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REGULATION (EEC) No 1052/73 OF THE COUNCIL of 17 April 1973 on the supply of sugar to UNRWA as food aid pursuant to the Agreement with that agency dated 18 December 1972

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN — 2 150 metric tons for the 1972/73 sugar marketing COMMUNITIES, year ; — 6 150 metric tons for the 1973/74 sugar marketing Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European year ; Economic Community ; — 6 150 metric tons for the 1974/75 sugar marketing Having regard to the Proposal from the Commission ; year.

Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­ However, if the quantities laid down for the sugar ment ; marketing years 1973 /74 and 1974/75 are varied in accordance with Article 12 of the Agreement by an Whereas the Agreement concluded on 18 December amount of 2 000 tons or less, the quantities given 1972 between the European Economic Community under the second and third indents above should be and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for read as having been varied accordingly. Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) concerning assistance to refugees from the countries 2. The contract for the mobilization of the goods of the Middle-East (') — hereinafter referred to as 'the cif to the port of unloading shall be awarded under Agreement' — provides for the supplying to UNRWA the tendering procedure. by the Community of a quantity of white sugar amounting to 6 1 50 metric tons annually ; 3 . The conditions applying to the invitation for tender and other terms and conditions for applying Whereas the Community has already supplied 4 000 this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the metric tons of white sugar for the marketing year procedure laid down in Article 40 of Council Regula­ 1972/73 by virtue of Council Regulation (EEC) No tion No 1009/67/EEC (3) of 18 December 1967 on the 1475/72 (2) of 10 July 1972 on the supply of sugar to common organization of the market in sugar, as last UNRWA as food aid ; whereas future deliveries must amended by Regulation (EEC) No 174/73 (4). be subject to the same conditions as those laid down in that Regulation, and whereas it is also necessary, in Article 2 accordance with the Agreement, to provide for the adjustment of the quantities prescribed in respect of 1 . For the purposes of Article 1 , the following are the sugar marketing years 1973/74 and 1974/75 ; eligible for Community financing :

— the cif value of the sugar, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : — the cost of transport to the destination and the distribution, subject to the conditions laid down in Article 1 Article V of the Agreement.

1 . The following quantities of white sugar, 2. The expenditure incurred by the implementa­ produced and in free circulation in the Community, tion of this Regulation shall be charged to Title 9, are to be placed at the disposal of UNRWA as food 'Food Aid and other expenses' of the budget of the aid in accordance with the Agreement : European Communities.

(!) OJ No L 304, 31 . 12. 1972, p. 24. (3) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 . 2 OJ No L 157, 13 . 7. 1972, p. 3 . M OJ No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 1 .

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Article 3 1970 on the financing of the common agricultural policy, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 . To cover the expenditure referred to in the first 2788/72 (2). indent of Article 2 ( 1 ), the Commission, after consulting the European Agricultural Guidance and 2. In respect of the expenditure referred to in the Guarantee Fund Committee, and on the request of the second indent of Article 2 ( 1 ), the Commission shall Member States concerned, shall decide to grant pay to UNRWA the lump sum contribution provided advances . The Commission shall, within 6 months of for in Article V of the Agreement. the supply by a Member State of supporting docu­ ments for the expenditure, discharge that Member Article 4 State's account. Rules for implementing this para­ graph shall be adopted, as the need arises, in accor­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day dance with the procedure laid down in Article 113 of following its publication in the Official Journal of Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 (J) of 21 April the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Luxembourg, 17 April 1973 . For the Council

The President A. LAVENS

(») OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 13 . (2) OJ No L 295, 30 . 12. 1972, p. 1 .