certain organizations under international 
commitments or in the form of specific projects or 
emergency aid to be decided on by the Commission in 
accordance with Article 5 or 6, as applicable, of Regu­
lation (EEC) No 3331/82. 
2. The products to be considered for food-aid 
operations under paragraph 1 are laid down in Annex II. 
Article 2 
1. The countries and organizations eligible to receive 
the aid referred to in Article 1 are listed in Annex HI. 
2. The aid may also be placed at the disposal of non­
governmental organizations which meet inter alia the 
following criteria: 
(a) have their headquarters in a Member State of the 
Community or, exceptionally, in a third country; 
(b) have a statute that is characteristic of an organ­
ization of this type; 
(c) have shown that they have the capacity to carry out 
food-aid operations successfully; 
(d) have given an undertaking to comply with the 
conditions of supply laid down by the Commission 
pursuant to Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 
3331/82. 
Article 3 
Where the Commission considers that the Community 
should meet transport costs for food aid beyond the fob 
stage, it shall take account of the following general 
criteria: 
— whether the recipient country is included on the list 
of least-developed countries, 
— whether or not the recipient country is a landlocked 
country, 
— the financial situation of the recipient country, 
— whether the food aid is intended for the organ­
izations or non-governmental organizations referred 
to in Article 2, 
— the need to mobilize the product on the market of a 
developing country, 
— the need to allocate the food aid on an emergency 
basis, >ean Communities 2.10. 85 
— the need to make a given food-aid operation more 
effective. 
Article 4 
Distribution costs may, in exceptional circumstances, be 
met by the Community, where necessary, for the proper 
execution of the food-aid operations concerned. 
Article 5 
1. The Commission shall inform the recipients of the 
conditions governing the supply of food aid as referred 
to in point (c) of the first paragraph of Article 6 of 
Regulation (EEC) No 3331/82. 
2. Food aid shall be granted to the recipients only 
where they undertake to comply with the conditions of 
supply notified to them by the Commission. 
Article 6 
1. Except in the case of emergency operations or 
where products have to be purchased in a developing 
country because they are unavailable on the Community 
market, tenders shall be called for within the 
Community: 
— for the mobilization of the product on the 
Community market and, where appropriate, for its 
purchase and manufacture on that market, 
— for the transportation and delivery of the product 
after mobilization. 
Where, however, a food-aid operation relates only to 
relatively small amounts, paragraph 2 may also apply. 
2. For emergency operations or where products must 
be purchased in a developing country because they are 
unavailable on the Community market, the Commission 
may conclude the necessary private contracts or instruct 
the Member States and, where appropriate, an auth­
orized agent to conclude such contracts on terms laid 
down by the Commission. 
Article 7 
1. The Commission shall lay down rules for the 
mobilization of products which must be purchased in a 
developing country because they are unavailable on the 
Community market. 
In order to establish that they are unavailable, the 
Commission shall have regard to the availability of 
stocks of the products in question in the Community and 
to the Community market's needs as regards such 
products. 
2. Milk products supplied as food aid must have been 
manufactured and purchased in the Community. 
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3. The Commission shall lay down the rules referred 
to in paragraph 1, in accordance with the procedure 
provided for in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 
3331/82. 
Article 8 
The Commission shall, in accordance with the procedure 
provided for in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 
3331/82, establish the technical coefficient and equiv­
alence criterion referred to in Article 3 of that Regu­
lation. 
Article 9 
The Commission shall take all necessary measures to 
ensure the proper execution of food-aid programmes and 
operations. 
ANNEX I 
The quantities referred to in Article 1 (1) to be made available annually (') 
— Cereals: 
(a) an initial instalment of 927 700 tonnes, 
(b) a second instalment of up to 232 300 tonnes; 
— Milk powder: a maximum of 120 000 tonnes; 
— Butteroil: a maximum of 35 000 tonnes; 
— Sugar: a maximum of 11 000 tonnes; 
— Vegetable oil (seed oil and olive oil): a maximum of 20 000 tonnes; 
— other products: quantities totalling not more than 149 800 tonnes cereal equivalent; 
— food aid in the form of the above products totalling not more than 500 000 tonnes of cereal equivalent 
to be kept in reserve for food emergencies. To this end, the Member States shall provide the 
Commission with all the assistance required and shall, in 
particular, provide it with all relevant information. 
Article 10 
The European Parliament shall be kept informed of the 
management of food aid by being notified of the 
Decisions referred to in Articles 7 and 8 upon their 
adoption. 
Article 11 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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. 
(') The Commission reserves the right to amend its proposal as regards these quantities in the light of the outcome of the 
budgetary procedure and, if necessary, of the outcome of the negotiations for the Food Aid Convention. 
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ANNEX II 
List of products referred to in Article 1 
CCT heading No 
03.02 
04.02 A II and B I 
ex 04.03 
07.05 B 
08.04 B 
ex Chapter 10 
(ex 10.01 to 10.07) 
11.01 
ex 11.02 
11.04 A 
15.07 A 
15.07 D II 
16.04 D 
ex 16.04 F 
17.01 A and B 
19.02 
ex 19.03 
19.08 B 
21.07 G Description 
Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before 
or during the smoking process 
Milk and cream, in powder or granules 
Butteroil (as defined in Annex III to Regulation (EEC) No 1354/83) 
Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split (other 
than for sowing) 
Dried grapes 
Cereals (other than for sowing) 
Cereal flours 
Cereal groats and cereal meal; other worked cereal grains (for example, 
rolled, flaked, polished, pearled or kibbled but not further prepared), except 
rice falling within heading No 10.06 
Flour of the dried leguminous vegetables falling within heading No 07.05 
Olive oil 
Fixed vegetable oils, fluid or solid, crude, refined or purified (other than 
olive oil, China-wood and oitica oils, myrtle wax and Japan wax, castor oil 
and other oils for technical or industrial uses other than the manufacture of 
foodstuffs for human consumption) 
Sardines 
Mackerel and anchovies 
Beet sugar and cane sugar, in solid form 
Food preparations of flour, meal, etc. 
Macaroni, spaghetti and similar products 
Biscuits 
Food preparations not specified 
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ANNEX III 
Countries and organizations referred to in Article 2 
1. COUNTRIES 
Angola 
Antigua and Barbuda 
Bangladesh 
Benin 
Bolivia 
Botswana 
Burundi 
Cape Verde 
Central African Republic 
Chad 
China 
Comoros 
Costa Rica 
Djibouti 
Dominican Republic 
Dominica 
Ecuador 
Egypt 
El Salvador 
Equatorial Guinea 
Ethiopia 
Gambia 
Ghana 
Grenada 
Guatemala Guinea (Conakry) 
Guinea Bissau 
Guyana 
Haiti 
Honduras 
India 
Indonesia 
Jamaica 
Jordan 
Kenya 
Lebanon 
Lesotho 
Madagascar 
Malawi 
Maldives 
Mali 
Malta 
Mauritania 
Mauritius 
Morocco 
Mozambique 
Nepal 
Nicaragua 
Niger 
Pakistan Peru 
Philippines 
Rwanda 
St Kitts-Nevis 
St Lucia 
St Vincent and Grenadines 
Sao Tome and Principe 
Senegal 
Seychelles 
Sierra Leone 
Somalia 
Sri Lanka 
Sudan 
Syria 
Swaziland 
Tanzania 
Thailand 
Togo 
Tunisia 
Uganda 
Upper Volta 
North Yemen (Arab Republic) 
South Yemen (Democratic Republic) 
Zaire 
Zambia 
Zimbabwe 
2. ORGANIZATIONS 
ICRC 
LICROSS UNHCR WFP 
UNRWA UNICEF