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Language: en
Date: 1976-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22 March 1976 concerning the sale of skimmed-milk powder in public storage to certain international organizations for supply to developing countries

No L 91 /30                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              6. 4. 76
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 22 March 1976
              concerning the sale of skimmed-milk powder in public storage to certain inter­
                              national organizations for supply to developing countries
                                        (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                          (76/352/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
COMMUNITIES,                                                       are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                   ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
                                                                                          Article 1
of the market in milk and milk porducts ( !), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in                  1 . The Belgian and Dutch intervention agencies are
particular Article 7 (5) thereof,                                  authorized to sell skimmed-milk powder according to
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 155/75 of 21                   the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 602/75 and
                                                                   under the terms laid down in the Annex.
January 1975 (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
1960/75 (4), provides for the sale of skimmed-milk                 2. By way of derogation from Article 8 (2) of Regu­
powder from public stocks for supply to developing                 lation (EEC) No 602/75, the international organiza­
countries ;
                                                                   tions in question shall not be required to furnish a
Whereas the World Food Programme and Caritas, as                   security prior to taking delivery of the quantities of
mentioned in Article 2 of Commission Regulation                    skimmed-milk powder indicated in the said Annex.
(EEC) No 602/75 of 7 March 1975 laying down                        3.    By way of derogation from the first indent of
detailed rules for the sale of skimmed-milk powder in              Article 6 (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 602/75, the
public stoiage for supply to developing countries (5), as          conclusion of the contract of sale with Caritas for 10
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 31 93/75 (6),                  metric tons for Angola, is not subject to the certificate
have submitted applications to the Commission                      specified in Article 7 of the said Regulation .
totalling 375 metric tons of skimmed-milk powder for
supply to certain developing countries ; whereas these                                    Article 2
applications should be granted and the intervention
agencies should be authorized to supply the quantity               This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
requested ;                                                        Belgium and to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Whereas the international organizations in question
should be exempted from having to provide the secu­                Done at Brussels, 22 March 1976 .
rity referred to in Article 8 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
602/75 ; whereas, in view of the small quantity bought
                                                                                            For the Commission
by Caritas for Angola, this organizatiion should also
be exempted from the obligation to provide prior to                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
this purchase the undertaking specified in Article 7 of
Regulation (EEC) No 602/75 ;                                                             Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No  L 148, 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .
(2) OJ  No  L 67, 15. 3 . 1976, p. 9 .
(3) OJ  No  L 19 , 24. 1 . 1975, p. 3 .
(4) OJ  No  L 200, 31 . 7. 1975, p. 5.
(5) OJ  No  L 63, 8 . 3 . 1975, p. 18 .
(6) OJ  No  L 316, 6. 12. 1975, p . 15.
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                                                         ANNEX
             Intervention                                          Quantities          Country of
                                     International organization
                agency                                          (in metric tons)       destination
                                                                                 3
         Belgian          Caritas                                      25          Ethiopia
                                                                       10          Angola
         Dutch            World Food Programme                       100           Burundi
                                                                       30          Gambia
                                                                       40          Ghana
                                                                       70          Jordan
                                                                     100           Mali