CELEX: 31976D0350
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19 March 1976 relating to the urgent supply of milled long grain rice as food aid to the Lebanese Republic

No L 91 / 26                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                6. 4. 76
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 19 March 1976
              relating to the urgent supply of muled long grain rice as food aid to the Leba­
                                                         nese Republic
                                                (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                          (76/350/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       2.     In concluding the private contract, Enterrisi
COMMUNITIES,                                                         must seek the least onerous terms possible.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                3 . The contract shall be for the purchase and
Economic Community,                                                  supply of the products delivered Beirut, that is at the
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/67/EEC                    moment when the goods are actually removed from
of 25 July 1967 on the common organization of the                    the ship's hold at the port of unloading.
market in rice (!), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 668/75 (2),                                                 4.     The product shall be packed in 50 kg new jute
                                                                     sacks .
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2750/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down the condi­                    The sacks shall be marked by printing :
tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid (3), and
in particular Article 6 thereof,                                      Riz — Don de la Communauté économique euro­
                                                                     péenne au Liban / À distribuer gratuitement.'
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
374/76 of 17 February 1976 derogating from Regula­
tion (EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization                                              Article 2
procedures for cereals to be supplied as food aid for
the benefit of the Lebanese Republic (4),                            The product referred to in Article 1 must meet the
                                                                     following requirements :
Whereas on 17 February 1976 the Council of the
European Communities declared that it proposed, by                   — moisture : 15% ,
way of Community action, to grant the equivalent of                  — broken rice : 5 % maximum,
 1 000 metric tons of husked rice (in other words, 690               —    chalky grains : 3 % maximum,
metric tons of long grain milled rice) to the Lebanese               —    grains striated with red : 3 % maximum,
Republic under its 1974/75 food-aid programme ;                      —    spotted grains : 1 % maximum,
                                                                     —    stained grains : 0-50 % maximum,
Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it                —    yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum,
is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual                 —    amber grains : 0-125 % maximum .
agreement ;
                                                                     Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused.
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
ment Committee for Cereals,                                                                   Article 3
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                      1 . A security of a value of 10 units of account per
                                                                      metric ton shall be given by the party concerned on
                                                                      the signature of the contract. It shall be released on
                             Article 1                                the completion of the operations in question within
                                                                      the time limit laid down and also for those quantities
 1 . In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­
                                                                      not realized due to force majeure.
 tion (EEC) No 374/76 of 17 February 1976, the Italian
 Rice Intervention Agency (Enterrisi), Piazza Pio XI, 1 ,             2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
 Milan, shall conclude a private contract for the                    given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
 purchase on the Community market of 690 metric                       issued by a credit institution conforming to the
 tons of milled long grain rice for delivery to the Leba­             criteria laid down by the Member State.
 nese Republic.
                                                                                              Article 4
(')  OJ No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .
(2)  OJ No  L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p. 18 .
O    OJ No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 89 ,                            Shipment shall be carried out between 25 and 30
  4) OJ No  L 45, 21 . 2. 1976, p. 8 .                                March 1976 .
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                        Article 5                                                Article 6
The intervention agency shall ask that the interested
party specifies the following information :                 This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
(a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
    the quantities loaded, the quality of the products
    and their packaging ;
(b) the date of the departure of the ships ; the
                                                            Done at Brussels, 19 March 1976 .
    expected date of arrival of the products at their
    destination ;
(c) all possible contingencies which might occur
    during transportation of the products.                                         For the Commission
The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
tion provided for to the Commission as soon as it is
received together with a copy of the private contract.                          Member of the Commission