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IV. Health attestation 
I, the undersigned, certify that: 
(a) the meat products described above were manufactured from fresh meat or meat products under 
conditions that comply with the requirements of Directive 77/99/EEC ('); 
(b) the said meat products, their wrappings or packaging, bear a mark proving that they have all come from 
approved establishments ('); 
(c) the transport vehicles and equipment and the way in which the consignment was loaded comply with the 
hygiene requirements laid down in Directive 77/99/EEC; 
(d) the fresh pigmeat used in the manufacture of the meat products has/has not been (') subjected to a 
trichinae detection test. 
Done at on 
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(Name in capital letters) 
Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) concerning the implementation of the special programme to 
combat hunger in the world 
COM(85) 699 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on \C December 1985) 
(85/C 349/10) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Commumcy, and in particular Article 235 
thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, 
Whereas accordingly on 11 July 1983 the Council adopted 
Regulation (EEC) No 1993/83 (•), concerning the 
implementation of a special programme to combat hunger in 
the world over a two-year period (1983 to 1984); 
Whereas it is necessary to continue the programme and to 
this end appropriations have been entered in the budget of the 
European Communities; 
Whereas the Treaty does not provide specific powers for this 
purpose, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
The Community shall, on an experimental basis, implement 
special measures to combat hunger in the world. 
(]) OJNoL 196,20. 7. 1983, p. 6. Article 2 
Aid shall be granted to the developing countries, and 
especially the least developed of them. The purpose of the aid 
shall be to support or stimulate the recipient countries' own 
efforts. It shall help towards improving the living conditions 
of the most needy sections of the population of the countries 
concerned. 
Article 3 
1. Community aid shall take the form both of support 
measures for recipient countries which have undertaken to 
increase their level of self-reliance in food and of support 
measures designed to protect their natural resources and 
improve the way in which these resources are utilized. 
2. Community aid to increase the level of self-reliance in 
food shall be aimed at supporting consistent measures 
undertaken in the rural sector by the recipient countries at the 
stages relating to the production, marketing, storage and 
transport of agricultural products. 
3. Measures to protect natural resources shall be 
implemented in the following fields particularly: more 
efficient use of fuel wood, reafforestation and the combating 
of desertification, better use of water resources at village level 
and efficient management of domestic and wild livestock. 
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4. Training and research projects in the fields referred to in 
paragraphs 2 and 3 shall also be financed under the 
programme. 
5. Wherever appropriate, and particularly in the case of the 
measures referred to in paragraph 3, operations shall be 
carried out within the framework of regional cooperation. 
Article 4 
Aid shall be granted by the Community either autonomously 
or by means of co-financing with Member States or with 
multilateral or regional bodies. 
Article S 
Community aid shall be in the form of grants. Article 9 
1. A Management Committee for the Special Programme to 
Combat Hunger in the World, hereinafter referred to as 'the 
Committee', chaired by a representative of the Commission 
and composed of representatives of the Member States, is 
hereby established. The secretariat of the Committee shall be 
provided by the Commission. 
2. The Committee shall draw up its own rules of 
procedure. 
Article 10 
1. Matters shall be referred to the Committee by its 
chairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of a 
representative of a Member State. 
2. The chairman shall submit drafts of decisions to be 
taken. 
Article 6 
1. Aid may cover both external expenditure and the local 
expenditure necessary for implementation of the measures, 
including maintenance and operating expenses. 
Taxes, duties and charges shall be excluded from 
Community financing. 
2. Any counterpart funds shall be used in accordance with 
the objectives laid down in this Regulation and in agreement 
with the Commission. 
Article 7 The Committee shall deliver its opinion on these drafts 
within a time limit which the chairman may fix on the basis of 
the urgency of the matters submitted for examination. It shall 
act by a majority of 45 votes, the votes of the Member States 
being weighted as provided for in Article 148 (2) of the 
Treaty. The chairman shall not vote. 
3. The Commission shall take decisions which shall be 
immediately applicable. If they are not in accordance with 
the opinion of the Committee, however, or if the Committee 
does not deliver an opinion, the Commission shall inform the 
Council of such decisions immediately. In that event the 
Commission shall suspend implementation of its decision for 
not more than two months from the date on which the 
Council is informed. The latter, acting by a qualified 
majority, may adopt a different decision within two 
months. 
Participation in calls for tenders, invitation to tender and 
purchasing and other contracts shall be open en equal terms 
to all natural or legal persons of Member States and the 
recipient country. Such participation may be extended to 
other developing countries receiving Community aid, 
particularly in cases of co-financing or in order to prevent the 
cost of the projects from increasing unduly as a result of 
distance, transport difficulties or delivery delays. Article 11 
The Commission shall submit a final report to the Council 
and to the European Parliament not later than 31 December 
1990, containing an evaluation of the results obtained by 
implementing this Regulation. 
Such participation by other developing countries shall be of 
an exceptional nature and shall be authorized on a 
case-by-case basis in accordance with the procedure laid 
down in Article 10. 
Article 8 
Decisions granting aid shall be taken in accordance with the 
procedure laid down in Article 10. Article 12 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its 
publication in the Official Journal of the European 
Communities. 
It shall apply until 31 December 1987. 
This Regulation shall binding in its entirety and directly 
applicable in all Member States.