CELEX: 31972D0431
Language: en
Date: 1972-12-19 00:00:00
Title: 72/431/EEC: Council Decision of 19 December 1972 on the financing by the Community of certain expenditure relating to food aid for the Republics of Upper Volta, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Chad

78                                  Official Journal of the European Communities
28.12.72                            Official Journal of the European Communities                    No L 291 /163
                                                COUNCIL DECISION
                                                 of 19 December 1972
            on the financing by the Community of certain expenditure relating to food
                   aid for the Republics of Upper Volta, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Chad
                                                      (72/43 1/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­                            cereals granted to the Republics of Mali, Niger,
TIES ,                                                          Senegal and Chad as food aid, under the 1971/72
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                    programme, Community finance shall extend
European Economic Community;                                    to expenditure covering:
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC)                       — carriage of the products to the frontier of
No 1703/721 of 3 August 1972, amending                              the country of destination;
Regulation (EEC) No 2052/69 as regards the                      — carriage of the products from the frontier
financing by the Community of expenditure                           of the country of destination to the places
arising out of the implementation of the Food                       of destination, such expenditure to be
Aid Convention of 1967 and laying down the                          covered in part by Community finance, in
rules for the financing by the Community of                         the form of payment to these countries of a
expenditure arising out of the Food Aid Con­                        standard contribution of 10 units of account
vention of 1971 , and in particular Articles 8 (1)                  per ton .
and 10 ( 1) thereof;
Having regard to the proposal from the Com­                                         Article 2
mission;
Whereas the Republic of Mali, Niger, Senegal                    Within the framework of the Community's
and Chad have informed the Community that                       food aid project concerning 5000 metric tons
as a result of particularly unfavourable climatic               of cereals granted to the Republic of Upper
conditions, the state of their food supplies and                Volta, under the 1971/72 programme, Com­
their economic and financial situation have
                                                                munity finance shall extend to expenditure
been gravely jeopardised; whereas therefore                     covering:
it appears necessary, in view of these difficul­
ties, for the Community to bear the cost of                     — for carriage of the whole of this quantity
carriage to distribution points of the quantities                   of the products to the frontier of the country
of products allocated to these countries under                      of destination;
the 1971/72 programme;                                          — the carriage of 2500 metric tons of the
Whereas the Republic of Upper Volta has also                        products from the frontier of the country
made known that it is in a similar plight;                          of destination to the places of destination,
whereas, therefore, it appears necessary that                       such expenditure to be covered in part by
the Community should also bear the cost of                          Community finance in the form of a pay­
the carriage to distribution points of the quanti­                  ment to that country of a standard con­
ties of products allocated to the Republic of                       tribution of 10 units of account per metric
Upper Volta under the 1971/72 programme;                            ton .
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :                                        Done at Brussels , 19 December 1972.
                        Article 1                                                         For the Council
                                                                                            The President
Within the framework of Community food
aid projects concerning 29 555 metric tons of                                              T. WESTERTERP
1   OJ No L 180 , 8.8.1972, p . 1 .