CELEX: 31974D0640
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 17 December 1974 concerning the financing by the Community of certain expenditure on food aid supplied to the countries of the Sahel and Ethiopia under the 1974/75 programme

28 . 12. 74                          Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 349/ 59
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                                        (Acts ivhose publication is not obligatory)
                                                    COUNCIL
                                                 COUNCIL DECISION
                                                  of 17 December 1974
              concerning the financing by the Community of certain expenditure on food aid
              supplied to the countries of the Sahel and Ethiopia under the 1974/75
                                                       programme
                                                       (74/640/ EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                       Sole Article
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                             For the purpose of the Community's food-aid activi­
                                                                 ties in respect of Upper Volta, Mali, Mauritania, Niger,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     Senegal , Chad, Gambia and Ethiopia under the
 1703/72 0 of 3 August 1972 amending Regulation                  1974/7.5 Food Aid Programme Community financing
(EEC) No 2052/69 concerning the financing by the                 shall extend to the cost of delivering the products to
Community of expenditure resulting from the imple­               the points of destination . This financing can be met,
mentation of the Food Aid Convention of 1967 and
                                                                 if the agreement so provides, in the form of a
fixing the Regulations for the financing by the                  lump-sum contribution .
Community of expenditure arising from the imple­
mentation of the 1971 Food Aid Convention , and in
particular Article 8(1 ) and Article 10(1 ) thereof ;            Done at Brussels, 17 December 1974 .
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                                                              For the Council
Whereas , in view of the critical situation that con­
tinues to exist in the Sahel countries and Ethiopia, the                                       The President
Community should bear the costs of delivering food
aid in the form of cereals to the points of destination ,                                     M. DURAFOUR
(') OJ No L 180 , 8 . 8 . 1972, p. 1