CELEX: 31976D0841
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22 October 1976 relating to the urgent supply of milled round grain rice as food aid to the Cape Verde Islands

6 . 11 . 76                          Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 304/33
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 22 October 1976
               relating to the urgent supply of milled round grain rice as food aid to the Cape
                                                       Verde Islands
                                              (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                        (76/841 /EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     2. In concluding the private contract, Ente risi
COMMUNITIES,                                                       must seek the least onerous terms possible.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              3. The contract shall be for the purchase and
Economic Community,
                                                                   supply of the products delivered Sao Vicente, that is at
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       the moment when the goods are actually removed
 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­                   from the ship's hold at the port of unloading.
tion of the market in rice (*),
                                                                   4.     The product shall be packed in 50 kg new jute
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       sacks.
2750/75 of 29 October 1975 fixing criteria for the
mobilization of cereals intended as food aid (2), and in
                                                                   The sacks shall be marked by printing :
particular Article 6 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       'Arroz — Dom da Comunidade econòmica europeia a
696/76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation                 Republica de Cabo Verde'.
(EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization proce­
dures for cereals to be supplied as food aid (3),
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas on 25 March 1976 the Council of the Euro­
pean Communities declared that it proposed, by way
of Community action, to grant the equivalent of 2 500              The product referred to in Article 1 must meet the
metric tons of husked rice (in other words, 1 938                  following requirements :
metric tons of round grain milled rice) to the Cape
                                                                   — moisture : 15 % ,
Verde Islands under its 1975/76 food-aid programme ;
                                                                   — broken rice : 5 % maximum,
Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it              —    chalky grains : 3 % maximum,
is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual               —    grains striated with red : 3 % maximum,
agreement ;                                                        —    spotted grains : 1 % maximum,
                                                                   —    stained grains : 0-50 % maximum,
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                 —    yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum,
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                  —    amber grains : 0-125 % maximum .
ment Committee for Cereals,
                                                                   Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                            Article 3
                         Article 1
                                                                    1 . A security of a value of 10 units of account per
 1.     In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­            metric ton shall be given by the party concerned on
tion (EEC) No 696/76 of 25 March 1976, the Italian                 the signature of the contract. It shall be released on
Rice Intervention Agency (Ente risi), Piazza Pio XI, 1 ,           the completion of the operations in question within
Milan, shall conclude a private contract for the                   the time limit laid down and also for those quantities
 purchase on the Community market of 1 938 metric                  not realized due to force majeure.
tons of milled round grain rice for delivery to the
Cape Verde Islands.
                                                                   2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
(') OJ No L 166, 25 . 6. 1976, p. 1 .
                                                                   given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
O OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 89 .                             issued by a credit institution conforming to the
(3 OJ No L 83, 30 . 3 . 1976, p . 8 .                              criteria laid down by the Member State.
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                        Article 4                           The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­
                                                            tion provided for to the Commission as soon as it is
Shipment shall be carried out between 15 and 30             received together with a copy of the private contract.
November 1976.
                        Article 5                                                 Article 6
The intervention agency shall ask that the interested       This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
party specifies the following information :
(a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
    the quantities loaded, the quality of the products      Done at Brussels, 22 October 1976.
    and their packaging ;
(b) the date of the departure of the ships ; the
    expected date of arrival of the products at their                               For the Commission
    destination ;
                                                                                       P. J. LARDINOIS
(c) all possible contingencies which might occur
    during transportation of the products.                                       Member of the Commission