CELEX: 31981R3827
Language: en
Date: 1981-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 3827/81 of 21 December 1981 on the supply of sugar to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) as food aid

31 . 12 . 81                           Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 392 / 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                          COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 3827/81
                                                         of 21 December 1981
                    on the supply of sugar to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees
                                                        ( UNRWA) as food aid
    THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                         common organization of the markets in the sugar
                                                                      sector ( 2 ),
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
    Economic Community, and in particular Articles 43 and
    235 thereof,                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                                                 Article 1
    Having regard to the opinion of the European
    Parliament (*),                                                   1 . The following quantity of white sugar produced and
                                                                      in free circulation in the Community shall be made
    Whereas the United Nations Relief and Works Agency                available to UNRWA as food aid : 6 086 tonnes under
    for Palestine Refugees ( UNRWA) has asked the                     the 1980/81 sugar marketing year.
    Community to provide food aid in the form of white
    sugar ;                                                           2 . Should the said white sugar not be available on the
                                                                      Community market on normal terms, it may be
    Whereas the white sugar required should be obtained               purchased on the world market.
    on the Community market;
                                                                      3 . The sugar shall be delivered to the port of unloading
    Whereas, in view of the need to ensure regular supplies,          following a tendering procedure. In exceptional
    it must, however, be possible to purchase white sugar             circumstances other procedures may be used.
     on the world market if need be;
                                                                      4 . The tendering conditions and other arrangements
    Whereas to enable this aid to be used effectively the
                                                                      for the implementation of this Article shall be adopted
    Community should bear the cost not only of the sugar              in accordance with the procedure laid down in
    but also of transport to the port of unloading and on to
                                                                      Article 41 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1785 /81 .
    the final destination, plus distribution costs;
    Whereas supplies should be obtained at the best price;
                                                                                                 Article 2
    whereas a tendering procedure should be arranged for
    that purpose; whereas it may nevertheless prove
    necessary in exceptional cases to use other procedures in         For the purposes of Article 1 , the Community shall
    order to save time ;                                              bear :
                                                                      — the cost of the sugar delivered to the port of
    Whereas detailed rules for the implementation of this                  unloading,
    Regulation should be adopted in accordance with the
    procedure laid down in Article 41 of Council                      — the cost of transport to destination and the
                                                                           distribution costs.
    Regulation ( EEC) No 1785 /81 of 30 June 1981 on the
(*) Opinion delivered on 18 December 1981 ( not yet published          (2) OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4 .
    in the Official Journal).
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                       Article 3                                                        Article 4
The Commission shall make a lump-sum contribution               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
to UNRWA to meet the expenditure referred to in the             following its publication in the Official Journal of the
second indent of Article 2 .                                   European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
             Done at Brussels, 21 December 1981 .
                                                                                      For the Council
                                                                                        The President
                                                                                         N. RIDLEY