CELEX: 51987PC0048
Language: en
Date: 1987-02-11
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) LAYING DOWN IMPLEMENTING RULES FOR REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 3972/86 ON FOOD AID POLICY AND FOOD AID MANAGEMENT

No C 55/8                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   3.3.87
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                                                        (Preparatory Acts)
                                                  COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council Regulation laying down implementating rules for Regulation (EEC) No
                                     3972/86 on food aid policy and food aid management
                                                       COM(87) 48 final
                              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 12 February 1987)
                                                          (87/C 55/11)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            Member States must provide the Commission with all the
                                                                    assistance required and, in particular, with all relevant
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               information,
Economic Community,
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC)                  No
3972/86 of 22 December 1986 on food aid policy            and
food aid management ('), and in particular the third      and                                  Article 1
fourth indents of Article 4(1) and Article 4 (1)          and
Article 4 (2) thereof,                                              1.     The countries and organizations eligible for food
                                                                    aid are listed in the Annex.
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                    2.     Aid may also be placed at the disposal of non-
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                   governmental organizations which must inter alia:
liament,
                                                                    (a) have their headquarters in a Member State of the
                                                                         Community or, exceptionally, in a third country;
Whereas a list of the countries and organizations eligible
for food aid operations should be drawn up, without                 (b) have a statute that is characteristic of an organ-
prejudice to emergency operations;                                       ization of this type;
Whereas provision should also be made for making food               (c) have shown that they have the capacity to carry out
aid available to non-governmental              organizations;            food aid operations successfully;
whereas the latter must meet certain conditions
guaranteeing the successful execution of food aid                   (d) have given an undertaking to comply with the supply
operations;                                                              terms laid down by the Commission.
Whereas general criteria should also be established for                                        Article 2
the transport of food aid beyond the fob stage, taking
into account the financial and geographical situation of            Where the Commission considers that the Community
the countries concerned and the channels and inter-                 should meet transport costs for food aid beyond the fob
 mediaries via which the aid will be dispatched; whereas             stage, it shall take account of the following general
 account should also be taken to this end of the need to             criteria:
 ensure that the effectiveness of the food aid operations is
 increased;                                                         — whether the recipient country is included on the list
                                                                         of least developed countries,
Whereas, in order to ensure that the objectives of food
                                                                    — whether or not the recipient country is a landlocked
 aid operations are attained, it is furthermore necessary to
 stipulate that aid be granted only where the recipients                 country,
 undertake to comply with the supply terms laid down by             — the financial situation of the recipient country,
 the Commission;
                                                                    — whether the food aid is intended for the organ-
Whereas the Commission must be able to take all the                      izations or non-governmental organizations referred
 measures necessary for the proper execution of food aid                 to in Article 1,
 programmes and operations; whereas, to this end,
                                                                     — the need to mobilize the product on the market of a
 (') OJNo L370, 30. 12. 1986, p. 1.                                      developing country,
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— the need to allocate the food aid on an emergency                                           Article 5
    basis,
                                                                   The Commission shall take all necessary measures to
— the need to make a given food aid operation more                 ensure the proper execution of food aid programmes and
    effective.                                                     operations.
                                                                   To this end, Member States shall provide the
                            Article 3                              Commission with all the assistance required and shall, in
Distribution costs may, in exceptional circumstances, be           particular, provide it with all relevant information.
met by the Community where necessary for the proper
execution of the food aid operations concerned.                                               Article 6
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                            Article 4                              following that of its publication in the Official Journal of
                                                                    the European Communities.
Food aid shall be granted to the recipients only where
they undertake to comply with the supply terms notified            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
to them by the Commission.                                         directly applicable in all Member States.
                                                              ANNEX
                                                          1. COUNTRIES
               Angola                           Guatemala                        Philippines
               Antigua and Barbuda              Guinea                           Rwanda
               Bangladesh                       Guinea-Bissau                    Saint Christopher and Nevis
               Benin                            Guyana                           Saint Lucia
               Bolivia                          Haiti                            Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
               Botswana                         Honduras                         Sao Tome and Principe
               Burkina Faso                     India                            Senegal
               Burma                            Indonesia                        Seychelles
               Burundi                          Jamaica                          Sierra Leone
               Cape Verde                       Jordan                           Somalia
               Central African Republic         Kenya                            Sri Lanka
               Chad                             Lebanon                          Sudan
               China                            Lesotho                          Swaziland
               Comoros                          Madagascar                       Syria
               Costa Rica                       Malawi                           Tanzania
               Djibouti                         Maldives                         Thailand
               Dominican Republic               Mali                             Togo
               Dominica                         Mauritania                       Tunisia
               Ecuador                          Mauritius                        Uganda
               Egypt                            Morocco                          North Yemen (Arab Republic)
               El Salvador                      Mozambique                       South Yemen (Democratic Republic)
               Equatorial Guinea                Nepal                            Zaire
               Ethiopia                          Nicaragua                       Zambia
               Gambia                            Niger                           Zimbabwe
               Ghana                             Pakistan
               Grenada                           Peru
                                                       2. ORGANIZATIONS
                                         UNHCR                       WFP
                                         UNRWA                       UNICEF