CELEX: 31979D0587
Language: en
Date: 1979-06-15 00:00:00
Title: 79/587/EEC: Commission Decision of 15 June 1979 relating to the urgent supply of common wheat as food aid to the Republic of Chad (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)

No L 160 / 38                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             28 . 6 . 79
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                           of 15 June 1979
                relating to the urgent supply of common wheat as food aid to the Republic of
                                                                 Chad
                                           (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                             (79/587/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       de Treves, 1040 Brussels, shall conclude a private
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                        contract for the     mobilization of 3 500 tonnes of
                                                                      common wheat on the Community market for
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                delivery to the Republic of Chad .
 Economic Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         2. In concluding the private contract, OBEA must
 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                   seek the least onerous terms possible.
 tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 1254/78 (2),                                     3 . The contract shall be for supply to the port of
                                                                      loading, loading charges and transport of the product
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         to N'Djamena.
 2750/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down the condi­
 tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid (3), and
                                                                      4.     The product shall be delivered in 50 kg new jute
 in particular Article 6 thereof,                                     sacks .
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 696/76 of 25 March 1976 derogating from Regulation                   Minimum weight of the sacks shall be 600 grams. The
 (EEC) No 2750/75 in respect of mobilization proce­                   following shall be printed on the sacks :
 dures for cereals to be supplied as food aid (4),
                                                                      ' Froment tendre / Don de la Communauté écono­
 Whereas on 8 May 1979 the Council of the European                    mique européenne à la république du Tchad'.
 Communities declared that it proposed, by way of
 Community action , to grant 3 500 tonnes of common                   To allow for the possibility of re-bagging, the
 wheat to the Republic of Chad under its 1978/79                      successful tenderer shall supply 2 % of new empty
 food-aid programme ;                                                 sacks, of the same quality as those containing the
 Whereas, in view of the need to provide quick aid, it                goods but with the printing followed by a capital
                                                                      letter 'R'.
 is necessary to have recourse to contracts by mutual
 agreement ;
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29                                             A rticle 2
 March 1 979 (5) laid down the coefficient for
 expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in                    The product referred to in Article 1 must be of fair
 ECU ;                                                                and sound merchantable quality, be free from odour,
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                   and correspond at least to the standard quality for
 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                    which the intervention price is fixed.
 ment Committee for Cereals,
                                                                                              Article 3
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                       1 . A security of a value of 6 ECU per tonne shall
                             A rticle 1                               be given by the party concerned on the signature of
                                                                      the contract. It shall be released on the completion of
 1.     In accordance with Article 1 of Council Regula­               the operations in question within the time limit laid
 tion (EEC) No 696/76 of 25 March 1976, the Office                    down and also for those quantities not realized due to
 beige de l'economie et de l'agriculture (OBEA), 82, rue              force majeure.
(')  OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                             2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be
(2)  OJ  No L  156, 14 . 6 . 1978 , p. 1 .                            given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee
(3 ) OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 89 .
(4)  OJ  No L 83 , 30 . 3 . 1976, p. 8 .                              issued by a credit institution conforming to the
(5)  OJ  No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .                                  criteria laid down by the Member State.
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                        Article 4                           The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­
                                                            tion indicated to the Commission as soon as it is
Loading shall be carried out between 1 and 15 July          received, together with a copy of the private contract.
 1979 .
                                                                                   Article 6
                        Article 5
                                                            This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
The intervention agency shall request the interested        Belgium .
party to supply the following information :
(a) a statement giving details of the quantities loaded,
     the quality of the products and their packaging ;      Done at Brussels, 15 June 1979 .
(b) the date of the departure of the ships ; the
     expected date of arrival of the products at their                               For the Commission
     destination ;
                                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
(c) all possible contingencies which might occur
     during transportation of the products.                                              Vice-President