Commission Regulation (EC) No 1351/98 of 26 June 1998 on the supply of fishery products as food aid
Date: 1998-06-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, Haiti, aid system, award of contract, food aid, sea fish

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1351/98

of 26 June 1998

on the supply of fishery products as food aid

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

the time limits and conditions of supply to determine the
resultant costs,

June

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 of
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and food-aid
management and special operations in support of food
security (1), and in particular Article 24(1)(b) thereof,

on food-aid policy

1996

Whereas the abovementioned Regulation lays down the
list of countries and organisations eligible for Community
aid and specifies the general criteria on the transport of
food aid beyond the fob stage;

Whereas, following the taking of a number of decisions
on the allocation of
the Commission has
food aid,
allocated fishery products to certain beneficiaries;

it

is necessary to make these supplies

in
Whereas
accordance with the rules laid down by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2519/97 of 16 December 1997 laying
down general rules for the mobilisation of products to be
supplied under Council Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 as
Community food aid (2); whereas it is necessary to specify

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Fishery products shall be mobilised in the Community, as
Community food aid for supply to the recipient listed in
the Annex,
in accordance with Regulation (EC) No
2519/97 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 other
condition or 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, 26 June 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: 190/97

2. Beneficiary (2): Euronaid, PO Box 12, NL-2501 CA Den Haag, Nederland

tel.:

(31 70) 330 57 57; fax: 364 17 01; telex: 30960 EURON NL

3. Beneficiary’s representative: to be designated by the recipient

4. Country of destination: Haiti

5. Product to be mobilised: sardines (sardina pilchardus Walbaum)

6. Total quantity (tonnes net): 30

7. Number of lots: one

8. Characteristics and quality of the product (3) (4): tinned headless sardines in vegetable oil, 1997 or

1998 fishing, CN code 1604 13 19

9. Packaging (6): see OJ C 267, 13.9.1996, p. 1 (14.0.A, B and C(2))

10. Labelling or marking (5): see OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1 (VIII.A(3))

— Language to be used for the markings: French (‘maquereaux’ must be replaced by ‘sardines’)

— Supplementary markings:

‘Date d’expiration: . . .’

(date of manufacture plus two years)

In case the required markings cannot be printed on the tins, they must be printed either on an outer
packaging of each tin or on self-adhesive labels fixed on the tins. The expiry date and the date of manu-
facture shall be printed on the tins and not on the self-adhesive labels

11. Method of mobilisation of the product: the Community market

The products must originate from the Community.

12. Specified delivery stage: free at port of shipment

13. Alternative delivery stage: —

14.

(a) Port of shipment: —

(b) Loading address: —

15. Port of landing: —

16. Place of destination: —

— port or warehouse of transit: —

— overland transport route: —

17. Period or deadline of supply at the specified stage:

— first deadline: 10 — 30.8.1998

— second deadline: 24.8 — 13.9.1998

18. Period or deadline of supply at the alternative stage:

— first deadline: —

— second deadline: —

19. Deadline for the submission of tenders (at 12 noon, Brussels time):

— first deadline: 13.7.1998

— second deadline: 27.7.1998

20. Amount of tendering guarantee: ECU 15 per tonne

21. Address for submission of tenders and tendering guarantees (1): Bureau de l’aide alimentaire, Attn
Mr T. Vestergaard, B(cid:131)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: —

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Notes:

(1) Supplementary information: Andr(cid:130) 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 been exceeded. The radioactivity certificate must indicate the caesium-134 and -137
and iodine-131 levels.

(4) The supplier shall supply to the beneficiary or its representative, on delivery, the following document:

— health certificate (+expiry date).

(5) Notwithstanding OJ C 114, point VIII.A(3)(c) is replaced by the following:

‘the words “European Com-

munity”’.

(6) Shipment to take place in 20-foot containers, FCL/FCL. The supplier will be responsible for the cost of
making the containers available in the stack position at the container terminal at the port of shipment.
The beneficiary will be responsible for all subsequent loading costs, including the cost of moving the
container from the container terminal.

The supplier must submit to the beneficiary’s agent a complete packing list of each container, specifying
the number of metal canisters belonging to each action number as specified in the invitation to tender
notice.

The supplier must seal each container with a numbered locktainer (Oneseal, Sysko, Locktainer 180 or a
similar high-security seal) the number of which is to be provided to the beneficiary’s representative.