CELEX: 31999R1829
Language: en
Date: 1999-08-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1829/1999 of 23 August 1999 on the supply of vegetable oil as food aid

24. 8. 1999           EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                     L 223/19
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1829/1999
                                                          of 23 August 1999
                                            on the supply of vegetable oil as food aid
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                    each such lot is to be awarded to the tenderer submit-
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                          ting 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,
                                                                        Vegetable oil shall be mobilised in the Community, as
(1)     Whereas the abovementioned Regulation lays down the
                                                                        Community food aid for supply to the recipient listed in the
        list of countries and organisations eligible for
                                                                        Annex, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 2519/97 and
        Community aid and specifies the general criteria on the
                                                                        under the conditions set out in the Annex.
        transport of food aid beyond the fob stage;
(2)     Whereas, following the taking of a number of decisions          The supply shall cover the mobilisation of vegetable oil
        on the allocation of food aid, the Commission has               produced in the Community. Mobilisation may not involve a
        allocated vegetable oil to certain beneficiaries;               product manufactured and/or packaged under inward
                                                                        processing arrangements.
(3)     Whereas it is necessary to make these supplies in
        accordance with the rules laid down by Commission               Tenders shall cover either rape-seed oil or sunflower oil.
        Regulation (EC) No 2519/97 of 16 December 1997                  Tenders shall be rejected unless they specify the type of oil to
        laying down general rules for the mobilisation of prod-         which they relate.
        ucts to be supplied under Council Regulation (EC) No
        1292/96 as Community food aid (2); whereas it is neces-         The tenderer is deemed to have noted and accepted all the
        sary to specify the time limits and conditions of supply        general and specific conditions applicable. Any other condition
        to determine the resultant costs;                               or reservation included in his tender is deemed unwritten.
(4)     Whereas, in order to ensure that the supplies are carried                                   Article 2
        out for a given lot, provision should be made for
        tenderers to be able to mobilise either rape-seed oil or        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
        sunflower oil; whereas the contract for the supply of           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, 23 August 1999.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                     Karel VAN MIERT
                                                                                 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
                                                            LOTS A and B
          1. Action Nos: 189/98 (A); 190/98 (B)
          2. Beneficiary (2): WFP (World Food Programme), via Cristoforo Colombo 426, I-00145 Roma
             tel.: (39−6) 65 13 29 88; fax: 65 13 2844/3; telex: 626675 WFP I
          3. Beneficiary's representative: to be designated by the recipient
          4. Country of destination: North Korea
          5. Product to be mobilised: refined rape-seed oil or refined sunflower oil
          6. Total quantity (tonnes net): 3 541
          7. Number of lots: 2 (A: 2 000 tonnes; B: 1 541 tonnes)
          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 (10.4.A, 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: 27.9 — 17.10.1999
             — second deadline: 11 — 31.10.1999
         18. Period or deadline of supply at the alternative stage:
             — first deadline: —
             — second deadline: —
         19. Deadline for the submission of tenders (12 noon, Brussels time):
             — first deadline: 7.9.1999
             — second deadline: 21.9.1999
         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 IV.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.