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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2852/98
of 30 December 1998
opening an invitation to tender for the reduction in the duty on sorghum
imported into Spain from third countries
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 themarket in cereals (
1), as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular Article
12 (1) thereof,
Whereas, pursuant to the Agreement on Agriculture
concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateraltrade negotiations the Community has undertaken toimport a certain quantity of sorghum into Spain;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1839/95 of 26
July 1995 laying down detailed rules for the applicationof tariff quotas for imports of maize and sorghum intoSpain and imports of maize into Portugal (
3), as amended
by Regulation (EC) No 1963/95 (4), lays down the rules
governing the administration of those special arrange-ments; whereas this Regulation lays down the specialadditional detailed rules necessary for implementing theinvitation to tender, in particular those relating to thelodging and release of the security to be lodged by opera-tors to ensure compliance with their obligations and, inparticular the obligation to process or use the importedproduct on the Spanish market;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 of 20 July
1998 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-ucts and goods resulting from the processing of agricul-tural products originating in the African, Caribbean andPacific States (ACP States) and repealing Regulation (EEC)No 715/90 (
5) provides in particular for a reduction of
60 % in the duty applicable to grain sorghum up to aquota of 100 000 tonnes per calendar year and of 50 % inexcess of that quota; whereas, if that benefit is combinedwith the reduction provided for under this Regulation,this is likely to disturb the Spanish market for cereals;whereas such combined benefits should be ruled out forthe sake of the satisfactory functioning of the invitation to
tender;
Whereas in the light of current market needs in Spain an
invitation to tender for the reduction in the duty onimports of sorghum should be opened in the frameworkof these special arrangements for imports;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee for Cereals,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the
reduction in the import duty referred to in Article 10(2) ofRegulation (EEC) No 1766/92 on sorghum to beimported into Spain.
2. Under this invitation to tender, the reduction in the
import duty on grain sorghum provided for in Article 12of Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 shall not apply.
3. The invitation to tender shall be open until 25
February 1999. During that period, weekly invitationsshall be issued with quantities and closing dates as shownin the notice of invitation to tender.
4. Regulation (EC) No 1839/95 shall apply save as
otherwise provided for in this Regulation.
Article 2
Import licences issued under these invitations to tender
shall be valid 50 days from the date they are issued,within the meaning of Article 10(4) of Regulation (EC)No 1839/95.
Article 3
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 126, 24. 5. 1996, p. 37.
(3) OJ L 177, 28. 7. 1995, p. 4.
(4) OJ L 189, 10. 8. 1995, p. 22.
(5) OJ L 215, 1. 8. 1998, p. 12.
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 30 December 1998.
For the Commission
Karel VAN MIERT
Member of the Commission