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Whereas Regulations (EEC) No 2727/75 and No 359/67/EEC provide in their Articles 28 and 23a respectively for the Council to fix the criteria according to which products intended as food aid must be mobilized on the Community market; Whereas disturbance of the market in cereals caused by withdrawals of cereals intended as food aid should be avoided; Whereas the possibility should be provided for cereals to be mobilized in Community regions in order to relieve the regional market, when the market situation in those regions is likely to cause intervention agencies to buy in large quantities of cereals; whereas, when certain intervention agencies hold quantities of cereals, mobilization of all or part of the cereals held by them may help to improve their situation; Whereas, when such specific cases do not arise, cereals should be mobilized on the Community market as a whole; Whereas the procedure of issuing invitations to tender best enables cereals to be effectively mobilized; whereas for emergency operations, however, it may be decided to use different procedures for the sake of speed, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: