Commission Regulation (EC) No 1415/2003 of 7 August 2003 on the opening of a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of some 5000 tonnes of rice from the 2001 harvest held by the Spanish intervention agency
Date: 2003-08-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Spain, award of contract, harvest, intervention agency, rice, sale, single market

8.8.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 201/17

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1415/2003

of 7 August 2003

on the opening of a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of some
5 000 tonnes of rice from the 2001 harvest held by the Spanish intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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 the last indent of 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 intervention agencies (3)
lays down requirements relating to those procedures and
conditions.

For a very long time now the Spanish intervention
agency has been storing a significant quantity of round-,
medium- and long-grain A paddy rice from the 2001
harvest. A standing invitation to tender
should be
opened for the resale on the internal market of approxi-
mately 5 000 tonnes of round-, medium- or long-grain
A paddy rice from the 2001 harvest held by the Spanish
intervention agency.

Article 1

The Spanish intervention agency shall open, on the terms laid
down in Regulation (EEC) No 75/91, a standing invitation to
tender for the resale on the internal market of some 5 000
tonnes of round-, medium- or long-grain A paddy rice from
the 2001 harvest which it holds.

Article 2

The closing date for submitting tenders under the first

1.
partial invitation to tender shall be 18 August 2003.

The closing date for submitting tenders under the last

2.
partial invitation to tender shall be 1 September 2003.

The tenders must be lodged with the Spanish intervention

3.
agency:

Fondo Español de Garantía Agraria (FEGA)
Beneficencia 8
E-28004 Madrid
Telex: 23427 FEGA E
Fax: (34) 91 521 98 32, (34) 91 522 43 87.

Article 3

No later than the Tuesday of the week following the closing
date for submitting tenders, the Spanish intervention agency
shall
inform the Commission of the quantities and average
prices of the various lots sold.

Article 4

(3)

The Management Committee for Cereals has not deliv-
ered an opinion within the time limit laid down by its
chairman,

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 August 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(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.