31982R0562

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 562/82 of 9 March 1982 on the supply of various consignments of cereals and/or rice as food aid under Regulation (EEC) No 3723/81

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tenders, the award of contracts and the payment of COMMUNITIES, successful tenderers, as well as the characteristics of the products to be supplied and the supply conditions, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European which are set out in the Annexes to this Regulation ; Economic Community, Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Committee for Cereals, 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­ zation of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3808/81 (2), and in particular HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 28 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Article 1 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the market in rice (3), as last amended by the Act of The intervention agencies listed in the Annexes hereto Accession of Greece, and in particular Article 25 shall be responsible for implementing the procedures thereof, for mobilizing and supplying the products indicated therein under the terms of this Regulation. Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2750/75 of 29 October 1975 fixing criteria for the The general rules laid down in Regulation (EEC) No mobilization of cereals intended as food aid (4), and in 1974/80 shall apply without prejudice to the special particular Article 6 thereof, provisions set out below.

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3723/81 (*) Article 2 provided for exceptional food aid totalling 40 million ECU to be granted to the least-developed countries ; The detailed rules laid down in the first subparagraph whereas various sums have been allocated for the deli­ of Article 4 (3) (e), Article 7 (3), Article 8, the second very of cereals and rice to certain non-member coun­ subparagraph of Article 1 5 (2) and Article 1 7 of Regu­ tries and beneficiary organizations ; lation (EEC) No 1974/80 shall not apply.

Whereas this amount should be increased by the costs Article 3 borne by the Guarantee Section of the European Agri­ cultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund in accordance 1 . The tendering procedures opened by this Regula­ with Council Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /74 (*); tion shall cover contracts for the supply of maximum quantities of the products referred to in the Annexes Whereas it is necessary to provide for these measures for the amounts in ECU set out therein in respect of to be carried out in accordance with the rules laid each separate operation. down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1974/80 of 22 July 1980 laying down general rules for the imple­ 2. Under each tendering procedure, tenders shall mentation of certain food-aid operations involving indicate the quantities tendered for at the amount cereal and rice products (7), as last amended by Regula­ fixed. They shall be valid only if they relate to the tion (EEC) No 3323/81 (8) ; whereas it is necessary, for whole of this amount. the purposes of the Community measure envisaged, to lay down special conditions for the submission of 3. The intervention agency concerned in each case shall award the contract to the tenderer offering the largest quantities. (') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1981 , p. 37. (j OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 . However, if in the light of the quantities offered for 0 OJ No L 281 , 8 . 11 . 1975, p. 89. the amount fixed, the tenders received do not appear 0 OJ No L 373, 29. 12. 1981 , p. 11 . to match the conditions normally practiced on the (j OJ No L 288, 25. 10. 1974, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 192, 26. 7. 1980, p. 11 . market, the intervention agency may decide not to 0 OJ No L 334, 21 . 11 . 1981 , p. 27. award the contract.

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If an intervention agency avails itself of the provisions make payments on the basis of the certificate and the of the preceding subparagraph, it shall publish its supporting documents referred to in Article 1 6 (2) of decision not to award a contract on the basis of the the abovementioned Regulation. tenders received and shall initiate a second tendering procedure within one week at the latest. It shall imme­ diately inform the Commission thereof. Article 5

Article 4 For the purposes of implementing the tendering procedure on the one hand and payment to the 1 . The sum to be paid to the successful tenderer successful tenderer on the other, the amount referred shall be the amount referred to in Article 3 (1 ). It shall to in Article 3 (1 ) shall be converted into the relevant be paid by the intervention agency in the Member national currency using the last spot exchange rate State in which the customs export formalities are recorded immediately before the final date for the completed and in the currency of that Member State. submission of tenders, as published in the Official Journal of the European Communities, Series *C\ 2. The amount referred to in paragraph 1 shall be paid to the successful tenderer only on presentation of the original of the taking-over certificate or a certified true copy thereof and the supporting documents Article 6 referred to in Article 16 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1974/80. This Regulation shall enter into force on the day However, if the said taking-over certificate is not following its publication in the Official Journal of the issued by the recipient, the intervention agency shall European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 March 1982. For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

1 . Programme : 1981 2. Recipient : Somalia 3. Place or country of destination : Somalia 4. Products to be mobilized : common wheat flour 5. Amount : 1 000 000 ECU, increased by 85 ECU per tonne of product offered 6. Number of lots : one 7. Intervention agency responsible for conducting the procedure : BALM — Bundesanstalt für landwirtschaftliche Marktordnung, Adickesallee 40, D-6 000 Frank­ furt/Main (telex 41 1 475) 8. Method of mobilizing the product : on the Community market 9. Characteristics of the goods : — flour of fair and sound merchantable quality, free from abnormal smell and pests — moisture : 14 % maximum — protein content : 10-5% minimum (N x 6-25 on dry matter) — ash content : 0*62 % maximum referred to dry matter 10. Packaging : — in new bags (') ; — jute sacks of a minimum weight of 600 g, or — composite sacks jute/polypropylene of a minimum weight of 335 g — net weight of the bags : 50 kg — marking on the bags in letters at least 5 cm high : •WHEAT FLOUR / GIFT OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY TO SOMALIA' 1 1 . Port of shipment : a Community port 12. Delivery stage : cif 13. Port of landing : Mogadiscio 14. Procedure to be applied in order to determine supply costs : tendering 15. Deadline for the submission of tenders : 12 noon on 22 March 1982 16. Shipment period : April 1982 17. Security : 12 ECU per tonne

(') 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

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ANNEX II

1 . Programme : 1981 2. Recipient : Ethiopia 3. Place or country of destination Ethiopia 4. Product to be mobilized : common wheat 5. Amount : 3 500 000 ECU, increased by 55 ECU per tonne of product offered 6. Number of lots : one 7. Intervention agency responsible for conducting the procedure : OBEA, rue de Treves 82, B-1040 Bruxelles (telex 24076) 8. Method of mobilizing the product : on the Community market 9 . Characteristics of the goods : the common wheat must be of fair and sound merchantable quality and correspond at least to the bread-making quality required for intervention 10. Packaging : in bulk plus sufficient empty new jute sacks of a capacity of 50 kilograms, 200 needles and sufficient twine (') — marking on the bags in letters at least 5 cm high : 'FOOD AID OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY TO THE PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIA' 1 1 . Port of shipment : a Community port 12. Delivery stage : cif 13. Port of landing : Assab 14. Procedure to be applied in order to determine supply costs : tendering 15. Deadline for the submission of tender : 12 noon on 22 March 1982 16. Shipment period : April 1982 17. Security : 6 ECU per tonne

(') Since the goods may be rebagged, the successful tenderer must provide in addition 2 % of empty bags of the same quality.

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ANNEX III

1 . Programme : 1981 2. Recipient : Cape Verde Islands 3. Place or country of destination : Cape Verde Islands 4. Product to be mobilized : fully milled long grain rice 5. Amount : 280 000 ECU, increased by 210 ECU per tonne of product offered 6. Number of lots : one 7. Intervention agency responsible for conduction the procedure : Ente Nazionale Risi, Piazza Pio XI, 1 , Milano (telex 334 032) 8. Method of mobilizing the product : on the Community market 9. Characteristics of the goods : — rice of fair and sound merchantable quality, free from abnormal smell and pests — moisture : 15% — broken rice : 5 % maximum — chalky grains : 5 % maximum — grains striated with red : 3 % maximum — spotted grains : 1 -5 % maximum — stained grains : 1 % maximum — yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum — amber grains : 0-20 % maximum 10. Packaging : — in bags (') — quality of the bags : new jute sacks 600 g, lined with cotton sacks — net weight of the bags : 50 kg — marking of the bags in letters at least 5 cm high : 'ARROZ BRANQUEADO / DOM DA COMUNIDADE ECONÓMICA EUROPEIA A REPUBLICA DE CABO VERDE' 1 1 . Port of shipment : a Community port 12. Delivery stage : cif 13. Port of landing : Praia 14. Procedure to be applied in order to determine supply costs : tendering 15. Deadline for the submission of tenders : 12 noon on 22 March 1982 16. Shipment period : 10 to 30 April 1982 17. Security : 12 ECU per tonne

(') 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 TJ *.

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ANNEX IV

1 . Programme : 1981 2. Recipient : Republic of Guinea Bissau 3. Place or country of destination : Republic of Guinea Bissau 4. Product to be mobilized : fully milled long grain rice 5. Amount : 400 000 ECU, increased by 1 50 ECU per tonne of product offered 6. Number of lots : one 7. Intervention agency responsible for conducting the procedure : Ente Nazionale Risi, Piazza Pio XI, 1 , Milano (telex 334 032) 8 . Method of mobilizing the product : on the Community market 9. Characteristics of the goods : — rice of fair and sound merchantable quality, free from abnormal smell and pests — moisture 15 % — broken rice : 30 % maximum — chalky grains : 5 % maximum — grains striated with red : 3 % maximum — spotted grains : 1 -5 % maximum — stained grains : 1 % maximum — yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum — amber grains : 0-20 % maximum 10. Packaging : — in bags (') — quality of the bags : new jute sacks — minimum weight 600 g — net weight of the bags : 50 kg — marking on the bags in letters at least 5 cm high : 'ARROZ BRANQUEADO GRÃO LONGO / DOM DA COMUNIDADE ECONÓMICA EUROPEIA A GUINÉ-BISSAU' 1 1 . Port of shipment : a Community port 12. Delivery stage : cif 13. Port of landing : Bissau 14. Procedure to be applied in order to determine supply costs : tendering 15. Deadline for the submission of tenders : 12 noon on 22 March 1982 16. Shipment period : 10 to 30 April 1982 17. Security : 12 ECU per tonne

(') 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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ANNEX V

1 . Programme : 1981 2. Recipient : Republic of Guinea 3 . Place or country of destination : Conakry 4. Products to be mobilized : husked long grain rice 5. Amount : 800 000 ECU, increased by 150 ECU per tonne of product offered 6 . Number of lots : one 7. Intervention agency responsible for conducting the procedure : Ente Nazionale Risi, Piazza Pio XI, 1 , Milano (telex 26032) 8 . Method of mobilizing the product : on the Community market 9. Characteristics of the goods : — rice of fair and sound merchantable quality, free from abnormal smell and pests — moisture content : 15% — percentage of nee grains which are not of unimpaired quality : — paddy grains : 1 % — broken rice : 3 % — green grains or grains showing natural malformation 5 % (including up to 0-5 % of red grains) — tolerance of extraneous matter, consisting of : — mineral or vegetable inedible substances provided that they are not toxic : 0-01 % — extraneous grains of parts thereof, edible : 0-10 % — when wholly milled, percentage of wholly milled rice grains which are not of unimpaired quality : — chalky grains : 5 % — spotted grains : 1 -5 % — yellow grains : 0-05 % — stained grains : 1 % — amber grains : 0-20 % 10. Packaging : — in bags (') — quality of the bags : new jute sacks, minimum weight 600 g — net weight of the bags : 50 kg — marking on the bags in letters at least 5 cm high : 'RIZ CARGO / DON DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ ÉCONOMIQUE EUROPÉENNE A LA REPUBLIQUE DE GUINÉE' 1 1 . Port of shipment : a Community port 12. Delivery stage : cif 13 . Port of landing : Conakry 14. Procedure to be applied in order to determine supply costs : tendering 15 . Deadline for the submission of tenders : 22 March 1982 at 12 noon 16. Shipment period : 10 to 30 April 1982 17. Security : 12 ECU per tonne

(') 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

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ANNEX VI

1 . Programme : 1981 2. Recipient : the Republic of Benin 3. Place or country of destination : Benin 4. Product to be mobilized : common wheat 5. Amount : 500 000 ECU, increased by 55 ECU per tonne of product offered 6. Number of lots : one 7. Intervention agency responsible for conducting the procedures : OBEA, rue de Treves 82, B-1040 Brussels (telex 24 076) 8 . Method of mobilizing the product : on the Community market 9. Characteristics of the goods : the common wheat must be of a fair and sound merchantable quality and correspond at least to the standard quality for which the reference price is fixed 10. Packaging : in bulk 1 1 . Port of shipment : a Community port 12. Delivery stage : cif 13. Port of landing : Cotonou 14. Procedure to be applied in order to determine supply costs : tendering 15 . Deadline for the submission of tenders : 22 March 1982 at 12 noon 16. Shipment period : 10 to 30 April 1982 17. Security : 6 ECU per tonne

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ANNEX VII

1 . Programme : 1981 2. Recipient : Comoros 3. Place or country of destination : Moroni 4. Product to be mobilized : fully milled long grain rice 5. Amount : 400 000 ECU, increased by 120 ECU per tonne of product offered 6. Number of lots : one 7. Intervention agency responsible for conducting the procedure : Ente Nazionale Risi, Piazza Pio XI, 1 , Milano (telex 334 032) 8 . Method of mobilizing the product : on the Community market 9. Characteristics of the goods : — rice of fair and sound merchantable quality, free from abnormal smell and pests — moisture : 1 5 % — broken rice : 35 % maximum — chalky grains : 5 % maximum — grains striated with red : 3 % maximum — spotted grains : 1 -5 % maximum — stained grains : 1 % maximum — yellow grains : 0-050 % maximum — amber grains : 0-20 % maximum 10. Packaging : — in bags (') — quality of the bags : new jute sacks 600 g, lined with cotton sacks — net weight of the bags : 50 kg marking on the bags in letters at least 5 cm high : 'RIZ BLANCHI / DON DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ ÉCONOMIQUE EUROPÉENNE AUX COMORES' 1 1 . Port of shipment : a Community port 12. Delivery stage : cif 13. Port of landing : Moroni 14. Procedure to be applied in order to determine supply costs : tendering 15. Deadline for the submission of tenders : 12 noon on 22 March 1982 16. Shipment period : 10 to 30 April 1982 17. Security : 12 ECU per tonne

(') 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\