Commission Regulation (EC) No 207/2003 of 3 February 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 1940/2001 on the opening of a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the Community internal market of some 39000 tonnes of rice held by the Italian intervention agency for use in animal feed
Date: 2003-02-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, animal nutrition, award of contract, intervention agency, rice, sale

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 207/2003

of 3 February 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 1940/2001 on the opening of a standing invitation to tender for the
resale on the Community internal market of some 39 000 tonnes of rice held by the Italian inter-
vention agency for use in animal feed

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 Commission Regulation (EC) No
411/2002 (2), and in particular Article 8(b) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 75/91 of 11 January
1991 laying down the procedures and conditions for the
disposal of paddy rice held by the intervention agen-
cies (3) lays down the procedures and conditions for such
disposals.

invitation to tender under Commission
The current
Regulation (EC) No 1940/2001 (4), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 2089/2002 (5), has almost comple-
tely disposed of the quantity initially authorised for sale
by the intervention agency. Italy still has intervention
stocks of paddy rice from harvests earlier than 1999, the
quality of which is in danger of deteriorating if kept in
prolonged storage. The quantities initially planned for
this invitation to tender should therefore be increased by
authorising the sale of this at-risk quantity.

(3)

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 1940/2001 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 1 is replaced by the following text:

‘Article 1

The Italian intervention agency shall offer
for sale by
standing invitation to tender on the Community internal
market some 39 000 tonnes of rice as referred to in Annex
I from the 1997 and 1998 harvests and an additional quan-

(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 62, 5.3.2002, p. 27.
(3) OJ L 9, 12.1.1991, p. 15.
(4) OJ L 263, 3.10.2001, p. 19.
(5) OJ L 322, 27.11.2002, p. 3.

tity of some 20 000 tonnes referred to in Annex Ia from the
1998 harvest, for use in preparations of a kind used in
animal feeding (CN code 2309).’

2. The following Annex Ia is added after Annex I:

‘ANNEX Ia

(in tonnes)

Place of storage

Cardé (CN)

Moncrivello (CN)

Formigliana (VC)

Casalvolone (NO)

Racconigi (CN)

Pontelangorino (FE)

Novara (NO)

Cambiano (CN)

S. Martino Siccomario (PV)

Mandrogne (AL)

Quantity

864,060

2 097,650

8 735,180

1 450,360

3 128,350

1 303,699

657,850

863,143

697,420

635,080

Total

20 432,792’

3. Paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 5 are replaced by the

following text:

The closing date for the submission of tenders for
‘2.
shall be each
subsequent partial
Wednesday at 12.00 (Brussels time), with the exception of
Wednesday 16 April 2003.

invitations

to tender

The closing date for the last partial invitation to tender

3.
shall be 30 April 2003.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 10 January 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 3 February 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission