CELEX: 31977D0089
Language: en
Date: 1977-01-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 14 January 1977 relating to the urgent supply of milled round grain rice as food aid to the International Committee of the Red Cross

28 . 1 . 77                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 24/51
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 14 January 1977
               relating to the urgent supply of milled round grain rice as food aid to the Inter­
                                          national Committee of the Red Cross
                                               (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                          (77/89/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      2. In concluding the private contract, Ente risi
COMMUNITIES,                                                        must seek the least onerous terms possible.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                 3 . The contract shall be for the purchase and
                                                                    supply of the products to be deposited on the quay in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        the port of Beirut with option Limassol.
 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in rice ('),                                     4.     The product shall be delivered in new 50 kg jute
                                                                    sacks .
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2750/75 of 29 October 1975 fixing criteria for the
mobilization of cereals intended as food aid (2), and in
                                                                    On the sacks shall be printed a red cross, 1 5 cm by 1 5
                                                                    cm as well as the following :
particular Article 6 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        'Riz blanchi / Don de la Communauté économique
696/76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation                  européenne / Action du Comité International de la
(EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization proce­                  Croix-Rouge / Pour distribution gratuite au Liban'.
dures for cereals to be supplied as food aid (3),
Whereas on 21 December 1976 the Council of the                                               Article 2
 European Communities declared that it proposed, by
way of Community action, to grant the equivalent of
2 575 tonnes of husked rice (in other words, 1 996                  The product referred to in Article 1 must meet the
tonnes of round grain milled rice) to the International             following requirements :
Committee of the Red Cross under its 1975/76 food­
                                                                    — moisture : 15% ,
aid programme ;                                                     — broken rice : 5 % maximum,
Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it               —    chalky grains : 3 % maximum,
 is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual               —    grains striated with red : 3 % maximum ,
agreement ;                                                         —    spotted grains : 1 % maximum ,
                                                                    —    stained grains : 0 50 % maximum,
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                  —    yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum,
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                   —    amber grains : 0-125% maximum .
 ment Committee for Cereals,
                                                                    Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused.
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                             Article J
                          Article 1
                                                                     1 . A security of a value of 10 units of account   per
 1.     In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­             tonne shall be given by the party concerned on      the
 tion ( EEC) No 696/76 of 25 March 1976, the Italian                signature of the contract. It shall be released on  the
 Rice Intervention Agency ( Ente risi), Piazza Pio XI , 1 ,         completion of the operations in question within     the
 Milan , shall conclude a private contract for the                  time limit laid down and also for those quantities  not
 purchase on the Community market of 1 996 tonnes                   realized due to force nntjeure.
of milled round grain rice for delivery to the Interna­
 tional Committee of the Red Cross .
                                                                    2 . The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
(') OJ No L 166, 2.S. 6 . 1976, p. I.                               given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
(Ó OJ No L 281 . I. I I. 1975, p. 89                                issued by a credit institution conforming to the
(■») OJ No L «.?, .10 .  1976, p . 8 .                              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 8 and 15
                                                            received together with a copy of the private contract.
February 1977 (lot No 1 — 998 tonnes) and between
15 and 30 March 1977 (lot No 2 — 998 tonnes).
                                                                                  Article 6
                        Article 5
The intervention agency shall ask that the interested       This Decision is addressed to 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, 14 January 1977.
    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 ;                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
(c) all possible contingencies which might occur
    during transportation of the products.                                              Vice-President