CELEX: 31980D0617
Language: en
Date: 1980-06-10 00:00:00
Title: 80/617/EEC: Commission Decision of 10 June 1980 relating to the urgent supply of common wheat as food aid to the Republic of Kenya (Only the French text is authentic)

No L 171 /34                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                4. 7 . 80
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 10 June 1980
              relating to the urgent supply of common wheat as food aid to the Republic of
                                                               Kenya
                                                  (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                            (80/617 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                                Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                       1 . In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­
                                                                       tion (EEC) No 696/76 of 25 March 1976, the Office
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                     national interprofessionnel des céréales (ONIC), 21 ,
tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by                  avenue Bosquet, Paris 7e (intervention agency), shall
                                                                       conclude a private contract for the mobilization of
Regulation (EEC) No 1547/79 (*),
                                                                       1 000 tonnes of common wheat on the Community
                                                                       market for delivery to the Republic of Kenya.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2750/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down the condi­                      2. In concluding the private contract, ONIC must
tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid (3), and             seek the least onerous terms possible.
in particular Article 6 thereof,
                                                                       3 . The contract shall be for the supply of the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           product to the port of Rouen .
696/76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation
(EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization proce­                     4. The product referred to in paragraph 1 is to be
dures for cereals to be supplied as food aid (4),                      delivered in bulk to the port of shipment in the
                                                                       vicinity of the vessel . The goods must be set down at
Having regard to Council Regulation No 129 on the                      the place nominated by the recipient country or its
value of the unit of account and the exchange rates to                 agent, the timing of delivery being settled by the
be applied for the purposes of the common agricul­                     tenderer and the recipient country's agent.
tural policy (5 ), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC)
No 2543/73 (6), and in particular Article 3 thereof,
                                                                                                Article 2
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                           The common wheat referred to in Article 1 must be
Committee,
                                                                       of fair and sound merchantable quality and corres­
                                                                       pond at least to the standard quality for which the
Whereas on 28 May 1980 the Council of the Euro­                        intervention price is fixed except that the moisture
pean Communities declared that it proposed, by way                     content shall not exceed 14 % and that a maximum
of Community action , to grant 1 000 tonnes of                         of 3 % of sprouted grains and 1-5 % of miscellaneous
common wheat to the Republic of Kenya under its                        impurities shall be allowed .
 1979/80 food-aid programme ;
Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it                                           Article 3
is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual
agreement ;                                                            1 . A security of a value of 6 ECU per tonne shall
                                                                       be given by the party concerned on the signature of
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                     the contract. It should be released on the completion
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                      of the operations in question within the time limit
ment Committee for Cereals,                                            laid down and also for those quantities not realized
                                                                       due to force majeure.
(!) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2 ) OJ No L 188 , 26 . 7 . 1979 , p. 1 .                              2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
(3 ) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975 , p. 89 .                             given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
h) OJ No L 83, 30. 3. 1976, p. 8 .
(5) OJ No 106, 30 . 10 . 1962, p. 2553/62.                             issued by a credit institution conforming to the
 6) OJ No L 263 , 19 . 9 . 1973 , p . 1 .                              criteria laid down by the Member State .
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                        Article 4                                                  Article 6
Loading shall be carried out between 15 and 30 June
1980 .                                                       This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
                        Article 5
The intervention agency shall request the interested
party to supply the following information :                   Done at Brussels, 10 June 1980 .
(a) a statement giving details of the quantities loaded,
     the quality of the products ;
(b) the date of the departure of the ships.                                          For the Commission
The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­                                   Finn GUNDELACH
tion indicated to the Commission as soon as it is
received, together with a copy of the private contract.                                  Vice-President