CELEX: 31978D0448
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 28 April 1978 relating to the urgent supply of milled long grain rice as food aid to the League of Red Cross Societies

30 . 5 . 78                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 141 / 17
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 28 April 1978
              relating to the urgent supply of milled long grain rice as food aid to the League
                                                      of Red Cross Societies
                                                  (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                            (78/448/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         milled long grain rice for delivery to the League of
COMMUNITIES,                                                           Red Cross Societies . ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  2.    In concluding the private contract, Ente risi
Economic Community,                                                    must seek the least onerous terms possible.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­                        3 . The contract shall be for the purchase and
tion of the market in rice ('), as amended by Regula­                  supply of the products to be deposited on the quay, or
tion (EEC) No 709/78 (2),                                              in the lighter where applicable in one of the ports of
                                                                       unloading listed in the Annex hereto.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2750/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down the condi­                      4. The successful tenderer- shall deliver the product
tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid (3), and             specified in paragraph 1 in new jute sacks lined with
in particular Article 6 thereof,                                       cotton sacks of a net capacity of 50 kilograms.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                       On the sacks shall be printed :
696/76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation
(EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization proce­                     — a red cross, 15 x 15 cm (lots 1 , 2 and 3) and
dures for cereals to be supplied as food aid (4),
                                                                       — a red crescent 15 cm high with the points facing
Whereas on 31 January 1978 the Council of the Euro­                        to the left (lot 4)
pean Communities declared that it proposed, by way
of Community action, to grant the equivalent of                        as well as the following :
1 145-5 tonnes of husked rice (in other words, 790
tonnes of long grain milled rice) to the League of Red                 'Riz blanchi / Don de la Communauté économique
Cross Societies under its 1976/77 and 1977/ 78 food­                   européenne / Action de la ligue des sociétés de la
aid programmes ;                                                       Croix-Rouge / Pour distribution gratuite'.
Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it                  To allow for the possibility of re-bagging, the
is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual                   successful tenderer shall supply 2 % of new empty
agreement ;                                                            sacks, of the same quality as those containing the
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                     goods but with the printing followed by a capital
                                                                       letter ' R '.
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
ment Committee for Cereals,
                                                                                               Article 2
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                       The products referred to in Article 1 must meet the
                                                                       following requirements :
                              Article 1
                                                                       — moisture : 15% ,
1.     In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­                 — broken rice : 5 % maximum,
tion (EEC) No 696/76 of 25 March 1976, the Italian                     —   chalky grains : 5 % maximum ,
rice intervention agency (Ente risi), Piazza Pio XI, 1 ,               —   grains striated with red : 3 % maximum ,
Milan, shall conclude a private contract for the                       —   spotted grains : 1-5% maximum,
purchase on the Community market of 790 tonnes of                      —   stained grains : 1 % maximum,
                                                                       —   yellow grains : 0 050 % maximum ,
(■)  OJ  No L 166, 25 . 6. 1976, p. 1 .                                —   amber grains : 0-20 % maximum .
(2 ) OJ  No L 94, 8 . 4 . 1978 , p. 9 .
(3)  OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 1 1 . 1975 , p. 89 .
(4)  OJ  No L 83, 30 . 3 . 1976, p. 8 .                                Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused .
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                        Article J                            (c) all possible contingencies which might occui
                                                                 during transportation of the products.
 1 . A security of a value of 10 units of account    per
 tonne shall be given by the party concerned on      the     The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­
 signature of the contract. It shall be released on  the     tion provided for to the Commission as soon as it is
 completion of the operation in question within      the     received together with a copy of the private contract
 time limit laid down and also for those quantities  not
 realized due to force majeure.
                                                                                     Article 6
 2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee        As regards this tender, the intervention agency is auth­
issued by a credit institution conforming to the             orized to make an initial payment of 80 % of the
criteria laid down by the Member State.                      value of the quantity given in the bill of lading, on
                                                             presentation of that document and subject to the
                        Article 4                            taking of a security for an amount equal to the initial
                                                             payment.
Shipment shall be carried out between 1 5 and 30 May
 1978 .
                                                                                     Article 7
                        Article 5                            This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic .
The intervention agency shall ask that the interested
party provides the following information :
                                                             Done at Brussels, 28 April 1978 .
(a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
     the quantities loaded, the quality of the products
     and their packaging ;                                                             For the Commission
(b) the date of the departure of the ships ; the                                        Finn GUNDELACH
     expected date of arrival of the products at their
     destination :                                                                         Vice-President
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                    ANNEXE — ALLEGATO — ANHANG — BILAG — ANNEX — BIJLAGE
             Numéro du lot                  Port de débarquement           Tonnage à mettre en caf
             N. della partita                   Porto di sbarco         Tonnellaggio da consegnare cif
             Nr. des Loses                     Bestimmungshafen          Nach cif zu bringende Menge
            Partiets nummer                        Lossehavn                Mængde til levering cif
                No of lot                      Port of unloading                  Tonnage cif
            Nr. van de partij                  Haven van lossing        Cif aan te leveren hoeveelheid
                     1        Dakar (Sénégal)                                       100 t
                    2         Praia (Cap-Vert)                                        50 t
                    3         Kigali (Rwanda)                                       100 t
                    4         Nouakchott (Mauritanie)                               540 t