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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 952/1999
of 5 May 1999
amending Regulation (EC) No 1758/98 opening a standing invitation to tender
for the export of common wheat of breadmaking quality held by the French
intervention agency
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 5
thereof,
(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (
3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 39/
1999 (4), lays down the procedures and conditions
for the sale of cereals held by the interventionagencies;
(2) Whereas a later date must be set for the last partialinvitation to tender for the tender provided for byCommission Regulation (EC) No 1758/98 (
5), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2254/98 (6);
(3) Whereas, under current market conditions, thisstanding invitation to tender should be extended tothe end of the 1998/1999 marketing year and thestart of the 1999/2000 marketing year and thequantities of common wheat of breadmakingquality for export should be increased from550 000 tonnes to 1 050 000 tonnes held by theFrench intervention agency;
(4) Whereas this invitation to tender for the export ofintervention stocks is unusual in that it will alsooperate at the end of the marketing year, i.e. inJune 1999; whereas, therefore, in the case oftenders made between 3 and 30 June 1999, deliv-eries will be possible only from 1 July 1999;whereas provision must accordingly be made toderogate from the first paragraph of Article 16 ofRegulation (EEC) No 2131/93, which stipulatesthat payment must be made no later than onemonth after acceptance of the tender;
(5) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-tion are in accordance with the opinion of theManagement Committee for Cereals,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1758/98 is replaced by
the following:
‘Article 21. The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum
of 1 050 000 tonnes of common wheat of bread-making quality to be exported to all third countries.However, the customs export formalities for tenderssubmitted on or after 3 June 1999 may be completedonly on or after 1 July 1999.
2. The regions in which the 1 050 000 tonnes of
common wheat of breadmaking quality are stored arelisted in Annex I.'
Article 2
Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1758/98 is replaced by
the following:
‘2. Between 3 and 30 June 1999, tenders submitted
under this invitation to tender shall not be admissibleunless they are accompanied by a written undertakingto export only on or after 1 July 1999. The tendersmay not be accompanied by applications for exportlicences submitted under Article 44 of CommissionRegulation (EEC) No 3719/88 (*).
(*) OJ L 331, 2.12.1988, p. 1.'
Article 3
Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1758/98 is replaced by
the following:
‘3. The last partial invitation to tender shall expire
on 30 September 1999 at 9 a.m. (Brussels time).'
Article 4
The following Article is added to Regulation (EC) No
1758/98:(1) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 126, 24.5.1996, p. 37.
(3) OJ L 191, 31.7.1993, p. 76.
(4) OJ L 5, 9.1.1999, p. 64.
(5) OJ L 221, 8.8.1998, p. 3.
(6) OJ L 283, 21.10.1998, p. 3.
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‘Article 5a
In the case of tenders submitted between 3 and 30
June 1999, the following conditions shall apply:
¾notwithstanding the first paragraph of Article 16
of Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93, the cereals mustbe paid for by 31 July 1999, at the latest,
¾notwithstanding the third paragraph of Article 16
of Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93, the price to bepaid for the export shall be that indicated in thetender.'
Article 5
The following Article is added to Regulation (EC) No
1758/98:‘Article 5b
In the case of licences applied for between 3 and 30
June 1999, without prejudice to Article 17(3) fo Regu-lation (EEC) No 2131/93, the security referred to inthe second indent of Article 17(2) of that Regulationshall be released only when proof is provided that thecustoms export formalities were completed on or after1 July 1999.'
Article 6
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of 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, 5 May 1999.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
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(Tonnes)
Place of storage QuantityANNEX
‘ANNEX I
Amiens 222 000
Clermont-Ferrand 1 000
Chlons 34 000
D¶on 1 400
Lille 221 000
Orlans 315 000
Paris 138 000
Poitiers 4 000
Rouen 101 600
Rennes 12 000'