CELEX: 31976R0501
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 501/76 of 5 March 1976 concerning the repetition of an invitation to tender for the supply of butteroil bought on the Community market to UNICEF as food aid for Bangladesh

No L 59 /22                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 6. 3 . 76
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 501 /76
                                                        of 5 March 1976
             concerning the repetition of an invitation to tender for the supply of butteroil
                bought on the Community market to UNICEF as food aid for Bangladesh
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
COMMUNITIES,                                                       are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                    ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                                            Article 1
of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 740/75 (2), and in                   1 . Tenders are invited in accordance with the provi­
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                   sions of Regulations (EEC) No 1541 /75 and (EEC) No
                                                                    1542/75 for the supply to UNICEF of 600 metric tons
                                                                    of butteroil for Bangladesh, manufactured from butter­
Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1542/75 of 16                  fats which are of Community origin and not taken
June 1975 on the supply of milk fats as food aid to                 from public stocks, of which :
certain developing countries and international organi­              — 450 metric tons to be take from the 2 000 metric
zations under the 1975 food-aid programme (3),                          tons set aside for UNICEF .
provides inter alia for the supply of 2 000 metric tons
of butteroil to UNICEF delivered destination as well                — 150 metric tons to be taken from the 4 550 metric
as for a 4 550 metric tons reserve stock ; whereas                      tons reserve stock .
UNICEF has made a request for delivery of 600
metric tons of butteroil for Bangladesh ;                           This delivery is divided up into the following lots :
                                                                    — Lot A : 200 metric tons of        which     100   metric
Whereas on account of the market situation for butter                                               tons cif Chittagong,
                                                                                                    100   metric     tons    cif
in the Community, the supply of the abovementioned
quantity should be ensured by means of butterfat avail­                                             Chalna,
able on the Community market in accordance with
Article 2(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1541 /75                    the shipping having to take place before 30 April
ot 16 June 1975 laying down general rules for the                        1976 ;
supply of milk fats as food aid to certain developing
countries and international organizations under the 1               — Lot B : 200 metric tons of        which     100    metric
 1975 food-aid programme ^); whereas, for this                                                      tons cif Chittagong,
purpose, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 170/76 of                                                   100   metric     tons    cif
26 January 1 976 (5) has provided for an invitation to                                              Chalna,
tender which had to be cancelled ;
                                                                        the shipping having to take place after 20 and
                                                                        before 31 May 1976 ;
Whereas a new invitation to tender should therefore
be issued for which detailed rules should in the main               — Lot C : 200 metric tons of        which     100    metric
be those of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                                                          tons cif Chittagong,
2660/75 of 20 October 1975 on invitations to tender                                                 100    metric    tons    cif
for the supply of butteroil bought on the Community                                                 Chalna,
market as food aid to certain developing countries and
to the World Food Programme (6), except for the provi­                  the shipping having to take place after 20 and
sions concerning the way of delivery ;                                  before 31 August 1976.
(>)  OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .                          2. As regards the tendering procedure and the
(2 ) OJ No L 74, 22. 3 . 1975, p. 1 .                               conditions governing the manufacture of the butteroil,
(3)  OJ No L 157, 19 . 6 . 1975, p. 6 .
(4)  OJ No L 157, 19 . 6 . 1975, p . 4.                             the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 2660/75 shall
(*)  OJ No L 19 , 28 . 1 . 1976, p . 12.                            apply by analogy, without prejudice to the special
(0)  OJ No L 270 , 21 . 10 . 1975, p . 11                           provisions below.
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                        Article 2                             The rates and conditions of such demurrage to be laid
                                                              down in the contract between the successful tenderer
 1 . The butteroil shall comply, as regards quality           and the carrier must be agreed in advance between the
and packaging, with the conditions laid down in the           successful tenderer acting as agent for the Community
Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2660/75 and shall be
                                                              and the receiving agent of the recipient organization .
put up in 5 kg canisters only.
2. The words to be printed on the packaging, as                                       Article 4
provided in Chapter II 2 (b) of the abovementioned
Annex, shall be the following :                               1 . The intervention agency concerned shall notify
' Butteroil — Gift of the European Economic Commu­            to the recipient organization the date of loading, the
nity — Action of the United Nations Children's Fund           quantity and quality of the goods as recorded at the
(UNICEF).'                                                    time of loading, the port of unloading.
                        Article 3
                                                              2. The successful tenderer shall inform the recip­
                                                              ient organization at least 10 days before the antici­
 1 . Delivery cif shall be deemed to take place when          pated date. The successful tenderer has a clause
the goods are actually set down on the quayside at the        inserted in the charter-party obliging the captain to
port of unloading or on lighters where the latter             give the country of destination at least 72 hours notice
method is used .                                              of the probable date of arrival of the vessel in port.
2. The recipient organization shall remit at the
delivery cif, to the successful tenderer, a certificate                               Article 5
proving the taking of the goods as referred to in
Article 1 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2660/75.               The closing date for the submission of tenders shall
                                                              be 23 March 1976 at 12 noon .
3. The recipient organization shall be responsible
for all expenditure incurred after delivery, including
                                                                                      Article 6
acceptance costs .
Any cjemurrage costs at the port of unloading due to          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
delay^ for which the recipient organization is respon­        following its publication in the Official Journal of
sible shall be borne by that country.                         the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 5 March 1976 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                          P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                   Member of the Commission