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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2566/98
of 27 November 1998
opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled long
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 produ-cers; whereas this situation could affect the normal devel-opment of producer prices during the 1998/99 marketingyear;
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 therefunds, and therefore to apply Article 13 of Regulation(EC) No 3072/95 enabling the refund amount to be fixedby tendering procedure;
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 certain zones specified in the Annexto Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92 (
5), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3304/94 (6);
Whereas the Management Committee for Cereals has not
delivered an opinion within the time limit set by itschairman,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the
refund on export of wholly milled long grain rice fallingwithin CN code 1006 30 67 for Zones I to VI (exceptTurkey) and Zone VIII (except Guyana, Madagascar andSuriname) as specified in 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 ECU 30 per tonne.
Article 4
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21(1) of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 (
7), export
licences issued under 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 that date.
Article 5
Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through
the Member States not later than one and a half hoursafter expiry of the deadline 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 samedeadline as that given in the above subparagraph.
Article 6
The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.
(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 331, 2. 12. 1988, p. 1.
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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:
— either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account
of the criteria laid down in Article 13 of Regulation(EC) No 3072/95,
— or 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 deadline for submission of tenders for the first partial
invitation to tender shall be 10 a.m. on 10 December1998.
The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at
24 June 1999.
Article 9
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, 27 November 1998.
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 long grain rice to certain
third countries
Deadline for the submission of tenders (date/time)
1 2 3
Serial number
of tenderersQuantities
in tonnesAmount of export refund
in ecus per tonne
1
2
3
4
5
etc.