CELEX: 31974R0211
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 211/74 of the Commission of 25 January 1974 opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of common wheat flour as aid for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

26 . 1 . 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 22/41
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 211 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 25 January 1974
              opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of common wheat flour as
                                        aid for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas it is important that the Commission be
COMMUNITIES,                                                        informed without delay of the tenders submitted in
                                                                    response to the invitation and of those accepted by
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               the intervention agency ;
Economic Community ;
                                                                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                 are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                    ment Committee for Cereals ,
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1 346/73 (2) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1 693/72 (3) of 3 August 1972 establishing the criteria             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
for the mobilization of cereals to be used as food aid ,
and in particular Article 6 thereof ;
                                                                                           Article 1
Whereas on 14 May 1973 the Council of the Euro­
pean Communities declared that by way of Commu­                      1 . An invitation to tender shall be issued in respect
nity action it proposed to grant to the Hashemite                   of the supply of 3 311 metric tons of common wheat
Kingdom of Jordan the equivalent of 5 000 metric                    flour to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan by way of
tons of common wheat, in the form of flour, i.e. 3 311              Community food aid action .
metric tons of common wheat flour, under its 1972/73
food aid programme ;
                                                                     2 . The tendering procedure shall take place in the
Whereas     examination     of   the     state  of  the  cereals     Kingdom of the Netherlands and shall be in respect
market in the Community indicates that the criteria                 of a single lot.
of Article 3 (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1693/72 should be applied, and in particular that the               3.    The goods shall be mobilized on the Commu­
goods should be purchased on the Community                           nity market.
 market ;
                                                                     4.    Shipment shall be from a Community port.
Whereas the proposed invitation to tender should
 relate to supply of the goods fob, i.e. up to the point             5. The goods referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
 at which they are placed in the tiold of the ship at the            supplied fob (that is to say the successful tenderer
 port of shipment ;                                                  shall place them in the hold of the ship at the port of
Whereas     the   contract   should       be   awarded   to  the     shipment) in new cotton sacks of a maximum net
 tenderer who makes the best offer ;                                 capacity of 50 kilogrammes.
Whereas it must be made clear who is to bear any                     6.    The following shall be printed on the sacks :
 costs which arise in the event that for reasons of force
 majeure the operation in question is not completed                  'Wheat flour — gift of the European Community'.
 within the time stipulated ;
 Whereas provision should be made for security to be                                        Article 2
 given to guarantee fulfilment of obligations arising by
 virtue of participation in the invitation to tender for              1 . The award of the contract shall take place on 8
 the supply of goods to the Hashemite Kingdom of                      February 1974.
 Jordan ;
                                                                     2. The closing date for submission of tenders shall
 Whereas the Dutch intervention agency should in any                 be 8 February 1974 at 12 noon .
 event be made responsible for organizing the invita­
 tion to tender ;
                                                                      3.   The   notice of  invitation to  tender  shall  be
 (!) OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67 .                           published in the Official Journal of the European
 (2) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973 , p. 8 .                              Communities not less than ten days before the closing
 P) OJ No L 178 , 5 . 8 . 1972, p. 3 .                                date for submission of tenders .
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                          Article 3                             Common wheat flour :
The contract shall be awarded to the tenderer who              — moisture content : 1 5 % maximum ,
offers the most favourable terms . If it appears however       — acidity : 4 ml NaOH/n maximum per 100 g (calcu­
that the   tenders     submitted  do  not   reflect normal          lated on the dry matter),
market prices and rates, the intervention agency may            — ash content : 0-52 % maximum on the dry matter.
cancel the invitation to tender.
                                                                If the goods referred to in Article 1 do not meet the
                          Article 4
                                                                foregoing requirements it shall be rejected and the
                                                                successful tenderer shall be owner thereof.
If, because of delay in the provision of ships for
                                                                2. Tenders for supply to the Hashemite Kingdom
effecting transport by sea, the successful tenderer is
                                                                of Jordan of the goods referred to in Article 1 must
unable to deliver the goods fob on the date fixed in
                                                                relate to products with the following characteristics :
the notice of invitation to tender, the costs resulting
from such delay shall be borne by the intervention              Common wheat flour :
agency .                                                        — moisture content : 1 5 % maximum ,
                                                                — acidity : 4 ml NaOH/n maximum per 100 g (calcu­
                          Article 5
                                                                    lated on the dry matter),
 1 . The successful tenderer shall give security in an          — ash content : 0-52 % maximum on the dry matter.
amount of 10 units of account per metric ton of
goods ; the purpose of such security is to guarantee                                      Article 7
performance of the operations specified in Articles 1
and 6. The security shall be forfeit if those operations        1 . The intervention agency of the Kingdom of the
are not carried out within the time stipulated, save as         Netherlands shall be responsible for organizing the
regards quantities not delivered for reasons of force           invitation to tender provided for by this Regulation.
 majeure.                                                       2.     It shall forthwith communicate to the Commis­
2. The security referred to in paragraph 1 may be               sion the list of firms which have responded to the invi­
given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee           tations to tender, specifying the terms of each tender,
issued by credit institution which satisfies the criteria       together with the name and business name of the
laid down by each Member State .                                successful tenderer.
                          Article 6                                                       Article 8
 1 . The goods referred to in Article 1 which are to            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
be supplied to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan                  publication in the Official Journal of the European
 must meet the following requirements :                          Com m unities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 25 January 1974.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                               The President
                                                                          Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
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                                        ANNEX
            Number    Port from which         Minimum rate of loading
             of lot      consigned                   per day              Tonnage fob
               1    Community ports           Customs of the port     3 311 metric tons