CELEX: 21975A0307(06)
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Chad on the supply of common wheat, sorghum and Maize as food aid

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                                                     AGREEMENT
             between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Chad on the supply
                                 of common wheat, sorghum and maize as food aid
              THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
              of the one part,
              THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHAD ,
              of the other part,
              HAVE DECIDED to conclude this Agreement, and to this end have designated as their Pleni­
             potentiaries :
             THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES :
              THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHAD :
              WHO HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS :
                         Article 1                                                      Article IV
As part of its food-aid programme (cereals ) for 1973 /         The country of destination undertakes to make all
74, the European Economic Community, hereinafter                necessary arrangements 'for the transport and
referred to as the ' Community', shall supply the               insurance of the product from the places of destina­
Republic of Chad, hereinafter referred to as the                tion onward .
'country of destination', by way of gift, with 5 000
metric tons of common wheat, 3 000 metric tons of
sorghum and 2 000 metric tons of maize.
                                                                                        Article V
                         Article II                             The country of destination undertakes to use the
                                                                product received as aid for purposes of consumption
                                                                and to distribute it free of charge to people in need.
Deliveries will be made in new jute sacks, each
having a net weight of 50 kg, to places of destination
fixed by common agreement by the country of
destination and the Community.                                                          Article VI
                                                                The Contracting Parties undertake to implement this
                        Article 111                             Agreement in such a way as to avoid any prejudice
                                                                to the normal structure of domestic production and
The obligations and responsibilities of the European            international trade. To this end they shall take any
Economic Community and of the country of                        measures required to ensure that aid supplies are in
destination relating to delivery and the taking of              addition to, and do not replace, commercial
delivery are defined in the Annex, which forms an               transactions which might reasonably be expected in
integral part of this Agreement.                                the absence of such supplies.
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                        Article VII                                                     Article IX
The country of destination shall take all appropriate           The country of destination shall take all appropriate
measures to prevent :                                           steps to enable those persons duly authorized by the
                                                                Community to make on the spot observations of the
— the re-export of the product received as aid and              operations connected with the implementation of the
    of products and by-products resulting from such             Agreement.
     supplies ;
— the export, commercially or otherwise, within six
    months of the last delivery, either of local produce
     of the same nature as that received as aid or of                                   Article X
     any products or by-products resulting from it.
                                                                At the request of either of them, the Contracting
                        Article VIII                            Parties shall consult each other on any questions
                                                                concerning the implementation of this Agreement.
The country of destination undertakes to inform the
Community of the mode of implementation of this
Agreement. To this end it shall provide the                                             Article XI
Commission of the European Communities with the
following information every three months until the
products received as aid have been fully used up :              This Agreement shall be drawn up in duplicate in
quantities distributed, the number and type of the              the Danish, Dutch, English, French, German ai>d
beneficiaries, places and method oif distribution.              Italian languages, each of these texts being authentic.
                                                          ANNEX
                                     DELIVERY AND ACCEPTANCE PROCEDURES
                          Article 1                                                      Article 3
Delivery shall be effected and all risk shall pass from         The Community shall inform the country of destination
the Community to the country of destination at the              of the expected date of arrival of the products at the
moment at which the goods actually arrive at the place          place of destination in good time before that date. It
of destination .                                                shall confirm that date at least two days in advance.
The country of destination shall bear all costs for taking
                                                                                          Article 4
delivery of the products, any transhipment costs and all
other costs subsequent to delivery.
                                                                 On delivery, an allowance of 5 °/o less than the quantity
                                                                laid down under Article I of the Agreement shall be
Any costs resulting from delays in taking delivery which        permitted.
are attributable to the country of destination shall be
borne by the latter.
                                                                                          Article 5
                          Article 2                              To implement this Annex, the Community shall appoint
                                                                 an authorized agent, whose name and address it shall
 The Community shall notify to the country of destination,       make known in good time to the country of destination.
 as soon as possible, the means of transport to be used to
 carry the products to the place of destination, the means       The country of destination shall appoint a receiving
 of shipment to- be used during the intermediary phases,         agent at each place of delivery, whose name and address
 the date of loading and the quantity and quality of the         it shall make known to the Community before the
 products as recorded on shipment from the Community.            Agreement is implemented.
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                       Article 6                              certificate of receipt, which shall set out the place and
                                                              date of receipt, the nature and the quantity of the goods
                                                              received, together with any comments on the quality of
On delivery of the goods the country of destination           those goods. A copy of the certificate shall be sent to the
shall hand to the authorized agent of the Community a         Commission of the European Communities.
             Information on the signing of the Agreement between the European Economic Community
                              and the Republic of Chad on the supply of food aid
             The Agreement between the European Economic Community and Chad on the supply
             of common wheat, sorghum and maize as food aid which the Council decided to
             conclude on 17 December 1974, was signed in Brussels on 18 December 1974, on behalf
             of the Council of the European Communities by :
             Mr Etienne Burin des Roziers, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,
             Chairman of the Permanent Representatives Committee, and
             Mr Hans-Broder Krohn, Director-General for Development and Cooperation at the
             Commission of the European Communities,
             and on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Chad by :
             Mr Ehmir Torna, First Counsellor, Charge d'affaires a.i. in the Representation of the
             Government of Chad to the European Economic Community.