CELEX: 31976R2460
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2460/76 of 8 October 1976 opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of round grain milled rice as food aid for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees

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                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2460/76
                                                      of 8 October 1976
              opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of round grain milled rice
                      as food aid for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    tion to tender for supplies to the United Nations
COMMUNITIES,                                                       High Commission for Refugees will be fulfilled ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Whereas the Italian intervention agency should be
 Economic Community,                                               made responsible for the tendering procedure ;
                                                                  Whereas the Commission must be informed quickly
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     of the tenders submitted in response to the invitation
 1418 /76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­                 and of those accepted by the intervention agency ;
tion of the market in rice ('),
                                                                  Whereas the Monetary Committee will be consulted ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      whereas, in view of the urgency, the measures envis­
2750/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down the condi­                 aged should be adopted in accordance with the condi­
tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid (2), and         tions laid down in Article 3 (2) of Council Regulation
in particular Article 6 thereof,                                   No 129 on the value of the unit of account and the
                                                                   exchange rates to be applied for the purposes of the
Whereas on 27 July 1976 the Council of the Euro­                   common agricultural policy (3), as last amended by
pean Communities declared that it proposed, by way                 Regulation (EEC) No 2543/73 (4), and in particular
                                                                  Article 3 thereof ;
of Community action, to grant the equivalent of 3 000
metric tons of husked rice (in other words 2 325
metric tons of round grain milled rice) to the United              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees under its                   are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 1974/75 food aid programme ;                                      ment Committee for Cereals ,
Whereas pursuant to Article 3 (3) of Council Regula­
tion (EEC) No 2750/75 the goods may be purchased
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
anywhere on the Community market ;
Whereas the proposed invitation to tender should be                                            Article 1
for supply of the products delivered Limassol, that is
at the moment when the goods are actually placed on
the dock or in the lighter where applicable ;                       1 . Tenders are hereby invited for the supply to the
                                                                   United Nations High Commission for Refugees by
                                                                  way of Community action , of 2 325 metric tons of
Whereas, in view of the different monetary circum­                 round grain milled rice .
stances in the Member States , the observation of these
conditions is not guaranteed by the application of
exchange rates in the framework of the common agri­                2. The tendering procedure shall take place in Italy
cultural policy since monetary compensatory amounts                in one lot . The product shall be mobilized on the
do not apply in the rice sector ; whereas it is advisable          Community market. The product shall be loaded for
to take account of the monetary situation as regards               departure from any Community port.
different offers ;
                                                                   3 . The invitation to tender provided for in para­
                                                                  graph 1 is for supply of products delivered Limassol ,
Whereas the award under the invitation to tender
                                                                   that is at the moment when the goods are actually
must be made to the tenderer offering the best terms ;             placed on the dock or in the lighter where applicable .
Whereas provision should be made for security to be                4.      The successful tenderer shall deliver the product
given for the purpose of guaranteeing that the obliga­             specified in paragraph 1 in new jute sacks, having a
tions arising by virtue of participation in the invita­            net capacity of 50 kg.
(') OJ No L 166, 25 . 6 . 1976, p . 1 .                            ( 3 ) OJ No 106 , .W. 10 . 1962, p . 25.S.V62 .
( ; OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975 , p . 89 .                         H OJ No L 263 , 19 . 9 . 1 973 , p . 1 .
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The following shall be printed on the sacks :                  within the prescribed time limit, save as regards quan­
                                                               tities not delivered owing to force majeure.
'Milled rice — Gift of the European Economic
Community to the people of Cyprus.'                            2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
                                                               given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
                          Article 2                            issued by a credit institution conforming to the
                                                               criteria laid down by the Member State.
 1 . The decision on tenders received in response to
the invitation provided for in Article 1 shall be taken                                   Article 6
on 25 October 1976 .
                                                                1 . The round grain milled rice referred to in Article
2.      The closing date for the submission of tenders          1 to be supplied to the United Nations High Commis­
shall be 25 October 1976, at 12 noon .                          sion for Refugees must meet the following require­
                                                                ments :
3 . The notice to tender shall be published in the
 Official Journal of the European Communities not              — moisture : 15% ,
less than nine days before the closing date for the             — broken rice : 5 % maximum ,
submission of tenders .
                                                                —    chalky grains : 3 % maximum,
                                                                —    grains striated with red : 3 % maximum,
                          Article 3
                                                                —    spotted grains : 1 % maximum,
 1 . The prices offered must be expressed in the                —    stained grains : 0-50 % maximum,
currency of the Member State in which the invitation            —    yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum,
to tender was issued .
                                                                —    amber grains : 0-125% maximum .
 2.     For the purpose of rendering the tenders compar­        Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused.
 able, the prices shall, where appropriate, be corrected
 by the accession compensatory amount applicable on             2. Tenders for supply to the United Nations High
 the closing date for submission of tenders to exports          Commission for Refugees of the round grain milled
 from the Member State mentioned in the tender.                 rice referred to in Article 1 must relate to a product
                                                                with the following characteristics :
 3.     The rates used for converting into units of
 account those offers made in national currencies shall         — moisture : 15% ,
 be :                                                           — broken rice : 5 % maximum ,
 — the      central  rate in   cases  where    the relevant     —    chalky grains : 3 % maximum,
      currency is held at any given moment within a             —    grains striated with red : 3 % maximum,
      band of 2-25 % ,
                                                                —    spotted grains : 1 % maximum,
 — in other cases the average spot exchange rate                —    stained grains : 0-50 % maximum,
      during the period from Wednesday of one week to
      Tuesday of the following week and which immedi­           —    yellow grains : 0 050 % maximum,
      ately precedes the time limit for the submission of       —    amber grains : 01 25 % maximum .
      tenders .
                                                                                          Article 7
                          Article 4
                                                                 1 . The Italian intervention agency shall be respon­
 The contract shall be awarded to the tenderer offering          sible for the operations relating to the invitation to
  the best terms .                                               tender provided for by this Regulation .
                                                                 2.     It shall forthwith communicate to the Commis­
  However, if the tenders submitted do not appear to
  correspond to normal market prices and costs, the              sion the list of firms which have responded to the invi­
  intervention agency may cancel the invitation to               tation to tender, specifying the terms of each tender,
  tender.                                                        together with the name and business name of the
                                                                 successful tenderer.
                          Article 5                              3 . Where the customs export formalities for the
                                                                 mobilized product are completed in a Member State
  1 . The successful tenderer shall give security of a           other than that in which the invitation to tender is
  value of 10 units of account per metric ton ; the secu­        issued, the intervention agency of the latter Member
  rity is intended to guarantee that the operations speci­       State shall be responsible for the operations following
  fied in Article 1 are duly completed. The security             tendering, including payment to the successful ten­
  shall be forfeit if those operations are not carried out       derer.
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In such case, the intervention agency choosing the           (c) all possible contingencies which might occur
successful tenderer shall immediately inform the inter­          during transportation of the products.
vention agency of the Member State concerned and
shall supply it with all the information which it may        The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­
require .                                                    tion provided for to the Commission as soon as it is
Furthermore, the amount of the successful tender             received .
shall be paid after it has been converted using the
average of the spot rates referred to in the second          5 . When the intervention agency responsible for
subparagraph of Article 3 (3) to the tenderer in the         the operations relating to tendering is not the interven­
currency of the Member State in which the operations         tion agency which appoints the successful tenderer, it
relating to the tendering are completed.                     shall send as soon as possible to the latter the informa­
4. The intervention agency shall ask that the                tion necessary for releasing the security.
tenderer specifies the following information :
(a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
     the quantities loaded, the quality of the products                              Article 8
    and their packaging ;
(b) the date of the departure of the ships ; the             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
    expected date of arrival of the products at their        publication in the Official Journal of the European
    destination ;                                            Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 8 October 1976 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                          P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                   Member of the Commission