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Language: en
Date: 1976-02-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 February 1976 concerning the sale of skimmed-milk powder in public storage to certain international organizations for supply to developing countries

27. 2. 76                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 52/37
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 17 February 1976
              concerning the sale of skimmed-milk powder in public storage to certain inter
                             national organizations for supply to developing countries
                                                (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                          (76/261 /EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                      Article 1
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        1 . The French and Luxembourg intervention agen­
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                   cies are authorized to sell skimmed-milk powder
of the market in milk and milk products (l), as last                according to the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    602/75 and under the terms laid down in the Annex.
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 740/75 (2), and in
particular Article 7 (5) thereof,
                                                                    2. By way of derogation from Article 8 (2) of Regula­
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 155/75 of 21                    tion (EEC) No 602/75, the international organizations
January 1975 (3) as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                  in question shall not be required to furnish a security
1960/75 (4), provides for the sale of skimmed-milk                  prior to taking delivery of the quantities of skimmed­
powder from public stocks for supply to developing                  milk powder indicated in the said Annex.
countries ;
Whereas the International Committee of the Red
                                                                    3 . By way of derogation from the first indent of
                                                                    Article 6 (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 602/75, conclu­
Cross and Caritas, as mentioned in Article 2 of                     sion of the contract of sale for the skimmed-milk
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 602/75 of 7 March                    powder mentioned in paragraph 1 shall not be subject
1975 laying down detailed rules for the sale of                     to the production of the certificate mentioned in
skimmed-milk powder in public storage for supply to                 Article 7 of the said Regulation.
developing countries (5), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 3193/75 (6), have submitted applica­
tions to the Commission totalling 90 metric tons of                                         Article 2
skimmed-milk powder for supply to certain deve­
loping countries ; whereas these applications should                This Decision is addressed to the French Republic
be granted and the intervention agencies should be                  and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
designated to supply the quantity requested ;
Whereas the international organizations in question
should be exempted from having to provide the secu­                 Done at Brussels, 17 February 1976.
rity referred to in Article 8 (2) and to provide, prior to
purchase, the undertaking specified in Article 7 of
Regulation (EEC) No 602/75 ;                                                                  For the Commission
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                                                Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No  L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .
(2) OJ  No  L 74, 22. 3 . 1975, p. 1 .
(J) OJ  No  L 19, 24. 1 . 1975, p. 3 .
(4) OJ  No  L 200, 31 . 7. 1975, p. 5.
(5) OJ  No  L 63, 8 . 3 . 1975, p. 18 .
(«) OJ  No  L 316, 6 . 12. 1975, p. 15.
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                                                           ANNEX
             Intervention
                                           International organization         Quantity    Country of
                agency                                                      (metric tons) destination
           French         Caritas                                                10       Rwanda
           Luxembourg     International Committee of the Red Cross ('Luxem­
                          bourg Red Cross")                                      80       Lebanon