CELEX: 31977D0198
Language: en
Date: 1977-02-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 25 February 1977 relating to the urgent supply of maize as food aid to the World Food Programme

No L 62/24                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               8 . 3 . 77
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 25 February 1977
               relating to the urgent supply of maize as food aid to the World Food
                                                             Programme
                                                   (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                             (77/ 198/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         2. In concluding the private contract, ONIC must
  COMMUNITIES,                                                          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 to the port of ship­
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          ment in the vicinity of the vessel .
 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­
 tion of the market in cereals ( J ), as last amended by                4. The products shall be delivered in new 50 kilo­
 Regulation (EEC) No 3138/76 (2),                                      gram jute sacks in three lots (443 tonnes, 1 800
                                                                        tonnes, 504 tonnes).
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2750/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down the condi­                     The minimum weight of the sacks shall be 600 grams.
 tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid (3), and
 in particular Article 6 thereof,                                      The following shall be printed on the sacks :
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          'Milho / Dom da comunidade economica europeia /
 696/76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation                    Ac?ao do programa alimentar mundial.'
 (EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization proce­
 dures for cereals to be supplied as food aid (4),                     To allow for the possibility of re-bagging, the
 Whereas on 25 March 1976 the Council of the Euro­                     successful tenderer shall supply 2 % of new empty
 pean Communities declared that it proposed, by way                    sacks, of the same quality as those containing the
 of Community action, to grant 2 747 tonnes of maize                   goods but with the printing followed by a capital
                                                                       letter 'R\
 to the World Food Programme under its 1975/76
 food-aid programme ;
 Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it                                         Article 2
 is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual
 agreement ;                                                           The    product referred to in Article 1 must be of fair
                                                                       and    sound merchantable quality and correspond at
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                    least  to the standard quality for which the interven­
 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                     tion   price is fixed.
 ment Committee for Cereals,
                                                                       If the product does not meet these requirements it
                                                                       shall be refused .
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                             Article 1                                                         Article 3
 1 . In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­                   1 . A security of a value of five units of account    per
tion (EEC) No 696/76 of 25 March 1976, the Office                      tonne shall be given by the party concerned on        the
national interprofessionnel des cereales (ONIC),                       signature of the contract. It shall be released on    the
avenue Bosquet, Paris 7e (intervention agency) shall                   completion of the operations in question within       the
conclude a private contract for the purchase on the                    time limit laid down and also for those quantities not
Community market of 2 747 tonnes of maize for                          realized due to force majeure.
delivery to the World Food Programme.
                                                                       2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
(') OJ  No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                              given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
(2) OJ  No  L 354, 24. 12. 1976, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 89 .                             issued by a credit institution conforming to the
(4) OJ  No  L 83, 30 . 3 . 1976, p. 8 .                                criteria laid down by the Member State.
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                        Article 4                                                 Article 6
Shipment shall be carried out between 1 and 20
March 1977.                                                 This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
                        Article 5
The intervention agency shall request the successful
tenderer to specify the following information :
                                                             Done at Brussels, 25 February 1977.
(a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
     the quantities loaded, the quality of the products
     and their packaging ;
(b) the date of the departure of the ships.                                         For the Commission
The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­                                  Finn GUNDELACH
tion provided for to the Commission as soon as it is
received together with a copy of the private contract.                                  Vice-President