Commission Regulation (EC) No 1878/2003 of 24 October 2003 opening an invitation to tender for the subsidy on consignments of husked long-grain B rice to Réunion
Date: 2003-10-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Réunion, award of contract, export subsidy, rice

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1878/2003

of 24 October 2003

opening an invitation to tender for the subsidy on consignments of husked long-grain B rice to
Réunion

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 10(1) thereof,

2.
The invitation to tender referred to in paragraph 1 shall
be open until 17 June 2004. During that period regular invita-
tions to tender shall be issued and the date for submission of
tenders shall be set down in the notice of invitation to tender.

3.
The invitation to tender shall take place in accordance
with Regulation (EEC) No 2692/89 and with the following
provisions.

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2692/89 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1453/1999 (4),
lays
down the detailed rules for exports of rice to Réunion.

Examination of the supply situation in Réunion indicates
that rice is in short supply. In view of the rice available
on the Community market, provision should be made to
allow Réunion to be supplied with rice from the
Community market. Because of Réunion's particular
circumstances, it is appropriate to limit the quantities to
be sent and thus fix the amount of the subsidy by invita-
tion to tender.

Under 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 (5), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 816/2003 (6), the 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
for the submission of tenders. Paragraphs 3 and 4 of that
Article
to
advances and securities.

specify the operative

applicable

events

(4)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Cereals,

Article 2

A tender shall be admissible only if it covers a quantity for
shipment of at
least 50 tonnes but not more than 3 000
tonnes.

Article 3

The security referred to in Article 7(3)(a) of Regulation (EEC)
No 2692/89 shall be EUR 30 per tonne.

Article 4

The subsidy documents issued under 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.

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 the weekly submission of tenders as laid
down in the notice of invitation to tender. They must be trans-
mitted 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.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.

Article 6

1.
An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the shipment
to Réunion of husked long-grain B rice falling within CN code
1006 20 98, referred to in Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No
3072/95.

(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 62, 5.3.2002, p. 27.
(3) OJ L 261, 7.9.1989, p. 8.
(4) OJ L 167, 2.7.1999, p. 19.
(5) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 36.
(6) OJ L 116, 13.5.2003, p. 12.

Article 7

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

— either to fix a maximum subsidy,

— or not to take any action on the tenders.

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2. Where a maximum subsidy is fixed, an award shall be
made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders are at or
below the maximum subsidy.

The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at 17
June 2004.

Article 8

Article 9

The time limit for submission of tenders for the first regular
invitation to tender shall expire on 6 November 2003 at 10
a.m.

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, 24 October 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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