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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 770/1999
of 14 April 1999
on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain
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 themarket in rice (
1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
2072/98 (2), and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,
Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that
exportable amounts of rice are currently held by pro-ducers; whereas this situation could affect the normaldevelopment of producer prices during the 1998/1999marketing year;
Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro-
priate to make use of export refunds to zones which maybe supplied by the Community; whereas the special situ-ation of the rice market makes it necessary to limit thequantities of rice benefiting from the refunds, and there-fore to apply Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95enabling the amount of refund to be fixed by tenderingprocedure;
Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of thesystem of tendering for export refunds on rice (
3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 299/95 (4), apply to this
invitation to tender;
Whereas, in order to avoid disturbances on the markets of
the producing countries, the markets of destinationshould be limited to Zones I to VI, excluding Turkey, andZone VIII, excluding Guyana, Madagascar and Suriname,noted in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No2145/92 (
5), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 3304/
94 (6);
Whereas pursuant to Article 14 of Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 2808/98 of 22 December 1998 laying downdetailed rules for the application of the agrimonetarysystem for the euro in agriculture (
7), amounts quoted in
tenders submitted in response to invitations to tenderorganised under an instrument forming part of thecommon agricultural policy must be expressed in euro;whereas Article 5(1) of that Regulation provides that insuch cases the operative event for the agriculturalexchange rate is the final day for the submission oftenders; whereas paragraphs 3 and 4 of that Article specify
the operative events applicable to advances and securities;
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
refund on export of wholly milled round grain ricereferred to in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95,for Zones I to VI, excluding Turkey, and Zone VIIIexcluding Guyana, Madagascar and Suriname, as specifiedin the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92.
2. The invitation to tender shall be open until 24 June
1999. During that period weekly invitations to tendershall be issued and the date for submission of tendersshall be determined in the notice of invitation to tender.
3. The invitation to tender shall take place in accord-
ance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75and with the 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 3 000tonnes.
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 (
8), export
licences issued within this invitation to tender shall, forthe purposes of determining their period of validity, beconsidered as having been issued on the day the tenderwas submitted.
2. The licences shall be valid from their date of issue,
within the meaning of paragraph 1, until the end of thefourth month following.
(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 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 hoursafter expiry of the time limit for weekly submission oftenders as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender.They must be transmitted in accordance with the tablegiven in the Annex.
If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall
inform the Commission accordingly within the sametime limit as that given in 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 toin Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95:¾either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account
of the criteria laid down in Article 13 of Regulation(EC) No 3072/95,
¾or 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 tendersare at or below the maximum export refund level.
Article 8
The time limit for submission of tenders for the first
partial invitation to tender shall expire on 29 April 1999at 10 a.m.
The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at
24 June 1999.
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 April 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 round grain rice to certain
third countries
(Closing date for the submission of tenders (date/time))
1 2 3
Serial number
of tendersQuantities
in tonnesAmount of export refund
in euro per tonne
1
2
3
4
5
etc.