CELEX: 31996R1719
Language: en
Date: 1996-08-30 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1719/96 of 30 August 1996 on the supply of milk products as food aid

31 . 8 . 96         PEN                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 221 /53
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1719/96
                                                          of 30 August 1996
                                          on the supply of milk products as food aid
    THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       the possibility for tenderers to indicate two ports of
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             loading, where necessary not belonging to the same port
                                                                      area ,
    Community,
    Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 of
   27 June 1996 on food-aid policy and food-aid                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   management and special operations in support of food
   security ('), and in particular Article 24 ( 1 ) (b) thereof,
                                                                                             Article 1
   Whereas the abovementioned Regulation lays down the
   list of countries and organizations eligible for food-aid         Milk products shall be mobilized in the Community, as
   operations and specifies the general criteria on the              Community food aid for supply to the recipient listed in
   transport of food aid beyond the fob stage;                       the Annex, in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     2200/87 and under the conditions set out in the Annex.
   Whereas, following the taking of a number of decisions            Supplies shall be awarded by the tendering procedure.
   on the allocation of food aid, the Commission has
   allocated milk powder to certain beneficiaries;                   For lot A, notwithstanding Article 7 (3) (d) of Regulation
   Whereas it is necessary to make these supplies in                (EEC) No 2200/87, the tender may indicate two ports of
   accordance with the rules laid down by Commission                shipment not necessarily belonging to the same port area.
   Regulation (EEC) No 2200/87 of 8 July 1987 laying down           The successful tenderer is deemed to have noted and
  general rules for the mobilization in the Community of            accepted all the general and specific conditions
   products to be supplied as Community food aid (2), as            applicable . Any other condition or reservation included in
  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 790/91 (3); whereas it is          his tender is deemed unwritten .
  necessary to specify the time limits and conditions of
  supply and the procedure to be followed to determine the
  resultant costs;                                                                           Article 2
  Whereas, for a given lot, given the small quantities to be        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
  supplied, the packaging methods and the large number of           following its publication in the Official Journal of the
  destinations of the supplies, provision should be made for        European Communities.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States .
                    Done at Brussels, 30 August 1996.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(•) OJ No L 166, 5. 7. 1996, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 204, 25. 7. 1987, p. 1 .
 3 OJ No L 81 , 28 . 3 . 1991 , p. 108 .
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                                                              ANNEX
                                                               LOT A
              1 . Operation Nos ('): 1025/95 (Al ); 1043/95 (A2)
              2. Programme: 1995
              3. Recipient (2): Euronaid, Postbus 12, NL-2501 CA Den Haag (tel. (3170)33 05 757; fax 36 41 701 ; telex
                   30960 EURON NL)
              4. Representative of the recipient (9): to be designated by the recipient
              5. Place or countries of destination: Al : Haiti ; A2: Zaire
              6. Product to be mobilized: vitaminized skimmed-milk powder
              7. Characteristics and quality of the goods (3)(6): See OJ No C 114, 29. 4. 1991 , p. 1 (IJB(l ))
              8 . Total quantity (tonnes): 195
              9. Number of lots: 1 in two parts (Al : 180 tonnes; A2: 15 tonnes)
             10. Packaging and marking Q (8): See OJ No C 1 14, 29. 4. 1991 , p. 1 (I.B (2), IA. (2) (3) and I.B. (3))
                   Language to be used for the marking: French
            11 . Method of mobilization: The Community market
                  The manufacture of the skimmed-milk powder, and the incorporation of vitamins, must be carried out
                   after the award of the tender
            12. Stage of supply: Free at port of shipment (5)
            13 . Port of shipment: —
            14. Port of landing specified by the recipient: —
            15. Port of landing: —
            16. Address of the warehouse and, if appropriate, port of landing: —
            17. Period for making the goods available at the port of shipment: 7 — 27. 10 . 1996
            18 . Deadline for the supply: —
            19. Procedure for determining the costs of supply: Invitation to tender
            20. Date of expiry of the period allowed for submission of tenders: 1 2 noon (Brussels time) on 1 6. 9.
                   1996
            21 . In the case of a second invitation to tender:
                  (a) deadline for the submission of tenders: 12 noon (Brussels time) on 30. 9. 1996
                  (b) period for making the goods available at the port of shipment: 21 . 10. — 10. 11 . 1996
                  (c) deadline for the supply: —
            22. Amount of tendering security: ECU 20 per tonne
            23. Amount of delivery security: 10 % of the amount of the tender in ecus
            24. Address for submission of tenders and tendering securities ('):
                  Bureau de l'aide alimentaire, Attn Mr T. Vestergaard
                  Batiment Loi 130 , bureau 7/46
                  Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200 , B-1049 Brussels
                  telex 2 56 70 AGREC B; fax (32 2) 296 70 03/296 70 04)
            25. Refund payable on application by the successful tenderer (4): refund applicable on 27. 8 . 1996,
                  fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1640/96 (OJ No L 205, 15. 8 . 1996, p. 16)
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                Notes:
                (1) The operation number should be mentioned in all correspondence.
               (2) The successful tenderer shall contact the recipient as soon as possible to establish which consignment
                     documents are required.
               (3) The successful tenderer 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) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2330/87 (OJ No L 210, 1.8 . 1987, p. 56), as last amended by Regula­
                    tion (EEC) No 2226/89 (OJ No L 214, 25. 7. 1989, p. 10), is applicable as regards the export refund. The
                    date referred to in Article 2 of the said Regulation is that referred to in point 25 of this Annex.
                    The amount of the refund shall be converted into national currency by applying the agricultural conver­
                    sion rate applicable on the day of completion of the customs export formalities. The provisions of Articles
                    13 to 17 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106), as last amended
                    by Regulation (EC) No 1482/96 (OJ No L 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22), shall not apply to this amount.
              (J) Notwithstanding Article 7 (3) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 2200/87, the tender may indicate two ports of
                    shipment not necessarily belonging to the same port area.
              (6) The successful tenderer shall supply to the beneficiary or its representative, on delivery, the following
                    documents :
                    — health certificate,
                    — veterinary certificate issued by an official entity stating that the product was processed with pasteu­
                        rized milk, coming from healthy animals, processed under excellent sanitary conditions which are
                        supervised by qualified technical personnel and that the area of production of raw milk had not regis­
                        tered foot-and-mouth disease nor any other notifiable infectious/contagious disease during the 12
                        months prior to the processing,
                        The veterinary certificate must state the temperature and duration of the pasteurization, the tempera­
                        ture and duration in the spray-drying tower and the expiry date for consumption .
             I7) Notwithstanding OJ No C 114, point I. B.3 (c) is replaced by the following: 'the words "European
                   Community"'.
             (8) Shipment to take place in 20-foot containers, condition FCL/FCL each containing 15 tonnes net. The
                   supplier shall be responsible for the cost of making the containers available in the stack position at the
                   container terminal at the port of shipment. The recipient shall be responsible for all subsequent loading
                   costs, including the cost of moving the containers from the container terminal. The provisions of Article
                   13 (2), second paragraph, of Regulation (EEC) No 2200/87 shall not apply.
                   The successful tenderer has to submit to the recipient's agent a complete packing list of each container,
                   specifying the number of bags belonging to each shipping number as specified in the invitation to tender.
                   The successful tenderer has to seal each container with a numbered locktainer (Sysko locktainer 1 80 seal),
                   number of which to be provided to the beneficiary's forwarder.
            (9) The supplier should send a duplicate of the original invoice to: Willis Corroon Scheuer, Postbus 1315,
                   NL-1000 BH Amsterdam .