CELEX: 31999R2467
Language: en
Date: 1999-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2467/1999 of 22 November 1999 on the supply of vegetable oil as food aid

23. 11. 1999           EN                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                       L 300/11
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2467/1999
                                                           of 22 November 1999
                                              on the supply of vegetable oil as food aid
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                       contract for the supply of each such lot is to be awarded
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                             to the tenderer submitting the lowest tender,
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 of 27                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
June 1996 on food-aid policy and food-aid management and
special operations in support of food security (1), and in
                                                                                                       Article 1
particular Article 24(1)(b) thereof,
Whereas:                                                                   Vegetable oil shall be mobilised in the Community, as
                                                                           Community food aid for supply to the recipient listed in the
(1)     the abovementioned Regulation lays down the list of                Annex, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 2519/97 and
        countries and organisations eligible for Community aid             under the conditions set out in the Annex.
        and specifies the general criteria on the transport of food
        aid beyond the fob stage;                                          The supply shall cover the mobilisation of vegetable oil
                                                                           produced in the Community. Mobilisation may not involve a
(2)     following the taking of a number of decisions on the
                                                                           product manufactured and/or packaged under inward
        allocation of food aid, the Commission has allocated
                                                                           processing arrangements.
        vegetable oil to certain beneficiaries;
(3)     it is necessary to make these supplies in accordance with          Tenders shall cover either rape-seed oil or sunflower oil.
        the rules laid down by Commission Regulation (EC) No               Tenders shall be rejected unless they specify the type of oil to
        2519/97 of 16 December 1997 laying down general                    which they relate.
        rules for the mobilisation of products to be supplied              The tenderer is deemed to have noted and accepted all the
        under Council Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 as                        general and specific conditions applicable. Any other condition
        Community food aid (2); it is necessary to specify the             or reservation included in his tender is deemed unwritten.
        time limits and conditions of supply to determine the
        resultant costs;
                                                                                                       Article 2
(4)     in order to ensure that the supplies are carried out for a
        given lot, provision should be made for tenderers to be            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
        able to mobilise either rape-seed oil or sunflower oil; the        publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 22 November 1999.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                    Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 166, 5.7.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 346, 17.12.1997, p. 23.
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                                                               ANNEX
                                                           LOTS A and B
          1. Action Nos: 8/99 (A); 9/99 (B)
          2. Beneficiary (2): North Korea
          3. Beneficiary's representative: Flood Damage Rehabilitation Committee, PO Box No 44, Pyongyang, Democratic
             People's Republic of Korea. Contact: Ri Si Hong, Director. Tel. (850-5) 382 70 00, fax 381 46 60, telex 5350KP/
             5351KP
          4. Country of destination: North Korea
          5. Product to be mobilised: refined rape-seed oil or refined sunflower oil
          6. Total quantity (tonnes net): 5 000
          7. Number of lots: 2 (A: 2 500 tonnes; B: 2 500 tonnes)
          8. Characteristics and quality of the product (3) (4) (6): see OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1 (III.A.(1)(a) or (b))
          9. Packaging: see OJ C 267, 13.9.1996, p. 1 (10.8 A, B and C.1)
         10. Labelling or marking (5): see OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1 (III.A(3))
             — Language to be used for the markings: English
             — Supplementary markings: —
         11. Method of mobilisation of the product: mobilisation of refined vegetable oil produced in the Community.
             Mobilisation may not involve a product manufactured and/or packaged under inward-processing arrangements.
         12. Specified delivery stage: free at port of landing — landed (7)
         13. Alternative delivery stage: free at port of shipment
         14. a) Port of shipment: —
             b) Loading address: —
         15. Port of landing: Nampo
         16. Place of destination: —
             — port or warehouse of transit: —
             — overland transport route: —
         17. Period or deadline of supply at the specified stage:
             — first deadline: 12.3.2000
             — second deadline: 26.3.2000
         18. Period or deadline of supply at the alternative stage:
             — first deadline: 17-30.1.2000
             — second deadline: 31.1-20.2.2000
         19. Deadline for the submission of tenders (12 noon, Brussels time):
             — first deadline: 7.12.1999
             — second deadline: 21.12.1999
         20. Amount of tendering guarantee: EUR 15 per tonne
         21. Address for submission of tenders and tendering guarantees (1): Bureau de l'aide alimentaire, Attn Mr T.
             Vestergaard, Batiment Loi 130, bureau 7/46, rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200, B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel; telex 25670
             AGREC B; fax (32-2) 296 70 03/296 70 04 (exclusively)
         22. Export refund: —
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            Notes:
             (1) Supplementary information: André Debongnie (tel. (32-2) 295 14 65),
                                               Torben Vestergaard (tel. (32-2) 299 30 50).
             (2) The supplier shall contact the beneficiary or its representative as soon as possible to establish which consignment
                 documents are required.
             (3) The supplier shall deliver to the beneficiary a certificate from an official entity certifying that for the product to be
                 delivered the standards applicable, relative to nuclear radiation, in the Member State concerned, have not been
                 exceeded. The radioactivity certificate must indicate the caesium-134 and -137 and iodine-131 levels.
             (4) The supplier shall supply to the beneficiary or its representative, on delivery, the following document:
                  — health certificate.
             (5) Notwithstanding OJ C 114 of 29.4.1991, point IV.A(3)(c) is replaced by the following: ‘the words “European
                 Community”’.
             (6) Tenders shall be rejected unless they specify the type of peas to which they relate.
             (7) In addition to the provisions of Article 14(3) of Regulation No 2519/97, vessels chartered shall not appear on any of
                 the four most recent quarterly lists of detained vessels as published by the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on
                 Port State Control (Council Directive 95/21/EC (OJ L 157, 7.7.1995, p.1)).