CELEX: 31978D0011
Language: en
Date: 1977-12-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 2 December 1977 relating to the urgent supply of common wheat as food aid to Ethiopia

No L 10/ 18                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                    13 . 1 . 78
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                                               (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                       COMMISSION
                                                      COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 2 December 1977
                     relating to the urgent supply of common wheat as food aid to Ethiopia
                                            ( Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic )
                                                               (78 / 1 1 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                               Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 COMMUNITIES,                                                                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                             ment Committee for Cereals ,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 2727/ 75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­
 tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by
 Regulation ( EEC) No 1 386/77 (2 ),                                                                Article 1
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No
 2750 / 75 of 29 October 1 975 laying down the condi­                        1.    In accordance with Article 1 of Regulation ( EEC)
 tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid (•'), and                 No 696/ 76, the Office Beige de l'économie et de ^agri­
 in particular Article 6 thereof,                                            culture (OBEA), 82, rue de Trèves, 1040 Brussels ( inter­
                                                                             vention agency) shall by private contract purchase on
                                                                             the Community market 5 000 tonnes of common
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                               wheat for delivery to Ethiopia .
 696/ 76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation
 ( EEC) No 2750 / 75 in respect of mobilization proce­
 dures for cereals to be supplied as food aid (4 ),                          2.    OBEA shall seek the best terms possible for its
                                                                             contract .
 Whereas on 8 February 1977            the Council of the Euro­
 pean Communities declared             that it proposed by way               3.    The contract shall be for purchase and delivery
 of Community action to                grant 5 000 tonnes of                 Assab, delivery to be taken in the ship/ hold at the
 common wheat to Ethiopia              under its 1976/77 food-               port of disembarkation .
  aid programme ;
                                                                             4.    The product specified in paragraph 1 shall be
 Whereas, in view of the need to provide the aid                             delivered in new jute sacks of a net capacity of 50 kilo­
 rapidly, it is necessary that the operation be carried                      grams .
 out under private contract ;
                                                                             Minimum weight of the sacks shall be 600 grams . The
  (')  OJ No L 281 , 1 . 1 1 . 1975 , p. 1 .                                 following shall be printed on the sacks :
  (')  OJ No L 1 58 , 29 . 6 . 1977 , p. 1 .
  (')  OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975 , p. 89,
  (4 ) OJ No L 83 , 30 . 3 . 1976 , p. 8 .                                   ' Common wheat/ Gift of the EEC to Ethiopia '.
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To allow for re-bagging, the contractor shall supply          (a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
2 % of new empty sacks, of the same quality as those              the quantities loaded , the quality of the products
containing the goods but with the inscription printed             and their packaging ;
thereon followed by the capital letter ' R'.                  (b) particulars of the date of the vessel or vessels
                                                                  concerned and of the expected date of arrival of
                         Article 2                                the products at their destination ;
The    product referred to in Article 1 must be of fair       (c) particulars    of any incident occurring during
and    sound merchantable quality and correspond at               carriage .
least   to the standard quality for which the interven­
tion   price is fixed, except that the moisture content       The intervention agency shall transmit the aforesaid
shall not exceed 1 5-5 % and that a maximum of 3 %            information     to  the Commission    as  soon  as it  is
□f sprouted grains and 1-5 % of miscellaneous impuri­         received, together with a copy of the contract.
ties shall be allowed .
If the product does not meet these requirements it                                    Article 6
shall be refused .
                                                              The intervention agency is authorized to make a
                         Article 3
                                                              payment on account to the contractor of 80 % of the
1.      A security in an amount of five units of account      value of the quantity given in the bill of lading, on
per tonne shall be given by the contractor on the             presentation of that document and subject to the provi­
signature of the contract. It shall be released on the        sion of security in an amount equal to that of the
completion of the operations in question within the           payment .
period prescribed or in respect of any quantities not
delivered by reason of force majeure.
                                                                                      Article 7
2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee         This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
issued by a credit institution conforming to criteria         Belgium .
laid down by the Member State .
                         Article 4
                                                              Done at Brussels , 2 December 1977 .
Loading shall be carried out between 1 and 15
December 1977 .
                                                                                        For the Commission
                         Article 5
                                                                                          Finn GUNDELACH
The intervention agency shall request the contractor
to provide the following :                                                                   Vice-President