16. 10. 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 258/11 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2826/93 of 15 October 1993 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 laying down detailed rules for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3730/87 of 10 December 1987 laying down the general rules for the supply of food from intervention stocks to designated organizations for distribution to the most deprived persons in the Community ('), and in particular Article 6 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 of 28 December 1992 on the unit of account and the conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the common agricultural policy (3, and in particular Article 6 (2) thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 (), amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3550/92 (%), lays down. detailed rules of Regulation (EEC) No 3730/87; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 provides for application of the agricultural conversion rate to express in national currencies agricultural prices and amounts fixed in ecus ; whereas, because of the existence of finan- cial limits laid down for the implementation of the annual plan for the supplies based on conversion rates on 1 October, the agricultural conversion rate applicable on that date should in order to preserve the resources allo- cated to each Member State, be used to determine the volumes of products made available from intervention and to convert costs relating to supplies under the scheme in question ; Whereas, in the light of experience and in order to ensure improved utilization of the available resources, it should be specified that in no circumstance may product carriage costs give rise to payments in the form of products; Whereas, for the purposes of sound management of the system, provision . should also be made that where products are not available in the Member State in which they are required, an invitation to tender is to be orga- nized to determine the most favourable conditions under which their supply, and intra-Community transport in particular, may be undertaken; whereas it is likewise necessary in such cases to permit the mobilization of () OJ No L 352, 15. 12. 1987, () OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, () OJ No L 313, 30. 10. 1992, (9 OJ No L 361, 10. 12. 1992, VPPV —n products and their supply to charitable organizations without first operating transfers between intervention stocks located in different Member States ; Whereas, lastly, it is necessary to specify, on the one hand, the obligations of the persons contracted to supply the products and, on the other, as regards the lodging and release of the securities, the terms applicable to commu- nication between Member States concerning the imple- mentation of the annual plan; Whereas provision should be made for this Regulation to apply at the beginning of the period of execution of the distribution plan; namely 1 October 1993 ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of all the relevant mana- gement committees, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92. is hereby amended as follows : 1. The following sentence is added to the first subpara- graph of Article 4 (2): ‘The call for tenders shall specify the nature and characteristics of the product to be supplied.’ 2. In Article 4, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following : ‘3. The Member States may make provision for the supply to entail in addition the carriage of the products to the warehouses of the charitable organiza- tion and, where appropriate, their distribution to the recipients. However, in such cases the carriage shall be the subject of a specific provision in the call for tenders mentioned in paragraph 2 and shall consti- tute a separate part of the tenderer’s bid involving payment in cash. Furthermore, the carriage costs may not be the subject of payment in the form of products.’ 3. The second subparagraph of Article 5 (1) is replaced by the following : ‘Conversion into national currency of the accounting value of the products made available from interven- tion shall be carried out using the agricultural conver- sion rate applicable on the 1 October of the year of implementation of the plan’