CELEX: 51973PC0663
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-04 00:00:00
Title: RECOMMENDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION concluding the agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Jordan on the supply of skimmed milk powder as food aid. (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- CGMMELIGN OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                            COM(73)663 final
                                                            Brussels , 4 May 1973
                        RECOMMENDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
               concluding the agreement between the European Economic
               Community and the Kingdom of Jordan on the supply of
               skimmed milk powder as food aid .
                   ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
  COM 73 ) 663 final
 ---pagebreak--- THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMUMTIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and
in particular Articles 113 , 114 and 223 thereof ;
Having regard to the recommendation from the Commission ;
Whereas the Council in Regulation (EEC ) Kb . 2721/72 (l ) on the supply of
skimmed milk powdes? as food aid decided to make 1000 metric tons of skimmed
milk powder available to the Kingdom of Jordan }
HAS DECIDED :
                                         Article 1
An agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Jordan
on the supply of skimmed milk powder as food aid is hereby concluded on behalf
of the European 'Economic Community . The text of the Agreement is annexed to this
Decision .
                                         Article 2
The President of the Council is authorized to designate the persons empowered
to sign the Agreement and to confer on them the powers required in order to
bind the Community .
Done at Brussels ,              19 ...                     For the Council
                                                            The President
 (1 ) OJ. No . L 291 , 28 December 1972 , p . 23 .
 ---pagebreak---                 AGREEMEUT
BETWEETT THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
                   AKD
          THE KINSDOM OP JORDAN
 OIT THE SUPPLY OP SKIMMED MILK POtfflER
               AS FOOD AID
 ---pagebreak--- THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES .
                                                       on the one part ,
THE GOVERNMENT (w THE KINGDOM OP JORDAN,
                                                       on the other part ,
HAVE DECIDED to conclude this Agreement , and for this purpose have named
as plenipotentiaries :
THE CONCTL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ?
THE GOVERNMENT OP THE KINGDOM OP JORDAN !
KHO HAVE AGK23D AS FOLLOIJSï
 ---pagebreak---                                      Article 1
The European Economic Community shall supply free to the Kingdom of Jordan ,
hereinafter referred to as "recipient country", 1000 metric tons of skimmed
milk' - powder of the quality , and packaged as specified in Annex I. .      ,
                                     Article 2
The deliveries shall "be made cif to ports of unloading in the receiving country .
                                     Article 3
The duties and obligations of the European Economic Community and of the
recipient country, in particular as regards delivery and acceptance , are
defined in Annex II , which forms an integral part of this Agreement .
                                     Article 4
The recipient country undertakes to make all the necessary arrangements for
the transport and insurance of the deliveries from the ports of unloading to
their destinations .
                                     Article 5
The recipient country undertakes to use the product received as aid for pur­
poses of consumption and to distribute such products to the refugee populations
free of charge .
 ---pagebreak---                                      Article 6
The contracting parties undertake to so implement this Agreement as to
avoid any damage to the normal structure of national production . and inter­
national trade . For this purpose , they shall take the necessary steps to
ensure that the supplies of aid are additional to and are not in lieu of
trading operations which could reasonably be expected in the absence of such
supplies .
                                     Article       7
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The recipient country shall take the appropriate steps to prevent :
- reexport of the product received as aid and any products derived therefrom ;
- the export for trade or otherwise , within six months from the date of the
   last delivery , both of locally-produced skimmed milk powder of the same kind
   as that received as aid and of processed products derived therefrom.
                              ι
                                     Article 8
The recipient country undertakes to inform the European Economic Community
of the circumstances surrounding the implemention of this Agreement . For this
purpose , it shall communicate to the Commission of the European Communities
the following information *
- thirty days at the latest after the unloading of each consignments
   port and date of ship 's arrival } kind , quantity and quality of products
   unload®d| date on which unloading was completed ;
- every three months until the quantities received as aid have been used upt
   quantities distributed , number and nature of the beneficiaries , places , rate
   and manner of distribution .
 ---pagebreak---                                    Article 9
The recipient country shall take all appropriate steps to enable those persons
duly authorized "by the European- Economic Community to make on the spot obser­
vations of the operations connected with the implementation of the Agreement .
                                   Artie ] e 10
At the request of either party , the contracting parties shall consult one
another on all questions concerning the application of this Agreement ,
                                   Article 11
This Agreement is drawn up in two copies in the Danish , Dutch , Eiglish ,
French , German and Italian languages , these texts being equally authentic .
 ---pagebreak---                                          - 1 -                 AMER I
                                 SKIMMED MILK PONDER
I. Quality requirements
   (a) fat content                        not exceeding 1.5 %
   00 water content                       not exceeding 4*3 %
    c ) total acidity (lactic acid )      not exceeding 0.15 $ ( l8 Dornic )
   (*) test for neutralizing agents       negative
   (0 permitted additives                 none
   <f test for phosphatasis               negative
   (g) solubility                         not exceeding 0.5 nil (not less than 99 \
   00 degree of purity                    not less than dise B (15 .0 mg)
   (i germ content                        not exceeding 50 000 per gr
   00 strength of colon bacillus          negative in 0.1 gr
    1)  flavour and smell                 fresh
   (m)  appearance                        white or slightly yellowish , absence of
                                          impurities and coloured particles
   (a) containing 25 kilogrammes net weight
   (b ) compositions
        /  N . .. ..       -      -         ..         ..     . .   . –          2
        (aa) 4 Kraft paper bags of a strength representing at least 70 gr per m
             1 intercalated^bag of tan-lined paper of a strength representing at least
               140 gr per m
    •        1 polyethylene inner bag at least 0.06 mm thick , welded or double-bound
   or (bb ) 1 bag of clubpack-poly-duplo-paper of a strength representing at least
               50/20/50 gr per m
               ..          -      .    .    ..                                      2
             2 Kraft paper bags of a strength representing at least 70/75 gr per m
             1 polyethylene inner bag at least 0.10 mm thick , welded or double-bound
   (c ) narking on the packaging, in Ehglish :
        SKIMMED MILK POWDER
        GIFT OP THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY TO THE KINGDOM OP JORDAN
 ---pagebreak---                        MNEX TO ARTICLE 3 OF THE AGREEMENT
                                   Article 1
Delivery shall "be completed and the risks shall pass from the European Economic
Community to the recipient country as soon as the goods are actually taken in
charge in the ship , s hold at the port of unloading.
The recipient country shall hear all costs subsequent to delivery of the goods ,
including the costs of unloading (breaking bulk , hoisting, taking delivery, for
example ) as well as any lighterage costs .
Any demurrage costs or dispatch money at the port of unloading shall , as the
case may be , be borne by or paid to the recipient country. The rates and condi­
tions of payment applying to any contract between the Community agent referred
to in Article 4 and the carrier must have been previously agreed between that
agent and the receiving country * s agent referred to in the same Article .
                                    Article 2
The European Economic Community shall forward to the recipient country , as soon
as possible after the goods have been shipped , a notive giving the name of the
ship, the date of loading , the quantity and quality of the goods on loading and
the port " of unloading.
                                    Article 3
The European Economio Community shall inform the recipient country of the
ship 's presumed date of arrival at the port of unloading at least ten clear
days before that date .
 ---pagebreak---                                       - 2 -
The European Economic Community shall cause to he inserted in the charter-
party an undertaking "by the captain to give to the recipient country at least
72 hours' notice of the probable date of the ship 's arrival in the port .
                                    Article 4
The European Economic Community shall appoint an agent to implement the
provisions of this Annex, and shall , in good time , forward the latter 1 s
name and address to the recipient country .
The recipient country shall appoint an agent in each port of unloading ,
and shall forward the latter 's name and address to the European Economic
Community prior to implementation of the Agreement .
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