31973R3582

No L 359 /50 Official Journal of the European Communities 28 . 12. 73

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3582/73 OF THE COUNCIL

of 28 December 1973 laying down general rules for the supply of skimmed-milk powder as food aid to the countries of the Sahel and Ethiopia

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; 14 000 metric tons of skimmed-milk powder shall be put at the disposal of the countries listed below and Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/ allocated as follows : 68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organization Upper Volta 2 600 metric tons of the market in milk and milk products, as last Mali 2 900 metric tons amended by the Act (2 ) concerning the conditions of Mauritania 2 000 metric tons Accession and the adjustments to the Treaties, Niger 3 200 metric tons and in particular Article 6 (6) thereof; Chad 800 metric tons Ethiopia 2 500 metric tons Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; Article 2 To meet the objectives mentioned in Article 1 , the Whereas the countries of the Sahel and Ethiopia labelling, the transport of the skimmed-milk powder have made known their requirements as regards to distribution points and, where applicable, the skimmed-milk powder ; supply of the vitamins to be added to the milk shall be financed by the Community. Whereas it will not be possible to dispose, on Article 3 normal terms during the 1973/74 milk year, of the quantities of skimmed-milk powder held by Transportation up to the cif stage shall normally be intervention agencies ; whereas 14 000 metric tons covered by a tendering procedure; however, in of this product can be granted as food aid ; exceptional cases, resort can be made to a procedure of mutual agreement. Whereas to enable effective and as efficient as Article 4 possible use to be made of the aid, provision should be made for the financing of the cost of Transportation from the cif stage to the distribution transportation to the distribution points and, if points shall normally be covered by a tendering necessary, the cost of supplying the vitamins to be procedure, or, if necessary, by recourse to a added to the milk ; procedure of mutual agreement. Exceptionally, the cost of this transportation stage Whereas the transportation of skimmed-milk shall be wholly or partially paid to the recipient powder, resort should normally be made to the countries, in the form of a cash contribution, if tendering procedure, by competition amongst provided for in the supply agreement. interested undertakings established in the Article 5 Community ; whereas, however, for the sake of flexibility and speed it might be desirable, in This Regulation shall enter into force on the third exceptional cases, to resort to a procedure of mutual day following its publication in the Official Journal agreement, of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . Done at Brussels, 28 December 1973 . For the Council The President Ove GULDBERG

(*) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 . (2 ) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.