31974R0210

No L 22/ 38 Official Journal of the European Communities 26 . 1 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 210/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 25 January 1974 opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of milled rice as food aid for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNWRA)

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 /67/ EEC ment Committee for Cereals, ( ! ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organization of the market in rice , as last amended by the Act of Accession (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 Article 1 in particular Article 6 thereof ; 1 . Tenders are hereby invited for the supply to Whereas on 16 July and 6 November 1973 the UNWRA, by way of Community action , of 2 412 Council of the European Communities declared that metric tons of round-grained milled rice . it proposed, by way of Community action, to grant the equivalent of 2 955 metric tons and 157 metric tons 2. The tendering procedure shall take place in Italy of husked rice , in other words, 2 412 metric tons of in 2 lots . The products shall be mobilized on the round-grained milled rice to UNWRA under its Community market. The products shall be loaded for 1972/73 food aid programme ; departure from the Community ports listed in Annex I. Whereas analysis of the state of the Community rice market indicates that the criteria of Article 3 (3) of 3 . The invitation to tender provided for in para­ Council Regulation (EEC) No 1693/72 should be graph 1 is for supply of products delivered cif that is applied and that the products should be purchased on to say, actually placed on the quay in one of the ports the Community market ; of unloading listed in Annex II .

Whereas the proposed invitation to tender should be 4. The successful tenderer shall deliver the product for supply of the products cif, that is to say actually specified in paragraph 1 cif to one of the ports listed placed on the quay at the port of unloading ; in Annex II in new jute sacks of a net capacity of 50 kilogrammes . 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 'Milled rice — gift of the European Economic complete the operation in question within the time Community.' limits specified, it must be made clear who is to bear the liability for any resulting costs ; Article 2 Whereas provision should be made for security to be given for the purpose of guaranteeing that the obliga­ 1 . The decision on tenders received in response to tions arising by virtue of participation in the invita­ the invitation provided for in Article 1 shall be taken tion to tender for supplies to UNWRA will be on 18 February 1974 . fulfilled ; 2 . The closing date for the submission of tenders Whereas the Italian intervention agency should , in shall be 18 February 1974 at 12 noon . any event, be made responsible for the tendering procedure ; 3 . The notice of invitation to tender shall be published in the Official Journal of the European (') OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. Communities not less than ten days before the closing (3) OJ No L 178 , 5 . 8 . 1972, p. 3 . date for the submission of tenders .

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Article 3 — stained grains : 0-50 % maximum, — yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum , The contract shall be awarded to the tenderer offering — amber grains : 0-125 % maximum . the best terms . Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused. However, if the tenders submitted do not appear to 2. Tenders for supply to UNWRA of the round­ correspond to normal market prices and costs, the grained milled rice referred to in Article 1 must relate intervention agency may cancel the invitation to to a product with the following characteristics : tender. — moisture : 1 5 % , Article 4 — broken rice : 5 % maximum , — chalky grains : 3 % maximum , 1 . The successful tenderer shall give security of a — grains striated with red : 3 % maximum, value of 10 units of account per metric ton ; the secu­ — spotted grains : 1 % maximum, rity is intended to guarantee that the operations speci­ — stained grains : 0-50 % maximum , fied in Article 1 are duly completed. The security — yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum, shall be forfeit if those operations are not carried out — amber grains : 0-125 % maximum . 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 round-grained milled rice referred to in together with the name and business name of the Article 1 to be supplied to UNWRA must meet the successful tenderer. following requirements : — moisture : 15% , Article 7 — broken rice : 5 % maximum , — chalky grains : 3 % maximum, This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its — grains striated with red : 3 % maximum , publication in the Official Journal of the European — spotted grains : 1 % maximum, Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 25 January 1974 .

For the Commission

The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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ANNEX 1

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

1 1 376 metric tons Customs of the port 2 1 036 metric tons j Community ports

ANNEX U

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

Beyrouth ) 1 376 metric tons 2 Ashdod ^ Customs of the port 1 036 metric tons