CELEX: 31978D0683
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 July 1978 relating to the urgent supply of long grain husked rice as food aid to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees

18 . 8 . 78                                Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 227/ 29
                                                       COMMISSION DECISION
                                                              of 20 July 1978
                 relating to the urgent supply of long grain husked rice as food aid to the United
                                              Nations High Commission for Refugees
                                                     (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                                (78 / 683/ EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                              Milan , shall conclude a private contract for the
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                               purchase on the Community market of 1 250 tonnes
                                                                             of long grain husked rice for delivery to the United
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                       Nations High Commission for Refugees .
 Economic Community,
                                                                             2.     In concluding the private contract, Enterisi must
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                seek the least onerous terms possible .
  1418 /76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­
 tion of the market in rice ('), as last amended by Regu­
 lation (EEC) No 1 260/78 (2),                                               3 . The contract shall be for the purchase and
                                                                             supply of the products delivered to the quay or on
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                lighter at the ports of Boma ( Lot 1 : 625 tonnes) and
 2750/75 of 29 October 1975 fixing criteria for the                          Matadi (Lot 2 : 625 tonnes).
 mobilization of cereals intended as food aid (3), and in
 particular Article 6 thereof,                                              4.      The product shall be packed in 50 kg new jute
                                                                            sacks .
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No
 696/76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation                         The sacks shall be marked by printing :
(EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization proce­
 dures for cereals to be supplied as food aid (4),                            Riz / Don de la Communauté économique euro­
                                                                             péenne / Action UNHCR au Zaïre / À distribuer gra­
 Whereas on 8 February 1977 the Council of the Euro­                        tuitement '.
 pean Communities declared that it proposed, by way
 of Community action , to grant the equivalent of 1 250
 tonnes of long grain husked rice to the United                             To allow for the possibility of re-bagging, the
 Nations High Commission for Refugees under its                             successful tenderer shall supply 2 % of new empty
 1976/77 food-aid programme ;                                               sacks, of the same quality as those containing the
                                                                            goods but with the printing followed by a capital
                                                                            letter ' R \
Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it
 is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual
agreements ;
                                                                                                     Article 2
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
ment Committee for Cereals,                                                 The product referred to in Article 1 must meet the
                                                                            following requirements :
                                                                            (a) rice, free of odour, of a sound and fair marketable
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                       quality ;
                                                                            (b) moisture content : 15 % ;
                               Article 1
                                                                            (c) percentage of rice grains which are not of unim­
                                                                                  paired quality :
 1.     In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­
tion (EEC) No 696/76 of 25 March 1976, the Italian                                — paddy grains : 1 % ,
Rice Intervention Agency (Enterisi), Piazza Pio XI, 1 ,
                                                                                ' — broken rice : 5 % ,
(!) OJ    No  L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ    No  L 156, 14. 6 . 1978 , p. 11 .                                       — green grains or grains showing natural malfor­
(3) OJ    No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 89 .                                          mation 5 % (including up to 0-5 % of red
(4) OJ    No  L 83, 30 . 3 . 1976, p. 8 .                                             grains) ;
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(d) tolerance of extraneous matter, consisting of :          (a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
     — mineral or vegetable inedible substances                   the quantities loaded, the quality of the products
         provided that they are not toxic 0.01 % ,                and their packaging ;
     — extraneous grains or parts thereof, edible            (b) the date of the departure of the ships ; the
         0.10 % ;                                                 expected date of arrival of the products at their
                                                                  destination ;
(e) when wholly milled, percentage of wholly milled
     rice grains which are not of unimpaired quality :       (c) all possible contingencies which might occur
                                                                  during transportation of the products.
     — chalky grains : 5 % ,
     — spotted grains : 1.5 % ,                              The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­
     — yellow grains : 0.05 % ,                               tion provided for to the Commission as soon as it is
     — stained grains : 1 % ,                                 received together with a copy of the private contract.
     — amber grains : 0.20 % .
Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused.                                  Article 6
                        Article 3                             As regards this action , the intervention agency is auth­
 1.    A security of a value of 10 units of account  per      orized to make an initial payment of 80 % of the
tonne shall be given by the party concerned on       the      value of the quantity given in the bill of lading, on
signature of the contract. It shall be released on   the      presentation of that document and subject to the
                                                              taking of a security for an amount equal to the initial
 completion of the operations in question within     the
                                                              payment.
 time limit laid down and also for those quantities  not
 realized due to force majeure.
 2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be                                    Article 7
given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
 issued by a credit institution conforming to the             This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
 criteria laid down by the Member State.
                         Article 4
                                                              Done at Brussels, 20 July 1978 .
 Shipment shall be carried out between 1 and 30
 August 1978 .
                                                                                         For the Commission
                         Article 5
                                                                                          Finn GUNDELACH
 The intervention agency shall ask that the interested
 party specifies the following information :                                                 Vice-President