CELEX: 31976R2075
Language: en
Date: 1976-08-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2075/76 of 20 August 1976 concerning the invitation to tender for the supply of butteroil to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as food aid for the people of Vietnam

No L 233/ 12                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            24. 8 . 76
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2075 /76
                                                        of 20 August 1976
              concerning the invitation to tender for the supply of butteroil to the Office of
              the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as food aid for the people
                                                            of Vietnam
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Regulation (EEC) No 578/76 (7) ; whereas it is still
COMMUNITIES,                                                        necessary to add a number of details, particularly as
                                                                    regards the time limit for the submission of tenders
                                                                    and the terms of supply ;
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 (EEC) No                        ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1542/75 of 16
                                                                                               Article 1
June 1975 on the supply of milk fats as food aid to
certain developing countries and international organi­
zations under the            1975 food-aid programme (3),            1 . Tenders are hereby invited pursuant to Regula­
provides for a reserve of 4 550 metric tons of butteroil             tions (EEC) No 1541 /75, (EEC) No 1542/75 and
obtained from butter held by intervention agencies ;                 (EEC) No 1527/76, for the manufacture and delivery
whereas, according to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    of 600 metric tons of butteroil to UNHCR for
 1527/76 of 21 June 1976 on the emergency supply of                  Vietnam and divided into two lots of 300 metric tons .
butteroil to the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations                     2. Subject to the special provisions contained here­
Children's Fund as food aid for the people of Vietnam                inafter, the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No
under Regulation (EEC) No 1 542/75 (4), 600 metric                   2247/75 shall apply by analogy to the tendering proce­
tons to be set aside from this reserve shall be allocated            dure and to the terms for manufacture and delivery of
to the Office of the United Nations High Commis­                     the butteroil .
sioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for the benefit of the
people of Vietnam ; whereas UNHCR has requested
the delivery of the abovementioned quantity for this                                           Article 2
destination ;
                                                                      1.    The butter which is to be manufactured into
Whereas Article 5 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No                    butteroil shall be removed from the premises of the
 1541 /75 of 16 June 1975 laying down general rules                  German intervention agency.
for the supply of milk fats as food aid to certain deve­
loping countries and international organizations under               2. The quality and packaging of the butteroil shall
the 1975 food-aid programme (5 ), requires tenders to                satisfy the requirements laid down in the Annex to
be invited for such supplies ;                                       Regulation (EEC) No 2247/75 ; it shall be put exclu­
                                                                     sively in 5 kg canisters.
Whereas the tendering procedure is effected following
the provisions of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                     3 . The words to be printed on the packaging, as
2247/75 of 29 August 1975 concerning invitations to                  provided in Chapter II 2 (b) of the abovementioned
 tender for the costs of manufacture and delivery of                 Annex, shall be the following :
 butteroil as food aid to certain developing countries
and to the World Food Programme (6), as amended by                   ' Butteroil / Don de la Communauté économique euro­
                                                                      péenne à l'UNHCR en faveur du peuple du Vietnam .'
(') OJ  No L  148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .
(2) OJ  No L  67, 15. 3 . 1976, p. 9 .                                4.    The time limit for the submission of tenders
(3) OJ  No L  157, 19. 6. 1975, p. 6.                                shall be 7 September 1976.
(4) OJ  No L  170 , 29 . 6 . 1976, p. 1 .
(5) OJ  No L  157, 19 . 6. 1975, p. 4.
(0) OJ  No L  229, 30 . 8 . 1975 , p. 60 .                             7) OJ No L 69, 15 . 3 . 1976, p. 16 .
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                         Article 3                                                    Article 4
1.     Delivery shall be cif Ho-Chi-Minh-Ville.               1 . The intervention agency concerned shall notify
                                                             the recipient organization of the date of loading, the
2.     Shipment shall take place as soon as possible         quantity and quality of the goods as recorded at the
and not later than 10 October 1976 .
                                                             time of loading and the port of unloading.
3.     Delivery cif shall be deemed to take place when       2. The successful tenderer shall inform the recip­
the goods are actually set down on the quayside at the       ient organization at least 10 clear days in advance of
port of unloading or on lighters where the latter            the expected date of arrival at the port of ship's
method is used .
                                                             unloading.
4. On cif delivery, the destined organization shall          The successful tenderer shall include in the terms of
issue to the successful tenderer a taking over letter        the charter-party a provision stipulating that the ship's
which replaces the certificate specified in Article 15 of    captain shall , at least 72 hours in advance, notify the
Regulation (EEC) No 2247/75 .                                country of destination of the ship's probable date of
5. The recipient organization shall be responsible           arrival in port .
for all expenditure incurred after delivery, including
                                                                                      Article 5
acceptance costs .
Any demurrage costs at the port of unloading due to          By way of derogation from Article 4 (2) of Regulation
delays for which the recipient organization is respon­       ( EEC) No 2247/75, the tenderer shall indicate if his
sible shall be borne by that country.                        tender is valid for one or both lots put up for tender.
The rates and conditions of such demurrage to be laid                                 Article 6
down in the contract between the successful tenderer
and the carrier must be agreed in advance between the        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
successful tenderer acting as agent for the Community        following its publication in the Official Journal of
and the receiving agent of the recipient organization .       the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
               Done at Brussels, 20 August 1976.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                         P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                   Member of the Commission