CELEX: 31973R3582
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3582/73 of the Council of 28 December 1973 laying down general rules for the supply of skimmed-milk powder as food aid to the countries of the Sahel and Ethiopia

No L 359 /50                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              28 . 12. 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 3582/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 28 December 1973
              laying down general rules for the supply of skimmed-milk powder as food aid to the
                                               countries of the Sahel and Ethiopia
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                                                Article 1
European Economic Community ;                                        14 000 metric tons of skimmed-milk powder shall be
                                                                    put at the disposal of the countries listed below and
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/                   allocated as follows :
68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
of the market in milk and milk products, as last                            Upper Volta           2 600  metric tons
                                                                            Mali                  2 900  metric tons
 amended by the Act (2 ) concerning the conditions of
                                                                            Mauritania            2 000  metric tons
 Accession and the adjustments to the Treaties,
and in particular Article 6 (6) thereof;                                    Niger                  3 200 metric tons
                                                                            Chad                     800 metric tons
                                                                            Ethiopia               2 500 metric tons
Having     regard      to   the      proposal      from    the
Commission ;                                                                                Article 2
                                                                    To meet the objectives mentioned in Article 1 , the
Whereas the countries of the Sahel and Ethiopia                     labelling, the transport of the skimmed-milk powder
have made known their requirements as regards                       to distribution points and, where applicable, the
skimmed-milk powder;                                                supply of the vitamins to be added to the milk shall
                                                                    be financed by the Community.
Whereas it will not be possible to dispose, on
normal terms during the 1973/74 milk year, of the                                           Article 3
quantities of skimmed-milk powder held by                           Transportation up to the cif stage shall normally be
intervention agencies ; whereas 14 000 metric tons                  covered by a tendering procedure; however, in
of this product can be granted as food aid ;                        exceptional cases, resort can be made to a procedure
                                                                    of mutual agreement.
Whereas to      enable effective and as efficient as
                                                                                            Article 4
possible use to be made of the                 aid, provision
should be made for the financing              of the cost of        Transportation from the cif stage to the distribution
transportation to the distribution           points and, if         points shall normally be covered by a tendering
necessary, the cost of supplying the          vitamins to be        procedure, or, if necessary, by recourse to a
added to the milk;                                                  procedure of mutual agreement.
                                                                    Exceptionally, the cost of this transportation stage
Whereas the transportation of skimmed-milk                          shall be wholly or partially paid to the recipient
powder, resort should normally be made to the                       countries, in the form of a cash contribution, if
tendering procedure, by competition amongst                         provided for in the supply agreement.
interested     undertakings         established      in    the
                                                                                            Article 5
Community ; whereas, however, for the sake of
flexibility and speed it might be desirable, in                     This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
exceptional cases, to resort to a procedure of mutual               day following its publication in the Official Journal
agreement,                                                          of the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 28 December 1973 .
                                                                                   For the Council
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                   Ove GULDBERG
(*) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .
(2 ) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.