CELEX: 31973D0448
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 28 December 1973 concerning the financing by the Community of certain expenditure on food aid supplied under the 1973/74 programme

28 . 12 . 73                          Official Journal of the European Communities                            No. L 359/53
                                                                II
                                        (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                     COUNCIL
                                                   COUNCIL DECISION
                                                   of 28 December 1973
               concerning the financing by the Community of certain expenditure on food aid supplied
                                               under the 1973/74 programme
                                                        ( 73 /448/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                          aid in cereals to their distribution points has become
                                                                   evident,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community ;
                                                                   HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No
 1703 /72 (*) of 3 August 1972, amending Regulation                                       Sole Article
(EEC) No 2052/ 69 concerning the financing by the
Community of expenditure resulting from the                         For the purpose of the Community's food-aid
implementation of the Food-Aid Convention of 1967                  activities in respect of Upper Volta, Mali,
and fixing the Regulations for the financing by the                Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad and Ethiopia,
Community of expenditure arising from the                          under the 1973/74 Food-Aid Programme, Community
implementation of the 1971 Food-Aid Convention ,                   financing shall extend to the cost of delivering the
and in particular Article 8 ( 1 ) and Artidle 10 ( 1 )             products to the distribution points. This financing
thereof;                                                           can be met, exceptionally, if provided by the
                                                                   agreement, in the form of a lump-sum contribution.
Having       regard  to     the     proposal    from     the       Done at Brussels, 28 December 1973 .
Commission ;
                                                                                                For the Council
Whereas, in view of the situation that now exists in                                             The President
the Sahel countries and Ethiopia, the necessity for
the Community to bear the transport costs of food                                              Ove GULDBERG
(*) OJ No L 180, 8 . 8 . 1972, p. 1 .