CELEX: 31977D0115
Language: en
Date: 1977-01-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21 January 1977 on the supply, as a matter of urgency, of butteroil as food aid to the World Food Programme for certain third countries

8 . 2 . 77                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 36 / 13
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 21 January 1977
               on the supply, as a matter of urgency, of butteroil as food aid to the World Food
                                             Programme for certain third countries
                                                   (Only the Dutch text is authentic)
                                                             (77/ 1 15/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                            178 tonnes of butteroil shall be supplied to the WFP,
COMMUNITIES,                                                             divided as follows :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    — 55 tonnes for Cyprus,
Economic Community,                                                      — 123 tonnes for Syria .
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                           2.      The butter to be used in the manufacture of
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                        butteroil shall be collected from the Dutch interven­
of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last                     tion agency.
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2 ), and in
particular Articles 6 (7) and 28 thereof,
                                                                                                      Article 2
Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC) No 69 5/76 of 25
March 1976 on the supply of milk fats, as food aid, to                    1 . The butteroil shall satisfy the requirements as
certain developing countries and international organi­                   regards quality and packing laid down in the Annex
zations under the 1976 food-aid programme (3 )                           to Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 2247/75 of 29
provides, inter alia, for 16 000 tonnes of butteroil to                  August 1975 on the terms of invitations to tender for
be made available to the World Food Programme                            the costs of manufacture and delivery of butteroil as
(WFP) ; whereas the World Food Programme has                              food aid to certain developing countries and to the
requested the delivery of 178 tonnes of butteroil , of                   World Food Programme (5 ), as last amended by Regu­
which 55 tonnes are for Cyprus and 123 tonnes for                         lation ( EEC) No 2212/ 76 (6).
Syria ;
Whereas Article 5 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No                         It shall be packed exclusively in five-kilogram canis­
                                                                         ters .
 694/76 of 25 March 1976 laying down general rules
for the supply of milk fats as food aid to certain deve­
loping countries and international organizations under                   2 . The Dutch intervention agency shall specify on
the 1976 food-aid programme ^), stipulates that the                       the packing the following wording :
costs of delivery may be determined by a procedure of                    ' Butteroil / Gift of the European Economic Commu­
 mutual agreement in the case of emergency actions ;                     nity / World Food Programme action '.
Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it                    This shall be followed by an indication of the port of
is necessary that mutual agreement must be sought in                     unloading which for Cyprus shall be Limassol and for
 respect of this supply ;                                                Syria shall be Lattakia .
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
arc in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                                                     Article 3
ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ,
                                                                          1 . Delivery shall be effected from a Community
                                                                         port accessible for ocean-going ships and having a
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                             regular line to the recipient country, on a date to be
                                                                         fixed by the intervention agency concerned and which
                                                                         must be later than 20 February and earlier than 10
                             Article 1                                   March 1977 .
 1.     In accordance with the provisions laid down in                   2.      Delivery shall be considered as completed when
Regulations ( EEC) No 694/ 76 and ( EEC) No 695/ 76 ,                    the goods are deposited at the point of exportation at
                                                                         the place designated by the WFP or its appointed
( l ) OJ No L 14H , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 1 .V                              agent .
( : ) OJ No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p. 9 .
(■•) OJ No L 83 , 30 . 3 . 1976 , p. 6 .                                 ( 5 ) OJ No L 229 , 30 . 8 . 1975, p. 60 .
O O'j No L 83 , 30 . 3 . 1976, p. 4.                                     ( h ) OJ No L 249 , 11.9 . 1976 , p. 5 .
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                        Article 4                                                    Article 5
                                                              No refund or compensatory amount (whether mone­
1 . The Dutch intervention agency concerned shall             tary or accession) shall be applied in respect of the
determine the costs of forwarding the butteroil by           butteroil delivered pursuant to this Decision .
concluding a private contact on the least onerous
terms possible .                                                                     Article 6
                                                             This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the
2 . The intervention agency in question shall                 Netherlands .
forward to the Commission without delay a copy of
such private contract.                                        Done at Brussels, 21 January 1977.
                                                                                       For the Commission
3.    They shall pay to the WFP, within 30 days
maximum     of the  date   on   which   the  WFP    takes
                                                                                        Finn GUNDELACH
delivery of butteroil , a flat-rate contribution of 79
units of account per metric ton of butteroil supplied .                                    Vice-President