CELEX: 31976D0840
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22 October 1976 relating to the urgent supply of common wheat flour as food aid to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees

.6 . 11 . 76                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 304/31
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 22 October 1976
               relating to the urgent supply of common wheat flour as food aid to the United
                                             Nations High Commission for Refugees
                                           (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                             (76/840/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Community market of 3 311 metric tons of common
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         wheat flour for delivery to the United Nations High
                                                                      Commission for Refugees.
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                                  2. In concluding the private contract, the OBEA
                                                                      must seek the least onerous terms possible.
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                   3 . The contract shall be for the purchase and .
 tion of the market in cereals ( 1), as last amended by               supply of the products delivered to the quay or on
 Regulation (EEC) No 1 143/76 (2),                                    lighter at the port of Danang.
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2750/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down the condi­                    4.     The product shall be delivered in new 50 kg
                                                                      cotton sacks .
 tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid (3), and
 in particular Article 6 thereof,
                                                                      The sacks shall be marked by printing :
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      ' Farine de froment/ Don de la Communauté écono­
 696/76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation
 (EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization proce­                   mique européenne au haut commissariat des Nations
 dures for cereals to be supplied as food aid (4),                    unies pour les réfugiés au bénéfice des populations du
                                                                      Vietnam '.
 Whereas on 25 March 1976 the Council of the Euro­
 pean Communities declared that it proposed by way
 of Community action, to grant 3 311 metric tons of                                          Article 2
 common wheat flour to the United Nations High
 Commission for Refugees under its 1975/76 food-aid                   The product referred to in Article 1 must meet the
 programme ;                                                          following standards :
 Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it                — moisture content : maximum 14% ,
 is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual
                                                                      — protein content : minimum 10-5% (N x 6-25 of
 agreement ;
                                                                           dry matter),
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                   — ash content : maximum 0-52 % of dry matter.
 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 ment Committee for Cereals,                                           If the product does not meet these requirements it
                                                                       shall be refused .
  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                              Article 3
                              Article 1                                1 . A security of a value of 10 units of account per
                                                                       metric ton shall be given by the party concerned on
  1 . In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­                  the signature of the contract. It shall be released on
  tion (EEC) No 696/76 of 25 March 1976 the Office                     the completion of the operations in question within
 beige de l'économie et de l'agriculture (OBEA), 82, rue               the time limit laid down and also for those quantities
  de Trèves, 1040 Bruxelles (intervention agency) shall                not realised due to force majeure.
  conclude a private contract for the purchase on the
                                                                       2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
 (') OJ   No L 281 , 1.11 . 1975, p . 1 .                              given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
 (*) OJ   No L 130, 19 . 5 . 1976, p . 1 .
 (J) OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p . 89 .                           issued by a credit institution conforming to criteria
 («) OJ   No L 83 , 30 . 3 . 1976, p. 8 .                              laid down by the Member State.
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                       Article 4                           The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­
                                                           tion provided for to the Commission as soon as it is
Shipment shall be carried out between 15 and 30            received together with a copy of the private contract.
November 1976 .
                       Article 5                                                 Article 6
The intervention agency shall request the interested       This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
party to specify the following information :               Belgium .
(a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of
    the quantities loaded, the quality of the products
                                                           Done at Brussels, 22 October 1976.
    and their packaging ;
(b) the date of the departure of the ships ; the
    expected date of arrival of the products at their                              For the Commission
    destination ;
                                                                                      P.J. LARDINOIS
(c) all possible contingencies which might occur
    during transportation of the products.                                      Member of the Commission