CELEX: 31975R3318
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3318/75 of the Commission of 19 December 1975 opening an invitation to tender for the costs of delivery of skimmed-milk powder to Niger as food aid

. No L 328 / 28                           Official Journal of the European Communities                            20 . 12. 75
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 3318 /75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 19 December 1975
                opening an invitation to tender for the costs of delivery of skimmed-milk
                                                   powder to Niger as food aid
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     sense of Article 2, of a lot of 500 metric tons of
  COMMUNITIES,                                                       skimmed-milk powder to Niger.
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community ;                                                                       Article 2
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
  804/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                 1 . Tenders are invited to determine delivery costs
  tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last              incurred between removal of the goods from the inter­
  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 740/75 (2), and in                  vention agency's storage depot and the time when the
  particular Articles 7 (5) and 28 thereof ;                         presence of the goods is effectively deposited on the
                                                                     quay at the port of unloading.
  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3236/74 (3) of
  17 December 1974 laying down general rules for the                 2.    The time limit for the submission of tenders is 6
  supply of skimmed-milk powder as food aid to the                   January 1976 at 12 noon .
  countries of the Sahel and Ethiopia, provides inter
  alia that 1 250 metric tons of skimmed-milk powder
  which forwarding shall be ensured by the Community                                         Article 3
  to the place of destination , shall be made available to
  Niger ;                                                             1 . The skimmed-milk powder shall be removed
                                                                     from the premises of the French intervention agency.
  Whereas Niger has requested the supply, as emer­
  gency aid, of 500 metric tons of skimmed-milk
  powder ; whereas the costs of delivering these supplies            2.     It shall be packed following the requirements of
  must be put out to tender as provided in Commission                the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 597/75.
  Regulation (EEC) No 597/75 (4) of 6 March 1975
  concerning invitations to tender for the costs of                  The intervention agency shall procure that the
  delivery of skimmed-milk powder in public storage as               packing is marked in letters at least 1 cm high :
   food aid to the countries of the Sahel and Ethiopia ;
                                                                     'Lait ecremé en poudre — Don de la Communauté
  Whereas certain items must be specified in pursuance               économique européenne à la république du Niger —
  of Regulation (EEC) No 597/75, such as the time                    À distribuer gratuitement.'
  limit for the submission of tenders and the terms of
  delivery of the skimmed-milk powder ; whereas it may               3.     Loading shall be effected on a date to be fixed
   prove necessary owing to congestion at the proposed               by the intervention agency concerned which must be
   port of destination , to divert the skimmed-milk                  after 1 and before 18 February 1976.
   powder to another ; whereas provision should there­
   fore be made for amending, should the need arise, the
   costs already agreed on ;                                                                  Article 4
  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                In respect of the supplies for which its intervention
   arc in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­                  agency is responsible, the French Government shall
   ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                        ensure that the tenderer informs the country of desti­
                                                                      nation , the representative of the intervention agency
                                                                      at the port of unloading and the Commission :
   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                     — as soon as possible after the goods have been
                                                                          loaded on board ship, of details of the ship, the
                               Article 1
                                                                          loading date, the quantity and quality of the goods
   Tenders are hereby invited , pursuant to Regulation                    are recorded on shipment and the port of
   ( EEC) No 597/ 75 for the delivery cif Lome, in the                    unloading ;
                                                                      — at least 10 clear days before arrival at the port of
   (')  OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .                             unloading, of the expected date of arrival ;
   (-') OJ No L 74, 22 . 3 . 1975, p. 1 .
   (3 ) OJ No L 346, 24 . 12 . 1974, p. 4 .                           — at least 72 hours before the ship's arrival in port,
   (■*) OJ No L 63 , 8 . 3 . 1975, p. 7.                                  of the date of arrival .
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                          Article 5                                                   Article 7
When the delivery provided for 'in Article 2 ( 1 ) has         1 . The intervention agency concerned shall take all
been completed the representative of the intervention          measures necessary to ensure that the skimmed-milk
agency shall issue the successful tenderer with a certifi­     powder for which a contract is awarded is transported
cate to the effect that delivery has been taken of the         rapidly from the port of unloading to the destination
quantity of goods taken over from the intervention             points mentioned by the authorities of the recipient
agency.                                                        countries and communicated by the Commission to
                                                               the intervention agency concerned.
                          Article 6                            2. Private contracts shall be negotiated on the best
                                                               terms possible by the intervention agency for the cost
1 . On request of the Commission nominating a                  of transport mentioned in paragraph 1 account being
port other than that provided for in Article 1 , the           taken of prevailing transport terms and of the urgency
French intervention agency may, in agreement with              of delivery.
the     successful   tenderer, have  the   skimmed-milk
powder delivered to the new nominated port.                    3 . The intervention agency shall communicate
                                                               immediately to the Commission a copy of the private
2.      In such case the French intervention agency is         contract .
to agree with the successful tenderer any cost reduc­
tion or increase against the costs originally agreed.                                 Article 8
3. The intervention agency shall forthwith commu­              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
nicate to the Commission the agreed new amount of              following its publication in the Official Journal of
costs .                                                        the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 19 December 1975 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                     Member of the Commission