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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2042/1999
of 27 September 1999
on the transport of pigmeat to Russia
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2802/98 of 17
December1998onaprogrammetosupplyagriculturalprod-uctstotheRussianFederation(
1),andinparticularArticle4(2)
thereof,
(1)WhereasCommissionRegulation(EC)No111/1999(2),
as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1125/1999(3), lays
downgeneralrulesfortheapplicationofRegulation(EC)No 2802/98;
(2)Whereas an invitation to tender was opened byCommission Regulation (EC) No 1135/1999(
4), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1773/1999(5), for the
purpose of awarding contracts for the supply of anumber of lots of pigmeat to be delivered toCommunity stores; whereas a new invitation to tendershouldbeopenedtoawardcontractsforthetransportofthat pigmeat from the Community stores to Russia;
(3)Whereas the supply of 3500 tonnes should be organ-ised in one single lot;
(4)Whereasthespecialconditionsapplicabletothatsupplyoperation should be defined as a supplement to theprovisions laid down in Regulation (EC) No 111/1999;whereastheentryintoforceofthoseconditionsshouldbe immediate;
(5)Whereas the measures provided for in this RegulationareinaccordancewiththeopinionoftheManagementCommittee for Pigmeat,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Aninvitationtotenderisherebyopenedtoestablishthecosts
of supplying transport for a total of 3500 tonnes net ofpigmeat in one single lot, as defined in Annex I, as a supplyoperation covered by Article 2(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No111/1999,inaccordancewiththatRegulationandthisRegula-tion.
Article 2
1. The supply shall comprise:
— take-over at the stage laid down in paragraph 2, and— transportbysuitablemeanstothedestinationstoarriveno
later than the dates laid down in Annex I. Sea transportmustbeundertakenbyasinglevesselinthecaseofgoodstobedeliveredbyagivendatetoagivenportofdestina-
tion or transhipment.
2. Thepigmeatlotshallbekeptavailableforthesuccessful
tenderer in the coldstores listed in Annex II.
Removal from each store must take place from the dates laid
down in Annex II in conformity with the minimum loadingrate per day.
After expiry of 10 working days after the above dates and of
the period required for removal from the stores taking intoaccounttheminimumloadingrateslaiddowninAnnexII,thesuccessfultenderershallbeobligedtoreimbursetheCommis-sionforallcostsincurredbythelatterasaresultofthedelayintake-over(parking,insurance,security,securities,etc.)aslaiddown in Article 7a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 111/1999.
Article 3
1. Tenders shall be lodged with the Spanish intervention
agency, whose address is given at Annex II.
The time limit for lodging tenders shall expire on 5 October
1999 at 12 noon (Brussels time).
2. Tendersshallcoverthecostoftransportofallthequant-
itiesinonelottobetakenoveratthecoldstoreslaiddowninArticle2(2)andtobesuppliedtothedestinationlaiddowninAnnex I.
Article 4
1. The tendering security shall be EUR 25/t of pigmeat to
be delivered.
2. The supply security shall be EUR 1718/t of pigmeat to
bedelivered.ItmustbelodgedinaccordancewithArticle7(1)ofRegulation(EC)No111/1999infavouroftheinterventionagency indicated in Article 3 for the lot in question.
Article 5
Thetake-overcertificatedrawnupinaccordancewithAnnexI
toRegulation(EC)No111/1999shallbeissuedattheplaceofdestinationbythecontrolbodydesignatedbytheCommissionand signed by the authorities listed in Annex III.
Article 6
ForthepurposesofArticle13ofRegulation(EC)No111/1999
theadvanceshallbepaidonpresentationofaremovalcertifi-cate covering the entire quantity to be delivered to a givendestination on a given date.
(1) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 14, 19.1.1999, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 135, 29.5.1999, p. 41.
(4) OJ L 135, 29.5.1999, p. 85.
(5) OJ L 211, 11.8.1999, p. 46.
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Payment shall be made within 15 days of presentation of the
applicationfortheadvanceaccompaniedbytherequisitedocu-mentary evidence.
Article 7
The successful tenderer shall ensure that the special stamp
shownintheAnnextoCommissionRegulation(EC)No385/1999(
1) is inserted in the transport documents.Article 8
If during performance of the transport it proves necessary to
changetherouteindicatedinthetender,thesuccessfultenderermustwithoutdelayinformtheCommission,thecontrolbodyand the intervention agency concerned thereof.
Article 9
ThisRegulationshallenterintoforceonthedayfollowingits
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
ThisRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicableinallMemberStates.
Done at Brussels, 27 September 1999.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 46, 20.2.1999, p. 48.
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ANNEX I
PIGMEAT
Final destinations
Thesedestinationsareindicatedforthepurposesofdrawingupthetransportdocumentsandofselectingthemeansof
transport (railway wagons/trucks) in the event of transport by land. However, the price to be tendered must not takeaccount of the final destination, only the frontier point.
RegionofTambov 500
RegionofKemerovo 1500
RegionofVolgograd 500
RepublicofTatarstan 500
RegionofSaratov 500
Total3500
— Delivery stage: product not unloaded, either at frontier point Krasnoye or at the port of St Petersburg,
— Transport means: the lot must be transported either in its entirety by sea in accordance with the second indent of
Article 2(1) or in its entirety by land.
In the latter event, if certain final destination regions are supplied by rail and others by truck, tenders must be
accompaniedbytwobreakdownsdrawnupinaccordancewithAnnexIItoRegulation(EC)No111/1999andthesum tendered must be equivalent to be weighted average of the costs per tonne. The tender must indicate thequantities used to determine the weighted average,
— Final date for arrival at Krasnoye frontier point in the case of land transport: 6 December 1999,— Final dates for arrival at the port in the case of sea transport: St Petersburg:
— 1750 tonnes 6 December 1999,
— 1750 tonnes 14 December 1999.
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TonnesMinimumdaily
loadingrateDateavailableANNEX II
Lot: 3500 tonnes
3000 SATN 1596 (NUFRI)Ctra. Palau, km 1E-25230 Mollerussa 200 11.10.1999
500Suministro Medina SACtra. Nacional 1, km 32,3E-28750 San Agustín de Guadalix 100 27.9.1999
Address of the intervention agency:FEGA (Fondo Español de Garantía Agraria)Beneficencia, 8E-28005 MadridTel.: (34)913476500/913476310Fax: (34)915219832/915224387
ANNEX III
Placeoftakeover:Inaccordancewiththedeliverystageresultingfromthemeansoftransportusedbythetenderer,inaccordance with Annex I.Authorities empowered to sign the takeover certificates:
(a) St Petersburg
VO Prodintorg103084 MoscowUl. Mjasnitskaya, 47
(b) Susemka, Bryansk and Smolensk for customs formalities for trucks
VO Prodintorg103084 MoscowUl. Mjasnitskaya, 47
(c) Krasnoye for customs formalities for railway wagons
VO Prodintorg103084 MoscowUl. Mjasnitskaya, 47