CELEX: 31977D0276
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 30 March 1977 on the supply, as a matter of urgency, of butteroil as food aid to Pakistan

6 . 4. 77                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 88/23
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 30 March 1977
                   on the supply, as a matter of urgency, of butteroil as food aid to Pakistan
                                    (Only the French , Dutch and German texts are authentic)
                                                             (77/276/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        laid down in Regulations (EEC) No 694/76 and (EEC)
 COMMUNITIES,                                                          No 695/76, divided into the following lots :
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 — Lot A : 500 tonnes,
 Economic Community,
                                                                       — Lot B : 500 tonnes.
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
 of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last
                                                                                               Article 2
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in
 particular Articles 6 (7) and 28 thereof,
                                                                       1.     The butter to be used in the manufacture of the
 Whereas, in accordance with Council Regulation                        butteroil shall be collected :
 (EEC) No 695/76 of 25 March 1976 on the supply of
 milk fats under the 1976 food-aid programme to                       — as regards Lot A : from the German intervention
 certain developing countries and international organi­                     agency,
 zations (3), Commission Regulation (EEC) No 466/77
 of 4 March 1 977 (4) provided inter alia for an invita­              — as regards Lot B : from the Belgian intervention
 tion to tender for supplying one lot of 1 000 tonnes of                    agency.
 butteroil for Pakistan, divided into two partial quanti­
 ties of 500 tonnes ; whereas this tendering procedure                 2. The butteroil shall satisfy the requirements as
 had to be cancelled ; whereas new arrangements must                   regards quality and packing laid down in the Annex
 be made to ensure this supply ;                                      to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2247/75 of 29
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 694/76 of 25                     August 1975 on the terms of invitations to tender for
 March 1976 laying down general rules for the supply                  the costs of manufacture and delivery of butteroil as
 of milk fats as food aid to certain developing countries             food aid to certain developing countries and to the
 and international organizations under the 1976 food­                 World Food Programme (6), as last amended by Regu­
 aid programme (5) stipulates, in Article 5, that the                  lation (EEC) No 2212/76 (7).
 costs of delivery shall be determined by a tendering
 procedure or, in the case of an emergency action, by a                It shall be packed exclusively in five-kilogram canis­
 procedure of mutual agreement ;                                      ters .
 Whereas, in view of the need to provide immediate
 aid, it is apparent that mutual agreement must be                    3. As regards the wording to be stated on the
 sought in respect of this supply ;                                   packing, the statement specified in Chapter II (2) (b)
                                                                      of the Annex stipulated in the preceding paragraph
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                   shall be the following :
 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                           'Butteroil/Gift of the European Economic Community
                                                                      to Pakistan '.
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                               Article 3
                             Article 1
A quantity of 1 000 tonnes of butteroil shall be deliv­                1.     Delivery shall be effected :
ered to Pakistan in accordance with the provisions
                                                                      — as regards Lot A : at the port of Hamburg,
(>) OJ  No   L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13.
(2) OJ  No   L 67, 15. 3 . 1976, p. 9 .                               — as regards Lot B : at the port of Antwerp.
(3) OJ  No   L 83, 30 . 3 . 1976, p. 6 .
(«) OJ  No   L 62, 8 . 3 . 1977, p. 7.                                (6) OJ No L 229, 30. 8 . 1975, p. 60.
P)  OJ  No   L 83, 30. 3 . 1976, p. 4.                                (7) OJ No L 249, 11.9 . 1976, p. 5.
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Delivery at the port of loading shall take place on a                              Article 5
date to be fixed by the intervention agency concerned
which must be later than 25 April and earlier than 15       No refund or compensatory amount, whether mone­
May 1977.                                                   tary or accession, shall be applied in respect of the
                                                            butteroil delivered pursuant to this Decision .
2. The goods shall be regarded as delivered when
they are deposited in the port of shipment, at a point
designated by the recipient country or its agent, easily                             Article 6
accessible to the ship.
                                                            This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of
                        Article 4                           Germany and the Kingdom of Belgium .
1 . The intervention agency concerned shall
determine the costs of processing the butter into            Done at Brussels, 30 March 1977 .
butteroil and packaging and shipment of the butteroil
by concluding a private contract on the least onerous
terms possible .                                                                     For the Commission
2. The intervention agencies concerned shall                                          Finn GUNDELACH
forward to the Commission without delay a copy of
such private contract.                                                                   Vice-President