CELEX: 31976D0954
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 3 December 1976 relating to the urgent supply of milled round grain rice as food aid to the League of Red Cross Societies

31 . 12 . 76                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 364 / 45
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 3 December 1976
                relating to the urgent supply of milled round grain rice as food aid to the League of
                                                        Red Cross Societies
                                                 (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                            (76/954/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Italian Rice Intervention Agency ( Ente risi), Piazza
COMMUNITIES ,                                                          Pio XI, 1 , Milan, shall conclude a private contract
                                                                      for the purchase on the Community market of 11-60
Having       regard   to    the Treaty       establishing the         metric tons of milled round grain rice for delivery to
European Economic Community,                                          the League of Red Cross Societies .
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          2.    In concluding the private contract, Ente risi
1418 /76 of 21 June 1976 on the common                                must seek the least onerous terms possible.
organization of the market in rice ( 1 ),
                                                                      3.    The contract shall be for the purchase and
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                         supply of the products to be deposited on the quay
2750/75 of 29 October 1975 fixing criteria for the                    in the port of Puerto Cabezas .
mobilization of cereals intended as food aid (2 ), and
in particular Article 6 thereof,                                      4.    The product shall be packed in 50 kilogramme
                                                                      new jute sacks .
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/
76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation
(EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization                           The sacks shall be marked by printing :
procedures for cereals to be supplied as food aid (3),
Whereas on 25 March 1976 the Council of the                           ' Arroz    molido/Donación       de  la      Comunidad
European Communities declared that it proposed, by                    Economica Europea/Acción de la liga de sociedades
way of Community action, to grant the equivalent of                   de la Cruz Roja/Por distribución gratuita .'
15 metric tons of husked rice (in other words, 11-60
metric tons of round grain milled rice) to the League
of Red Cross Societies under its 1975 /76 food-aid
programme ;
Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it                                        Article 2
is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual
agreement ;
                                                                      The product referred to in Article 1 must meet the
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                    following requirements :
are in accordance with the opinion of the                             — moisture : 15 '% ,
Management Committee for Cereals,
                                                                      — broken rice : 5 °/o maximum,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                      — chalky grains : 3 °/o maximum,
                                                                      — grains striated with red : 3 % maximum,
                           Article 1                                  — spotted grains : 1 % maximum,
                                                                      — stained grains : 0-50 % maximum,
1.     In    accordance     with     Article   1  of   Council
                                                                      — yellow grains : 0-050 '"/o maximum,
Regulation (EEC) No 696/76 of 25 March 1976, the
                                                                      — amber grains : 0-125 % maximum .
H OJ No L 166, 25 . 6. 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 281, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 89.
(3 ) OJ No L 83 , 30. 3 . 1976, p . 8 .                               Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused .
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                        Article 3                             ( a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
                                                                    the quantities loaded, the quality of the products
1 . A security of a value of 10 units of account per                and their packaging;
metric ton shall be given by the party concerned on
the signature of the contract. It shall be released on        ( b ) the date of the departure of the ships ; the
the completion of the operations in question within                 expected date of arrival of the products at their
the   time   limit laid   down    and  also   for  those            destination ;
quantities not realized due to force majeure.                 ( c) all possible contingencies which might occur
                                                                    during transportation of the products .
2.    The security provided for in paragraph 1 may
be given in the form of a cash deposit or of a                The intervention agency shall transmit the
guarantee issued by a credit institution conforming           information provided for to the Commission as soon
to the criteria laid down by the Member State.                as it is received together with a copy of the private
                                                              contract .
                        Article 4                                                      Article 6
Shipment shall be carried out between 1 and 15                This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
January 1977.
                                                              Done at Brussels, 3 December 1976 .
                        Article 5
                                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                                            P. J. LARDINOIS
The intervention agency shall ask that the interested
party specifies the following information :                                          Member of the Commission