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Language: en
Date: 1978-08-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 7 July 1978 relating to the urgent supply of maize as food aid to Mali

9 . 8 . 78                                Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 218 / 19
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                           of 7 July 1978
                              relating to the urgent supply of maize as food aid to Mali
                                                  (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                            (78/650/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        2.    The ONIC shall seek the best terms possible for
COMMUNITIES,                                                          its contract.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 3.    The contract shall be for purchase and delivery
Economic Community,                                                   to :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          — Bamako via Dakar or Abidjan (3 000 tonnes),
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                    — Gao via Abidjan (2 000 tonnes).
tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1 254/78 (2),                                     4. The product specified in paragraph 1 shall be
                                                                      delivered in new sacks of a net capacity of 50 kilo­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          grams .
2750/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down the condi­
tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid (3), and
                                                                      Minimum weight of the sacks shall be 600 grams. The
in particular Article 6 thereof,                                      following shall be printed on the sacks :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          'Maïs / Don de la Communauté économique euro­
696/76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation                    péenne au Mali'.
(EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization proce­
dures for cereals to be supplied as food aid (4),
                                                                      To allow for re-bagging, the contractor shall supply
Whereas on 30 January 1978 the Council of the Euro­
                                                                      2 % of new empty sacks, of the same quality as those
                                                                      containing the goods but with the inscription printed
pean Communities declared that it proposed by way                     thereon followed by the capital letter 'R'.
of Community action to grant 5 000 tonnes of maize
to Mali under its 1977/78 food-aid programme ;
Whereas, in view of the need to provide the aid                                              Article 2
rapidly, it is necessary that the operation be carried
out under private contract ;                                          The   product referred to in Article 1 must be of fair
                                                                      and   sound merchantable quality and correspond at
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                    least  to the standard quality for which the interven­
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                     tion  price is fixed .
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 in an amount of five units of account
 1 . In accordance with Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)                  per tonne shall be given by the contractor on the
No 696/76, the Office National Interprofessionnel des                 signature of the contract. It shall be released on the
Cereales (ONIC), 21 Avenue Bosquet, Paris 7 (interven­                completion of the operations in question within the
tion agency) shall by private contract purchase on the                 period prescribed or in respect of any quantities not
Community market 5 000 tonnes of maize for delivery                   delivered by reason of force majeure.
to Mali .
                                                                      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
(2) OJ   No L 156, 14. 6. 1978 , p. 1 .
(3) OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 89 .                            issued by a credit institution conforming to criteria
(4) OJ   No L 83 , 30 . 3 . 1976, p. 8 .                               laid down by the Member State .
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                       Article 4                                                    Article 6
Loading shall be carried out between 1 and 31 July          The intervention agency is authorized to make a
1978 .
                                                             payment on account to the contractor of 80 % of the
                                                            value of the quantity given in the bill of lading, on
                       Article 5                             presentation of that document and subject to the provi­
                                                            sion of security in an amount equal to that of the
The intervention agency shall request the contractor         payment.
to provide the following :
(a) after each shipment, a statement giving details of                              Article 7
    the quantities loaded, the quality of the products
    and their packaging ;                                   This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
(b) particulars of the date of the vessel or vessels
    concerned and of the expected date of arrival of
    the products at their destination ;                      Done at Brussels, 7 July 1978 .
(c) particulars of any incident occurring during
    carriage.                                                                         For the Commission
The intervention agency shall transmit the aforesaid                                   Finn GUNDELACH
information    to the Commission     as soon   as  it is
received, together with a copy of the contract.                                           Vice-President