CELEX: 31974R0210
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 210/74 of the Commission of 25 January 1974 opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of milled rice as food aid for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNWRA)

No L 22/ 38                           Official Journal of the European Communities                            26 . 1 . 74
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 210/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 25 January 1974
               opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of milled rice as food aid
                 for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNWRA)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas the Commission must be informed quickly
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    of the tenders submitted in response to the invitation
                                                                 and of those accepted by the intervention agency ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community ;                                            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                 are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/67/EEC               ment Committee for Cereals,
( ! ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organization of
 the market in rice, as last amended by the Act of
Accession (2) ;
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1693/72 (3) of 3 August 1972 laying down the condi­
tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid, and                                   Article 1
 in particular Article 6 thereof ;
                                                                  1 . Tenders are hereby invited for the supply to
Whereas on 16 July and 6 November 1973 the                       UNWRA, by way of Community action, of 2 412
Council of the European Communities declared that                metric tons of round-grained milled rice .
it proposed, by way of Community action, to grant the
equivalent of 2 955 metric tons and 157 metric tons              2. The tendering procedure shall take place in Italy
of husked rice , in other words, 2 412 metric tons of            in 2 lots. The products shall be mobilized on the
round-grained milled rice to UNWRA under its                     Community market. The products shall be loaded for
 1972/73 food aid programme ;                                    departure from the Community ports listed in Annex
                                                                 I.
Whereas analysis of the state of the Community rice
market indicates that the criteria of Article 3 (3) of           3 . The invitation to tender provided for in para­
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1693/72 should be                   graph 1 is for supply of products delivered cif that is
applied and that the products should be purchased on             to say, actually placed on the quay in one of the ports
the Community market ;                                           of unloading listed in Annex II .
Whereas the proposed invitation to tender should be              4. The successful tenderer shall deliver the product
for supply of the products cif, that is to say actually          specified in paragraph 1 cif to one of the ports listed
placed on the quay at the port of unloading ;
                                                                 in Annex II in new jute sacks of a net capacity of 50
Whereas the award under the invitation to tender
                                                                 kilogrammes.
must be made to the tenderer offering the best terms ;
                                                                 The following shall be printed on the sacks :
Whereas, should force majeure make it impossible to              'Milled rice — gift     of   the   European   Economic
complete the operation in question within the time               Community.'
limits specified, it must be made clear who is to bear
the liability for any resulting costs ;
                                                                                         Article 2
Whereas provision should be made for security to be
given for the purpose of guaranteeing that the obliga­            1 . The decision on tenders received in response to
tions arising by virtue of participation in the invita­          the invitation provided for in Article 1 shall be taken
tion to tender for supplies to UNWRA will be                     on 18 February 1974 .
fulfilled ;
                                                                 2.    The closing date for the submission of tenders
Whereas the Italian intervention agency should, in
                                                                 shall be 18 February 1974 at 12 noon .
any event, be made responsible for the tendering
procedure ;                                                      3.    The   notice  of  invitation  to tender  shall   be
(') OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .                              published in the Official Journal of the European
(2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.                            Communities not less than ten days before the closing
(3) OJ No L 178 , 5 . 8 . 1972, p. 3 .                           date for the submission of tenders .
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                        Article 3                            — stained grains : 0-50 % maximum,
                                                             — yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum ,
The contract shall be awarded to the tenderer offering       — amber grains : 0-125 % maximum .
the best terms .
                                                              Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused.
However, if the tenders submitted do not appear to            2. Tenders for supply to UNWRA of the round­
correspond to normal market prices and costs, the             grained milled rice referred to in Article 1 must relate
intervention agency may cancel the invitation to              to a product with the following characteristics :
tender.
                                                              — moisture : 1 5 % ,
                        Article 4                             — broken rice : 5 % maximum,
                                                              —    chalky grains : 3 % maximum ,
1 . The successful tenderer shall give security of a          —    grains striated with red : 3 % maximum,
value of 10 units of account per metric ton ; the secu­       —    spotted grains : 1 % maximum,
rity is intended to guarantee that the operations speci­      —    stained grains : 0-50 % maximum ,
fied in Article 1 are duly completed. The security            —    yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum,
shall be forfeit if those operations are not carried out      —    amber grains : 0-125 % maximum .
within the prescribed time limit, save as regards quan­
tities not delivered owing to force majeure.                                            Article 6
2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
                                                               1 . The Italian intervention agency shall be respon­
given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
                                                              sible for the operations relating to the invitations to
issued by a credit institution conforming to the
                                                              tender provided for by this Regulation .
criteria laid down by the Member State.
                                                              2.     It shall forthwith communicate to the Commis­
                         Article 5                            sion the list of firms which have responded to the invi­
                                                              tation to tender, specifying the terms of each tender,
 1 . The round-grained milled rice referred to in             together with the name and business name of the
Article 1 to be supplied to UNWRA must meet the               successful tenderer.
following requirements :
— moisture : 15% ,                                                                      Article 7
— broken rice : 5 % maximum ,
— chalky grains : 3 % maximum,                                This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
— grains striated with red : 3 % maximum ,                     publication in the Official Journal of the European
— spotted grains : 1 % maximum,                                Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 25 January 1974.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                             The President
                                                                        Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
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                                                     ANNEX 1
           Number of lot
                                                           Minimum rate of loading
                           Port from which consigned              per day               Tonnage fob
                1
                2        j Community ports                  Customs of the port
                                                                                     1 376 metric tons
                                                                                     1 036 metric tons
                                                     ANNEX U
           Number of lot        Port of unloading          Minimum rate of unloading     Tonnage cif
                                    Beyrouth             )                           1 376 metric tons
                2                   Ashdod               ^ Customs of the port       1 036 metric tons