General Authority For Supply Commodities

GASC has been established by the republican decree No 1189/1968 and to be affiliated to the Ministry Of Supply And Home Trade and its headquarter has been Cairo. The main reason for establishing this economic body has been to overcome the crises arising in the Egyptian market during the period of 1967 and the subsequent years, and that was by commissioning that task of supplying into a financially and administratively independent entity. 

General Authority For Supply Commodities (GASC) activates the local and international market mechanism in order to procure the strategic commodities needed by the state so as to realize the following targets:

• Improvig productivity and raising up the agricultural production efficiency.
• Developing marketing and promotional services.
• Establishing strategic governmental food stock.
• Achieving structural suitability within the state marketing system.
• Creating competitiveness, prohibiting monopoly and making the local market balanced.