Council Regulation (EEC) No 597/91 of 5 March 1991 on urgent action for the supply of agricultural and medical products intended for the people of Romania and Bulgaria
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The Community shall take urgent action to supply Romania and Bulgaria with agricultural and medical products. Expenditure on this action shall be limited to ECU (budget) 100 million, of which ECU 20 million shall be for aid in the form of medical products.
For the purposes of this action, with regard to agricultural products: 1. the Community shall transfer agricultural products available as a result of intervention free of charge to Romania and Bulgaria; in response to specific requests concerning products not available from intervention stocks, products may be mobilized on the Community market; 2. supply costs shall be met by the Community and suppliers shall be chosen by tendering procedure. Transport costs shall be borne by the Community unless the recipient country itself takes the products over in the Community. These costs may include processing of products mobilized as provided for in paragraph 1; 3. as an exception, and for reasons arising only from the urgency of the action, the Commission may choose the supplier by direct agreement; 4. no export refund shall be granted, or monetary compensatory amounts applied in respect of the products supplied under this action.
The accounting value of the products transferred to Romania and Bulgaria shall be determined using the procedure laid down in Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2048/88 (5).
The Commission shall be responsible for verifying on the spot the delivery operations and the application of the criteria adopted when the aid is distributed to the people.
1. The Commission shall be responsible for implementing this action. 2. Except where emergency medical aid is concerned, detailed rules for the application of this Regulation shall be adopted using the procedure laid down in Article 26 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3577/90 (7), or, as appropriate, the corresponding Articles of other Regulations on common organization of the market.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 5 March 1991. For the Council The President J. F. POOS (1) OJ No C 22, 30. 1. 1991, p. 10. (2) Opinion delivered on 22 February 1991 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (3) Opinion delivered on 30 January 1991 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (4) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13. (5) OJ No L 185, 15. 7. 1988, p. 1. (6) OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1. (7) OJ No L 353, 17. 12. 1990, p. 23.
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