CELEX: 31975R0611
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 611/75 of the Council of 4 March 1975 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1052/73 on the supply of sugar to UNRWA as food aid, pursuant to the Agreement with that agency of 18 December 1972

11 . 3 . 75                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 64/ 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 611 /75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                       of 4 March 1975
              amending Regulation (EEC) No 1052/73 on the supply of sugar to UNRWA as
                food aid, pursuant to the Agreement with that agency of 18 December 1972
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        tions to tender, no contract was awarded as a result of
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      this standing invitation, for want of tenderers ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas, in view of the sugar supply situation in the
 Economic Community ;                                              Community and the discouraging prospects for the
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;               1974/75 harvest, this situation is likely to persist ;
                                                                   whereas the sugar delivered to UNRWA in 1973/74 is
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­              exhausted ; whereas the present situation is such as to
 ment ;
                                                                   require the shipment as soon as possible of the quan­
Whereas the Agreement signed at Brussels on 1 8                    tity stipulated under the Agreement for 1974/75, as
 December 1972 ( 1 ) between the European Economic                 amended by the exchange of letters on 3 October
 Community and the United Nations Relief and                       1974(3);
Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near                    Whereas the Agreement does not specify the origin of
 East, hereinafter referred to as 'the Agreement',                 this sugar and consequently does not exclude the
 provides for the supply to UNRWA by the Commu­                    possibility of sugar being purchased on a market other
 nity over three sugar years of a quantity of white sugar          than the Community market ; whereas provision
 to be determined for each year ;                                  should therefore be made for allowing white sugar to
Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                   be purchased on the world market if necessary,
 1052/73(2) of 17 April 1973 on the supply of sugar to
 UNRWA as food aid pursuant to the Agreement with                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 that agency of 18 December 1972, provides that a
 quantity of white sugar produced and in free circula­                                       Article 1
 tion in the Community is to be placed at the disposal
of UNRWA ; whereas for the 1974/75 sugar year                      A third subparagraph shall be added to Article 1 ( 1 ) of
 6 094 metric tons are involved ;                                  Regulation (EEC) No 1052/73 , as follows :
Whereas an invitation to tender was opened on 7                         ' If the white sugar is not available on the Commu­
August 1974 for the emergency supply of a first quan­                   nity market on normal terms, it may be obtained
 tity of 1 000 metric tons of white sugar in two lots ;                 by purchase on the world market.'
whereas in view of the lack of tenderers no contract
                                                                                             Article 2
was awarded ; whereas on 18 September 1974 a
standing invitation to tender for the supply of a total            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
quantity of 6 094 metric tons of white sugar in two                following its publication in the Official Journal of
lots was opened ; whereas, despite six partial invita­             the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 4 March 1975 .
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                   J. KEATING
(') OJ No L 304, 31 . 12. 1972, p. 24.
(2) OJ No L 105, 20 . 4. 1973 , p . 1 .                            0 ) OJ No L 328 , 7. 12. 1974, p. 42.