Commission Regulation (EC) No 952/1999 of 5 May 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 1758/98 opening a standing invitation to tender for the export of common wheat of breadmaking quality held by the French intervention agency
Date: 1999-05-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, award of contract, cereals of bread-making quality, common wheat, export, intervention agency

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 952/1999

of 5 May 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 1758/98 opening a standing invitation to tender
for the export of common wheat of breadmaking quality held by the French
intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92
of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the
market in cereals (1), as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular Article 5
thereof,

(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/
93 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 39/
1999 (4), lays down the procedures and conditions
for the sale of cereals held by the intervention
agencies;

(2) Whereas a later date must be set for the last partial
invitation to tender for the tender provided for by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1758/98 (5), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2254/98 (6);

(3) Whereas, under current market conditions,

this
standing invitation to tender should be extended to
the end of the 1998/1999 marketing year and the
start of
the 1999/2000 marketing year and the
quantities of common wheat of breadmaking
quality for export
should be increased from
550 000 tonnes to 1 050 000 tonnes held by the
French intervention agency;

therefore,

(4) Whereas this invitation to tender for the export of
intervention stocks is unusual in that it will also
operate at the end of the marketing year, i.e. in
in the case of
June 1999; whereas,
tenders made between 3 and 30 June 1999, deliv-
eries will be possible only from 1 July 1999;
whereas provision must accordingly be made to
derogate from the first paragraph of Article 16 of
Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93, which stipulates
that payment must be made no later than one
month after acceptance of the tender;

(5) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-
tion are in accordance with the opinion of the
Management Committee for Cereals,

Article 1

Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1758/98 is replaced by
the following:

‘Article 2

1.
The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum
of 1 050 000 tonnes of common wheat of bread-
making quality to be exported to all third countries.
However, the customs export formalities for tenders
submitted on or after 3 June 1999 may be completed
only on or after 1 July 1999.

2.
The regions in which the 1 050 000 tonnes of
common wheat of breadmaking quality are stored are
listed in Annex I.'

Article 2

Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1758/98 is replaced by
the following:

‘2.
Between 3 and 30 June 1999, tenders submitted
under this invitation to tender shall not be admissible
unless they are accompanied by a written undertaking
to export only on or after 1 July 1999. The tenders
may not be accompanied by applications for export
licences submitted under Article 44 of Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 (*).

(*) OJ L 331, 2.12.1988, p. 1.'

Article 3

Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1758/98 is replaced by
the following:

The last partial invitation to tender shall expire

‘3.
on 30 September 1999 at 9 a.m.

(Brussels time).'

(1) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 126, 24.5.1996, p. 37.
(3) OJ L 191, 31.7.1993, p. 76.
(4) OJ L 5, 9.1.1999, p. 64.
(5) OJ L 221, 8.8.1998, p. 3.
(6) OJ L 283, 21.10.1998, p. 3.

Article 4

The following Article is added to Regulation (EC) No
1758/98:

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‘Article 5a

‘Article 5b

In the case of tenders submitted between 3 and 30
June 1999, the following conditions shall apply:

(cid:190) notwithstanding the first paragraph of Article 16
of Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93, the cereals must
be paid for by 31 July 1999, at the latest,
(cid:190) notwithstanding the third paragraph of Article 16
of Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93, the price to be
paid for the export shall be that indicated in the
tender.'

In the case of licences applied for between 3 and 30
June 1999, without prejudice to Article 17(3) fo Regu-
lation (EEC) No 2131/93, the security referred to in
the second indent of Article 17(2) of that Regulation
shall be released only when proof is provided that the
customs export formalities were completed on or after
1 July 1999.'

Article 6

Article 5

The following Article is added to Regulation (EC) No
1758/98:

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of 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, 5 May 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

Place of storage

Amiens

Clermont-Ferrand

Ch(cid:131)lons

D¶on

Lille

Orl(cid:130)ans

Paris

Poitiers

Rouen

Rennes

(Tonnes)

Quantity

222 000

1 000

34 000

1 400

221 000

315 000

138 000

4 000

101 600

12 000'