Commission Regulation (EC) No 1769/1999 of 10 August 1999 on the supply of wholly milled rice to a Community port with a view to its subsequent delivery to Russia
Date: 1999-08-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, Russia, food aid, rice, storage

L 211/30

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

11. 8. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1769/1999

of 10 August 1999

on the supply of wholly milled rice to a Community port with a view to its subsequent delivery 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 prod-
ucts to the Russian Federation (1), and in particular Article 4(2)
thereof,

(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 111/1999 (2),
as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1125/1999 (3), lays
down the general rules for the application of Regulation
(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 four sep-
arate lots of wholly milled rice to be delivered to a
Community port with a view to their being forwarded to
Russia;

(2) 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;

(3) 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;

(4) Whereas, for the purposes of packaging and labelling,
the rules used for food aid supplies as published in the
Official Journal of the European Communities C series, No
114/91 (4) and No 267/96 (5) should be applied;

(5) 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

delivered as a supply operation 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 tonnes per day;

(b) packaging and labelling of the product in accordance with

Annex I.

2.
The product must be held available for the carrier before
loading starts 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 laid down in Article
7a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 111/1999. However, the tenderer
shall not be entitled to that amount during loading.

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.

The time limit for lodging tenders shall expire at 12 noon
(Brussels time) on 19 August 1999 for lots Nos 1 and 2 and at
12 noon (Brussels time) on 7 September 1999 for lots Nos 3
and 4.

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 noon (Brussels time) on 7 September 1999 for lots
Nos 1 and 2 and until 12 noon (Brussels time) on 21
September 1999 for lots Nos 3 and 4.

In that event all dates fixed in Annex I shall be postponed by
twenty days for lots Nos 1 and 2 and by fourteen days for lots
Nos 3 and 4.

An invitation to tender is hereby opened to establish the costs
of supplying four separate lots of wholly milled rice of the
characteristics and quality set out in Annex I hereto, to be

2.
The tender shall indicate the quantity of paddy rice 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 L 135, 29.5.1999, p. 41.
(4) OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1.
(5) 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).

11. 8. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 211/31

The quantities awarded must be removed from interven-
3.
tion stocks within 45 days of notification of the award of the
supply contract.

The difference between the quantities tendered for and the
quantities listed in Annex II must remain in the last store(s)
indicated in that Annex for each lot.

If

4.
tenderers declare in writing when submitting their
tenders that they will sumbit new tenders if a second period for
the submission of tenders is opened, intervention agencies shall
keep the originals of the tendering security and the undertaking
by the financial institution to lodge the supply security referred
to in Article 5(1)(h) and (i) of Regulation (EC) No 111/1999
until receipt of the Commission's decision on the tenders intro-
duced during the second period. In such a case, by derogation
from the above provision, the second tender shall not be
accompanied by the original of those two documents.

Article 4

The tendering security is set at EUR 25 per tonne of

1.
wholly milled rice.

2.
The supply security is set at EUR 632 per tonne of
wholly milled rice. It must be lodged in accordance with Article
7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 111/1999 in favour of the interven-
tion 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, 10 August 1999.

For the Commission

Monika WULF-MATHIES

Member of the Commission

L 211/32

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

11. 8. 1999

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,

ANNEX I

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: 19 750 tonnes wholly milled rice (net weight) comprising four separate lots.

Each supply shall relate to a single lot.

4. Description:

Lot No 1:

5 000 tonnes of wholly milled long-grain A rice to be delivered to and kept available from 20 September 1999 in an
Italian port.

Lot No 2:

5 000 tonnes of wholly milled medium-grain rice to be delivered to and kept available from 4 October 1999 in an
Italian port.

Lot No 3:

5 000 tonnes of wholly milled medium-grain rice to be delivered to and kept available from 11 October 1999 in an
Italian port.

Lot No 4:

4 750 tonnes of wholly milled long-grain A rice to be delivered to and kept available from 25 October 1999 in an
Italian port.

5. Packaging (2):

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 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.

11. 8. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 211/33

ANNEX II

Lot No 1

Storage locations

Quantity of paddy rice
(tonnes)

Immobiliare Agricola Alberetta Srl
Via Mede 41
Sardrana Lomellina PV

Magazzini Generali Doganali Vercelli Srl
Regione Bivio VC

Monfer SpA
Via Gramsci
San Marino Siccomario PV

Cordero Sebastiano Srl
Via Santuario 55
Polonghera CN

Magazzino Genal SpA
Via Roma Sud 49
Villa Poma MN

320

749

871

3 060

5 500

Lot No 2

Storage locations

Quantity of paddy rice
(tonnes)

Magazzino Sannazzaro Silos Srl
Via Umberto I n. 29
Silvano Pietra PV

Magazzino Ente Risi
Via Roma 128
Casalvolone NO

Magazzino Ente Risi
Via Roma
Formigliana VC

Magazzino Viglienzone Adriatica SpA
Via Madonna di G 39
Lugo di Ravenna RA

Monfer SpA
Via Gramsci
San Marino Siccomario PV

Magazzino Immobiliare Agricola Alberetta Srl
Via Mede 40
Sartirana Lomellina PV

Reda Maria
Castello di Nebbione Carisio VC

Magazzino Sannazzaro Silos Srl
Via Dell'Olmo 37
Sannazzaro de Burgondi PV

Magazzino Grani e Risi Soc. Coop. arl
Via Fronte I n. tronco 20
Pontelangorino FE

Magazzini Generali Raccordati Srl
Via G. Visconti 18
Novara

1 756

231

126

3 980

1 718

186

463

557

870

195

L 211/34

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

11. 8. 1999

Lot No 3

Storage locations

Lot No 4

Storage locations

Magazzino S.A.V. SpA
Via S. Giuliano 43
Sale (AL)

Magazzino S.A.V. SpA
Via della Rocca
Villa del Foro (AL)

Magazzino Cordero Sebastiano Srl
Via Santuario 55
Polonghera CN

Magazzino Monfer SpA
Molo Garibaldi
La Spezia

Address of the intervention agency:

Ente nazionale risi
Piazza Pio XI, 1
I-20123 Milan

Tel.: (00-39) 2 87 41 54
Fax: (00-39) 2 86 13 72

Quantity of paddy rice
(tonnes)

5 712

5 257

Quantity of paddy rice
(tonnes)

5 698

5 069