CELEX: 31975D0122
Language: en
Date: 1975-02-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 4 February 1975 relating to the urgent supply of skimmed-milk powder to the Philippines as food aid

No L 46/ 32                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               20 . 2. 75
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 4 February 1975
              relating to the urgent supply erf skimmed-milk powder to the Philippines as
                                                              food aid
                                          (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                            (75/ 122/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                                Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  1.     In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No
Economic Community ;                                                   1827/74, 100 metric tons of skimmed-milk powder
                                                                       shall be delivered to the Philippines .
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           2. The skimmed-milk powder shall be collected
804/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                     from the Belgian intervention agency.
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 662/74 (2), and in                      3 . The skimmed-milk powder shall meet the
particular Articles 7 (5) and 28 thereof ;                             requirements as to quality and packing laid down in
                                                                       Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                       11 08/68 (5) of 27 July 1968 on detailed rules of appli­
                                                                       cation for public storage of skimmed-milk powder, as
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 827/74 (3) of                    last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 636/74 (6).
11 July 1974 on the supply of skimmed-milk powder
as food aid to certain developing countries and interna­               The packing of the skimmed-milk powder shall be
tional organizations, makes, inter alia, provision for                 marked, in letters at least one centimetre high, with
the supply to the Philippines of 100 metric tons of                    the words :
skimmed-milk powder held by the intervention agen­
cies ; whereas that country has made a request of deliv­               'Skimmed-milk powder — Gift of the European
ering of the abovementioned quantity ;                                 Economic Community to the Republic of the Philip­
                                                                       pines.'
Whereas Article 5 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                                                 Article 2
1 826/74 (4) of 11 July 1974 laying down general rules
for the supply of skimmed-milk powder as food aid to                   Delivery shall be effected at the port of Antwerp, on a
certain developing countries and international organi­                 date fixed by the Belgian intervention agency which
zations, stipulates that the cost of delivery should                   must be later than 23 February and earlier than 17
normally be determined by a tendering procedure, or                    March 1975 .
in urgent cases by a procedure of mutual agreement ;
                                                                       The goods shall be regarded as delivered when they
                                                                       are deposited in the port of shipment at a point desig­
                                                                       nated by the recipient country or its agent easily
Whereas, due to the emergency of the situation on the                  accessible to the ship .
one hand and of the small quantity involved on the
other hand, a private contract should be negotiated ;
                                                                                                 Article 3
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                      1 . The Belgian intervention agency shall determine
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­                      the costs of transporting the skimmed-milk powder
ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                             by concluding a private contract on the least onerous
                                                                       terms, having regard to the existing transport possibili­
                                                                       ties .
(•)  OJ No L  148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 13 .
(-') OJ No-L  85, 29 . 3 . 1974, p . 51 .
(3)  OJ No L  190, 13 . 7. 1974, p. 22.                                (5) OJ No L 184, 29 . 7. 1968 , p. 34 .
(•») OJ No L  190 , 13 . 7 . 1974, p . 20 .                              6) OJ No L 173, 28 . 6. 1974, p. 60 .
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2. The Belgian intervention agency shall forward to                              Article 5
the Commission without delay a copy of such                This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
contract .
                                                            Belgium .
                       Article 4                            Done at Brussels, 4 February 1975 .
No refund or compensatory amount (whether mone­                                    For the Commission
tary or accession) shall be granted in respect of the                                 P. J. LARDINOIS
skimmed-milk powder delivered pursuant to this Deci­
sion .                                                                          Member of the Commission