Commission Regulation (EC) No 506/2000 of 8 March 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1758/1999 opening an invitation to tender for the refund or the tax for the export of rye to all third coutries
Date: 2000-03-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, export refund, export tax, rye, third country

L 62/22

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

9.3.2000

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 506/2000

of 8 March 2000

amending Regulation (EC) No 1758/1999 opening an invitation to tender for the refund or the tax
for the export of rye to all third countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

The Management Committee for Cereals has not deliv-
ered an opinion within the time limit
set by its
chairman,

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 Regulation (EC) No 1253/
1999 (2),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1501/95 of
29 June 1995 laying down certain detailed rules for the
application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 on the
granting of export refunds on cereals and the measures to be
taken in the event of disturbance on the market for cereals (3),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2513/98 (4), and in
particular Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1758/1999 (5) opens
an invitation to tender for the export of rye to all third
countries.

The increasingly closer links between the European
Union and certain central and eastern European coun-
tries and the current situation on the rye market in those
countries mean that Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,
the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania,
Bulgaria and Slovenia should be ruled out as destinations
under the invitation to tender for the export of rye. The
export refunds awarded for rye are valid for all third
In order to avoid undesirable exports to
countries.
markets in those countries, those destinations should
not qualify for the refunds granted under the invitation
to tender for the export of rye opened by Regulation
(EC) No 1758/1999.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1758/1999 is hereby amended as follows:

1. The title is replaced by the following:

‘opening an invitation to tender for the refund or the tax for
the export of rye to all
third countries except Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak
Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia’.

2. Article 1(2) is replaced by the following:

‘2.
The invitation to tender shall cover rye for export to
all third countries except Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,
the Czech Republic,
the Slovak Republic, Hungary,
Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia’.

3. The title of Annex I is replaced by the following:

‘Weekly tender for the refund or the tax for the export of
rye to all third countries except Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Hungary,
Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia’.

Article 2

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, 8 March 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 18.
(3) OJ L 147, 30.6.1995, p. 7.
(4) OJ L 313, 21.11.1998, p. 16.
(5) OJ L 210, 10.8.1999, p. 3.