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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2179/1999
of 14 October 1999
openingan invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled, medium g rain and long
grain A rice to certain third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the EuropeanCommunity,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22
December 1995 on the common organisation of the market inrice(
1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2072/98(2), and
in particular Article 13(3) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)Examination of the balance sheet shows that exportable
amounts of rice are currently held by producers. Thissituation could affect the normal development ofproducer prices during the 1999/2000 marketing year.
(2)In order to remedy this situation, it is appropriate tomake use of export refunds to zones which may besupplied by the Community. The special situation of therice market makes it necessary to limit the refunds, andtherefore to apply Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No3072/95 enabling the refund amount to be fixed bytendering procedure.
(3)It should be stated that the provisions of CommissionRegulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March 1975 layingdown detailed rules for the application of the system oftendering for export refunds on rice(
3), as last amended
by Regulation (EC) No 299/95(4), apply to this invita-
tion to tender.
(4)In order to avoid disturbances on the markets of theproducing countries, the invitation to tender should belimited to certain zones specified in the Annex toCommission Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92(
5), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3304/94(6).
(5)Pursuant to Article 14 of Commission Regulation (EC)No 2808/98 of 22 December 1998 laying down detailedrules for the application of the agrimonetary system forthe euro in agriculture(
7), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1410/1999(8), amounts quoted in tenders
submitted in response to invitations to tender organisedunder an instrument forming part of the common agri-cultural policy must be expressed in euro. Article 5(1) ofthat Regulation provides that in such cases the operativeevent for the agricultural exchange rate is the final dayfor the submission of tenders. Paragraphs 3 and 4 ofthat Article specify the operative events applicable to
advances and securities.
(6)The measures provided for in this Regulation are inaccordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee for Cereals,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the refund
on export of wholly milled, medium grain and long grain Arice for Zones I to VI (except Cyprus, the Czech Republic,Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Turkey) and for ZoneVIII (except Guyana, Madagascar and Suriname), as specified inthe Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92.
2. The invitation to tender shall be open until 29 June
2000. During that period weekly invitations to tender shall beissued and the date for submission of tenders shall be deter-mined in the notice of invitation to tender.
3. The invitation to tender shall take place in accordance
with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 and withthe following provisions.
Article 2
A tender shall be admissible only if it covers a quantity for
export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 3000 tonnes.
Article 3
The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No
584/75 shall be EUR 30 per tonne.
Article 4
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21(1) of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88(
9), export licences
issued within this invitation to tender shall, for the purposes ofdetermining their period of validity, be considered as havingbeen issued on the day the tender was submitted.
2. The licences shall be valid from their date of issue, within
the meaning of paragraph 1, until the end of the fourth monthfollowing.(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 61, 7.3.1975, p. 25.
(4) OJ L 35, 15.2.1995, p. 8.
(5) OJ L 214, 30.7.1992, p. 20.
(6) OJ L 341, 30.12.1994, p. 48.
(7) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 36.
(8) OJ L 164, 30.6.1999, p. 53. (9) OJ L 331, 2.12.1988, p. 1.
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Article 5
Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through the
Member States not later than one and a half hours after expiryof the deadline for weekly submission of tenders as laid downin the notice of invitation to tender. They must be transmittedin accordance with the table given in the Annex.
If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall inform the
Commission accordingly within the same deadline as that givenin the above subparagraph.
Article 6
The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.
Article 7
1. On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission shall
decide in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article22 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95:— either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account of
the criteria laid down in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No3072/95,
— or not to take any action on the tenders.
2. Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award shall
be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders are at orbelow the maximum export refund level.
Article 8
The deadline for submission of tenders for the first partial
invitation to tender shall be 10 a.m. on 28 October 1999.
The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at 29
June 2000.
Article 9
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.
Done at Brussels, 14 October 1999.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
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ANNEX
Weekly invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled, medium grain and long grain A rice to
certain third countries
Deadline for the submission of tenders (date/time)
1 2 3
Serial number
of tenderersQuantities
in tonnesAmount of export refund
(in euro per tonne)
1
2
3
4
5
etc.