CELEX: 31976D0551
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 June 1976 relating to the urgent supply of maize as food aid to the Republic of Senegal

No L 161 / 24                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                23 . 6 . 76
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 11 June 1976
               relating to the urgent supply of maize as food aid to the Republic of Senegal
                                                 (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                           (76/ 551 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         purchase on the Community market of 7 000 metric
COMMUNITIES,                                                           tons of maize for delivery to the Republic of Senegal .
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  2.     In concluding the private contract, ONIC must
Economic Community,                                                    seek the least onerous terms possible .
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                     3 . The contract shall be for the purchase and
                                                                       supply of the products delivered to the quay at the
tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by
                                                                       port of Dakar.
Regulation (EEC) No 1 143/76 (2 ),
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           4. The products shall be delivered in new 50 kg
2750/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down the condi­                      jute sacks in two parts of 3 500 metric tons each .
tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid (3 ), and
in particular Article 6 thereof,                                       The sacks shall be marked by printing :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            Maïs — Don de la Communauté économique euro­
2752/75 of 29 October 1975 derogating from Regula­                     péenne à la République du Senegal .'
tion (EEC) No 1693 /72 in respect of the procedures
laid down for the mobilization of food aid to the coun­
tries of the Sahel and Ethiopia (4),                                                            Article 2
Whereas on 3 March 1975 the Council of the Euro­
                                                                       The    product referred to in Article 1 must be of fair
pean Communities declared that it proposed , by way                    and    sound merchantable quality and correspond at
of Community action , to grant 7 000 metric tons of                    least    to the standard quality for which the interven­
maize to the Republic of Senegal under its 1974/75                     tion   price is fixed .
food-aid programme ;
Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it                   If the product does not meet these requirements it
                                                                        shall be refused .
is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual
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
                                                                        metric ton shall be given by the party concerned on
                                                                        the signature of the contract. It shall be released on
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                        the completion of the operations in question within
                                                                        the time limit laid down and also for those quantities
                                                                        not realised due to force majeure.
                              Article 1
                                                                        2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
 1.     In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­                 given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
 tion ( EEC) No 2752/ 75 of 29 October 1975 , the                       issued by a credit institution conforming to the
 Office National Interprofessionel des Cereales                         criteria laid down by the Member State .
 (ONIC), Avenue Bosquet, Paris 7C (intervention
 agency) shall conclude a private contract for the
                                                                                                Article 4
(')  OJ  No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975 , p. 1.
(2 ) OJ  No  L 130 , 19 . 5 . 1976 , p. 1.
 (3) OJ  No  L 281 , 1. 1 1.  1975 , p. 89 .                            Shipment shall be carried out between 1 and 15 July
(4 ) OJ  No  L 281 , 1. 1 1.  1975,  p. 93 .                             1976 .
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                        Article 5                                                Article 6
The intervention agency shall request the interested
party to specify the following information :                This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
(a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
     the quantities loaded, the quality of the products
     and their packaging ;
(b) the date of the departure of the ships ; the
     expected date of arrival of the products at their      Done at Brussels, 11 June 1976 .
     destination ;
(c) all possible contingencies which might occur
     during transportation of the products .                                       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