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Language: en
Date: 1973-04-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 23 March 1973 declaring that the conditions governing the mobilization of common wheat for a national food aid project are satisfied

17. 4 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 102/23
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 23 March 1973
              declaring that the conditions governing the mobilization of common wheat for
                                             a national food aid project are satisfied
                                                 (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                            (73/78/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
COMMUNITIES,                                                          are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                      ment Committee for Cereals :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                           HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the                                        Article 1
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) concerning the Acces­
sion of new Member States to the European Economic                    It is hereby declared that the conditions laid down in
Community and the European Atomic Energy                              Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 290/69 are satis­
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ;                    fied in connection with the national food aid project
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          which the French Republic intends to undertake
290/69 (4) laying down the criteria for mobilizing of                 during the month of April 1973, involving the supply
cereals intended as food aid, as amended by Regula­                   of 1 5 000 metric tons of common wheat which is to
tion (EEC) No 832/69 (5) and renewed by Regulation                    be mobilized out of stocks held by the French inter­
(EEC) Nos 2338 /69 (6) and 2046/70 (7), and in parti­                 vention Agency, with shipment to be made from the
cular Article 4 ( 1 ) thereof ;                                       port of Rouen .
Having regard to the communication from the French
Republic of 12 March 1973 informing the Commis­                                              Article 2
sion of its intention to supply food aid to the People's
Republic of Bangladesh within the framework of a                      This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
national project under the 1968 /69 programme of
food aid in the form of grain and to mobilize to this                 Done at Brussels, 23 March 1973 .
end 1 5 000 tons of wheat other than durum out of the
stocks of the Office National Interprofessionnel des                                            For the Commission
Cereales (ONIC) ;
                                                                                                    The President
Whereas the French intervention agency holds stocks
of common wheat ;                                                                              Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(•)  OJ No  117, 19 . 6. 1967, p . 2269/67.
(2)  OJ No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(3 ) OJ No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 .
(4)  OJ No  L 41 , 18 . 2. 1969 , p . 2.
(5)  OJ No  L 107, 6. 5. 1969 , p . 3 .
(6)  OJ No  L 298 , 25 . 11 . 1969 , p . 8 .
(7   OJ No  L 228 , 15 . 10 . 1970 , p . 1 .