2002/408/EC: Commission Decision of 24 May 2002 on the sale of Community olive oil residues held by the Italian intervention agency (notified under document number C(2002) 1642)
Date: 2002-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, award of contract, intervention agency, olive oil, sale

30.5.2002

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 140/25

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 24 May 2002

on the sale of Community olive oil residues held by the Italian intervention agency

(notified under document number C(2002) 1642)

(Only the Italian text is authentic)

(2002/408/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1638/98 of 20
July 1998 amending Regulation No 136/66/EEC on the estab-
lishment of a common organisation of the market in oils and
fats (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1513/2001 (2),
and in particular Article 3(1) thereof,

could not be sold under Commission Regulation (EC) No
2599/2001 of 28 December 2001 on the sale of
Community olive oil residues held by the Spanish, Greek
and Italian intervention agencies (5) because not enough
tenders were received in Italy. Those olive oil residues
should be put up for sale again. To enable the Italian
authorities to find a fair solution under the conditions
laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 2754/78, the sale of
those residues should be authorised via direct agreement
instead of via a public tendering procedure.

(3)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Oils and Fats,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

the

intervention arrangements prior

Under
to 1
November 1998 olive oil was purchased by the Spanish,
Greek and Italian intervention agencies. The legal basis
for those arrangements was repealed with effect from 1
November 1998 by Regulation (EC) No 1638/98.
However,
in order to guarantee a smooth transition
from the intervention buying-in arrangements to the
current situation where those arrangements no longer
exist and in order to release all available stocks of olive
oil from Community intervention agencies, the sale of
quantities still in storage in Italy should be authorised.
The oil is vat-bottom residues which contain a consider-
able percentage of olive oil.

Article 2(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2754/78 of
23 November 1978 on intervention in the olive oil
sector (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2203/
90 (4), provides that Community olive oil held by inter-
vention agencies should be put up for sale by tender,
recourse to other
unless special conditions warrant
procedures. The olive oil residues still in storage in Italy

(1) OJ L 210, 28.7.1998, p. 32.
(2) OJ L 201, 26.7.2001, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 331, 28.11.1978, p. 13.
(4) OJ L 201, 31.7.1990, p. 5.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1.
The Italian intervention agency ‘Agenzia per le Erogazioni
in Agricoltura’, hereafter called ‘AGEA’, is authorised to sell by
direct agreement 27,1 tonnes of Community olive oil residue
held by it as a result of intervention on the Community olive
oil market.

The product referred to in paragraph 1 must be sold

2.
before 15 July 2002.

3.

The product must be delivered before 8 September 2002.

The Italian intervention agency shall inform the Commis-

4.
sion as soon as possible of the outcome of the sale.

(5) OJ L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 43.

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Official Journal of the European Communities

30.5.2002

This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 24 May 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission