Commission Regulation (EC) No 1520/2002 of 23 August 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 899/2002 opening an invitation to tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to all third countries except Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia
Date: 2002-08-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, common wheat, export refund, third country

L 228/18

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

24.8.2002

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1520/2002

of 23 August 2002

amending Regulation (EC) No 899/2002 opening an invitation to tender for the refund for the
export of common wheat to all third countries except Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

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),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1501/95 of
29 June 1995 laying down certain detailed rules for the applica-
tion 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 1163/2002 (4), and in parti-
cular Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Council Regulation (EC) No 1408/2002 (5), establishes
certain concessions in the form of Community tariff
quotas for certain agricultural products and provides for
an adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional
measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreement with Hungary. The abolition of
refunds for common wheat exported to Hungary is one
of the concessions.

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 899/2002 is amended as follows:

1. the title is replaced by the following:

‘opening an invitation to tender for the refund for the export
of common wheat to all third countries except Hungary,
Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia’;

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

‘2.
The invitation to tender shall cover common wheat
for export to all third countries except Hungary, Poland,
Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.’;

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

‘Weekly tender for the refund for the export of common
wheat to all third countries except Hungary, Poland, Estonia,
Lithuania and Latvia’.

Article 2

The destinations laid down in Commission Regulation
(EC) No 899/2002 (6) should therefore be amended.

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, 23 August 2002.

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 147, 30.6.1995, p. 7.
(4) OJ L 170, 29.6.2002, p. 46.
(5) OJ L 205, 2.8.2002, p. 9.
(6) OJ L 142, 31.5.2002, p. 11.