Commission Regulation (EC) No 1608/2005 of 30 September 2005 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 laying down detailed rules for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community
Date: 2005-09-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural surplus, aid to disadvantaged groups, food aid, intervention stock, invitation to tender, rice, surplus stock

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1608/2005

of 30 September 2005

amending Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 laying down detailed rules for the supply of food from
intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinions of
the Management
Committees concerned,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3730/87 of
10 December 1987 laying down the general rules for the
supply of food from intervention stocks to designated organi-
sations for distribution to the most deprived persons in the
Community (1), and in particular Article 6 thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 is hereby amended as follows:

Whereas:

1. Article 4 is amended as follows:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

4

of

Regulation

(EEC)
Commission
Article
No 3149/92 (2) lays down detailed rules for invitations
to tender as regards the organisation of supplies in the
Member States participating in the Community measure
for the distribution of food from intervention stocks for
the benefit of the most deprived persons.

The products to be withdrawn from intervention stocks
under the annual plan may be supplied unprocessed or
processed for the manufacture of food, or withdrawn in
payment
food
mobilised on the Community market. In the latter case,
in intervention stocks which may be
the products
for the manufacture of cereal
withdrawn in payment
and milk products should be specified.

supply or manufacture of

the

for

To respond more effectively to the needs of charitable
food products
organisations and expand the range of
supplied,
it should be laid down that products from
intervention stocks may, under certain conditions, be
incorporated into other products for the purposes of
manufacturing food.

In accordance with Article 47, paragraph 1, of Council
Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the
common organisation of the market in beef and veal (3),
public intervention in the beef and veal sector as a
permanent market support
instrument does not exist
any more since 1 July 2002. The Regulation (EEC)
3149/92 should therefore be adapted to that new
situation.

(5)

Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(a)

in paragraph 1, point
replaced by the following:

(b),

the third subparagraph is

‘However, where no rice is available in intervention
stocks, the Commission may authorise the removal of
cereals from intervention stocks to pay for the supply of
rice or rice products mobilised on the market.’;

(b) in paragraph 2, point (a), the following subparagraph is

inserted after the third subparagraph:

‘In the case referred to in the third indent of the second
subparagraph, where supply involves rice or rice pro-
ducts in exchange for cereals withdrawn from inter-
vention stocks,
the invitation to tender shall specify
that the product to be withdrawn is a specific cereal
held by an intervention agency.’;

(c) paragraph 2a is replaced by the following:

‘2a.
Products from intervention may be incorporated
into or added to other products mobilised on the market
food to be supplied for the
for the manufacture of
purposes of
In such cases,
products from intervention stocks must represent at
least 40 % of the net weight of the food product to be
supplied.

implementing the plan.

(1) OJ L 352, 15.12.1987, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2535/95 (OJ L 260, 31.10.1995, p. 3).

(2) OJ L 313, 30.10.1992, p. 50. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1903/2004 (OJ L 328, 30.10.2004, p. 77).

(3) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1782/2003 (OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1).

In the case referred to in the first subparagraph, the
invitation to tender shall clearly indicate the requirement
that products from intervention stocks must represent at
least 40 % of the net weight of the food product to be
supplied.’.

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2. In Article 5(1), the second indent is deleted.

3. The Annex is deleted.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October 2005.

Article 2

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 30 September 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission