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REGULATION ( EEC) No 374/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 February 1975 opening an invitation to tender for the mobilization of rolled oats as food aid for the United Nations Children 's Fund (UNICEF)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation COMMUNITIES , are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Cereals, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ;

Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 67/ EEC(')of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Article 1 Regulation ( EEC) No 85/75 (2) ;

Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1 . An invitation to tender shall be issued in respect 1 693/72 (3) of 3 August 1972 establishing the criteria of the supply of 5 000 metric tons of rolled oats to for the mobilization of cereals as food aid, and in parti­ UNICEF by way of Community food-aid action . cular Article 6 thereof ; 2. The tendering procedure shall take place in the Whereas on 21 March 1974 the Council of the Euro­ Netherlands in 17 lots. The product shall be mobi­ pean Communities declared that it proposed, by way lized on the Community market. The product shall be of Community action, to grant the equivalent of loaded for departure from a Community port . 10 000 metric tons of oats, in the form of 5 000 metric tons of rolled oats , to UNICEF under its 3 . The invitation to tender provided for in para­ 1973 /74 food-aid programme ; graph 1 is for supply of products delivered cif, that is to say, actually placed on the quay in one of the ports Whereas pursuant to Article 3 (3) of Council Regula­ of unloading listed in the Annex hereto . tion ( EEC) No 1693 /72 the goods may be purchased anywhere on the Community market ; 4 . The successful tenderer shall deliver the products specified in paragraph 1 cif in sacks of 25 Whereas the proposed invitation to tender should be kilogrammes net according to the conditions laid for supply of the products cif, that is to say, actually down in the Annex hereto . placed on the quay at the port of unloading ;

Whereas the contract should be awarded to the Article 2 tenderer who makes the best offer ; 1 . The decision on tenders received in response to Whereas it must be made clear who is to bear any the invitation provided for in Article 1 shall be taken costs which arise in the event that for reasons of force on 28 February 1975 . majeure the operation in question is not completed within the time stipulated ; 2. The closing date for submission of tenders shall be 28 February 1975 at 12 noon . Whereas provision should be made for security to be given to guarantee fulfilment of obligations arising by 3 . The notice of invitation to tender shall be virtue of participation in the invitation to tender for published in the Official Journal of the European the supply of goods to UNICEF ; Coin m unities not less than nine days before the closing date for submission of tenders . Whereas the Dutch intervention agency should be made responsible for organizing the invitation to tender ; Article 3 Whereas it is important that the Commission be The contract shall be awarded to the tenderer offering informed without delay of the tenders submitted in the best terms . response to the invitation and of those accepted by the intervention agency ; However, if the tenders submitted do not appear to correspond to normal market prices and costs, the (') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1 967, p . 2269/ 67 . (2) OJ No L 11 , 16 . 1 . 1 975 , p. 1 . intervention agency may cancel the invitation to (3 ) OJ No L 178 , 5 . 8 . 1972, p. 3 . tender .

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Article 4 3 . On the other hand, if the successful tenderer is established in a Member State other than the one 1 . The successful tenderer shall give security in an collecting the tenders, and if the product is dispatched amount of 10 units of account per metric ton of through a frontier post of the Member State where the goods ; the purpose of such security is to guarantee successful tenderer is established , the intervention performance of the operations specified in Article 1 . agency of the latter Member State shall be responsible The security shall be forfeit it those operations are not for the operations relating to the tendering. carried out within the time stipulated, save as regards quantities not delivered for reasons of force majeure. In this case, the intervention agency choosing the successful tenderer shall immediately inform the inter­ 2 . The security provided for in paragraph 1 may be vention agency of the Member State concerned and given in the form of a cash deposit or of a guarantee shall supply it with Ml the information which it may issued by a credit institution conforming to the require . criteria laid down by the Member State . 4 . The intervention agency shall request the Article 5 successful tenderer to supply the following informa­ tion : 1 . The rolled oats referred to in Article 1 to be supplied to UNICEF must meet the requirements (a) after each shipment, a certificate showing the quan­ contained in the Annex hereto . tities dispatched, the quality of the products and their packaging ; Oats not meeting these requirements shall be refused. (b) the date of the departure of the vessels, the 2 . Tenders for supply to UNICEF of the rolled oats expected date of arrival of the products at their referred to in Article 1 must relate to a product with destination ; the characteristics contained in the Annex hereto . (c) all possible contingencies which might occur during transportation of the products. Article 6 The information indicated above shall be forwarded 1 . The Dutch intervention agency shall be respon­ by the intervention agency to the Commission imme­ sible for operations relating to the invitation to tender diately upon receipt. provided for by this Regulation .

2 . It shall forthwith communicate to the Commis­ Article 7 sion the list of firms which have responded to the invi­ tation to tender, specifying the terms of each tender, This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its together with the name and business name of the publication in the Official Journal of the European successful tenderer. Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 February 1975 . For the Commission

P.J. LARD1NOIS Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

SPECIFICATIONS

Production of quick-cooking oat (lakes :

Raw oats : First quality high-density oats. Cleaning and preparation : Oats to be cleaned of extraneous matter, debittered and stabilized by treatment with steam . Dehulling : Oats to be size-classified and dehulled . After separation of husks oat kernels to be scoured and polished. Groats : Oat kernels to be cut, sorted and air-cleaned. Groats dampened and pre-cooked with steam , then rolled to flakes . Oat flakes : To be packaged in 25 kg bags (2 % empty bags).

Bag composition : — four bags of Kraft paper, of a strength corresponding to a weight of at least 70 g/ m2 ; — one interposed bag made of tarred paper of a strength corresponding to a weight of at least 140 g/m2 ; — one double-bound polyethylene internal pocket at least 0-06 mm thick ; — top and bottom seals of bag to be pasted ; — insect repellant to be applied to outside of bag.

Quality of oat flakes : Humidity : less than 12 % . Ash content : less than 2-3 % of dry matter. Crude fibre : less than 1-5 % of dry matter. Husk content : less than 0-10 % of dry matter. Protein content : not less than 14% of dry matter.

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Numéro du lot Port de débarquement Tonnage à mettre en caf Période d' embarquement Inscription sur les sacs N. della partita Porto di sbarco Tonnellaggio da consegnare cif Periodo d' imbarco Iscrizione sui sacchi Nr. der Lose Bestimmungshafen Nach cif zu bringende Menge Verschiffungszeitraum Aufschrift auf den Säcken Partiets nummer Lossehavn Mængde til levering cif Indskibningsperiode Paskrift pa sækkene No of lot Port of unloading Tonnage cif Loading period Inscription on the sacks Nr. van de Periode van laden Haven van lossing Cif aan te leveren hoeveelheid Melding op de zakken partij

1 Saigon 200 1 . - 30 . 4 . 1975 2 Saigon 200 1 . - 30. 5 . 1975 I FLOCONS D'AVOINE / DON 3 Saigon 200 1.-30 . 6. 1975 ! DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ ÉCONOMIQUE EUROPÉENNE 4 Saigon 200 1.-30 . 7. 1975 / ACTION DU FONDS DES 5 Saigon 200 1 . - 30 . 8 . 1975 1 NATIONS UNIES POUR L'ENFANCE (UNICEF) 6 Bangkok 50 1.-30. 4 . 1975 7 Bangkok 50 1.-30 . 6 . 1975

8 Chaîna 375 1 . - 30 . 4 . 1975 \ 9 Chaîna 400 1 . - 30 . 5 . 1975 10 Chaîna 375 1 . - 30 . 6. 1975 11 Chaîna 400 1 . - 30. 7. 1975 ROLLED OATS / GIFT OF THE 12 Chaîna 400 1.-30. 8 . 1975 EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ) COMMUNITY / ACTION OÎ 13 Chittagong 375 1 . - 30 . 4 . 1975 THE UNITED NATIONS 14 400 1 . - 30 . 5 . 1975 1 CHILDREN'S FUND (UNICEF; Chittagong 15 Chittagong 375 1.-30 . 6. 1975 16 Chittagong 400 1.-30 . 7. 1975 17 Chittagong 400 1 . - 30 . 8 . 1975

5 000 I