CELEX: 31976D0293
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 1 March 1976 relating to the urgent supply of skimmed-milk powder to the Kingdom of Morocco as food aid

10 . 3 . 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 62/ 19
                                                       COMMISSION DECISION
                                                             of 1 March 1976
                 relating to the urgent supply of skimmed-milk powder to the Kingdom of
                                                           Morocco as food aid
                                                     (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                               (76/293/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           2. The skimmed-milk ppwder shall be collected
 COMMUNITIES,                                                             from the French intervention agency.
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community,                                                     3 . The skimmed-milk powder shall meet the
                                                                         requirements as to quality and packing laid down in
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                        1108/68 of 27 July 1968 on detailed rules of applica­
 of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last                    tion for public storage of skimmed-milk powder (5), as
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 740/75 (2), and in                       last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 457/75 (6).
 particular Articles 7 (5) and 28 thereof,
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1827/74 of 11                       The French intervention agency shall have the
 July 1974 on the supply of skimmed-milk powder as                       packing marked in letters at least one centimetre
 food aid to certain developing countries and interna­                   high, as follows :
 tional organizations (3), makes, inter alia, provision
 for the supply to the Kingdom of Morocco of 100
                                                                         ' Lait ecreme en poudre/Don de la Communauté
 metric tons of skimmed-milk powder held by the                          Economique Européenne/À distribuer gratuitement'.
 intervention agencies ; whereas that country has made
 a request for the delivery of the abovementioned quan­
 tity ;
 Whereas Article 5 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                                                Article 2
 1826/74 of 11 July 1974 laying down general rules for
 the supply of skimmed-milk powder as food aid to
 certain developing countries and international organi­                  Delivery shall be effected from the port of Le Havre,
 zations (4), stipulates that the cost of delivery should                on a date fixed by the French intervention agency
 normally be determined by a tendering procedure, or                    which must be later than 20 March and earlier than 3
 in urgent cases by a procedure of mutual agreement ;                   April 1976.
Whereas, due to the emergency of the situation on the
 one hand and of the small quantity involved on the                     The goods shall be regarded as delivered when they
 other hand, a private contract should be negotiated ;                   are deposited in the port of shipment at a point desig­
                                                                         nated by the recipient country or its agent.
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
                                                                                                 Article 3
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                         1 . The French intervention agency shall determine
                               Article 1                                the costs of transporting the skimmed-milk powder
                                                                        b j concluding a private contract on the least onerous
                                                                        terms .
 1.     In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No
 1827/74, 100 metric tons of skimmed-milk powder
shall be delivered to the Kingdom of Morocco.
                                                                        2. The intervention agency shall forward to the
(!) OJ    No  L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .                           Commission without delay a copy of such contract.
(2) OJ    No  L 74, 22. 3 . 1975, p . 1 .
(3) OJ    No  L 190, 13 . 7. 1974, p. 22.                               (5) OJ No L 184, 29 . 7. 1968 , p . 34.
(4) OJ    No  L 190, 13 . 7. 1974, p. 20 .                              (6) OJ No L 145, 6 . 6. 1975, p. 17.
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                       Article 4                           Done at Brussels, 1 March 1976 .
No refund or compensatory amount (whether mone­
tary or accession) shall be granted in respect of the
skimmed-milk powder delivered pursuant to this Deci­
sion .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                       Article 5                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.                             Member of the Commission