CELEX: 31973D0171
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-25 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 25 June 1973 concerning the financing by the Community of certain expenditure on food aid supplied under the 1972/73 programme

No L 181 /22                          Official Journal of the European Communities                               4. 7 . 73
                                                  COUNCIL DECISION
                                                      of 25 June 1973
             concerning the financing by the Community of certain expenditure on food aid
                                        supplied under the 1972/73 programme
                                                        (73/ 171 /EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                         Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              For the purpose of the Community s food aid activi­
Economic Community ;                                               ties in respect of Chad, Mali, Niger, Senegal and
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Upper Volta under the 1972/73 Food Aid Programme,
1703/72 (^ of 3 August 1972 amending Regulation                    Community financing shall extend to the cost of deliv­
(EEC) No 2052/69 concerning the financing by the                   ering the products to their destination .
Community of expenditure resulting from the imple­                                       Article 2
mentation of the Food Aid Convention of 1967 and
fixing the Regulations for the financing by the                    This Decision cancels those provisions of the Council
Community of expenditure arising from the imple­                   Decision of 4 June 1973 concerning the financing by
mentation of the 1971 Food Aid Convention, and in                  the Community of certain expenditure on food aid
                                                                   supplied under the 1972/73 Programme that are rele­
particular, Article 8 ( 1 ) and Article 10 ( 1 ) thereof ;         vant to the countries referred to in Article 1 .
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                                   Done at Luxembourg, 25 June 1973.
Whereas, in view of the dramatic situation that now                                            For the Council
exists in the Sahel countries, the necessity for the
Community to bear the transport costs of food aid in                                            The President
cereals to their destination has become evident ;                                            R. VAN ELSLANDE
 (n OJ No L 180, 8 . 8 . 1972, p. 1 .