CELEX: 51973PC1741
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-18 00:00:00
Title: RECOMMENDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION concluding an agreement between the European Economic Community and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania for the supply of common wheat and maize as food aid. (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                COM (73 ) 1741 Final
                                                Brussels . 18 October 1973
                             RECOMMENDATION FOR A
                               COUNCIL DECISION
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            concluding an agreement between the European Economic
              Community and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
                for the supply of common wheat and Baize as ;
                                   food aid .
                 (submitted to the Council by the Commission )
COM(73 ) 1741 Final
 ---pagebreak---      TILG COUIICIL OP THE EUTiOP/IA'J CQMKUNITIE3 .
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 . Having regard "to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
     and in particular Articles' 113 » H4 and 223 thereof }
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     Having regard to the Recommendation from the Commission j                                ,
     Whereas the European Economic Community has deposited' a declaration of
     provisional application of the Good Aid Convention of 1971 J and whereas
     that Convention has "been effective since 1 July 1971 J
     Whereas "by letter of 7 December 1.972>:                 the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
     submitted a recrtiest for emergency food aids
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    Whereas the adverse climatic conditions experienced by the Islamic Republic
     of Mauritania           have appreciably reduced its grain supplies j end whereas
    that country should therefore be grafted a gift of 5*000 i                     metric tons
  • of cereals           in the form of 3.000 tons of common wheat and 2*000 tons of
    maize und thes Community Food Aid Programme for 1972/73*
    HAS DECIDED TIIAT:                             ? (                                          *
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                                           Article 1
     On behalf of the European Economic Community an Agreement is hereby 'concluded
    "between the European Economic Community aid the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
    on the supply of food aid in the form of common wheat and maize , the texte of
     which Agreement is annexed to this decision .
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                                           Article r 2           •
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* The President of the Council is hereby authorized to designate the persons
    empovjered to sign the Agreement , and to confer on them the powers necessary
    to commit the Community
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 ---pagebreak---                   AGREE! ÏEIÎT
BETl'EEtT TILS EUROPE UT ECOiCOLJIC COMMUNITY
AKD THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC MAURITANIA
ON THE SUPFLY OP FOOD AID HI THE FORM OP
COMMON WHEAT AND MAIZE .
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                                                         on the ono hnjid ,
THE COVETtHLEUT 0^ THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF MAURITANIA ,        ;
                                                         on the other hand .
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HAVE DECIDED to conclude this Agreement and to this end have designated •
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as their plenipotentiaries :                   -  .            j
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THE C0U1JCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COTMJ13ITI33 :                   | ,
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THE GOVERIJISITT OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF MAURITANIA t
WHO IiAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS i                r
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                                       »«> #• • > ItHlIM
  An a part of its Food Aid Programme (Ocrealo ) for 1972/73 , "the European
   Economic Community shall supply          5 . 000           metric tones of cereals
   in the form of 3 . 000 metric tons of common wheat and 2*000 metric tons of
  maize as jjift to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, hereinafter referred to
  aB the "recipient country ".
                                     Article II '
  Deliveries wild be made cif ports of unloading in the recipient country in
  new jute sacks of a net weight of 50 kg each.
                                     Article III
   The obligations and responsibilities of the European Economic Community and
. of the recipient country relating to delivery and the taking of delivery are
  defined in the Annex which forms an integral part of this Agreement .
                                     Article TV
  The recipient country undertakes to make all necessary arrangements for the
  transport and insurance of the product' from ports of \mioading to places of
  destination*'' "                                  ;      ''                               '
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                                     Article V
  The recipient country undertakes to use the products reoeived as aid for                *
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  purposes of consumption and to distribute such products to people in raeed
  free of charge .                                     ,                           !
                                     Article VI.
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  The European Economic Community shall grant the recipient country funds to
  cover "the costs incurred by that country for the transport of the delivered
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  products from the places of taking over to places of destination *
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  These funds shall amount to 30       units of account per metric ton of delivered
  product .                       '                                             .     •
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  The Community undertakes to pay this al3 Soon as possible after receipt by
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  the Commission of the information required in the first indent of Article IX*
 ---pagebreak---                                    Article VII
The Contracting Parties undertake to implement this Agreement in such n. way
as to avoid any prejudice to the norm.il structure of domestic production and
international trade . To this end they shall take any measxires required to
ensure that aid supplies are in addition to , and do not replace       business
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transactions which might reasonably "be expect od in the absence of such suppli
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                                   Article VIII                    !
The recipient country shall take any measures required to prevent :
(i ) The re-export of the product received as aid and of products and by­
      products resulting from such supplies ;                      i
(ii ) The export , commercially or otherwise , within six months of the last
      delivery , either of the product obtained locally and of the same nature
      as the product received as aid or of any products or by-products
      resulting from it .
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                                   Article IX
The recipient country \mdertakes to inform the European Economic Community ,
how this Agreement is being implenjented* To this end , it shall provide the
Commission of the European Communities with the following information :
(i ) Not more than thirty days after the talcing over of each cargo : places
      and dates of taking overj nature ,, quantity and quality of the overtaken
      products .                             '
(ii ) Every three months until the quantities received* as aid have been fully
      used : a situation report giving , in particular , the number and nature
      of the recipients , the quantities -distributed , and /the place end method
      of distribution .                   •< <3       1     •  , I
 ---pagebreak---                                     Article A
At *tho request of either of thcin , the Contracting Parties shall consult each
other on any questions concerning the implementation of this Agreement .
                                    Article XX
This Agreement is drawn up in duplicate in the Danish , Dutch , English , French ,
German and Italian languages , each of these texts being equally authentic *
 ---pagebreak---                   AWK TO ARTICT-T|j Til OF HI'S ACTlliTOISE-lT           i   ,
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                                  Artici c 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* i
 The recipient country shall "bear    all costs subsequent to delivery of the
 goods , including the costs of unloading ("breaking, "bulk , hoisting , talcing
 delivery , for example ) as well as any lighterage costs .               1 '
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
conditions of payment applying to any contract between the Community agent
referred to in Article 5 and- "the carrier must have been previously agreed
between that agent and the recipient country 's agent referred to in Article 5
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                                 Article 2
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The European Economic Community shall forward to the recipient country .
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as soon as possible after the goods have been shipped , a notice giving the
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name of the ship, the date of loading , the quantity and quality of the goods
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on loading and the port of unloading ,       r.    h                                 1 '
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The European Economic Community shall inform the recipient country of the
ship 's pre sumed - date of arrival at the port of unloading at least ten clear
days before that date .                            i'                  I
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The European Economic Community "shall cause to be inserted in the charter-
party an undertaking by the captain to give to the reoipient country at '
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least 72 hours' notice of the probable date of the ship 's arrival in the port
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On delivery of 'the goods , a tolerance of 5 /3 lees than the quantity to bo
Bupplied in accordance with Article I of the Agreement is permitted .
                                  Article 5 '
The European Economic Community shall appoint an agent to ' implement "the
provisions of this Annex , and shall in good time forward the latter 's
name and address "b the recipient country .
The recipient country shall appoint an agent in each port of \mloe.ding ,
and shall forward the latter' s name and ; address to th9 European Economic
Community prior to implementation of the Agreement *