CELEX: 31976D0552
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 June 1976 relating to the urgent supply of milled round grain rice as food aid to the Republic of Senegal

No L 161 /26                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               23 . 6. 76
                                                       COMMISSION DECISION
                                                             of 11 June 1976
                relating to the urgent supply of milled round grain rice as food aid to the Repu
                                                              blic of Senegal
                                                     (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                                (76/552/ EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                            tons of milled round grain rice for delivery to the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                              Republic of Senegal .
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     2. In concluding the private contract, Ente Risi
  Economic Community,
                                                                           must seek the least onerous terms possible.
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/67/EEC
 of 25 July 1967 on the common organization of the                         3 . The contract shall be for the purchase and
 market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation                         supply of the products delivered to the quay at the
 (EEC) No 668 /75 (2),                                                     port of Dakar.
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                             4.     The product shall be packed in 50 kg new jute
 2750/75 of 29 October 1975 fixing criteria for the                        sacks .
 mobilization of cereals intended as food aid (3), and in
 particular Article 6 thereof,                                            The sacks shall be marked by printing :
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                             'Riz — Don de la Communauté économique euro­
 2752/75 of 29 October 1975 derogating from Regula­                        péenne à la République du Sénégal .'
 tion (EEC) No 1693/72 in respect of the procedures
 laid down for the mobilization of food aid to the coun­
 tries of the Sahel and Ethiopia (4),
                                                                                                   Article 2
 Whereas on 3 March 1975 the Council of the Euro­
 pean Communities declared that it proposed, by way                       The product referred to in Article 1 must meet the
 of Community action , to grant the equivalent of 1 000                   following requirements :
 metric tons of husked rice (in other words, 775 metric
 tons of round grain milled rice) to the Republic of                      — moisture : 1 5 % ,
 Senegal under its 1974/75 food-aid programme ;                           — broken rice : 5 % maximum,
                                                                          —    chalky grains : 3 % maximum,
 Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it                    —    graihs striated with red : 3 % maximum,
 is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual                     —    spotted grains : 1 % maximum ,
 agreement ;                                                              —    stained grains : 0-50 % maximum,
                                                                          —    yellow grains : 0 050 % maximum,
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                        —    amber grains : 0125% maximum .
 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 ment Committee for Cereals ,
                                                                          Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused.
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                                   Article 3
                              Article 1                                   1 . A security of a value of 10 units of account per
                                                                          metric ton shall be given by the party concerned on
 1.     In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­                   the signature of the contract. It shall be released on
tion (EEC) No 2752/75 of 29 October 1975, the                             the completion of the operations in question within
Italian intervention agency for rice (Ente Risi), Piazza                  the time limit laid down and also for those quantities
Pio XI, 1 , Milan , shall conclude a private contract for                 not realized due to force majeure.
purchase on the Community market of 775 metric
                                                                          2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
(')  OJ  No  174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 .                                  given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
(2)  OJ  No  L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p . 18 .
(3 ) OJ  No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 89 .                               issued by a credit institution conforming to the
H    OJ  No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975 , p. 93 .                              criteria laid down by the Member State.
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                        Article 4                           The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­
                                                            tion provided for to the Commission as soon as it is
Shipment shall be carried out between 1 and 15 July         received together with a copy of the private contract.
1976 .
                        Article 5                                                 Article 6
The intervention agency shall ask that the interested       This Decision is addressed 10 the Italian Republic.
party specifies the following information :
(a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
     the quantities loaded, the quality of the products      Done at Brussels, 11 June 1976.
     and their packaging ;
(b) the date of the departure of the ships ; the
     expected date of arrival of the products at their                               For the Commission
     destination ;
                                                                                       P.J. LARDINOIS
(c) all possible contingencies which might occur
     during transportation of the products.                                      Member of the Commission