CELEX: 21973A1126(03)
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Agreement between the European Economic Community and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees on the supply of common wheat flour and rice as food aid

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                                                    AGREEMENT
             between the European Economic Community and the United Nations Relief and Works
             Agency for Palestine refugees on the supply of common wheat flour and rice as food aid
             THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
             on the one part,
             THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES,
             on the other part,
             HAVE DECIDED to conclude this Agreement and have designated to this end as their
             Plenipotentiaries :
             THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES :
             THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES :
             WHO HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS :
                         Article 1                            defined in the Annex, which forms an integral part
                                                              of this Agreement.
Under its Food Aid Programme ( Cereal) for 1971 /
 72, the European Economic Community, herein­
 after referred to as the ' Community', shall                                         Article IV
supply as a gift to the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine refugees, hereinafter              The recipient body undertakes to make all the
referred to as 'the recipient body', a consignment of         necessary arrangements for the transport and
13 130 metric tons of common wheat in the form of
8 695 metric tons of flour and a consignment of
                                                              insurance of the delivered products from the ports
3 870 metric tons of husked rice in the form of
                                                              of unloading to their places of destination.
3 000 metric tons of milled rice.
                                                                                      Article V
                        Article II
                                                              The recipient body untertakes to distribute the
                                                             products      received   as    aid  for    purposes    of
Deliveries shall be made cif to Lebanese or Israeli           consumption and to distribute such products to
ports of unloading in new jute sacks of a net
                                                              Palestine refugees free of charge.
capacity of 50 kilogrammes.
                                                                                      Article VI
                       Article III                           The recipient body undertakes to notify the
                                                             Community of the manner in which this Agreement
The obligations and responsibilities of the                  is performed. It shall in particular send to the
Community and the recipient body, in particular as           Commission of the European Communities the
regards delivery and the taking of delivery, are             following information:
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— not more than thirty days after the unloading of                                         Article VII
   each consignment : dates of arrival of ships at
   ports of destination, quantities and condition of               At the request of either of them, the Contracting
   the product unloaded, dates on which unloading                  Parties shall consult each other on any questions
   was completed;                                                  concerning the implementation of this Agreement.
                                                                                           Article VIII
— every three months until the quantities received
   as aid have been fully used : number of                         This Agreement is drawn up in two copies in the
   recipients, quantities distributed, places, timetable           Danish, Dutch, English, French, German and Italian
   and manner of distribution .                                    languages, each of these texts being authentic.
                                                          ANNEX
                                   Provisions referred to in Article III of the Agreement
                                                          Article 1
             Delivery shall be effected and all liability shall pass from the Community to the recipient
             body at the moment when the goods are either fully unloaded on quayside or else on siloboat
             at port of unloading, or on lighter.
             The recipient body shall pay all downstream delivery costs, including costs of taking delivery.
             Any demurrage costs at the port of unloading, due to delay attributable to the recipient body,
             shall be borne by the latter. The rates and conditions of payment laid down in the contract
             between the authorized agent of the Community referred to in Article 5, and the carrier must
             have been agreed in advance between that agent and the receiving agent of the recipient body
             referred to in the same Article.
                                                           Article 2
             The Community shall forward to the recipient body, 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, the port of unloading and the daily unloading capacity of
             that port.
                                                          Article 3
             The Community shall inform the recipient of the ship's estimated date of arrival at the port of
             unloading at least 10 clear days before that date.
             It shall have inserted in the charter-party an undertaking by the captain to give the recipient
             body at least 72 hours' notice of the probable date of the ship's arrival in the port of unloading.
                                                          Article 4
             Upon delivery a margin of 5 °/o less than the quantity laid down under Article I of the
             Agreement shall be permitted .
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                                                       Article 5
             To implement the provisions of this Annex, the Community shall appoint an authorized agent
             whose name and address it shall make known in good time to the recipient body.
             The recipient body shall appoint a receiving agent in each port of unloading, whose name
             and address it shall make known to the Community before the Agreement is implemented.
             Statement on the signing of the Agreement on the supply of food aid between the
             European Economic Community and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
                                          for Palestine refugees (UNRWA)
             The Agreement between the European Economic Community and UNRWA on the
             supply of common wheat flour and rice as food aid which the Council decided to
             conclude on 16 July 1973 , was signed in Brussels on 19 October 1973
             on behalf of the European Communities by Mr Otto Møller, Minister-Counsellor,
             Deputy Permanent Representative
             and Mr J. Durieux, Director in the Directorate-General for Development Aid of the
             Commission of the European Communities ;
             and on behalf of UNRWA by Mr Ralph Owren, UNRWA Representative in Europe.