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EN Official Journal of the European Union L 331/9

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2064/2005

of 16 December 2005

concerning the 95th special invitation to tender issued under the standing invitation to tender referred to in Regulation (EC) No 2799/1999

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk and milk products (1), and in particular Article 10 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Pursuant to Article 26 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2799/1999 of 17 December 1999 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the grant of aid for skimmed-milk and skimmed-milk powder intended for animal feed and the sale of such skimmed-milk powder (2), intervention agencies have put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain quantities of skimmed-milk powder held by them.

(2) According to Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 2799/1999, in the light of the tenders received in response to each individual invitation to tender a minimum selling price shall be fixed or a decision shall be taken to make no award.

(3) On the basis of the examination of the offers received, the tendering procedure should not be proceeded with.

(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 95th individual invitation to tender pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2799/1999, in respect of which the time limit for the submission of tenders expired on 13 December 2005, no award shall be made.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 December 2005.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 16 December 2005. For the Commission Mariann FISCHER BOEL Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48. Regulation as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 186/2004 (OJ L 29, 3.2.2004, p. 6).

(2) OJ L 340, 31.12.1999, p. 3. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2250/2004 (OJ L 381, 28.12.2004, p. 25).
EN Official Journal of the European Union L 335/32

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2098/2005

of 20 December 2005

reopening the fishery for sprat in ICES zone IIIa by vessels flying the flag of Denmark

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 of 20 December 2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the common fisheries policy (1), and in particular Article 26(4) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to common fisheries policy (2), and in particular Article 21(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 27/2005 of 22 December 2004 fixing for 2005 the fishing opportunities and associated conditions for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks applicable in Community waters and for Community vessels, in waters where catch limitations are required (3), lays down quotas for 2005.

(2) On 9 October 2005 Denmark closed the fishery for sprat in ICES zone IIIa, for vessels flying its flag.

(3) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1779/2005 (4) prohibits fishing for sprat in ICES zone IIIa, by vessels flying the flag of Denmark or registered in Denmark.

(4) On 15 November 2005 Sweden transferred to Denmark 1 000 tonnes of sprat quota in the waters of ICES zone IIIa. Fishing for sprat in the waters of ICES zone IIIa by vessels flying the flag of or registered in Denmark should consequently be authorised. Commission Regulation (EC) No 1779/2005 should therefore be repealed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Reopening of fishery

The fishery for sprat in ICES zone IIIa by vessels flying the flag of Denmark or registered in Denmark should be reopened on 28 November 2005.

Article 2

Repeal

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1779/2005 is hereby repealed.

Article 3

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 28 November 2005.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 20 December 2005. For the Commission Jörgen HOLMQUIST Director-General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs

(1) OJ L 358, 31.12.2002, p. 59.

(2) OJ L 261, 20.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 (OJ L 128, 21.5.2005, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 12, 14.1.2005, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1936/2005 (OJ L 311, 26.11.2005, p. 1).

(4) OJ L 288, 29.10.2005, p. 12. Prohibition of fishing for sprat by vessels flying the flag of Denmark.
EN Official Journal of the European Union L 333/38

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2088/2005

of 19 December 2005

determining the extent to which applications lodged in December 2005 for import licences for certain pigmeat sector products under the regime provided for by Council Regulation (EC) No 774/94 opening and providing for the administration of certain Community tariff quotas for pigmeat and certain other agricultural products can be accepted

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1432/94 of 22 June 1994 laying down detailed rules for the application in the pigmeat sector of the import arrangements provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 774/94 opening and providing for the administration of certain Community tariff quotas for pigmeat and certain other agricultural products (1), and in particular Article 4(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The applications for import licences lodged for the first quarter of 2006 are for quantities less than the quantities available and can therefore be met in full.

(2) The quantity available for the following period should be determined.

(3) It is appropriate to draw the attention of operators to the fact that licences may only be used for products which comply with all veterinary rules currently in force in the Community,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1. Applications for import licences for the period 1 January to 31 March 2006 submitted pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1432/94 shall be met as referred to in Annex I.

2. For the period 1 April to 30 June 2006, applications may be lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1432/94 for import licences for a total quantity as referred to in Annex II.

3. Licences may only be used for products which comply with all veterinary rules currently in force in the Community.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2006.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 19 December 2005. For the Commission J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

(1) OJ L 156, 23.6.1994, p. 14. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 341/2005 (OJ L 53, 26.2.2005, p. 28).

ANNEX I Group No Percentage of acceptance of import licences submitted for the period 1 January to 31 March 2006 1 —
EN Official Journal of the European Union L 340/57

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2137/2005

of 22 December 2005

fixing the maximum export refund on barley in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 1058/2005

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of 29 September 2003 on the common organisation of the market in cereals (1), and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) An invitation to tender for the refund for the export of barley to certain third countries was opened pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1058/2005 (2).

(2) In accordance with Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1501/95 of 29 June 1995 laying down certain detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 on the granting of export refunds on cereals and the measures to be taken in the event of disturbance on the market for cereals (3), the Commission may, on the basis of the tenders notified, decide to fix a maximum export refund taking account of the criteria referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95. In that case a contract is awarded to any tenderer whose bid is equal to or lower than the maximum refund.

(3) The application of the abovementioned criteria to the current market situation for the cereal in question results in the maximum export refund being fixed.

(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For tenders notified from 16 to 22 December 2005, pursuant to the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 1058/2005, the maximum refund on exportation of barley shall be 2,97 EUR/t.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 December 2005.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 22 December 2005. For the Commission Mariann FISCHER BOEL Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78.

(2) OJ L 174, 7.7.2005, p. 12.

(3) OJ L 147, 30.6.1995, p. 7. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 777/2004 (OJ L 123, 27.4.2004, p. 50).
EN Official Journal of the European Union L 342/1

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2141/2005

of 23 December 2005

establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 of 21 December 1994 on detailed rules for the application of the import arrangements for fruit and vegetables (1), and in particular Article 4(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 lays down, pursuant to the outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the standard values for imports from third countries, in respect of the products and periods stipulated in the Annex thereto.

(2) In compliance with the above criteria, the standard import values must be fixed at the levels set out in the Annex to this Regulation,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The standard import values referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 shall be fixed as indicated in the Annex hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 December 2005.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 23 December 2005. For the Commission J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

(1) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 66. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 386/2005 (OJ L 62, 9.3.2005, p. 3).
3.

Article 3(1) is replaced by the following: ‘1. During the two months following the end of each quarter, beneficiary Member States shall report to the Commission any irregularities which have been the subject of a primary administrative and/or judicial finding. To this end Member States shall in all cases give details of: (a) the identification of the project or measure in question and the project or CCI (common identification code) number; (b) the provision which has been infringed; (c) the date and source of the first information leading to suspicion that an irregularity had been committed; (d) the practices employed in committing the irregularity; (e) where appropriate, whether the practice gives rise to a suspicion of fraud; (f) the manner in which the irregularity was discovered; (g) where appropriate, the Member States and third countries involved; (h) the period during which, or the moment at which, the irregularity was committed; (i) the national authorities or bodies which drew up the official report on the irregularity and the authorities responsible for administrative and/or judicial follow-up; (j) the date on which the primary administrative or judicial finding on the irregularity was established; (k) the identity of the natural and/or legal persons involved or of any other participating entities, except where this information is irrelevant for the purposes of combating irregularities, given the nature of the irregularity in question; (l) the total budget approved for the operation and the distribution of its co-financing between Community, national, private and other contributions; (m) the amount affected by the irregularity and its distribution between Community, national, private and other contributions; where no payment of the public contribution has been made to the persons and/or other entities identified under point (k), the amounts which would have been wrongly paid had the irregularity not been identified; (n) the suspension of payments, where applicable, and the possibilities of recovery; (o) the nature of the irregular expenditure. By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, the following cases need not be reported: — cases where the irregularity consists solely of the failure to partially or totally execute a measure co-financed by the Community budget owing to the bankruptcy of the bodies responsible for the implementation of the project or the final recipient. However, irregularities preceding a bankruptcy and cases of suspected fraud must be reported, — cases brought to the attention of the administrative authority by the bodies responsible for the implementation of the project and/or the final recipient voluntarily or before detection by the relevant authority, whether before or after the granting of the public contribution, — cases where the administrative authority finds a mistake regarding the eligibility of the financed project and corrects the mistake prior to payment of the public contribution.’;
EN Official Journal of the European Union L 347/74

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2186/2005

of 27 December 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 936/97 opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas for high-quality fresh, chilled and frozen beef and for frozen buffalo meat

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Decision 2005/959/EC of 21 December 2005 on the conclusion of Agreements in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Japan and between the European Community and New Zealand, and in particular Article 2 thereof (1),

Whereas:

(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 936/97 (2) provides for the opening and administration, on a multiannual basis, of a number of quotas of high-quality beef.

(2) As a result of the negotiations between the Community and New Zealand under Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of GATT 1994 for the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia in the course of their accession to the European Union, the Community agreed to incorporate in its schedule for all Member States an increase of 1 000 tonnes of the annual import tariff quota of high-quality beef.

(3) Regulation (EC) No 936/97 should be amended accordingly.

(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Beef and Veal,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 936/97 is amended as follows:

1. Article 1(1) is amended as follows: (a) in the first indent of the first subparagraph, ‘59 100 tonnes’ is replaced by ‘60 100 tonnes’; (b) the second subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘However, the total volume of tariff quotas shall be 59 600 tonnes in the 2005/2006 import year.’

2. In Article 2, the point (e) is amended as follows: (a) in the first subparagraph, ‘300 tonnes’ is replaced by ‘1 300 tonnes’; (b) the following third subparagraph is added: ‘However, for the 2005/2006 import year the tariff quota shall be 800 tonnes product weight for meat corresponding to the CN codes and the definition referred to in the first and in the second subparagraphs.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2006.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 27 December 2005. For the Commission Mariann FISCHER BOEL Member of the Commission

(1) See page 78 of this Official Journal.

(2) OJ L 137, 28.5.1997, p. 10. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1118/2004 (OJ L 217, 17.6.2004, p. 10).
EN Official Journal of the European Union L 342/9

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2145/2005

of 23 December 2005

fixing the refunds applicable to cereal and rice sector products supplied as Community and national food aid

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of 29 September 2003 on the common organisation of the market in cereals (1) and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the market in rice (2) and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2681/74 of 21 October 1974 on Community financing of expenditure incurred in respect of the supply of agricultural products as food aid (3) lays down that the portion of the expenditure corresponding to the export refunds on the products in question fixed under Community rules is to be charged to the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section.

(2) In order to make it easier to draw up and manage the budget for Community food aid actions and to enable the Member States to know the extent of Community participation in the financing of national food aid actions, the level of the refunds granted for these actions should be determined.

(3) The general and implementing rules provided for in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 and in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 on export refunds are applicable mutatis mutandis to the abovementioned operations.

(4) The specific criteria to be used for calculating the export refund on rice are set out in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95.

(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For Community and national food aid operations under international agreements or other supplementary programmes, and other Community free supply measures, the refunds applicable to cereals and rice sector products shall be as set out in the Annex.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2006.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 23 December 2005. For the Commission Mariann FISCHER BOEL Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78. Regulation as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1154/2005 (OJ L 187, 19.7.2005, p. 11).

(2) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 411/2002 (OJ L 62, 5.3.2002, p. 27).

(3) OJ L 288, 25.10.1974, p. 1.
EN Official Journal of the European Union L 197/26

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1211/2005

of 27 July 2005

amending the representative prices and additional duties for the import of certain products in the sugar sector fixed by Regulation (EC) No 1011/2005 for the 2005/2006 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 of 19 June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (1),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed implementing rules for the import of products in the sugar sector other than molasses (2), and in particular the second sentence of the second subparagraph of Article 1(2), and Article 3(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The representative prices and additional duties applicable to imports of white sugar, raw sugar and certain syrups for the 2005/2006 marketing year are fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1011/2005 (3). These prices and duties have been amended by Regulation (EC) No 1069/2005 (4).

(2) The data currently available to the Commission indicate that the said amounts should be changed in accordance with the rules and procedures laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1423/95,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The representative prices and additional duties on imports of the products referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1423/95, as fixed by Regulation (EC) No 1011/2005 for the 2005/2006 marketing year are hereby amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 July 2005.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 27 July 2005. For the Commission J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 39/2004 (OJ L 6, 10.1.2004, p. 16).

(2) OJ L 141, 24.6.1995, p. 16. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 624/98 (OJ L 85, 20.3.1998, p. 5).

(3) OJ L 170, 1.7.2005, p. 35.

(4) OJ L 174, 7.7.2005, p. 69.