31974R2543

5. 10 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 271 /71

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2543/ 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 4 October 1974 opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of long grain milled rice as food aid for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine ( UNRWA)

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

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Economic Community ;

Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/ 1 . Tenders are hereby invited for the supply to 67/ EEC (') of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ UNRWA by way of Community action , of 1 50 metric tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the Act tons of long grain milled rice . of Accession (2) ; 2. The tendering procedure shall take place in Italy Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No in one lot. The product shall be mobilized on the 1 693/ 72 (3) of 3 August 1972 laying down the condi­ Community market. The products shall be loaded for tions for the mobilization of cereals as food aid , and departure from a Community port. in particular Article 6 thereof ; Whereas on 21 March 1974 the Council of the Euro­ 3 . The invitation to tender provided for in para­ pean Communities declared that it proposed, by way graph 1 is for supply of products delivered cif, that is of Community action , to grant the equivalent of 193 to say, actually placed on the quay of the port of Beirut . metric tons of husked rice (in other words, 150 metric tons of long grain milled rice) to UNRWA under its 1973/74 food-aid programme ; 4. The successful tenderer shall deliver the product specified in paragraph 1 cif in new jute sacks of a net Wheres pursuant to Article 3 (3) of Council Regula­ capacity of 50 kilogrammes . tion (EEC) No 1693 /72 the goods may be purchased anywhere on the Community market ; The following shall be printed on the sacks : Whereas the proposed invitation to tender should be 'Milled rice — gift of the European Community.' for supply of the products cif, that is to say actually placed on the quay at the port of unloading ;

Whereas the award under the invitation to tender Article 2 must be made to the tenderer offering the best terms ; 1 . The decision on tenders received in response to Whereas, should force majeure make it impossible to the invitation provided for in Article 1 shall be taken complete the operation in question within the time on 21 October 1974 . limits specified, it must be made clear who is to bear the liability for any resulting costs ; 2 . The closing date for the submission of tenders Whereas provision should be made for security to be shall be 21 October 1974 at 12 noon . given for the purpose of guaranteeing that the obliga­ tion arising by virtue of participation in the invitation 3 . The notice of invitation to tender shall be to tender for supplies to UNRWA : published in the Official Journal of the European Communities not less than nine days before the Whereas the Italian intervention agency should be closing date for the submission of tenders . made responsible for the tendering procedure ;

Whereas the Commission must be informed quickly of the tenders submitted in response to the invitation Article J and of those accepted by the intervention agency ; The contract shall be awarded to the tenderer offering Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation the best terms . are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Cereals , However, if the tenders submitted do not appear to correspond to m-i ; : • n'ket prices ami costs , the (') OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 . (2 ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14 . intervention agency may cancel the invitation to 0 OJ No L 178 , 5. 8 . 1972, p. 3 . tender .

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Article 4 2 . It shall forthwith communicate to the Commis­ sion the list of firms which have responded to the invi­ 1 . The successful tenderer shall give security in an tation to tender, specifying the terms of each tender, amount of 10 units of account per metric ton of together with the name and business name of the goods ; the purpose of such security is to guarantee successful tenderer . performance of the operations specified in Articles 1 and 5. The security shall be forfeit if those operations are not carried out within the time stipulated, save as 3 . On the other hand , if the successful tenderer is regards quantities not delivered for reasons of force established in a Member State other than the one majeure. collecting the tenders, and if the product is dispatched through a frontier post of the Member State where the 2. The security referred to in paragraph 1 may be successful tenderer is established, the intervention given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee issued by a credit institution which satisfies the agency of the latter Member State shall be responsible for the operations relating to the tendering. criteria laid down by each Member State,

Article 5 In this case, the intervention agency choosing the 1 . The long grain milled rice referred to in Article successful tenderer shall immediately inform the inter­ 1 to be supplied to UNRWA must meet the following vention agency of the Member State concerned and requirements : shall supply it with all the information which it may require . — moisture : 1 5 % ; — broken rice : 5 % maximum ; — chalky grains : 3 % maximum ; 4. The intervention agency shall request the — grains striated with red : 3 % maximum ; successful tenderer to supply the following informa­ — spotted grains : 1 % maximum ; tion : — stained grains : 0-50 % maximum ; — yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum ; (a) after each shipment a certificate showing the quan­ — amber grains : 0-125 % maximum . tities dispatched and the quality of the products ; Rice not meeting these requirements shall be refused. (b) the date of departure of the vessels . 2. Tenders for supply to UNRWA of the long grain milled rice referred to in Article 1 must relate to a (c) all possible contingencies which might occur product with the following characteristics : during transportation of the products. — moisture : 1 5 % ; — broken rice 5 % maximum , The intervention agency shall transmit the informa­ — chalky grains : 3 % maximum ; tion provided to the Commission as soon as it is — grains striated with red : 3 % maximum ; received . — spotted grains : 1 % maximum ; — stained grains : 0-5 % maximum ; — yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum ; — amber grains : 0-125 % maximum . Article 7 Article 6 1 . The Italian intervention agency shall be respon­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its sible for the operations relating to the invitation to publication in the Official Journal of the European tender provided for by this Regulation . Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 4 October 1974. For the Commission­ The President Franc^is-Xavier ORTOLI