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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC ) No 2975 / 80 of 17 November 1980 on the supply of rolled oats to the Catholic Relief Services as food aid

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas it is necessary to provide for the COMMUNITIES , carrying-out of this measure in accordance with the rules laid down by Commission Regulation ( EEC) Having regard to the Treaty establishing the No 1974 / 80 of 22 July 1980 laying down general European Economic Community , rules for the implementation of certain food-aid operations involving cereal and rice products ('); Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No whereas it is necessary to specify, for the purposes of 2727 / 75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­ the Community measure envisaged , the characteristics zation of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by of the products to be supplied and the supply Regulation ( EEC) No 1870 / 80 (2), and in particular conditions which are set out in the Annex to this Article 28 thereof, Regulation ; Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation 2750 / 75 of 29 October 1975 fixing criteria for the are in accordance with the opinion of the mobilization of cereals intended as food aid (3), and Management Committee for Cereals , in particular Article 6 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation No 129 of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 23 October 1962 on the value of the unit of account and the exchange rates to be applied for the purposes Article 1 of the common agricultural policy (4), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2543 / 73 ( 5), and The German intervention agency shall be charged in particular Article 3 thereof, with implementing the mobilization and supply pro­ cedures in accordance with the provisions of Regu­ Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary lation (EEC) No 1974 / 80 and with the conditions Committee , laid down in the Annex hereto .

Whereas , on 28 May 1980 , the Council of the Article 2 European Communities has expressed its intention to grant, under a Community measure , 1 400 tonnes of This Regulation shall enter into force on the day cereals to the Catholic Relief Services under its following its publication in the Official Journal of the food-aid programme for 1980 ; European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 17 November 1980 .

For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

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ANNEX 1 . Programme : 1980 2 . Recipient : Catholic Relief Services 3 . Place or country of destination : Haiti 4 . Product to be mobilized : rolled oats 5 . Total quantity : 700 tonnes 6 . Number of lots : one 7 . Intervention agency responsible for conducting the procedure : BALM — Bundesanstalt für landwirtschaftliche Marktordnung , 6000 Frankfurt/ Main , Adickesallee 40 , telex 41 1 475 8 . Method of mobilizing the product : Community market 9 . Characteristics of the goods : production of quick-cooking oat flakes : Raw oats : First quality high-density oats . Cleaning and preparation : Oats to be cleaned of extraneous matter , debittered and stabilized by treatment with steam . Hulling : Oats to be size-classified and hulled . 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 . 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 10 . Packaging : — in bags (') — quality of the bags : bag composition : — four bags of Kraft paper, of a strength corresponding to a weight of at least 70 g / m 2 , — one interposed bag made of tarred paper of a strength corresponding to a weight of at least 140 g / m 2 , — one double-bound polyethylene internal pocket at least 0 06 mm thick, — top and bottom seals of bag to be pasted , — insect repellent to be applied to outside of bag — net weight of bags : 25 kg — marking of the bags : letters at least 5 cm high : ' Flocons d'avoine / Don de la Communauté économique européenne / Destiné à la distri­ bution gratuite en Haïti / Cathwel / 6134 / Port-au-Prince ' I I . Port of shipment : a Community port 12 . Delivery stage : fob

(') Since the goods may be rebagged , the successful tenderer must provide 2 % of empty bags of the same quality as those containing the goods , with the marking followed by a capital ' R'.

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13 . Port of landing : Port-au-Prince 14 . Procedure to be applied in order to determine supply costs : tendering 15 . Deadline for the submission of tenders : 28 November 1980 at 12 noon 16 . Shipment period : from 1 to 31 January 1981 17 . Security : 12 ECU / tonne 18 . At the request of Catholic Relief Services a phytosanitary certificate must be supplied to Cebemo (The Hague)