CELEX: 31976R2585
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2585/76 of 25 October 1976 on the invitation to tender for the supply of butteroil as food aid to the Catholic Relief Service and to UNICEF

26 . 10 . 76                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 295/ 13
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2585 /76
                                                              of 25 October 1976
                   on the invitation to tender for the supply of butteroil as food aid to the Catholic
                                                        Relief Service and to UNICEF
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          may be supplied in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No
   COMMUNITIES,                                                            695/76 ;
                                                                           Whereas Article 5 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                           694/76 of 25 March 1976 laying down general rules
   Economic Community,
                                                                           for the supply of milk fats to certain developing coun­
                                                                           tries and international organizations under the 1976
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            food-aid programme (7), requires tenders to be invited
   804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                       for such supplies ;
   of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last
   amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in                       Whereas the tendering procedure is effected following
   particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                       the provisions of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                           2247/75 of 29 August 1975 concerning invitations to
                                                                           tender for the costs of manufacture and delivery of
  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1542/75 of 16                        butteroil as food aid to certain developing countries
  June 1975 on the supply of milk fats under the 1975                      and to the World Food Programme (8), as last
   food-aid programme to certain developing countries                      amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2212/76 (9) ;
   and to certain international organizations (3), provides                whereas, it is still necessary to add a number of details,
   for a reserve of 4 550 metric tons of butteroil obtained                particularly as regards the time limit for the submis­
   from butter held by the intervention agencies ;                         sion of tenders and the terms of supply ;
  whereas, in accordance with Council Regulation ( EEC)
   No 2024/76 of 27 July 1976 on the emergency supply                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
  of butteroil to the Catholic Relief Service for distribu­
                                                                           are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
  tion to certain sections of the population of Chile as                   ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
   food aid pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1 542/75 (4),
, 400 metric tons of this reserve shall be allocated to
   the Catholic Relief Service ; whereas this organization
  has requested the supply of this quantity ;
                                                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC) No 695/76 of 25
  March 1976 on the supply of milk fats to certain deve­                                             Article 1
  loping countries and international organizations under
  the 1976 food-aid programme (5), provides inter alia
  for the supply to UNICEF of 2 000 metric tons of                         1 . Tenders are invited, pursuant to the provisions
  butteroil obtained from butter held by the interven­                     laid down in Regulations ( EEC) No 695/76, (EEC) No
  tion agencies ; whereas, in accordance with Council                      1527/76 and (EEC) No 2024/76, for the manufacture
  Regulation (EEC) No 1527/76 of 21 June 1976 on the                       and the delivery to the Catholic Relief Service of 400
  emergency supply of butteroil to the Office of the                       metric tons and to UNICEF of 1 761 metric tons of
  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and                        butteroil divided into the lots and for the destinations
  the United Nations Children 's Fund as food aid for                      stipulated in the Annex to this Regulation .
  the people of Vietnam under Regulation (EEC) No
   1 542/ 75 (6), 600 metric tons of the reserve provided                  2.    Delivery is to be effected at the ports of
  for in Regulation ( EEC) No 1542/75 shall be allocated                   unloading and on the dates also specified in the
  to UNICEF ; whereas UNICEF has requested the                            Annex .
  supply of 1-761 metric tons of butteroil of which 300
  metric tons remain to be supplied in pursuance of                        3 . The provisions of Regulation ( EEC) No 2247/75
  Regulation ( EEC) No 1527/76 and 1 461 metric tons                      shall apply by analogy to the tendering procedure and
                                                                          to the terms for manufacture and delivery of the
  (')  OJ  No  L  148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 13.                           butteroil .
  (2 ) OJ  No  L  67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p . 9 .
  (3 ) OJ  No  L  157, 19 . 6 . 1975, p . 6 .
 C)    OJ  No  L  224, 16 . 8 . 1976, p. 9 .                              ( 7) OJ No L 83, 30 . 3 . 1976, p . 4.
 (5 )  OJ  No  L  170 , 29 . 6 . 1976, p . 1 .                            (8) OJ No L 229 , 30 . 8 . 1976, p . 60 .
 0)    OJ  No  L  83 , 30 . 3 . 1976, p . 6 .                             H OJ No L 249 , 11.9 . 1 976, p . 5 .
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                        Article 2                            3 . The organization of destination shall be respon­
1.     The butter which is to be manufactured into
                                                             sible for all expenditure incurred after delivery,
butteroil shall be removed
                                                             including acceptance costs.
— as regards Lots A to H                                     Any demurrage costs at the port of unloading due to
                                                             delays for which the recipient organization is respon­
     from the French intervention agency,                    sible shall be borne by that country.
— as regards Lots I to L
                                                             The rates and conditions of such demurrage to be laid
     from the German intervention agency.                    down in the contract between the successful tenderer
2. The butteroil, which shall meet the quality and            and the carrier must be agreed in advance between the
packing requirements laid down in the Annex to                successful tenderer acting as agent for the Community
Regulation (EEC) No 2247/75, shall be put up exclu­           and the receiving agent of the recipient organization .
sively in 5 kg canisters.                                                       \
                                                                                      Article 4
3. The packing of the butteroil shall bear the inscrip­
tion stipulated in the Annex, as the case may be, in          1 . The intervention agency concerned shall notify
letters at least one centimetre high .                        the recipient organization of the date of loading, the
                                                              quantity and the quality of the goods as recorded at
4.     The time limit for the submission of tenders           the time of loading and the port of unloading.
shall be 12 noon on 23 November 1976 .
                                                              2. The successful tenderer shall inform the recip­
                         Article 3                            ient organization at least 10 days before the antici­
                                                              pated date . The successful tenderer has a clause
1.     Delivery at the port of unloading shall be consid­     inserted in the charter party obliging the captain to
ered as completed when the goods are actually                give the country of destination at least 72 hours notice
deposited on the quayside at the port of unloading or         of the probable date of arrival of vessel in port.
on lighters where the latter method is used .
                                                                                      Article 5
2.     On delivery at the port of unloading the organi­
zation shall issue to the successful tenderer a taking­       This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
over letter which replaces the certificate specified in       following its publication in the Official Journal of
Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 2247/75.                    the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 25 October 1976 .
                                                                     ■ For the Commission
                                                                          P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                    Member of the Commission
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                                                                      ANNEX
                                                                                   Date
    Recipient        Designation    Quantity
                     of each lot
                                                        Port of unloading    of embarkation              Marking on the packing
     agency                      ( metric tons )
                                                                               at the latest
Catholic           (   A            107            Coquimbo (Chile)       )                  Butteroil / Donaciôn de la Comunidad
Relief
Service
                  j^   B            112            Valparaiso (Chile)     > 20 . 12 . 1976
                                                                          )
                                                                                             Economica Europea para Cathwell Chile
                                                                                             / Destinado a la distribution gratuita
                       C            181             Talcahuano (Chile)
                                                                                             Butter oil / Don de la Communauté
               /       D            447            Haiphong (Vietnam)       20 . 12 . 1976
                                                                                             économique européenne à l'Unicef en
                       E            300            Haiphong (Vietnam )       15 . 1 . 1977   faveur du peuple du Viêt-nam
              1        F            135            Dar-Es-Salaam >           15 . 1 . 1977
                1                                  (Tanzania)
UNICEF        /        G            135            Dar-Es-Salaam             15 . 2 . 1977   Butteroil / Gift of the European Econ­
                                                                                             omic Community / Action of UNICEF
              I
               j                                   (Tanzania)
                                                                             15 . 1 . 1977
                       H            144            Aden (Yemen)
              I        I            120            Luanda (Angola)          20 . 12 . 1976
              1                                                                              Butteroil / Dom da Comunidade Eco­
                       K            240            Luanda (Angola)           15 . 1 . 1977
                                                                                             nómica Europeia / Acção do UNICEF
               *       L           240             Luanda (Angola)            2 . 3 . 1977