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REGULATION ( EEC) No 573/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 8 March 1974 on the issue of an invitation to tender for the supply of butteroil as food aid

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN — Lot A : COMMUNITIES, 1 450 metric tons for Niger, to be delivered as follows : Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 390 metric tons to Tahoua via Cotonou, Economic Community ; 390 metric tons to Niamey via Cotonou, 60 metric tons to Dosso via Cotonou, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 210 metric tons to Zinder via Apapa, 804/68 0 of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ 200 metric tons to Maradi via Apapa, tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last 200 metric tons to Diffa via Apapa ; amended by Regulation (EEC) No 419/74 (2), and in — Lot B : particular Articles 6 (7) and 28 thereof ; 1 800 metric tons for Upper Volta, to be delivered as follows : Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3583/73 (3) of 270 metric tons to Bobo-Dioulasso via Abidjan, 28 December 1973 laying down general rules for the 1 530 metric tons to Ouagadougou via Abidjan . supply of milk fats as food aid to the countries of the Sahel and Ethiopia provides for 6 000 metric tons of Article 2 butteroil processed from 7 320 metric tons of butter to The butter for the manufacture of butteroil shall be be put at the disposal of those countries ; whereas removed from the premises of the French interven­ Niger and Upper Volta have requested the supply of tion agency in the case of lot A and from the prem­ 1 450 and 1 800 metric tons of butteroil respectively ; ises of the German intervention agency in the case of whereas those supplies must be put out to tender as lot B. provided in , Commission Regulation (EEC) No 567/74 (4) of 8 March 1974 concerning the supply of Article 3 butteroil as food aid to the countries of the Sahel and Ethiopia ; 1 . The tenders shall be for the cost of manufac­ turing the butteroil and delivering it to the places of destination specified in Article 1 , including unloading Whereas, however, the application of Regulation costs . (EEC) No 567/74 requires that certain points be speci­ fied in greater detail, particularly the time limit for 2. Loading shall take place as soon as possible and the submission of tenders and the terms of delivery of be completed, at the latest, on the butteroil ; — 15 May 1974 in the case of lot A, — 25 May 1974 in the case of the 270 t for Bobo­ Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Dioulasso and the 400 t for Ouagadougou, are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ — 5 June 1974 in the case of the 400 t for Ouaga­ ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, dougou, — 15 June 1974 in the case of the 400 t for Ouaga­ dougou, — 25 June 1974 in the case of the 330 t for Ouaga­ dougou. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 3 . Delivery shall be completed when the goods actually arrive at the place of destination .

Article 4 Article 1 1 . The closing date for the submission of tenders shall be 26 March 1974 at 12 noon . Tenders shall be invited in accordance with Regula­ tion (EEC) No 567/74 for the manufacture and 2 . The intervention agency concerned shall be delivery of 3 250 metric tons of butteroil, divided up responsible for operations relating to the invitations to into the following lots : tender provided for in the previous Articles.

(!) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 13 . Article 5 2 OJ No L 49, 21 . 2. 1974, p . 2. (}) OJ No L 359, 28 . 12. 1973 , p. 51 . The Government concerned shall notify the country (4) OJ No L 69, 12. 3 . 1974, p . 3 . of destination, the representative of the intervention

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agency at the place of destination and the Commis­ being taken of prevailing transport terms and of the sion urgency of delivery. — 10 days before the goods' expected date of arrival, 2. The distribution points provided for in para­ of the means of transport to be used to carry the graph 1 shall be designated by the authorities of the goods to the place of destination, the means of recipient countries and shall be communicated by the shipment to be used during the intermediary Commission to the intervention agency concerned. phases, the date of loading and the quantity and quality of the goods as recorded on shipment from Article 7 the Community ; — at least two days in advance of the date of arrival When the delivery provided for in Article 3 (3) has of the goods at the place of destination. been completed the representative of the intervention agency at the place of destination shall issue the Article 6 successful tenderer with a certificate to the effect that delivery has been taken of the quantity of butteroil for 1 . The intervention agency concerned shall take all which the contract was awarded . measures necessary to ensure that the butteroil for which a contract is awarded is transported rapidly Article 8 from the place of destination to the distribution points. This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day It shall negotiate private contracts for the costs of following its publication in the Official Journal of such transport on the best terms possible, account the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 March 1974.

For the Commission The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI