CELEX: 31984R3576
Language: en
Date: 1984-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3576/84 of 18 December 1984 on the supply of maize to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) as food aid

20. 12. 84                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 332/31
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3576/84
                                                       of 18 December 1984
               on the supply of maize to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
                                                      (UNHCR) as food aid
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Community measures, various quantities of cereals to
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        certain   non-member       countries   and    beneficiary
                                                                     organizations ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                                Whereas it is necessary to provide for the carrying out
                                                                     of this measure in accordance with the rules laid down
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1974/80 of 22
 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­                   July 1980 laying down general implementing rules in
zation of the market in cereals ('X as last, amended by             respect of certain food-aid operations involving cereals
 Regulation (EEC) No 1018/84 (2),                                   and rice (8), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     3323/81 (') ; whereas it is necessary to specify, for the
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        purposes of the Community measures envisaged, the
 2750/75 of 29 October 1975 fixing criteria for the                  characteristics of the products to be supplied and the
 mobilization of cereals intended as food aid (3), as               supply conditions ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3331 /82 (4), and in
 particular Article 6 thereof,                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                    are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        Committee for Cereals,
 1278/84 of 7 May 1984 laying down the implementing
 rules for 1984 for Regulation (EEC) No 3331 /82
concerning food-aid policy and food-aid manage­                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
ment (*),
                                                                                             Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation No 129 of 23
October 1962 on the value of the unit of account and                The intervention agency specified in the Annex hereto
 the exchange rates to be applied for the purposes of               shall implement the mobilization and supply
the common agricultural policy (*), as last amended by              procedures in accordance with the provisions of Regu­
Regulation (EEC) No 2543/73 Q, and in particular                    lation (EEC) No 1974/80 and with the conditions laid
Article 3 thereof,                                                  down in the Annex hereto.
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                                                 Article 2
Committee,
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
Whereas on 21 November 1984 the Commission of                       following its publication in the Official Journal of the
the European Communities decided to grant, under                    European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 18 December 1984.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 Poul DALSAGER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
O   OJ  No  L 107, 19. 4. 1984, p. 1 .
 3) OJ  No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 89.
(4) OJ  No  L 352, 14. 12. 1982, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L 124, 11 . 5. 1984, p. 1 .
(*) OJ  No  106, 30. 10. 1962, p. 2553/62.                          (') OJ No L 192, 26. 7. 1980, p. 11 .
0   OJ  No  L 263, 19 . 9. 1973, p. 1 .                             0 OJ No L 334, 21 . 11 . 1981 , p. 27.
 ---pagebreak--- No L 332/32                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                  20 . 12. 84
                                                           ANNEX
            1 . Programme : 1984
            2. Recipient : UNHCR
            3. Place or country of destination : Ethiopia
            4. Product to be - mobilized : maize
            5. Total quantity : 5 000 tonnes
            6. Number of lots : one
            7. Intervention agency responsible for conducting die procedure :
                 Office national interprofessionnel des ceréales (ONIC), 21 , avenue Bosquet, Paris 7e (telex
                 OFIBLE 200 490 F)
            8. Method of mobilizing the product : the Community market
            9. Characteristics of die goods :
                (a) maize for human consumption, of sound merchantable quality, free of odour and pests
                (b) moisture content : 1 5 %
                (c) total percentage of matter other than basic cereals of unimpaired quality : $ %, of which :
                    — percentage of broken grains : 2 % ("broken grains' means pieces of grain or grains which
                        pass through a sieve with a circular mesh 4,5 mm in diameter)
                    — percentage of grain impurities : 2 % fgrain impurities' means grains of other cereals,
                        grains damaged by pests and grains of abnormal coloration, the latter being grains which
                         have acquired through heating a darkish brown colour on a fairly substantial part of the
                        tegument and of the kernel and are not damaged grains)
                    — percentage of sprouted grains : 0,5 % \
                    — percentage of miscellaneous impurities : 0,5 % ("miscellaneous impurities' consist of weed
                        seeds, damaged grains, extraneous matter, husks, dead insects and fragments of insects)
          10. Packaging :
                — in new bags :
                    — jute sacks of a minimum weight of 600 g, or
                    — polypropylene sacks of a minimum weight of 120 g
                 — net weight of the bags : 50 kg
                 — marking on the bags in letters at least 5 cm high :
                     'MAIZE / GIFT OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY TO UNHCR
                     PROGRAMME OF ASSISTANCE IN ETHIOPIA / FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION /
                     DJIBOUTI'
          11 . Port of shipment : a Community port
          12. Delivery stage : cif
          13. Port of landing : Djibouti
          14. Procedure to be applied in order to determine supply costs : tendering
          15. Deadline for the submission of tenders : 12 noon on 8 January 1985
          16. Shipment period : 20 January to 20 February 1985
          17. Security : 6 ECU per tonne
          Notes : .
          1 . The successful tenderer shall forward, through the intermediary of the intervention agency, to the
               recipient on the latter's request and in accordance with his instructions the documents necessary
               for importation of the goods into the country of destination.
          2. Since the goods may be rebagged, the successful tenderer must provide 2 % of empty bags of the
               same quality as those containing the goods, with the marking followed by a capital 'R'.
          3. The successful tenderer shall send a copy of the shipping documents to the following address :
               Commission Delegation in Ethiopia, c/o 'Diplomatic Bag', Berlaymont 1 / 123, 200, rue de la Loi,
                B-1049 Brussels.