Commission Regulation (EC) No 2281/2000 of 13 October 2000 on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain rice to certain third countries
Date: 2000-10-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, export, export refund, rice, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2281/2000

of 13 October 2000

on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain rice to certain
third countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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 1667/2000 (2),
and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,

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,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(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 2000/01 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 quantities of
rice benefiting from the refunds, and therefore to apply
Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 enabling the
amount of refund 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 markets of destination should
be limited to Zones I
to VI, excluding Turkey and
Hungary, and Zone VIII, excluding Guyana, Madagascar
and Surinam, noted in the Annex to Commission Regu-
lation (EEC) No 2145/92 (5), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 3304/94 (6).

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 (7), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1410/1999 (8), 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

(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 61, 7.3.1975, p. 25.
(4) OJ L 35, 15.2.1995, p. 8.
(5) OJ L 214, 30.7.1992, p. 20.
(6) OJ L 341, 30.12.1994, p. 48.
(7) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 36.
(8) OJ L 164, 30.6.1999, p. 53.

Article 1

An invitation to tender is opened for the refund on
1.
export of wholly milled round grain rice falling within CN
codes 1006 30 61 and 1006 30 92, referred to in Article 13 of
Regulation (EC) No 3072/95, for Zones I to VI (except for
Turkey and Hungary) and for Zone VIII (except for Guyana,
Madagascar and Surinam), as specified in the Annex to Regula-
tion (EEC) No 2145/92.

2.
The invitation to tender shall be open until 28 June
2001. During that period weekly invitations to tender shall be
issued and the date for submission of tenders shall be deter-
mined in the notice of invitation to tender.

3.
The invitation to tender shall take place in accordance
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

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 23(1) of
1.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 (9), export licences
issued within 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.

(9) OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1.

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Article 5

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

Article 6

The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.

— 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.

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.

Article 8

The time limit for submission of tenders for the first partial
invitation to tender shall expire on 26 October 2000 at 10
a.m.

The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at 28
June 2001.

Article 7

Article 9

On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission shall
1.
decide in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article
22 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95:

into force on the third day
This Regulation shall enter
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, 13 October 2000.

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 round grain rice to certain third countries

ANNEX

(Closing date 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.