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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1034/76 of 30 April 1976 on the supply of white sugar to UNRWA as food aid

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN shall be placed at the disposal of UNRWA as food COMMUNITIES, aid :

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European — 6 153 metric tons for the 1975/76 sugar marketing year, Economic Community, — 6 153 metric tons for the 1976/77 sugar marketing Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, year, — 6 153 metric tons for the 1977/78 sugar marketing Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­ year. ment (*), Whereas the United Nations Relief and Works If the quantities laid down for the sugar marketing years 1976/77 and 1977/78 are varied by agreement Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has asked between the Community and UNRWA by an amount the Community to supply 6 153 metric tons of white of 500 metric tons or less, the quantities given under sugar annually as food aid ; the second and third indents of the first subparagraph shall be read as having been amended accordingly. Whereas provision should be made for the possibility of adapting the quantities provided for the sugar 2. Should the white sugar not be available on the marketing years 1976/77 and 1977/78 ; Community market under normal conditions, it may be mobilized by purchases on the world market. Whereas in view of the need to ensure regular supplies, the possibility should also be provided for of 3. The contract for the mobilization of the goods as carrying out purchases of white sugar upon the world far as the port of unloading shall be awarded under a market, when necessary ; tendering procedure. In exceptional circumstances different procedures may be used. Whereas to permit effective use of the aid, the Community should defray the costs of transport of the 4. The conditions applying to the invitation to product as far as the port of unloading, of transport as tender and other detailed rules for the application of far as the point of destination and of distribution in addition to the cost of the raw material ; this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 36 of Council Regula­ tion (EEC) No 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the Whereas delivery should be carried out at the lowest common organization of the market in sugar (2), as price ; whereas to this end a tendering procedure last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3058/75 (3). should be provided for ; whereas, however, in excep­ tional cases, it may be necessary, for reasons of speed, to employ different procedures, Article 2

For the purposes referred to in Article 1 , the following HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : are eligible for Community financing :

— the value of the sugar delivered to the port of Article 1 unloading, — the costs of transport to the point of destination 1 . The following quantities of white sugar, and the costs of distribution . produced and in free circulation in the Community, (2) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . (') OJ No C 100, 3. 5. 1976, p. 36. (3 ) OJ No L 306, 26. 11 . 1975, p. 3 .

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The Commission shall pay to UNRWA a lump sum This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day contribution in respect of the costs referred to in the following its publication in the Official Journal of second indent of Article 2 . the European Communities.

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

Done at Luxembourg, 30 April 1976.

For the Council

The President

B. BERG