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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1740/2000
of 4 August 2000
opening an invitation to tender for the refund for the export of rye to all third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
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 1666/
2000(2),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1501/95 of
29 June 1995 laying down certain detailed rules for theapplication of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 on thegranting of export refunds on cereals and the measures to betaken in the event of disturbance on the market for cereals(
3),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2513/98(4), and in
particular Article 4 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)Inviewofthecurrentsituationonthecerealsmarket,an
invitation should be opened, in respect of rye to tenderfor the export refund provided for in Article 4 of Regu-lation (EC) No 1501/95.
(2)The detailed procedural rules governing invitations totenderasregardsthefixingoftheexportrefund,arelaiddown in Regulation (EC) No 1501/95. The commit-ments on the part of the tenderer include an obligationto lodge an application for an export licence. Compli-ance with this obligation may be ensured by requiringtenderers to lodge a tendering security of EUR 12 pertonne when they submit their tenders.
(3)Itisnecessarytoprovideforaspecificperiodofvalidityfor licences issued under that invitation to tender. Thatperiod of validity must meet the needs of the worldmarket for the 2000/2001 marketing year.
(4)In order to ensure that all those concerned are treatedequally, it is necessary to lay down that the period ofvalidity of the licences issued should be identical.
(5)In order to ensure the smooth operation of the exporttendering procedure it is appropriate to prescribe aminimum quantity to be tendered for and a time limitand form for the communication of tenders submittedto the competent authorities.
(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. Tenders shall be invited for the export refund provided
for in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95.
2. The tendering procedure shall concern rye for export to
all third countries.
3. The invitation shall remain open until 17 May 2001.
Duringthisperiodweeklyawardsshallbemade,forwhichthequantities and the time limits for the submission of tendersshall be as prescribed in the notice of invitation to tender.
Notwithstanding Article 4(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95,
thetimelimitforthesubmissionoftendersforthefirstpartialinvitation to tender shall be 10 August 2000.
Article 2
A tender shall be valid only if it relates to an amount of not
less than 1000 tonnes.
Article 3
The security referred to in Article 5(3a) of Regulation (EC) No
1501/95 shall be EUR 12 per tonne.
Article 4
1. NotwithstandingArticle21(1)ofCommissionRegulation
(EEC) No 3719/88(
5), laying down common detailed rules for
theapplicationofthesystemofimportandexportlicencesandadvance. Fixing certificates for agricultural products: exportlicences issued under Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95 shall, for the purpose of determining their period ofvalidity, be deemed to have been issued on the day on whichthe tender was submitted.
2. Export licences issued in connection with the invitations
to tender pursuant to this Regulation shall be valid from theirdate of issue, as defined in paragraph 1, until the end of thefourth month following that of issue.
Article 5
1. The Commission shall decide, pursuant to the procedure
laid down in Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92:
— tofixaminimumexporttax,takingintoaccountinpartic-
ular the criteria laid down in Article 1 of Regulation (EC)No 1501/95, or
— to make no award.
(1) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 147, 30.6.1995, p. 7.
(4) OJ L 313, 21.11.1998, p. 16. (5) OJ L 331, 2.12.1988, p. 1.
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2. Where a maximum export refund is fixed, the contract
shall be awarded to the tenderer or tenderers whose bids areequal to or lower than the maximum refund.
Article 6
Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through the
intermediary Member States, at the latest one and a half hoursafterexpiryoftheperiodfortheweeklysubmissionoftendersasspecifiedinthenoticeofinvitationtotender.TheymustbecommunicatedintheformindicatedinAnnexI,tothetelexorfax numbers in Annex II.If no tenders are received, Member States shall inform the
Commission of this within the time limit indicated in thepreceding paragraph.
Article 7
Thetimelimitsfixedforthesubmissionoftendersshallcorre-
spond to Belgian time.
Article 8
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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, 4 August 2000.
For the Commission
Pedro SOLBES MIRA
Member of the Commission
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ANNEX I
Weekly tender for the refund for the export of rye to all third countries
[Regulation (EC) No 1740/2000]
(Closingdateforthesubmissionoftenders(date/time))
1 2 3
Numberoftenderer Quantityintonnes AmountofexportrefundinEUR/tonne
1
2
3
etc.
ANNEX II
The only numbers to use to call Brussels (DG AGRI-C-1) are:—telex: 22037AGRECB,
22070AGRECB(Greekcharacters),
—fax: 2964956,
2952515.