CELEX: 51985PC0699
Language: en
Date: 1985-12-10
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) CONCERNING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SPECIAL PROGRAMME TO COMBAT HUNGER IN THE WORLD

31. 12. 85                                  Official journal of the European Communities                                   No C 349/57
             IV. Health attestation
                  I, the undersigned, certify that:
                  (a) the meat products described above were manufactured from fresh meat or meat products under
                        conditions that comply with the requirements of Directive 77/99/EEC (');
                  (b) the said meat products, their wrappings or packaging, bear a mark proving that they have all come from
                        approved establishments (');
                  (c) the transport vehicles and equipment and the way in which the consignment was loaded comply with the
                        hygiene requirements laid down in Directive 77/99/EEC;
                  (d) the fresh pigmeat used in the manufacture of the meat products has/has not been (') subjected to a
                         trichinae detection test.
                  Done at                                                on
                                                                                                     (Signature)
                                                                                                (Name in capital letters)
                 Delete as appropriate.
              Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) concerning the implementation of the special programme to
                                                      combat hunger in the world
                                                          COM(85) 699 final
                               (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on \C December 1985)
                                                            (85/C 349/10)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                                             Article 2
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   Aid shall be granted to the developing countries, and
Economic Commumcy, and in particular Article 235                        especially the least developed of them. The purpose of the aid
thereof,                                                                shall be to support or stimulate the recipient countries' own
                                                                        efforts. It shall help towards improving the living conditions
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                      of the most needy sections of the population of the countries
                                                                        concerned.
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,
Whereas accordingly on 11 July 1983 the Council adopted
Regulation (EEC) No 1993/83 (•), concerning the                                                      Article 3
implementation of a special programme to combat hunger in
the world over a two-year period (1983 to 1984);                        1. Community aid shall take the form both of support
                                                                        measures for recipient countries which have undertaken to
Whereas it is necessary to continue the programme and to                increase their level of self-reliance in food and of support
this end appropriations have been entered in the budget of the          measures designed to protect their natural resources and
European Communities;                                                   improve the way in which these resources are utilized.
Whereas the Treaty does not provide specific powers for this
purpose,                                                                2. Community aid to increase the level of self-reliance in
                                                                        food shall be aimed at supporting consistent measures
                                                                        undertaken in the rural sector by the recipient countries at the
                                                                        stages relating to the production, marketing, storage and
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                        transport of agricultural products.
                             Article 1
                                                                        3. Measures to protect natural resources shall be
The Community shall, on an experimental basis, implement                implemented in the following fields particularly: more
special measures to combat hunger in the world.                         efficient use of fuel wood, reafforestation and the combating
                                                                        of desertification, better use of water resources at village level
(]) OJNoL 196,20. 7. 1983, p. 6.                                        and efficient management of domestic and wild livestock.
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4. Training and research projects in the fields referred to in                                  Article 9
paragraphs 2 and 3 shall also be financed under the
programme.                                                           1. A Management Committee for the Special Programme to
                                                                     Combat Hunger in the World, hereinafter referred to as 'the
5. Wherever appropriate, and particularly in the case of the         Committee', chaired by a representative of the Commission
measures referred to in paragraph 3, operations shall be             and composed of representatives of the Member States, is
carried out within the framework of regional cooperation.            hereby established. The secretariat of the Committee shall be
                                                                     provided by the Commission.
                                                                     2. The Committee shall draw up its own rules of
                            Article 4                                procedure.
Aid shall be granted by the Community either autonomously
or by means of co-financing with Member States or with                                         Article 10
multilateral or regional bodies.
                                                                     1. Matters shall be referred to the Committee by its
                                                                     chairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of a
                            Article S                                representative of a Member State.
Community aid shall be in the form of grants.                        2. The chairman shall submit drafts of decisions to be
                                                                     taken.
                                                                     The Committee shall deliver its opinion on these drafts
                            Article 6                                within a time limit which the chairman may fix on the basis of
                                                                     the urgency of the matters submitted for examination. It shall
 1. Aid may cover both external expenditure and the local            act by a majority of 45 votes, the votes of the Member States
expenditure necessary for implementation of the measures,            being weighted as provided for in Article 148 (2) of the
including maintenance and operating expenses.                        Treaty. The chairman shall not vote.
Taxes, duties and charges shall be excluded                from      3. The Commission shall take decisions which shall be
Community financing.                                                 immediately applicable. If they are not in accordance with
                                                                     the opinion of the Committee, however, or if the Committee
2. Any counterpart funds shall be used in accordance with            does not deliver an opinion, the Commission shall inform the
the objectives laid down in this Regulation and in agreement         Council of such decisions immediately. In that event the
with the Commission.                                                 Commission shall suspend implementation of its decision for
                                                                     not more than two months from the date on which the
                                                                     Council is informed. The latter, acting by a qualified
                                                                     majority, may adopt a different decision within two
                            Article 7                                months.
Participation in calls for tenders, invitation to tender and
purchasing and other contracts shall be open en equal terms                                    Article 11
to all natural or legal persons of Member States and the
recipient country. Such participation may be extended to
                                                                     The Commission shall submit a final report to the Council
other developing countries receiving Community aid,
                                                                     and to the European Parliament not later than 31 December
particularly in cases of co-financing or in order to prevent the
                                                                     1990, containing an evaluation of the results obtained by
cost of the projects from increasing unduly as a result of           implementing this Regulation.
distance, transport difficulties or delivery delays.
Such participation by other developing countries shall be of
an exceptional nature and shall be authorized on a                                             Article 12
case-by-case basis in accordance with the procedure laid
down in Article 10.                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
                                                                     publication in the Official Journal of the European
                                                                     Communities.
                            Article 8                                It shall apply until 31 December 1987.
Decisions granting aid shall be taken in accordance with the         This Regulation shall binding in its entirety and directly
procedure laid down in Article 10.                                   applicable in all Member States.