Commission Regulation (EC) No 2178/1999 of 14 October 1999 opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice to certain European third countries
Date: 1999-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Europe, award of contract, export refund, rice, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2178/1999

of 14 October 1999

opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and long
grain A rice to certain European third countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Article 1

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,

1.
An invitation to tender is hereby opened, for the refund
on export of wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice
to Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and
Slovenia.

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Examination of the balance sheet shows that exportable
amounts of rice are currently held by producers. This
situation could affect
the normal development of
producer prices during the 1999/2000 marketing year.

In order to remedy this situation, it is appropriate to
make use of export refunds to zones which may be
supplied by the Community. The special situation of the
rice market makes it necessary to limit the refunds, and
therefore to apply Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No
3072/95 enabling the refund amount to be fixed by
tendering procedure.

It should be stated that the provisions of 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 invita-
tion to tender.

In order to avoid disturbances on the markets of the
producing countries, the invitation to tender should be
limited to certain countries.

Pursuant to Article 14 of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2808/98 of 22 December 1998 laying down detailed
rules for the application of the agrimonetary system for
the euro in agriculture (5), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1410/1999 (6), amounts quoted in tenders
submitted in response to invitations to tender organised
under an instrument forming part of the common agri-
cultural policy must be expressed in euro. Article 5(1) of
that Regulation provides that in such cases the operative
event for the agricultural exchange rate is the final day
for the submission of tenders. Paragraphs 3 and 4 of
that Article specify the operative events applicable to
advances and securities.

(6)

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

(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 349, 24.12.1998, p. 36.
(6) OJ L 164, 30.6.1999, p. 53.

2.
The invitation to tender referred to in paragraph 1 shall
be open until 29 June 2000. During that period weekly invita-
tions to tender shall be issued and the date for submission of
tenders shall be determined in the notice of
invitation to
tender.

The invitation to tender shall take place in accordance
3.
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 (7), export licences
issued under 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 that date.

Article 5

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

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

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Article 6

Article 8

The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.

Article 7

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

— or not to take any action on the tenders.

The deadline for submission of tenders for the first partial
invitation to tender shall be 10 a.m. on 28 October 1999.

The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at 29
June 2000.

Article 9

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.

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 October 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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Weekly invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice to
certain European third countries

ANNEX

Deadline for the submission of tenders (date/time)

1

Serial number
of tenderers

2

Quantities
in tonnes

3

Amount of export refund
(in euro per tonne)

1

2

3

4

5

etc.