31973R2600

No L 269 / 16 26 . 9 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2600 /73 OF THE COMMISSION of 25 September 1973 opening an invitation to tender (or the mobilization of milled rice as food aid for the Republic of Dahomey

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the Italian intervention agency should, in COMMUNITIES, any event, be made responsible for the tendering procedure ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas the Commission must be informed quickly of the tenders submitted in response to the invitation Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/ and of those accepted by the intervention agency ; 67/EEC ( 1 ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) concerning the Acces­ are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ sion of new Member States to the European Economic ment Committee for Cereals, Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1973 ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1 693/72 (4) 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 23 May 1972 the Council of the Euro­ pean Communities declared that it proposed, by way 1 . Tenders are hereby invited for the supply to the of Community action, to grant the equivalent of 2 000 Republic of Dahomey by way of Community action metric tons of husked rice (in other words, 1 380 of 1 380 metric tons of long grained milled rice . metric tons of long-grained milled rice to the Repu­ blic of Dahomey under its 1971 / 1972 food aid 2. The tendering procedure shall take place in Italy programme ; in one lot. The products shall be mobilized on the Community market. The products shall be loaded for Whereas analysis of the state of the Community rice departure from the Community ports listed in Annex market indicates that the criteria of Article 3 (3) of I. Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1693 /72 should be applied and that the products should be purchased on 3 . The invitation to tender provided for in para­ the Community market ; graph 1 is for supply of products delivered cif into one of the ports of unloading listed in Annex II . Whereas the proposed invitation to tender should be for supply of the products cif ; 4. The successful tenderer shall deliver the product specified in paragraph 1 cif to one of the ports listed Whereas the award under the invitation to tender in Annex II in new jute sacks of a net capacity of 50 must be made to the tenderer offering the best terms ; kilogrammes . Whereas, should force majeure make it impossible to The following shall be printed on the sacks : complete the operation in question within the time limits specified, it must be made clear who is to bear 'Riz blanchi — Don des Communautés Européennes'. the liability for any resulting costs ;

Whereas provision should be made for security to be Article 2 given for the purpose of guaranteeing that the obliga­ tions arising by virtue of participation in the invita­ tion to tender for supplies to the Republic of 1 . The decision on tenders received in response to Dahomey will be fulfilled ; the invitation provided for in Article 1 shall be taken on 15 October 1973 . (') 0 | No 174 , 31 . 7 . 1967 , p . 1 . (-) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972 , p . 14 . ( ; ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972 , p . 5 . 2. The closing date for the submission of tenders (->) OJ No L 178 , 5 . X. 1972, p. 3 . shall be 15 October 1973 at 12 noon .

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3 . The notice of invitation to tender shall be — Spotted grains : 1 % maximum published in the Official Journal of the European — Stained grains : 0.50 % maximum Communities not less than 10 days before the closing — Yellow grains : 0.050 % maximum date for the submission of tenders . — Amber grains : 0.125 % maximum Article 3 Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused. The contract shall be awarded to the tenderer offering 2. Tenders for supply to the Republic of Dahomey the best terms . of the long-grained milled rice referred to in Article 1 must relate to a product with the following characteris­ However, if the tenders submitted do not appear to tics : correspond to normal market prices and costs, the intervention agency may cancel the invitation to — Moisture : 15 % tender. — Broken rice : 5 % maximum — Chalky grains : 3 % maximum Article 4 — Grains striated with red : 3 % maximum 1 . The successful tenderer shall give security of a — Spotted grains : 1 % maximum value of 10 units of account per metric ton ; the secu­ — Stained grains : 0-5 % maximum rity is intended to guarantee that the operations speci­ — Yellow grains : 0.050 % maximum fied in Article 1 are duly completed . The security — Amber grains : 0.125 % maximum . shall be forfeit if those operations are not carried out within the prescribed time limit, save as regards quan­ tities not delivered owing to force majeure. Article 6

2. The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be 1 . The Italian intervention agency shall be respon­ given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee sible for the operations relating to the invitations to issued by a credit institution conforming to the tender provided for by this Regulation. criteria laid down by the Member State . 2 . It shall forthwith communicate to the Commis­ Article 5 sion the list of firms which have responded to the invi­ tation to tender, specifying the terms of each tender, 1 . The long grained milled rice referred to in together with the name and business name of the Article 1 to be supplied to the Republic of Dahomey successful tenderer . must meet the following requirements : — Moisture : 1 5 % Article 7 — Broken rice : 5 % maximum This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its — Chalky grains : 3 % maximum publication in the Official Journal of the European — Grains striated with red : 3 % maximum Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 September 1973 .

For the Commission

The Président

François-Xavier ORTOLI

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ANNEX 1

Number Minimum rate of loading of lot Port from which consigned per day Tonnage fob

1 Community ports Customs of the port 1380 t

ANNEX 11

Number of lot Port of unloading Minimum rate of unloading Tonnage cif

1 Cotonou Customs of the port 1 380 t