Commission Regulation (EC) No 155/1999 of 22 January 1999 on the supply of wholly milled rice to a Community port with a view to its being forwarded to Russia
Date: 1999-01-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Russia, award of contract, food aid, intervention stock, rice, supply

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 155/1999

of 22 January 1999

on the supply of wholly milled rice to a Community port with a view to its being
forwarded to Russia

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2802/98 of
17 December 1998 on a programme to supply agricultural
products to the Russian Federation (1), and in particular
Article 4(2) thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 111/1999 (2)
lays down the general rules for the application of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2802/98; whereas Article 2(2) of that Regula-
tion provides that the tender may cover the quantity of
products to be removed physically from intervention
stocks as payment for the supply of processed products
belonging to the same group of products; whereas this
provision should be applied to the supply of three sepa-
rate lots of wholly milled rice to be delivered to a
Community port with a view to their being forwarded to
Russia;

Whereas under the conditions of such a tender the supply
costs cover the processing of paddy rice into wholly
milled rice and the packaging and labelling of
the
finished product to be delivered to a Community port;

Whereas the specific conditions applying to this supply
should be laid down,
in addition to the provisions
adopted in Regulation (EC) No 111/1999, and provision
should be made for their immediate entry into force;

2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 111/1999 in accordance with
both that Regulation and this Regulation.

Article 2

1.

For a given lot, supply shall comprise:

(a) delivery of the product defined in Annex I, free-on-
board, stowed on ocean-going vessel, to a port in the
the port
region indicated;
proposed in the tender shall be a minimum 1 000
tonnes per day;

the rate of

loading at

(b) packaging and labelling of the product in accordance

with Annex I.

2.
For lot No 3, held by the Greek intervention agency,
supply shall cover processing of the rice taken over in
that agency’s stores.

3.
The product must be kept available for embarkation
for a period of at least 10 days starting on the dates set out
in Annex I. After the end of that period the tenderer shall
indicated in the tender
be entitled to the amount
pursuant to Article 5(1)(f)(4) of Regulation (EC) No 111/
1999.

Article 3

Whereas, for the purposes of packaging and labelling, the
rules used for food aid supplies as published in the Offi-
cial Journal of the European Communities C 114 (3) and
C 267 (4) should be applied;

1.
Tenders shall be lodged with the intervention agency
holding the lot to be removed in payment for the supply
as mentioned in Annex II. That intervention agency shall
also be responsible for paying for the supply.

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

The time limit for lodging tenders shall expire at 12 p.m.
(Brussels time) on 2 February 1999.

If no tender is awarded for the supply of a lot by the end
of that period a second time limit for lodging tenders
shall run until 12 p.m.
(Brussels time) on 9 February
1999.

Article 1

In that event all dates fixed in Annex I shall be post-
poned by seven days.

An invitation to tender is hereby opened to establish the
costs of supplying three separate lots of wholly milled rice
of the characteristics and quality set out in Annex I
hereto, to be delivered as a supply as referred to in Article

The tender shall indicate the quantity of paddy rice
2.
to be taken over at the stores referred to in Annex II
needed to cover all the supply costs up to the delivery
stage set out in Article 2 as payment for that supply.

(1) OJ L 349, 24. 12. 1998, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 14, 19. 1. 1999, p. 3.
(3) OJ C 114, 29. 4. 1991, p. 1.
(4) OJ C 267, 13. 9. 1996, p. 1.

The tender shall be in tonnes of paddy rice (net weight) to
be removed in return for the supply of a tonne of finished
product (net weight).

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The quantities awarded must be removed from inter-
3.
vention stocks within 45 days of notification of the award
of the supply tender.

Article 4

The tendering security is set at EUR 25 per tonne of

1.
paddy rice tendered for.

2.
The supply security is set at EUR 379 per tonne of
paddy rice. It must be lodged in accordance with Article
7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 111/1999 in favour of the
intervention agency holding the paddy rice to be removed
as payment for the supply.

Article 5

The intervention agencies shall take all necessary steps to
enable samples to be taken by tenderers and to permit
removal of the goods by the successful tenderer within
the prescribed time limits.

Article 6

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, 22 January 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

1. Product to be supplied: wholly milled rice.

2. Characteristics and quality of the product (1): rice of fair, sound and marketable quality, free of odour and

live pests, meeting the following conditions:

— moisture content: 15 % maximum,
— broken rice: 7 % maximum,
— chalky grains: 5 % maximum,
— grains striated with red: 3 % maximum,
— spotted grains: 1,5 % maximum,
— stained grains: 1 % maximum,
— yellow grains: 0,050 % maximum,
— amber grains: 0,20 % maximum,
— tolerance of extraneous matter consisting of:

— inedible mineral and vegetable substances, provided they are not toxic: 0,01 % maximum,
— edible extraneous grains or parts thereof: 0,10 % maximum.

3. Total quantity: 15 000 tonnes wholly milled rice (net weight) comprising three separate lots of 5 000

tonnes.

Each supply shall relate to a single lot.

4. Description:

Lot No 1:

Lot No 2:

Lot No 3:

5. Packaging (2):

5 000 tonnes of wholly milled medium-grain rice to be delivered to and kept available from
24 February 1999 in a Spanish port.

5 000 tonnes of wholly milled round-grain rice to be delivered to and kept available from 24
February 1999 in an Italian port.

5 000 tonnes of wholly milled rice to be delivered to and kept available from 25 March 1999
in a Greek port.

The lot must be packed in new mixed jute/polypropylene sacks with a net content of 50 kilograms.

OJ C 267, 13.9.1996, p. 1 (point I.A.b).

6. Labelling: OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1.

The labelling of the sacks (wording in Russian plus the European flag) must meet the requirements laid
down in OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1 (point II.B.3).

7. Delivery stage: fob stowed.

(1) The successful tenderer must issue the carrier with a certificate from an official body certifying that the standards in
force on nuclear radiation have not been exceeded. The radioactivity certificate must indicate the levels of caesium 134
and 137 and of iodine 131.

(2) With a view to possible repacking, the successful tenderer must supply 2 % empty sacks of the same quality as those

containing the product, with the inscription followed by a capital R.

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ANNEX II

Storage locations

E-06111 Montijo (Badajoz)

E-10020 Campo Lugar (C(cid:145)ceres)

E-26020 Fuenmayor (La Rioja)

E-26050 Logro(cid:157)o (La Rioja)

E-25060 L(cid:130)rida

Lot No 1

FEGA silo

FEGA silo

FEGA silo

FEGA silo

FEGA silo

Address of intervention agency:

FEGA
Fondo Espa(cid:157)ol de Garant(cid:146)a Agraria
C/Beneficencia no 8
E-28002 Madrid
Tel.:
Fax:

(0034) 913 47 65 40
(0034) 915 32 30 02

Lot No 2

Storage locations

General SpA
Villa Roma Sud 50
Villa Poma

Magazzini Generali Raccordati
Con Silos di cereali SRL
Via G. Modena 3/A
Novara

Address of intervention agency:

Ente Nazionale Risi
Piazza Pio XI, 1
I-20123 Milano
Tel.:
Fax:

(00-39) 02 87 41 54
(00-39) 02 86 13 72

Lot No 3

Omospondia
Epanomi, Thessaloniki
Kourkouta Co. Ltd
Tel.:
Fax:

(00-30) 39 24 23 66
(00-30) 39 22 41 07

Omospondia
Serres
G. Karababas S.A.
Tel.:

(00-30) 31 81 85 55

Storage locations

Quantity of
paddy rice
(tonnes)

2 677

1 852

1 884

1 901

2 089

Quantity of
paddy rice
(tonnes)

8 817

1 435

Quantity of
paddy rice
(tonnes)

5 712

4 539

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Address of intervention agency:

GEDIDAGEP
Directorate General for the Administration of Purchases of Agricultural Produce
Acharnon Street 241
GR-10466 Athens
Tel.:
Fax:

(00-30) 1 862 22 48
(00-30) 1 867 05 03