CELEX: 51974PC2068
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-13 00:00:00
Title: RECOMMENDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION on the conclusion of an agreement between the European Economic Community and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania for the supply of cereals as food aid (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak---       COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                               COM(74)2068 final
                                                               Brussels , 13 December 1974
                                    RECOMMENDATION FOR A
                                      COUNCIL DECISION
                 on "the conclusion of an agreement between the European
               Economic Community and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
                           for the supply of cereals as food aid
                      ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
COMC74 ) 2068 final
 ---pagebreak---                                            - 1 -
 THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COHMUKITIES ,
 Having regard to "the Treaty establishing the European Economio Community ,
 and in particular Articles 113 . 114 and 223 thereof :
                               «
Having regard to the Recommendation from the Commission ;
 Whereas the European Economic Community has conoluded the second Convention
                       (1)
 relating to food aidN ' ,
Whereas the     Islamic Republic of Mauritania , by its letter of 11.12.1973
has requested food aidj
Whereas in view of the cereal supply situation in Mauritania
that country should be accorded , by way of gift , 4 . 000 tonnes
of soft wheat                    under the Community Pood Aid Programme for 1973 /74 J
                             I
DECIDES :
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                                             Article 1
On behalf of the European Economio Community an Agreement , the text whereof
is annexed hereto , shall be concluded between the European Economic Community
and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania .               for the supply of cereals
                            !
as food aid .
                                             Article 2
The President of the Council is hereby authorized to designate those who
are to sign the Agreement and to confer on them the requisite powers to bind
the Community.            '                                                           '
Done at Brussels ,                   19 »»*»                       For the Council
                          1
                          I                  .                      The Président
                          !
                         i                                       '
  .                      i
 ( 1 ) O.J. L 219 0f 9.8.1974 , p. 35 .
 ---pagebreak---                  AGREEMEîJT
BETWEEM THE EUROPEAN ECOEOIJIC COLHIUNITY
A1ID THE1 ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OP MAURITANIA
COlTOERimrG THE SUPPLY AS POOD AID OP    CEREALS .
 ---pagebreak--- THE COUHCIL OF SHE EUROPEAN COHHUIJITIES ,
                                                       on the one hand ,
THE (X)VERNMENT OP THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OP MAURITANIA
                                                       on "the other hand ,
HAVE DECIDED to oonclude this Agreement and to this end have designated
as their plenipotentiaries :
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMUNTTIES :
THE G0VERN1IE1IT OP THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OP MAURITANIA
WHO HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS :
 ---pagebreak---                                      Article I
  As a part of its Pood Aid Programme (Cereals ) for 197 yl 4» "the European
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  Economic Community shall supply, by way of gift , the iBlamio Republic of Mauritania
                                                           .   /
  hereinafter referred as the "recipient country", with 4 . 000 tonnes of soft . wheat , _•
                                     Article IX
  Deliveries will be made   cif ports of unloading in the recipient . country., in new
   jute sacs with a netweight of 50 kg eaoh .
                                  Article III
  The obligations and responsibilities of the European Economic Community and
  of the recipient country relating to delivery and the taking of delivery are
  defined in the Annex, which forms an integral part of this Agreement .
                                  Article IV
  The recipient country undertakes to make all necessary arrangements for the
  transport and insurance" of the product from the oif stage to places of destination
  of destination .
                                   Article V
   The recipient country undertakes to uge the product received &s aid for
   purposes of consumption and to distribute it to people in need free of charge .
                                  Article VI
The European Economio Community shall grant the recipient country funds to oover the
costs incurred by that country for the transport of the delivered products from the
CIF stage to places of destination .
These funds shall amount to 50 units of amount per tonne of delivered product .
The Community undertakes to pays as soon as possible after reoeipt by the Commission
of the information required in the first indent of Artiole 6 of the annex.
 ---pagebreak---                                       Article VII
 The Contracting Parties undertake to implement this Agreement in suoh a way as to
 avoid any prejudice to the normal struoture of domestio production and international
 trade . To this end they shall take any mesures required to ensure that aid supplies
 are in addition to , and do not replaoe business transactions which might reasonably
 be expeoted in the absence of such supplies .
                                       Article VIII
                                                                                        I
 The recipient country shall take any measures required to prevent t                  •
 ( i ) The re-export of the produot received as aid and of produots and by-products
       resulting from such supplies ;
 ( ii)The export , commercially or otherwise , within six month of the last delivery ,
       either of the produot obtained looally and of - the same nature as the product
       received as aid or of any produots or by-products resulting from it .
                                         Artide IX
 The reoipient country undertakes to inform the European Eoonomio Community how
 this Agreement is being implemented. To this end it shall provide the Commission
 of the European Communities every three month until the quantities received as
aid have been fully used ; with the following information : reports indicating in
particular number and nature of the beneficiaries , the quantities distributed ,
places and manner of distribution .
                                          ΑγΉΟΙΘ X
At the request of either of them , the Contracting Parties shall oonsult each
other on any questions concerning the implementation of this Agreement .
                                          Article XI
This Agreement is drawn up in duplicate in the Danish , Dutch , English , French ,
German and Italian languages , each of these texts being aqually authentic .
 ---pagebreak---                    iMX TO ARTICLE III OP Tïfi AGTîSEïï^lT
                                   Article 1
                                                                 /
   Delivery shall be completed and the risks shall pass from the European
   Economic Community to the recipient country as soon as the goods are actually
   taken in charge in the ship 's hold at the port of unloading;
   The recipient country shall "bear   all costs subsequent to delivery of the
   goods , including the costs of unloading ("breaking, "bulk , hoisting, taking
   delivery , for example ) as well as any lighterage costs .
  Any demurrage costs or dispatch money at the port of unloading shall , as the
  case may be , be borne by or paid to the recipient country . The rates and
  conditions of payment applying to any contract between the Community agent
  referred to in Article 5 and the carrier must have been previously agreed
  between that agent and the recipient country 's agent referred to in Article 5-
                                 Article 2
  The European Economic Community shall forward to the recipient country ,
  as soon as possible after the goods have been shipped , a notice giving the
  name of the ship, the date of loading , the quantity and quality of the goods
  on loading and the port of unloading .
                                          »                   »
                                 Article 3
  The European Economic Community shall inform the recipient country of the
      ,                                            *
  ship 's presumed date of arrival at the port of unloading at least ten clear
' days before that date .
  The European Economio Community shall cause to be inserted in the charter-
  party an undertaking by the captain to give to the recipient country at-
  least 72 hours * notioe of the probable- date of the ship 's arrival in the port .
 ---pagebreak---                                  Article A
On delivery of the goods , a tolerance of 5   less than the quantity to "be
supplied in acoordance with Artiole I of the Agreement is permitted.
                                 Artiole 5
The European Eoonomio Community shall appoint an agent to implement the
provisions of this Annex , and shall in good time' forward the latter 's        ,
name and address    the reoipient country.
The reoipient country shall appoint an agent in eaoh port of unloading,
and shall forward the latter 's name and address to the European Eoonomio
Community prior to implementation of the Agreement .
         .     . '        '       Article 6                                        ■
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 On delivery of the goods the country of destination shall hand to the authorized
 agent of the European Economic Community a taking-over certificate , stating t^e."
place and date of taking over, the nature and the quantity as well as continent'
observations about the quality of these goods and shall send a copy thereof to'
the Commission of the European Community.