CELEX: 31976D0488
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 7 May 1976 relating to the urgent supply of maize as food aid to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

25 . 5 . 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 136/ 11
                                                       COMMISSION
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                            of 7 May 1976
               relating to the urgent supply of maize as food aid to the United Nations High
                                                     Commissioner for Refugees
                                                   (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                             (76/488/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         national interprofessionnel des cereales (ONIC),
COMMUNITIES,                                                           Avenue Bosquet, Paris 7e (the intervention agency)
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  shall conclude a private contract for the purchase on
Economic Community,                                                    the Community market of 2 000 metric tons of maize
                                                                       for delivery to the UNHCR.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                     2. In concluding the private contract, ONIC must
tion of the market in cereals (J ), as amended by Regula­              seek the least onerous terms possible.
tion (EEC) No 832/76 (2),
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           3. The contract shall be for the purchase and
2750/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down the condi­                      supply of the products delivered to the quay at the
tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid (3), and             port of Matadi.
in particular Article 6 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           4.    The product shall be delivered in 50 kg new jute
                                                                       sacks.
692/76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation
(EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization proce­
dures for cereals to be supplied as emergency food aid 1*              The sacks shall be marked by printing :
to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refu­
gees for the benefit of Angolan refugees in Zaire (4),                  Maïs — Don de la Communauté économique euro­
                                                                       péenne — Action de l'UNHCR — À distribuer gratu­
Whereas on 25 March 1976 the Council of the Euro­                      itement'.
pean Communities declared that it proposed, by way
of Community action, to grant 2 000 metric tons of
maize     to   UNHCR          under    its    1975/76    food-aid                             Article 2
programme ;
Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it                  The product referred to in Article 1 must be of fair
is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual                   and sound merchantable quality and correspond at
agreement ;                                                            least to standard quality for which the intervention
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                     price is fixed.
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
ment Committee for Cereals,                                            If the product does not meet these requirements it
                                                                       shall be refused.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                              Article 1                                                       Article 3
 1.    In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­                 1 . A security of a value of five units of account per
tion (EEC) No 692/76 of 25 March 1976, the Office
                                                                       metric ton shall be given by the party concerned on
                                                                       the signature of the contract. It shall be released on
(>) OJ   No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No  L 100, 14. 4. 1976, p. 1 .                                the completion of the operations in question within
(3) OJ   No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 89.                             the time limit laid down and also for those quantities
H   OJ   No  L 83, 30. 3. 1976, p. 2.                                  not realised due to force majeure.
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2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be          (c) all possible contingencies which might occur
given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee           during transportation of the products.
issued by a credit institution conforming to the
criteria laid down by the Member State.                     The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­
                                                            tion provided for to the Commission as soon as it is
                        Article 4                           received together with a copy of the private contract.
Shipment shall be carried out between 25 and 30 May
1976 .                                                                             Article 6
                        Article 5                           This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
The intervention agency shall request the interested
party to specify the following information :
                                                             Done at Brussels, 7 May 1976.
(a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
     the quantities loaded, the quality of the products
     and their packaging ;                                                           For the Commission
(b) the date of the departure of the ships ; the                                        P.J. LARDINOIS
     expected date of arrival of the products at their
     destination ;                                                               Member of the Commission