CELEX: 31975D0281
Language: en
Date: 1975-04-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16 April 1975 on the supply of butteroil to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as emergency food aid for distribution to displaced persons in Cyprus

No L 122/6                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               14. 5 . 75
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 16 April 1975
               on the supply of butteroil to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
                   Refugees as emergency food aid for distribution to displaced persons in Cyprus
                                                (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                          (75/281/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES ,
                                                                                                Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community;                                             1 . In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 865/75 ,
                                                                    300 metric tons of butteroil shall be delivered to the
                                                                     Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/                    Refugees for distribution to displaced persons in
68 ( J ) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                  Cyprus .
of the market in milk and milk products, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 740/75 (2 ), and in
particular Articles 6 (7) and 28 thereof;                           2 . The butter required for the manufacture of the
                                                                    butteroil shall be taken from the French intervention
                                                                     agency .
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 865/75 (3) of
18 March 1975 laying down general rules for the                     3 . The butteroil shall meet the requirements as to
supply, within the framework of the 1975 food-aid                    quality and packaging laid down in the Annex to
programme, of milk fats to the Office of the United                  Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1365 /74 (4) of
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)                       31 May 1974 on the supply of butteroil as food aid
for distribution to persons affected by the events in                to certain developing countries, as last amended by
Cyprus, provides for the making available to the                     Regulation (EEC ) No 529/75 (5 ). However, the butter­
 abovementioned organization of 300 metric tons of                   oil shall be packed only in 5 kg canisters . The
butteroil ;                                                          marking referred to in item II (3 ) (b ) of that Annex
                                                                     shall consist of the following words, in letters at
                                                                     least 2 cm high : 'Butteroil — Gift of the European
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 865 /75                     Economic Community to UNHCR for free distribu­
lays down that a tendering procedure or, should                      tion to the people of Cyprus'.
circumstances demand it, a private contract must be
negotiated for the processing of the butter into
butteroil, the packaging of the butteroil and its                                               Article 2
shipment to the fob stage ;
                                                                     Delivery shall be effected to the following ports :
Whereas, having regard to the emergency of the                       Bremen, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Marseilles
situation in question, a private contract should be                  or Genoa on a date fixed by the French intervention
negotiated ;                                                         agency which must be later than 5 May and earlier
                                                                     than 21 May 1975 .
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­                    The goods shall be regarded as delivered when they
ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                           are deposited in the port of shipment at a point
                                                                     designated by the recipient agency.
H OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
 (2) OJ No L 74 , 22 . 3 . 1975 , p. 1 .                             (4) OJ No L 147, 1 . 6. 1974, p . 46.
 (3 ) OJ No L 84 , 4. 4. 1975 , p. 1 .                                (®) OJ No L 56, 3 . 3 . 1975 , p . 1 .
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                      Article 3                                                      Article 4
                                                             No refund or compensatory amount (whether monet­
1 . The French intervention agency shall determine           ary or accession ) shall be payable in respect of the
the costs of the processing of the butter into butter­        butteroil delivered pursuant to this Decision.
oil and the packaging and shipment of the butteroil
by concluding a private contract on the least onerous                                Article 5
terms possible.
                                                             This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
                                                             Done at Brussels, 16 April 1975 .
                                                                                          For the Commission
2 . The intervention agency shall forward to the
Commission without delay a copy of such private                                             P. J. LARDINOIS
contract .                                                                            Member of the Commission