51997PC0018

Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) apportioning the quantities of grain provided for under the Food Aid Convention 1995 (97/C 112/05) COM(97) 18 final - 97/0026(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 4 March 1997)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 of 27 June 1996 on food-aid policy and food-aid management and special operations in support of food security (1), and in particular Article 21 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Whereas the Food Aid Convention 1995 has applied provisionally in the Community since 1 July 1995; whereas Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 did not enter into force until 8 July;

Whereas Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 requires the Commission to coordinate Community and Member States' operations for the purposes of the Regulation; whereas it has presented a proposed breakdown of national aid to this end and this is published in the Annex; whereas this should be decided on by the Representatives of the Member States meeting within the Council and adopted together with the Regulation,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The 1 755 000 tonnes of grain constituting the minimum annual contribution to be made by the Community and its Member States pursuant to the Food Aid Convention 1995 shall be apportioned as follows for the lifetime of the current version of that Convention:

(a) Community operations: 983 800 tonnes;

(b) national operations: 771 200 tonnes.

Article 2

The breakdown of quantities for national operations provided for in Article 21 (2) of Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 and published in the Annex to this Regulation must be decided on by the Representatives of the Member States meeting within the Council and adopted at the same time as this Regulation.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following 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.

(1) OJ No L 166, 5. 7. 1996, p. 1.

ANNEX

PROPOSED BREAKDOWN OF AMOUNTS ALLOCATED UNDER NATIONAL FOOD-AID OPERATIONS UNDER THE FOOD AID CONVENTION

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