Commission Regulation (EC) No 1977/2000 of 19 September 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 increasing to 1 477 420 tonnes the quantity of barley held by the United Kingdom intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export has been opened
Date: 2000-09-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: United Kingdom, award of contract, barley, export, intervention agency, quantitative restriction

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Official Journal of the European Communities

20.9.2000

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1977/2000

of 19 September 2000

amending Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 increasing to 1 477 420 tonnes the quantity of barley held
by the United Kingdom intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export
has been opened

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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 1666/
2000 (2), and in particular Article 5 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1630/2000 (4),
lays
down the procedures and conditions for the disposal of
cereals held by the intervention agencies.

for

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 (5), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1458/2000 (6), opened
a standing invitation to tender
the export of
1 476 214 tonnes of barley held by the United Kingdom
intervention agency. The United Kingdom informed the
Commission of the intention of its intervention agency
to increase by 1 206 tonnes the quantity for which a
standing invitation to tender
for export has been
opened. The total quantity of barley held by the United
Kingdom intervention agency for which a standing invi-
tation to tender for export has been opened should be
increased to 1 477 420 tonnes.

store. Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 must
therefore be amended.

(4)

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

Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 2

1.
The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of
1 477 420 tonnes of barley to be exported to all third
countries with the exception of
the United States of
America, Canada and Mexico.

The regions in which the 1 477 420 tonnes of barley

2.
are stored are stated in Annex I to this Regulation.’

2. Annex I is replaced by the Annex hereto.

Article 2

(3)

This increase in the quantity put out to tender makes it
necessary to alter the list of regions and quantities in

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion 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, 19 September 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 191, 31.7.1993, p. 76.
(4) OJ L 187, 26.7.2000, p. 24.
(5) OJ L 221, 8.8.1998, p. 8.
(6) OJ L 164, 5.7.2000, p. 3.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

Place of storage

Aberdeenshire
Angus
Bedfordshire
Berwickshire
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Dorset
Dumfries
East Lothian
Edinburgh
Essex
Fife
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
Grimsby
Keith
Kidderminster
Kirkcaldy
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Mid Lothian
Norfolk
North Humberside
North Lincolnshire
Northampton
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Norwich
Nottinghamshire
Pocklington York
Salisbury
Shropshire
Somerset
Strathclyde
Suffolk
Taunton
Tayside
West Sussex
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
York
Yorkshire

(tonnes)

Quantity

42 146
9 684
15 041
71 344
16 761
2 727
22 436
35 221
72 136
33 570
8 760
21 791
25 314
65 008
235
7 852
1 277
7 508
11 753
201 064
12 074
92 235
65 066
49 246
2 510
26 888
10 040
44 789
20 700
12 876
45 901
40 515
8 240
110 735
35 431
13 744
40 390
31 075
10 911
51 890
75 135
5 401’