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
Date: 1998-11-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, export refund, rice, third country

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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 European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the
market 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 marketing
year;

Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro-
priate to make use of export refunds to zones which may
be supplied by the Community; whereas the special situ-
ation of the rice market makes it necessary to limit the
refunds, and therefore to apply Article 13 of Regulation
(EC) No 3072/95 enabling the refund amount to be fixed
by tendering procedure;

it

should be stated that

Whereas
the provisions of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March
1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of the
system 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 destination
should be limited to certain zones specified in the Annex
to 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 its
chairman,

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 falling
within CN code 1006 30 67 for Zones I to VI (except
Turkey) and Zone VIII (except Guyana, Madagascar and

(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.

Suriname) 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 tender
shall be issued and the date for submission of tenders
shall 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 584/75
and 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 3 000
tonnes.

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, for
the purposes of determining their period of validity, be
considered as having been issued on the day the tender
was submitted.

The licences shall be valid from their date of issue,
2.
within the meaning of paragraph 1, until the end of the
fourth month following that date.

Article 5

Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through
the Member States not later than one and a half hours
after expiry of the deadline for weekly submission of
tenders as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender.
They must be transmitted in accordance with the table
given in the Annex.

If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall
inform the Commission accordingly within the same
deadline as that given in the above subparagraph.

Article 6

The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.

(7) OJ L 331, 2. 12. 1988, p. 1.

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Article 7

Article 8

1. On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission
shall decide in accordance with the procedure referred to
in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95:

The deadline for submission of tenders for the first partial
invitation to tender shall be 10 a.m. on 10 December
1998.

— 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.

The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at
24 June 1999.

Article 9

2. Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award
shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders
are at or below the maximum export refund level.

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

Serial number
of tenderers

2

Quantities
in tonnes

3

Amount of export refund
in ecus per tonne

1

2

3

4

5

etc.