CELEX: 51986PC0699
Language: en
Date: 1986-11-29
Title: AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) ON FOOD AID POLICY AND FOOD AID MANAGEMENT

19.12.86                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                No C 326/5
                                                                 II
                                                          (Preparatory Acts)
                                                   COMMISSION
                Amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation on food aid policy and food aid
                                                           management (')
                                                        COM(86) 699 final
                (Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 149 of
                                              the EEC Treaty on 4 December 1986)
                                                           (86/C 326/06)
 The proposal for a Council Regulation contained in                       lation and shall only be provided if it can be shown
 document COM(86) 418 final/2, presented by the                           that there will be no adverse tffect on food production
 Commission on 25 September and replacing document                        in the recipient country.'
 COM(86) 418 final of 17 July, is hereby amended as
 follows:                                                             5. Article 2 (4) is amended to read as follows:
 1. The following recital is added after the first recital:
                                                                          '4.    The granting of food aid shall, if necessary, be
     'Whereas food aid must fit in with the developing                    conditional on the implementation of annual or multi-
     countries' policies for increasing their self-sufficiency            annual projects, priority being given to projects which
    in food, especially by establishing food strategies;'                 promote the production of food in the recipient
                                                                          countries. Where appropriate, the aid may contribute
 2. The third recital is amended to read as follows:                      directly to the implementation of such projects. This
                                                                          complementarity shall be ensured through the use
     'Whereas it is necessary to that end that the
                                                                         determined by common agreement of counterpart
     Community should be able to provide a steady overall
                                                                         funds where the products supplied are intended for
    flow of aid and be in a position, in appropriate cases,
                                                                         sale. Where food aid is provided as backing for a
    to undertake to supply to the developing countries
                                                                         development programme spread over a number of
    minimum quantities of products under specific multi-
                                                                         years, it may be supplied on a multiannual basis
    annual programmes linked to development policies, as
                                                                         linked to the programme in question.'
    well as to enter into undertakings in relation to inter-
    national organizations;'
                                                                     6. The last clause of Article 2 (5) is deleted such that the
3. Article 2 (1) is amended to read as follows:                          paragraph reads as follows:
    '1.    The food aid operations referred to in Article 1
                                                                         '5.    The objective of food aid shall be to meet
    shall have the following objectives in particular:
                                                                         immediate food needs. Nevertheless, in order to
    — to provide emergency assistance to countries                       improve food security in the developing countries and
        suffering from drought, famine or other natural                  to ensure that their needs are met, food aid may be
        disasters;                                                       granted, on a case-by-case basis, to enable the
                                                                         building-up of reserve stocks.'
    — to contribute to policies in recipient countries
        which will reinforce their food security;
                                                                     7. The following new Article 2a is inserted after Article
    — to raise the standard of nutrition of the recipient                2:
        population;
                                                                         'If circumstances so justify, food aid may be replaced
    — to contribute towards the balanced economic and
                                                                         by other measures pursuant to Council Regulation
        social development of the recipient countries.'
                                                                         (EEC) No 1755/84.'( 2 ).
4. Article 2 (2) is amended to read as follows:
                                                                     8. The last indent of Article 5 (1) is deleted.
    '2.    Products supplied as food aid shall as far as
    possible fit the dietary habits of the recipient popu-
                                                                     (2) The wording of the European Parliament's amendment has
                                                                         been amended slightly to avoid the repetition of the
(') OJ No C 265, 21. 10. 1986, p. 7.                                     reference to the decision-making procedure.