CELEX: 31973R2679
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2679/73 of the Commission of 1 October 1973 opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of common wheat flour as aid for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

No L 275/ 18                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            2. 10 . 73
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2679/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 1 October 1973
              opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of common wheat flour as
                                         aid for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas it is important that the Commission be
COMMUNITIES,                                                        informed without delay of the tenders submitted in
                                                                    response to the invitation and of those accepted by
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               the intervention agency ;
Economic Community ;
                                                                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                         are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                  ment Committee for Cereals,
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1346/73 (2) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
1 693/72 (3) of 3 August 1972 establishing the criteria
for the mobilization of cereals to be used as food aid,
and in particular Article 6 thereof ;
                                                                                            Article 1
Whereas on 14 May 1973 the Council of the Euro­
pean Communities declared that by way of Commu­                     1 . An invitation to tender shall be issued in respect
nity action it proposed to grant to the Hashemite                   of the supply of 3 311 metric tons of common wheat
Kingdom of Jordan the equivalent of 5 000 metric                    flour to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan by way of
tons of common wheat, in the form of flour, ie 3 311                Community food-aid action .
metric tons of common wheat flour, under its 1972/73
food-aid programme ;                                                2. The tendering procedure shall take place in the
                                                                    Kingdom of the Netherlands and shall be in respect
Whereas     examination      of the      state  of  the cereals
                                                                    of a single lot.
market in the Community indicates that the criteria
of Article 3 (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No                     3.    The goods shall be mobilized on the Commu­
1693/72 should be applied, and in particular that the               nity market.
goods should be purchased on the Community
market ;
                                                                    4.    Shipment shall be from a Community port.
Whereas the proposed invitation to tender should
relate to supply of the goods fob, ie up to the point at            5. The goods referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
which they are placed in the hold of the ship at the                supplied fob (that , is to say the successful tenderer
port of shipment ;                                                  shall place them in the hold of the ship at the port of
                                                                    shipment) in new cotton sacks of a maximum net
Whereas     the  contract     should      be   awarded  to  the     capacity of 50 kilogrammes .
tenderer who makes the best offer ;
                                                                    6.    The following shall be printed on the sacks :
Whereas it must be made clear who is to bear any
costs which arise in the event that for reasons of force            'Wheat flour — gift of the European Community'.
 majeure the operation in question is not completed
within the time stipulated ;
Whereas provision should be made for security to be                                         Article 2
given to guarantee fulfilment of obligations arising by
virtue of participation in the invitation to tender for              1.   The award of the contract shall take place on 12
the supply of goods to the Hashemite Kingdom of                     October 1973 .
Jordan ;
Whereas the Dutch intervention agency should in any                 2.    The closing date for submission of tenders shall
                                                                    be 12 October 1973 at 12 noon .
event be made responsible for organizing the invita­
tion to tender ;
                                                                    3.    The   notice of   invitation to tender  shall   be
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/ 67 .                           published in the Official Journal of the European
(2 ) OJ No L 141 , 28 . .5. 1973, p. 8 .                             Communities not less than 10 days before the closing
(3 ) OJ No L 178 , 5 . 8 . 1972, p. 3 .                             date for submission of tenders .
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                       Article 3                             Common wheat flour :
The contract shall be awarded to the tenderer who            — moisture content : 1 5 % maximum,
offers the most favourabe terms. If it appears, however,     — acidity : 4 ml NaOH/n maximum per 100 g (calcu­
that the tenders submitted do not reflect normal                 lated on the dry matter),
market prices and rates, the intervention agency may         — ash content : 0.7 % maximum on the dry matter.
cancel the invitation to tender.
                                                             If the goods referred to in Article 1 do not meet the
                       Article 4                             foregoing requirements they shall be rejected and the
                                                             successful tenderer shall be owner thereof.
If, because of delay in the provision of ships for
effecting transport by sea, the successful tenderer is       2. Tenders for supply to the Hashemite Kingdom
unable to deliver the goods fob on the date fixed in         of Jordan of the goods referred to in Article 1 must
the notice of invitation to tender, the costs resulting      relate to products with the following characteristics :
from such delay shall be borne by the intervention           Common wheat flour :
agency.
                                                             — moisture content : 1 5 % maximum,
                /      Article 5                             — acidity : 4 ml NaOH/n maximum per 100 g (calcu­
                                                                 lated on the dry matter),
1 . The successful tenderer shall give security in an        — ash content : 0.7 % maximum on the dry matter.
amount of 10 units of account per metric ton of
goods ; the purpose of such security is to guarantee                                  Article 7
performance of the operations specified in Articles 1
and 6. The security shall be forfeit if those operations     1 . The intervention agency of the Kingdom of the
are not carried out within the time stipulated, save as      Netherlands shall be responsible for organizing the
regards quantities not delivered for reasons of force        invitation to tender provided for by this Regulation .
majeure.                                                     2.    It shall forthwith communicate to the Commis­
2. The security referred to in paragraph 1 may be            sion the list of firms which have responded to the invi­
given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee        tations to tender, specifying the terms of each tender,
issued by a credit institution which satisfies the           together with the name and business name of the
criteria laid down by each Member State.                     successful tenderer.
                       Article 6                                                      Article 8
1 . The goods referred to in Article 1 which are to          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
be supplied to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan               publication in the Official Journal of the European
must meet the following requirements :                       Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 1 October 1973 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                           The President
                                                                      François-Xavier ORTOLI
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                                                    ANNEX
            Number of lot
                                                        Minimum rate of loading
                          Port from which consigned            per day          Tonnage fob
                1           Community ports              Customs of the port      3 311