Commission Regulation (EC) No 770/1999 of 14 April 1999 on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain rice to certain third countries
Date: 1999-04-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, export refund, rice, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 770/1999

of 14 April 1999

on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round 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 pro-
ducers; whereas this situation could affect the normal
development of producer prices during the 1998/1999
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
quantities of rice benefiting from the refunds, and there-
fore to apply Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95
enabling the amount of refund to be fixed by tendering
procedure;

it

should be stated that

the provisions of
Whereas
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 Zones I to VI, excluding Turkey, and
Zone VIII, excluding Guyana, Madagascar and Suriname,
noted in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
2145/92 (5), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 3304/
94 (6);

Whereas pursuant to Article 14 of Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 2808/98 of 22 December 1998 laying down
detailed rules for the application of
the agrimonetary
system for the euro in agriculture (7), amounts quoted in
tenders submitted in response to invitations to tender
organised under an instrument
the
common agricultural policy must be expressed in euro;
whereas Article 5(1) of that Regulation provides that in
the agricultural
such cases
exchange rate is the final day for the submission of

the operative event

forming part of

for

(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.
(7) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 36.

tenders; whereas paragraphs 3 and 4 of that Article specify
the operative events applicable to advances and securities;

Whereas 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

1.
An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the
refund on export of wholly milled round grain rice
referred to in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95,
for Zones I to VI, excluding Turkey, and Zone VIII
excluding Guyana, Madagascar and 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 EUR 30 per tonne.

Article 4

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21(1) of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 (8), export
licences issued within 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.

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

(8) OJ L 331, 2.12.1988, p. 1.

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Article 5

Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through
the Member States not later than one and a half hours
after expiry of the time limit 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
time limit as that given in the above subparagraph.

Article 6

The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.

(cid:190) either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account
of the criteria laid down in Article 13 of Regulation
(EC) No 3072/95,

(cid:190) or not to take any action on the tenders.

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.

Article 8

The time limit for submission of tenders for the first
partial invitation to tender shall expire on 29 April 1999
at 10 a.m.

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

Article 7

Article 9

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:

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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, 14 April 1999.

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 round grain rice to certain
third countries

(Closing date for the submission of tenders (date/time))

1

Serial number
of tenders

2

Quantities
in tonnes

3

Amount of export refund
in euro per tonne

1

2

3

4

5

etc.