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11 . 3 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 64/ 1

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

REGULATION ( EEC) No 611 /75 OF THE COUNCIL of 4 March 1975 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1052/73 on the supply of sugar to UNRWA as food aid, pursuant to the Agreement with that agency of 18 December 1972

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN tions to tender, no contract was awarded as a result of COMMUNITIES, this standing invitation, for want of tenderers ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, in view of the sugar supply situation in the Economic Community ; Community and the discouraging prospects for the 1974/75 harvest, this situation is likely to persist ; Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; whereas the sugar delivered to UNRWA in 1973/74 is Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­ exhausted ; whereas the present situation is such as to ment ; require the shipment as soon as possible of the quan­ Whereas the Agreement signed at Brussels on 1 8 tity stipulated under the Agreement for 1974/75, as December 1972 ( 1 ) between the European Economic amended by the exchange of letters on 3 October Community and the United Nations Relief and 1974(3 ); Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near Whereas the Agreement does not specify the origin of East, hereinafter referred to as 'the Agreement', this sugar and consequently does not exclude the provides for the supply to UNRWA by the Commu­ possibility of sugar being purchased on a market other nity over three sugar years of a quantity of white sugar than the Community market ; whereas provision to be determined for each year ; should therefore be made for allowing white sugar to Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No be purchased on the world market if necessary, 1052/73(2) of 17 April 1973 on the supply of sugar to UNRWA as food aid pursuant to the Agreement with HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : that agency of 18 December 1972, provides that a quantity of white sugar produced and in free circula­ Article 1 tion in the Community is to be placed at the disposal A third subparagraph shall be added to Article 1 ( 1 ) of of UNRWA ; whereas for the 1974/75 sugar year Regulation (EEC) No 1052/73 , as follows : 6 094 metric tons are involved ; ' If the white sugar is not available on the Commu­ Whereas an invitation to tender was opened on 7 nity market on normal terms, it may be obtained August 1974 for the emergency supply of a first quan­ by purchase on the world market.' tity of 1 000 metric tons of white sugar in two lots ; whereas in view of the lack of tenderers no contract Article 2 was awarded ; whereas on 18 September 1974 a standing invitation to tender for the supply of a total This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day quantity of 6 094 metric tons of white sugar in two following its publication in the Official Journal of lots was opened ; whereas, despite six partial invita­ the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 March 1975 . For the Council The President J. KEATING

(') OJ No L 304, 31 . 12. 1972, p. 24. (2) OJ No L 105, 20 . 4. 1973 , p . 1 . 0 ) OJ No L 328 , 7. 12. 1974, p. 42.