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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1188/2000
of 5 June 2000
amendingReg ulation (EC) No 539/2000 on the issuingof a standinginvitation to tender for the sale
of common wheat of breadmakingquality held by the German intervention ag ency for export to
certain ACP countries in the 1999/2000 marketingyear
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the EuropeanCommunity,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30
June 1992 on the common organisation of the market incereals (
1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1253/
1999 (2), and in particular Article 5 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 39/1999 (4), lays down
the procedure and conditions for the disposal of cerealsheld by intervention agencies.
(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 539/2000 (5) issued a
standing invitation to tender for the sale of commonwheat of breadmaking quality held by the German inter-vention agency for export to certain ACP countries. Thetime limit for the last partial invitation to tenderprovided for in that Regulation should be fixed at a laterdate.
(3) As a result of the extension of this invitation to tender,certain provisions of the invitation to tender should beadjusted and in particular a standard term of validity forexport licences should be established of the currentmonth plus four months.
(4) The final date for the removal of cereals and the relevantprovisions should also be deleted.
(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are inaccordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee for Cereals,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Regulation (EC) No 539/2000 is hereby amended as follows:1. Article 3(2) is replaced by the following:
‘2. The time limit for submitting tenders for the
following partial invitation to tender shall be 9 a.m. (Brus-sels time) each Thursday.
The time limit for the partial invitation to tender shall be 9
a.m. (Brussels time) on 28 September 2000.’;
2. the first indent of Article 4(1) is replaced by the following:
‘— the tenderer provides written proof from an official
body in the ACP country of destination or a companyhaving its overseas subsidiary in the said country, thathe has concluded for the quantity in question acommercial supply contract for common wheat forexport to an ACP State or to several States within oneof the groups of ACP States listed in Annex I. Suchproof shall be lodged with the competent authorities atleast two working days before the date of the partialinvitation to tender against which the tender is to besubmitted.’;
3. Article 5(2) is replaced by the following:
‘2. Export licences shall be valid from their date of issue
within the meaning of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No2131/93 until the end of the fourth month following.’;
4. Article 7 is replaced by the following:
‘Article 7The successful tenderer shall pay for the common wheat
before removing it at the price indicated in the tender. Thepayment due for each of the lots to be removed shall beindivisible.’;
5. the last sentence in the second indent of Article 8(2) is
replaced by the following:
‘This proof shall be supplied in accordance with Articles 16
and 49 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/1999 (*).
(*) OJ L 102, 17.4.1999, p. 11.’.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .(1) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 18.
(3) OJ L 191, 31.7.1993, p. 76.
(4) OJ L 5, 9.1.1999, p. 64.
(5) OJ L 65, 14.3.2000, p. 14.
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 5 June 2000.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission