CELEX: 31977D0068
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 28 December 1976 relating to the urgent supply of common wheat as food aid to the World Food Programme

19 . 1 . 77                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 16/ 15
                                                        COMMISSION DECISION
                                                           of 28 December 1976
                 relating to the urgent supply of common wheat as food aid to the World Food
                                                                Programme
                                              (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                                (77/68 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             2.    In concluding the private contract, OBEA must
COMMUNITIES,                                                               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 delivered to the port of ship­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                              ment in the vicinity of the vessel .
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by                      4.    The product shall be delivered in new 50 kg
Regulation (EEC) No 1 143/76 (2 ),                                         cotton sacks .
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2750/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down the condi­
                                                                           The following shall be printed on the sacks :
tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid (3), and                  Froment    tendre  —    Don   de  la CEE   —   Action
in particular Article 6 thereof,                                           d'urgence du PAM en faveur du Liban .'
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
696/76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation
( EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization proce­                                                Article 2
dures for cereals to be supplied as food aid (4),
Whereas, on 20 December 1976 , the Council of the                          The   product referred to in Article 1 must be of fair
European Communities declared that it proposed by                          and   sound merchantable quality and correspond at
way of Community action , to grant 2 000 tonnes of                         least  to the standard quality for which the interven­
common wheat to the World Food Programme under                             tion  price is fixed, except that the moisture content
                                                                           shall not exceed 1 5 % and that a maximum of 3 % of
its 1975/76 food-aid programme ;
                                                                           sprouted grains and 1-5% of miscellaneous impuri­
Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it                      ties shall be allowed . If the product does not meet
is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual                       these requirements it shall be refused .
agreement ;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                                                 Article 3
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
ment Committee for Cereals ,
                                                                           1 . A security of a value of five units of account per
                                                                           tonne shall be given by the party concerned on     the
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                signature of the contract. It shall be released on the
                                                                           completion of the operations in question within    the
                                                                           time limit laid down and also for those quantities not
                                Article 1                                  realized due to force majeure.
 1.      In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­
tion ( EEC) No 696/76 of 25 March 1976, the Office                         2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
beige de l'economie et de l'agriculture (OBEA), 82 rue                    given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
de Treves, 1040 Brussels (intervention agency) shall                       issued by a credit institution conforming to criteria
                                                                           laid down by the Member State.
conclude a private contract for the purchase on the
Community market of 2 000 tonnes of common
wheat for delivery to the World Food Programme .
                                                                                                   Article 4
(')  Oj"  No  L 281 , 1 . 1 1 . 1975, p . 1 .
(')  OJ   No  L 130 , 19 . 5 . 1976, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ   No  L 281 , 1 . 1 I. 1975 , p. 89.                              Shipment shall be carried out between 1 and 15
(4 ) OJ   No  L 83 , 30 . 3 . 1976 , p. 8 .                                February 1977.
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                       Article 5                                                 Article 6
The intervention agency shall request the interested       This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
party to specify the following information :                Belgium .
(a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
    the quantities loaded, the quality of the products      Done at Brussels, 28 December 1976 .
    and their packaging ;
(b) the date of the departure of the ships .                                       For the Commission
The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­                                   P. J. LARDINOIS
tion provided for to the Commission as soon as it is
received together with a copy of the private contract.                          Member of the Commission