CELEX: 32000R0244
Language: en
Date: 2000-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 244/2000 of 31 January 2000 on the supply of vegetable oil as food aid

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                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 244/2000
                                                             of 31 January 2000
                                              on the supply of vegetable oil as food aid
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                       whereas the contract for the supply of each such lot is to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                             be awarded to the tenderer submitting the lowest tender,
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 of 27                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
June 1996 on food-aid policy and food-aid management and
special operations in support of food security (1), and in par-
                                                                                                       Article 1
ticular Article 24(1)(b) thereof,
Whereas:                                                                   Vegetable oil shall be mobilised in the Community, as
                                                                           Community food aid for supply to the recipient listed in the
(1)     The abovementioned Regulation lays down the list of                Annex, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 2519/97 and
        countries and organisations eligible for Community aid             under the conditions set out in the Annex.
        and specifies the general criteria on the transport of food
        aid beyond the fob stage.                                          The supply shall cover the mobilisation of vegetable oil
                                                                           produced in the Community. Mobilisation may not involve a
(2)     Following the taking of a number of decisions on the
                                                                           product manufactured and/or packaged under inward
        allocation of food aid, the Commission has allocated
                                                                           processing arrangements.
        vegetable oil to certain beneficiaries.
(3)     It is necessary to make these supplies in accordance with          Tenders shall cover either rape-seed oil or sunflower oil.
        the rules laid down by Commission Regulation (EC) No               Tenders shall be rejected unless they specify the type of oil to
        2519/97 of 16 December 1997 laying down general                    which they relate.
        rules for the mobilisation of products to be supplied              The tenderer is deemed to have noted and accepted all the
        under Council Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 as                        general and specific conditions applicable. Any other condition
        Community food aid (2); whereas it is necessary to                 or reservation included in his tender is deemed unwritten.
        specify the time limits and conditions of supply to deter-
        mine the resultant costs.
                                                                                                       Article 2
(4)     In order to ensure that the supplies are carried out for a
        given lot, provision should be made for tenderers to be            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
        able to mobilise either rape-seed oil or sunflower oil;            publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 31 January 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 166, 5.7.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 346, 17.12.1997, p. 23.
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                                                                  ANNEX
                                                                  LOT A
            1. Action No: 41/99
            2. Beneficiary (2): WFP (World Food Programme), via Cristoforo Colombo 426, I-00145 Roma
               tel.: (39−06) 65 13 29 88; fax: 65 13 2844/3; telex 62 66 75 WFP I
            3. Beneficiary's representative: to be designated by the recipient
            4. Country of destination: Serbia and Montenegro
            5. Product to be mobilised: refined rapeseed oil or refined sunflower oil
            6. Total quantity (tonnes net): 3 000
            7. Number of lots: 1
            8. Characteristics and quality of the product (3) (4) (6): see OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1 (III.A.(1)(a) or (b))
            9. Packaging: see OJ C 267, 13.9.1996, p. 1 (10.8A, B and C(2)
           10. Labelling or marking (5): see OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1 (III.A(3))
               — Language to be used for the markings: English
               — Supplementary markings: —
           11. Method of mobilisation of the product: mobilisation of refined vegetable oil produced in the Community.
               Mobilisation may not involve a product manufactured and/or packaged under inward-processing arrangements.
           12. Specified delivery stage: free at port of shipment
           13. Alternative delivery stage: —
           14. a) Port of shipment: —
               b) Loading address: —
           15. Port of landing: —
           16. Place of destination: —
               — port or warehouse of transit: —
               — overland transport route: —
           17. Period or deadline of supply at the specified stage:
               — first deadline: from 20.3 to 2.4.2000
               — second deadline: from 3 to 23.4.2000
           18. Period or deadline of supply at the alternative stage:
               — first deadline: —
               — second deadline: —
           19. Deadline for the submission of tenders (at 12 noon, Brussels time):
               — first deadline: 15.2.2000
               — second deadline: 29.2.2000
           20. Amount of tendering guarantee: EUR 15 per tonne
           21. Address for submission of tenders and tendering guarantees (1): Bureau de l'aide alimentaire, Attn Mr T.
               Vestergaard, Bâtiment Loi 130, bureau 7/46, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200, B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel telex: 25670
               AGREC B; fax: (32 2) 296 70 03/296 70 04 (exclusively)
           22. Export refund: —
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        Notes:
        (1) Supplementary information: André Debongnie (tel. (32 2) 295 14 65),
                                          Torben Vestergaard (tel. (32 2) 299 30 50).
        (2) The supplier shall contact the beneficiary or its representative as soon as possible to establish which consignment
            documents are required.
        (3) The supplier shall deliver to the beneficiary a certificate from an official entity certifying that for the product to be
            delivered the standards applicable, relative to nuclear radiation, in the Member State concerned, have not been
            exceeded. The radioactivity certificate must indicate the caesium-134 and -137 and iodine-131 levels.
        (4) The supplier shall supply to the beneficiary or its representative, on delivery, the following document:
            — health certificate.
        (5) Notwithstanding OJ C 114 of 29.4.1991, point III.A(3)(c) is replaced by the following: ‘the words “European
            Community”’.
        (6) Tenders shall be rejected unless they specify the type of peas to which they relate.