CELEX: 51974PC2269
Language: en
Date: 1975-01-08
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OP THE COUNCIL amending Regulation (EEC) NO 1052/73 on the supply of sugar to UNWRA as food aid pursuant to the Agreement with that Agency dated 18 December 1972 (submitted to the Council by the Commission

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                    COM(74) 2269 final
                                                    Brussels . 8 January 1975
                            PROPOSAL FOR A
                  REGULATION ( EEC ) OP THE COUNCIL
amending Regulation (EEC) NO 1052/73 on the supply of sugar to UNWRA
           as food aid pursuant to the Agreement with that
                    Agency dated 18 December 1972
            ( submitted to the Council by the Commission
COM(74) 2269 final
 ---pagebreak---                               EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
            The Community has undertaken , under the three-year Agreement - ( 1 )
   between the European Economic Community and the United Nations Relief and
   Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East , to deliver 6 09^ metric
   tons of sugar td the Agency between July 197^ and June 1975-
            Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1052/73 ( 2 ) of 17 April 1973 on the supply
   of sugar to UNRWA ae food aid pursuant to the Agreement with that Agency
   dated 18 December 1972 provides that this aid is to take the form of
   "white sugar , produced and in free circulation in the Community".
            An invitation to tender for the supply of 'such sugar was issued in
 . August 197^ but , in spite of seven successive invitations , no' tenders were
   submitted . Sugar harvests being at present extremely poor it seems unlikely
   that traders will show a greater interest in the near future .
            As a result of this situation , UNRWA , which has already had to reduce
   its sugar aid by half , will by the end of the . year have exhausted its supplies
   and will therefore no longer be able to distribute sugar os provided in its
   refugee aid programme . The Community is virtually the sole supplier of the
                  S
. sugar thus distributed .
            A solution to this problem must be found as quickly as possible . In
   view of the general sugar situation , the only means by which the Community
   ca» fulfil its undertaking to UNRWA would seem at present to be by purchasing
   sugar on the world market .    >            ,                  „
   ( 1 ) OJ No L 3Ô4 , 31 December 1972
   ( 2 ) OJ No L 105 » 20 April 1973-
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                         -2–
       In order for it to do so , Article 1 (1) of the aforesaid
Council Regulation will need to Toe amended . This is the object of
this proposal .
       The finanoial implications of this proposal are shown in the
attached annex.
 ---pagebreak---                       FINAJJCIAL AMEX
I. COST OF OPERATION
          1                                                      uc
Value of basio produot at world, prioe       6094 x 865 ( l ) 5 271 310
Transport changes                            6094 x  50         304 700
                                                              5 576 010
II . BUDGET CHARGE
1 . 1975 Budget , item 9220 :       2 381 659 uo
The item in question carries a " p.m" and will "be funded by a transfer
inside chapter 92 of the amount needed . The Commission will arrange this
transfer after approval of the regulation "by the Counoil *
2 . 1974 budget , item 9040 :       3 194 351 uc
Amount available at end 1974 which the Commission will ask the Council
to carry forward . In view of the urgenoy of delivery, this carry forward
will have to be examined by the Counoil and the Parliament on a priority
basis .
( l ) spot price 13 Jan. 1975
 ---pagebreak---                                      Proposai for a
                      REGULATION ( EEC )               OF THE COUNCIL
           amending Regulation ( EEC ) NO 1052/73 on the supply of sugar
           to UNWRA as food aid pursuant to the Agreement with that
           Agency dated 18 Deoember 1972
 THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Havin'g regard to the Treaty establishing the European Eoonomio Community;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ;           ^
Whereas the Agreement oonoluded on 18 December 1972 between the European
Economic Community and the United Nations Relief and Works Agenoy for'
Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA) - hereinafter referred to as
" the Agreement" - provides for the supply to UNWRA by the Community over
three sugar years of a quantity of white sugar to be determined for each
year ;
              V ,
Whereas Artiole 1 of Counoil Regulation ( EEC ) No 1052/73 of 17 April 1973
on the supply of sugar to UNWRA as food aid pursuant to the Agreement with
that agency dated 18 December 1972 provides that a quantity of white sugar
produced and in free circulation in the Community is to be placed at the
disposal of UNWRA as food aid in accordance with the Agreement ; whereas
for the 1974/75 sugar year 6 094 me trio tone of white sugar is involved ;
   OJ No . L 304 , 31 December 1972 . p . 24 »
2 OJ No . L 105 , 20 April 1973» p. 1 .
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 ---pagebreak---   Whereas , an invitation to tender was opened on 7 August 1974 for the emergency
   supply of a first quantity of 1 000 metric tons of white sugar in two lots ;
   whereas in view of the lack of tenderers no oon tract was awarded 5 whereas the
   Community opened a standing invitation to tender on 18 September 1974 for the
: supply of a total quantity of 6 094 metric tons of white sugar in two lots ;
   whereas , in spite of six partial invitations to tender no contract was awarded
   as a result of this standing invitation either , for want of tenderers }
  Whereas , in view of the Bugar supply situation in the Community and the
 disoouraging prospects for the 1974/75 harvest , this situation is likely
 to persist ; whereas the sugar delivered to UNWRA in 1973/74 is exhausted ;
 whereas the present situation is suoh as to require the shipment as soon as
 possible of the quantity stipulated for 1974/75 wider the Agreement , as
 amended by an exchange of letters pursuant to the Counoil Decision of
 22 July 1974 }
 Whereas the Agreement does not specify the origin of thiB sugar and consequently
 does not exclude the possibility of Bugar being purchased on a market other
 than the Community market ; whereas provision should therefore be made for
 allowing white eug*ar to be purchased if neoessary on the world market :
 HA3 ADOPTED THXS REGULATION î
                s..                Article 1
The following subparagraph is added to Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC )
Ko IO52/731
    «t
       "If the requisite white augur iB not available on the Community market
        on normal terms it msy be obtained, by purchase on the world market ".
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 ---pagebreak---                              Artide 2
                                            1
 This Regulation Bhall enter into force on the third day following its
publioation in the Offioial Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be "binding in its entirety and direotly applicable
in all Member States *
Done at Brussels .            1974                 For the Counoil
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