Commission Regulation (EC) No 588/1999 of 18 March 1999 derogating from Regulations (EEC) No 1589/87, (EEC) No 429/90, (EEC) No 1158/91, (EEC) No 3378/91, (EEC) No 3398/91 and (EC) No 2571/97 as regards the time limit for the submission of tenders for May 1999
Date: 1999-03-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, butter, discount sale, farm price support, milk, milk product

L 74/6

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Official Journal of the European Communities

19. 3. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 588/1999

of 18 March 1999

(EEC) No
derogating from Regulations (EEC) No 1589/87,
1158/91, (EEC) No 3378/91, (EEC) No 3398/91 and (EC) No 2571/97 as regards the
time limit for the submission of tenders for May 1999

(EEC) No 429/90,

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulations (EEC) No 804/68
of 27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the
market in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1587/96 (2), and in particular Article
6(6), Article 7(5), the first subparagraph of Article 7(a)(1),
Article 7(a)(3) and Article 12(3) thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1589/87 of 5
June 1987 on the sale by tender of butter to intervention
agencies (3), Commission Regulation (EEC) No 429/90 of
20 February 1990 on the granting by invitation to tender
of an aid for concentrated butter intended for direct
consumption in the Community (4), Commission Regula-
tion (EEC) No 1158/91 of 3 May 1991 on the buying in
by tender of skimmed-milk powder to intervention agen-
cies (5), Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3378/91 of 20
November 1991 laying down detailed rules for the sale of
butter from intervention stocks for export and amending
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 569/88 (6), Commis-
sion Regulation (EEC) No 3398/91 of 20 November 1991
on the sale by invitation to tender of skimmed-milk
powder for the manufacture of compound feedingstuffs
and amending Commission Regulation (EEC) No 569/
88 (7), and Commission Regulation (EC) No 2571/97 of
15 December 1997 on the sale of butter at reduced prices
and the granting of aid for cream, butter and concentrated
butter for use in the manufacture of pastry products,

ice-cream and other foodstuffs (8), all as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 124/1999 (9), define the detailed rules
for the tender procedures under the various schemes;
whereas the time limits for the submission of tenders
under those Regulations in May 1999 should be amended
because of the public holidays in that month;

Whereas 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

By derogation from the first sentence of Article 2 of
Regulation (EEC) No 1589/87, Article 3(2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 429/90, the first sentence of Article 2 of Regu-
lation (EEC) No 1158/91, the first sentence of Article 3(2)
of Regulation (EEC) No 3378/91, the first sentence of
Article 4(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3398/91 and the first
sentence of Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2571/97,
the time limits for the submission of tenders for May
1999 shall expire at 12 p.m. on 4 and 18 May.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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, 18 March 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 21.
(3) OJ L 146, 6. 6. 1987, p. 27.
(4) OJ L 45, 21. 2. 1990, p. 8.
(5) OJ L 112, 4. 5. 1991, p. 65.
(6) OJ L 319, 21. 11. 1991, p. 40.
(7) OJ L 320, 22. 11. 1991, p. 16.

(8) OJ L 350, 20. 12. 1997, p. 3.
(9) OJ L 16, 21. 1. 1999, p. 19.