Commission Regulation (EC) No 1188/2000 of 5 June 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 539/2000 on the issuing of a standing invitation to tender for the sale of common wheat of breadmaking quality held by the German intervention agency for export to certain ACP countries in the 1999/2000 marketing year
Date: 2000-06-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, Germany, award of contract, common wheat, export, intervention agency

6.6.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 133/21

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1188/2000

of 5 June 2000

amending Regulation (EC) No 539/2000 on the issuing of a standing invitation to tender for the sale
of common wheat of breadmaking quality held by the German intervention agency for export to
certain ACP countries in the 1999/2000 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

1. Article 3(2) is replaced by the following:

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), and in particular Article 5 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 39/1999 (4), lays down
the procedure and conditions for the disposal of cereals
held by intervention agencies.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 539/2000 (5) issued a
standing invitation to tender for the sale of common
wheat of breadmaking quality held by the German inter-
vention agency for export to certain ACP countries. The
time limit
invitation to tender
provided for in that Regulation should be fixed at a later
date.

the last partial

for

As a result of the extension of this invitation to tender,
certain provisions of the invitation to tender should be
adjusted and in particular a standard term of validity for
export
the current
month plus four months.

licences should be established of

The final date for the removal of cereals and the relevant
provisions should also be deleted.

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

The

time

‘2.
the
following partial invitation to tender shall be 9 a.m. (Brus-
sels time) each Thursday.

submitting tenders

limit

for

for

The time limit for the partial invitation to tender shall be 9
a.m. (Brussels time) on 28 September 2000.’;

2. the first indent of Article 4(1) is replaced by the following:

‘— the tenderer provides written proof from an official
body in the ACP country of destination or a company
having its overseas subsidiary in the said country, that
the quantity in question a
he has concluded for
commercial supply contract
for
for common wheat
export to an ACP State or to several States within one
of the groups of ACP States listed in Annex I. Such
proof shall be lodged with the competent authorities at
least two working days before the date of the partial
invitation to tender against which the tender is to be
submitted.’;

3. Article 5(2) is replaced by the following:

‘2.
Export licences shall be valid from their date of issue
within the meaning of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No
2131/93 until the end of the fourth month following.’;

4. Article 7 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 7

The successful tenderer shall pay for the common wheat
before removing it at the price indicated in the tender. The
payment due for each of the lots to be removed shall be
indivisible.’;

5. the last sentence in the second indent of Article 8(2) is

replaced by the following:

‘This proof shall be supplied in accordance with Articles 16
and 49 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/1999 (*).

(*) OJ L 102, 17.4.1999, p. 11.’.

Regulation (EC) No 539/2000 is hereby amended as follows:

Article 2

(1) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 18.
(3) OJ L 191, 31.7.1993, p. 76.
(4) OJ L 5, 9.1.1999, p. 64.
(5) OJ L 65, 14.3.2000, p. 14.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of
its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 5 June 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission