CELEX: 31981R2656
Language: en
Date: 1981-09-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2656/81 of 11 September 1981 on the supply of common wheat flour for the International Committee of the Red Cross as food aid

No L 261 /8                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             15. 9 . 81
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2656/81
                                                   of 11 September 1981
              on the supply of common wheat flour for the International Committee of the
                                                   Red Cross as food aid
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, following Greek accession, in the case of
COMMUNITIES,                                                      products for which there are accession compensatory
                                                                 amounts in trade between Greece and the other
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                              Member States the procedure for comparing tenders
                                                                 should be specified ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
tion of the market in cereals (*), as last amended by             are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Regulation (EEC) No 1949/81 (2), and in particular                ment Committee for Cereals,
Article 28 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
2750/75 of 29 October 1975 fixing criteria for the
mobilization of cereals intended as food aid (3), and in                                 Article 1
particular Article 6 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation No 129 of 23                  The Italian intervention agency shall be charged with
October 1962 on the value of the unit of account and              implementing the mobilization and supply procedures
the exchange rates to be applied for the purposes of              in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC)
the common agricultural policy (4), as last amended by            No 1974/ 80 and with the conditions laid down in the
                                                                  Annex hereto.
Regulation (EEC) No 2543/73 (5), and in particular
Article 3 thereof,
                                                                                          Article 2
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
Committee,                                                        For the purposes of comparing tenders, without preju­
Whereas, on 19 May 1981 , the Council of the Euro­                dice to the provisions of Articles 8 and 1 1 of Regula­
pean Communities has expressed its intention to                   tion (EEC) No 1974/80, each tender shall be corrected
grant, under a Community measure, 830-50 tonnes of                by the accession compensatory amount, if any, appli­
cereals for the International Committee of the Red                cable in trade between Greece and the other Member
Cross under its food-aid programme for 1981 ;                     States.
Whereas it is necessary to provide for the carrying-out           The correction shall be made by increasing tenders
 of this measure in accordance with the rules laid                which, pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article
down by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1974/80                    4 (3) of the said Regulation, state Greece by the acces­
of 22 July 1980 laying down general rules for the                 sion compensatory amount.
 implementation of certain food-aid operations
 involving cereal and rice products (6) ; whereas it is                                   Article 3
 necessary to specify, for the purposes of the Commu­
 nity measure envisaged, the characteristics of the               This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
 products to be supplied and the supply conditions                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
 which are set out in the Annex to this Regulation ;               the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 11 September 1981 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Poul DALSAGER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
 (») OJ No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
 0   OJ No  L 198, 20. 7. 1981 , p. 2.
 P)  OJ No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 89 .
 (4) OJ No  106, 30. 10. 1962, p. 2553/62.
 (s) OJ No  L 263, 19. 9. 1973, p. 1 .
 (<) OJ No  L 192, 26. 7. 1980, p. 11 .
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                                                        ANNEX
            1 . Programme : 1981
            2. Recipient : International Committee of the Red Cross
            3. Place or country of destination : Ethiopia
            4. Products to be mobilized : common wheat flour
            5. Total quantity : 550 tonnes (830-50 tonnes of common wheat)
            6. Number of lots : one
            7. Intervention agency responsible for conducting the procedure :
                AIMA — Azienda di Stato per gli interventi sui mercati agricoli, via Palestro 81 , I-Roma (telex
                613 003).
            8. Method of mobilizing the product : on the Community market
            9. Characteristics of die goods :
                — flour of fair and sound merchantable quality, free from abnormal smell and pests
                — moisture : 14 % maximum
                — protein content : 10-5 % minimum (N x 6-25 on dry matter)
                — ash content : 0-62 % maximum referred to dry matter
          10. Packaging :
                — in new bags (!) :
                   — jute sacks of a minimum weight of 600 g, or
                   — composite sacks jute/polypropylene of a minimum weight of 335 g
                — net weight of the bags : 50 kg
                — marking of the bags :
                   On the sacks shall be printed a red cross, 15 x 15 cm, as well as the following :
                   'ERY-78 / Wheat flour / Gift of the European Economic Community / Action of the Interna­
                   tional Committee of the Red Cross / For free distribution*
          1 1 . Port of shipment : a Community port
          12. Delivery stage : cif
          13. Port of landing : Port Sudan
          14. Procedure to be applied in order to determine supply costs : tendering
          15. Deadline for the submission of tenders : 12 noon on 28 September 1981
          1 6. Shipment period :
                15 October to 15 November 1981
          17. Security : 12 ECU per tonne
          (*) Since the goods may be rebagged, the successful tenderer must provide 2 % of empty bags of the
               same quality as those containing the goods, with the marking followed by a capital 'R .