Commission Regulation (EC) No 553/1999 of 12 March 1999 on the supply of wholly milled rice to a Community port with a view to its being forwarded to Russia
Date: 1999-03-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, Russia, Spain, rice, storage, supply

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 553/1999

of 12 March 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,

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

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,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

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 sep-
arate 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
in addition to the provisions
should be laid down,
adopted in Regulation (EC) No 111/1999, and provision
should be made for their immediate entry into force;

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) 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.

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
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
Member State indicated; the rate of loading at the port
proposed in the tender shall be a minimum 1 000 t
per day;

(b) packaging and labelling of the product in accordance

with Annex I.

2.
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
be entitled to the amount
indicated in the tender
pursuant to Article 5(1)(f)(4) of Regulation (EC) No 111/
1999.

Article 3

Tenders shall be lodged with the intervention agency
1.
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.

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The time limit for lodging tenders shall expire at 12 p.m.
(Brussels time) on 23 March 1999.

that set out in Annex II for each lot, must remain in the
last store listed in that Annex.

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 6 April 1999.

In that event all dates fixed in Annex I shall be post-
poned by 14 days.

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.

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).

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

Article 4

The tendering security shall amount to EUR 25/t of

1.
wholly milled rice.

2.
The supply security shall amount to EUR 632/t of
wholly milled 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 time limits laid down.

Article 6

Once the quantities for
the contract
awarded have in fact been removed, the quantity left over,
representing the difference between that removed and

removal under

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, 12 March 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 t wholly milled rice (net weight) comprising three separate lots of 5 000 t.

Each supply shall relate to a single lot.

4. Description:

Lot No 1:

Lot No 2:

Lot No 3:

5. Packaging (2):

5 000 t of wholly milled round-grain rice to be delivered to and kept available from 15 April
1999 in a Spanish port.

5 000 t of wholly milled round-grain rice to be delivered to and kept available from 26 April
1999 in an Italian port.

5 000 t of wholly milled round-grain rice to be delivered to and kept available from 3 May
1999 in an Italian port.

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

OJ C 267, 13.9.1996, p. 1 (point 1.0, A.(1)(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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Lot No 1

ANNEX II

Storage locations

Silo del FEGA

E-06111 Montijo (Badajoz)

Silo del FEGA

E-06101 M(cid:130)rida (Badajoz)

Silo del FEGA

E-22010 Barbastro (Huesca)

Silo del FEGA

E-25031 Bellpuig (L(cid:130)rida)

Silo del FEGA

E-25073 Mollerusa (L(cid:130)rida)

Address of intervention agency

FEGA
Fondo Espa(cid:157)ol de Garant(cid:146)a Agraria
C/Beneficencia no 8
E-28002 Madrid
(34) 913 47 65 40
Tel.
Fax (34) 915 32 30 02

Lot No 2

Quantity of paddy
rice
(t)

4 900

4 900

1 933

841

1 426

Storage locations

Quantity of paddy
rice
(t)

Magazzino Genal SpA
Via Roma Sud 49
Villa Poma — MN

Magazzino Ente Risi
Via Roma
Formigliana — VC

Magazzino Consorzio Agrario Vercelli
Via Repubblica 24
Stroppiana — VC

Magazzino Genal SpA
Via Roma Sud 49
Villa Poma — MN

Magazzino Ente Risi
Via Roma
Formigliana — VC

Magazzino Consorzio Agrario Vercelli
Via Elvo, 64
Salussola — BI

Magazzino Grandi Magazzini Piemontesi Srl
Via Girivotto 59/61
Racconigi — CN

Address of intervention agency

Ente Nazionale Risi
Piazza Pio XI, 1
I-20123 Milano
Tel.
(39) 02-87 41 54
Fax (39) 02-86 13 72

3 500

5 132

1 509

5 000

1 506

1 501

2 134