CELEX: 31969R0289
Language: en
Date: 1969-02-17 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 289/69 of 17 February 1969 amending Regulation No 120/67/EEC for the purpose of mobilizing cereals intended as food aid

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                                       COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 289/69
                                                    of 17 February 1969
                amending Regulation No 120/67/EEC for the purpose of mobilizing cereals intended
                                                        as food aid
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             'Article 22a
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                   1 . Obligations arising under the Food Aid
pean Economic Community, and in particular Article                   Convention shall be met by the purchase of
43 thereof,                                                          cereals or of flour on the Community market
                                                                     or by the use of cereals held by intervention
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                   agencies.
Having regard to the opinion of the European
Parliament (1),                                                      2. The criteria for mobilizing products and, in
                                                                     particular, those whereby purchases on the Com­
Whereas the International Grains Arrangement of                      munity market are made or the use of cereals
1967, to which the European Economic Community                       held by intervention agencies is decided upon
is a party, was signed after the adoption of Council                 shall be adopted by the Council, acting in accord­
Regulation No 120/67/EEC of 13 June 1967 on the                      ance with the voting procedure laid down in
common organization of the market in cereals (2);                    Article 43 (2) of the Treaty on a proposal from
                                                                     the Commission .
Whereas that Regulation does not include the
provisions necessary for implementing food aid ;                     3 . In exceptional circumstances cereals ' and flour
whereas, therefore, suitable measures should be taken                may be mobilized by purchasing on the world
to enable cereals and flour intended for this purpose                market. Detailed rules for the application of this
to be mobilized;                                                     paragraph shall be adopted in accordance with
                                                                     the procedure laid down in Article 26.'
Whereas provision should be made whereby products
intended as food aid should be drawn, save in excep­
tional circumstances, from the Community market;                                         Article 2
whereas such products as may be purchased on this
market, may be taken from stocks of cereals held by
intervention agencies or may be manufactured from                This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
these cereals ,                                                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
                                                                 the European Communities .
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                    The Commission shall forward to the Council, before
                         Article 1                               the beginning of the 1969/70 marketing year, a report
                                                                 on its implementation including, where necessary,
The following Article 22a shall be inserted in                   proposals ior amendments based on the experience
Regulation No 120/67/EEC :                                       gained.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
                Done at Brussels, 17 February 1969.
                                                                                      For the Council
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                      J. P. BUCHLER
(*) OJ No C 17, 12. 2. 1969, p. 20.
(2) OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 22 69/67,