CELEX: 31975R2340
Language: en
Date: 1975-09-12 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2340/75 of the Commission of 12 September 1975 opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of long grain milled rice as food aid for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees

No L 241 / 24                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             13 . 9 . 75
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2340/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 12 September 1975
               opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of long grain milled rice as
                        food aid for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas the Commission must be informed quickly
COMMUNITIES,                                                        of the tenders submitted in response to the invitation
                                                                    and of those accepted by the intervention agency ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                    are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                         ment Committee for Cereals ,
67/ EEC (>) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 668 /75 (2 ) ;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1693/ 72 (3 ) of 3 August 1972 laying down the condi­
tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid , and
in particular Article 6 thereof ;                                                           Article 1
Whereas on 3 March 1975 the Council of the Euro­                    1.    Tenders are hereby invited for the supply to the
pean Communities declared that it proposed, by way                  United Nations High Commission for Refugees by
of Community action , to grant the equivalent of 2 899              way of Community action , of 2 000 metric tons of
metric tons of husked rice, (in other words 2 000                   long grain milled rice .
metric tons of long grain milled rice) to the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees under its                    2. The tendering procedure shall take place in Italy
 1 974/75 food aid programme ;                                      in one lot. The product shall be mobilized on the
                                                                    Community market. The products shall be loaded for
Whereas pursuant to Article 3 (3) of Council Regula­                departure from any Community port.
tion ( EEC) No 1693/72 the goods may be purchased
anywhere on the Community market ;                                  3 . The product referred to in paragraph 1 is to be
                                                                    delivered in new jute sacks of a net capacity of 50 kilo­
Whereas tenders should be invited for the supply of                 grammes to the port of shipment in the vicinity of the
the product to the port of shipment in the vicinity of              vessel . The goods must be set down at the place nomi­
the vessel , the goods to be set down at the place nomi­            nated by the recipient country or its agent, the timing
nated by the recipient or its agent ;                               of delivery being settled by the tenderer and the reci­
                                                                    pient country's agent.
Whereas the award under the invitation to tender
must be made to the tenderer offering the best terms ;              The following shall be printed on the sacks :
Whereas, should force majeure make it impossible to                 ' RIZ BLANCHI A GRAINS LONGS — DON DE
complete the operation in question within the time                  LA       COMMUNAUTÉ          ÉCONOMIQUE           EURO­
limits specified, it must be made clear who is to bear              PÉENNE AU HAUT COMMISSARIAT DES
the liability for any resulting costs ;                              NATIONS UNIES POUR LES REFUGIÉS AU
                                                                    BÉNÉFICE        DES      POPULATIONS         DU      SUD
                                                                    VIETNAM'
Whereas provision should be made for security to be
given for the purpose of guaranteeing that the obliga­
tion arising by virtue of participation in the invitation
to tender for supplies to the United Nations High                                            Article 2
Commission for Refugees will be fulfilled ;
                                                                     1 . The decision on tenders received in response to
Whereas the Italian intervention agency should be                   the invitation provided for in Article 1 shall be taken
 made responsible for the tendering procedure ;                     on 22 September 1975 .
(') OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 1 .
( 2 ) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975 , p. 18 .                            2. The closing date for the submission of tenders
(3 ) OJ No L 178 , 5 . 8 . 1972, p. 3 .                              shall be 22 September 1975 at 12 noon .
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3.     The   notice  of  invitation  to  tender  shall be     — moisture : 15 % ,
published in the Official Journal of the European             — broken rice 5 % maximum ,
Communities not less than six days before the closing
date for submission of tenders .                              —    chalky grains : 3 % maximum ,
                                                              —    grains striated with red : 3 % maximum ,
                         Article 3                            —    spotted grains : 1 % maximum ,
                                                              —    stained grains : 0-5 % maximum ,
The contract shall be awarded to the tenderer offering        —    yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum ,
the best terms .
                                                              —    amber grains : 0-125 % maximum .
However, if the tenders submitted do not appear to
correspond to normal market prices and costs, the                                        Article 7
intervention agency may cancel the invitation to
tender.                                                        1.     The Italian intervention agency shall be respon­
                                                               sible for the operations relating to the invitation to
                         Article 4                             tender provided for by this Regulation .
If the tenderer is unable to deliver the goods in              2.      It shall forthwith communicate to the Commis­
compliance with Article 1 (3) on the date given in the         sion the list of firms which have responded to the invi­
notice of invitation to tender as a result of the late         tation to tender, specifying the terms of each tender,
availability of the vessels to be used for sea transporta­     together with the name and business name of the
tion, the resulting costs shall be borne by the interven­      successful tenderer.
tion agency.
                                                               3.      On the other hand , if the successful tenderer is
                                                               established in a Member State other than the one
                         Article 5
                                                               collecting the tenders, and if the product is dispatched
1 . The successful tenderer shall give security in an          through a frontier post of the Member State where the
amount of 10 units of account per metric ton of                successful tenderer is established , the intervention
goods ; the purpose of such security is to guarantee           agency of the latter Member State shall be responsible
performance of the operations specified in Articles 1          for the operations relating to the tendering.
and 6 . The security shall be forfeit if those operations      In this case, the intervention agency choosing the
are not carried out within the time stipulated, save as        successful tenderer shall immediately inform the inter­
regards quantities not delivered for reasons of force          vention agency of the Member State concerned and
majeure.                                                       shall supply it with all the information which it may
2. The security referred to in paragraph 1 may be              require .
given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee          4. The intervention agency shall request the
issued by a credit institution which satisfies the             successful tenderer to supply the following informa­
criteria laid down by each Member State.                       tion :
                         Article 6
                                                               (a) after each shipment a certificate showing the quan­
                                                                    tities dispatched and the quality of the products ;
 1 . The long grain milled rice referred to in Article         (b) the date of departure of the vessels.
1 to be supplied to the United Nations High Commis­
                                                               The information indicated above shall be forwarded
sion for Refugees must meet the following require­
ments :                                                        by the intervention agency to the Commission imme­
                                                               diately upon receipt.
— moisture : 1 5 % ,
— broken rice : 5 % maximum ,                                                            Article 8
—    chalky grains : 3 % maximum ,
                                                               On delivery of the goods at the port of shipment, a
—    grains striated with red : 3 % maximum ,
                                                               handing-over certificate shall be supplied to the
—    spotted grains : 1 % maximum ,                            successful tenderer, acting as agent for the Commu­
—    stained grains : 0-50 % maximum ,                         nity, by the agent of the recipient country or, in the
—    yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum ,                         absence of the latter, by the intervention agency of the
                                                               Member State in whose territory the port of shipment
—    amber grains : 0 125 % maximum .                          is situated .
Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused .
                                                                                         Article 9
2 . Tenders for supply to the United Nations High
Commission for Refugees of the long grain milled               This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
rice referred to in Article 1 must relate to a product         publication in the Official Journal of the European
with the following characteristics :                           Communities.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 12 September 1975.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                               Member of the Commission