Commission Regulation (EC) No 1757/2004 of 11 October 2004 opening an invitation to tender for the refund on barley exports to certain third countries
Date: 2004-10-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, barley, export refund, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1757/2004

of 11 October 2004

opening an invitation to tender for the refund on barley exports to certain third countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

time limit and form of transmission for the lodging of
tenders with the competent authority.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

(6)

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

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1784/2003 of
29 September 2003 on the common organisation of the market
in cereals (1), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article
13(3) thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Given the present market situation for cereals an invi-
tation to tender for the export refund on barley should
be opened in accordance with Article 4 of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1501/95 of 29 June 1995 laying
down certain detailed rules for application of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 covering the granting of
export refunds on cereals and the measures to be taken
in the event of disturbance in the cereals sector (2).

Article 1

Under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95 an invi-

1.
tation to tender for the export refund is hereby opened.

The invitation covers barley exports to Algeria, Bahrain,
2.
Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Maur-
itania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, the
United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

The tendering procedure rules to be followed when
export refunds are set are contained in Regulation (EC)
No 1501/95. Among these is a requirement to submit an
export licence application and lodge a security. The rate
of that security should be set.

3.
The invitation shall be open until 23 June 2005. During
that period weekly awards shall be made. Quantities and tender
submission dates for these shall be set out in the notice of
invitation.

A specific period of validity must be set for the licences
invitation. The validity should be
issued under
appropriate
the
2004/2005 marketing year.

to world market

requirements

this

for

The second subparagraph of Article 4(4) of Regulation (EC) No
1501/95 notwithstanding,
for submission of
tenders for the first part-award shall be 14 October 2004.

the time limit

(4)

So that all parties are treated equally, all licences issued
should have the same period of validity.

Article 2

Tenders shall not be valid if made for less than 1 000 tonnes.

(5)

tendering procedures
Satisfactory operation of export
requires that a minimum quantity be set and also a

Article 3

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p.78.
(2) OJ L 147, 30.6.1995, p. 7. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 777/2004 (OJ L 123, 27.4.2004, p. 50).

The security referred to in Article 5(3)(a) of Regulation (EC) No
1501/95 shall be EUR 12 per tonne.

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Article 4

Article 23(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1.
1291/2000 (1) notwithstanding,
issued in
accordance with Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95
shall, for the purpose of determining their period of validity, be
considered to have been issued on the day on which the tender
is lodged.

licences

export

2.
Export licences issued under the invitation opened by this
Regulation shall be valid from their date of issue as defined in
paragraph 1 until the end of the fourth month following.

for lodging them stated in the notice of invitation, using the
form set out in the Annex.

inform the
If no tenders are lodged Member States shall
Commission accordingly by the same time as indicated in the
first paragraph.

The times set for lodging tenders shall be in Belgian time.

Article 5

Article 6

Member States shall forward tenders lodged to the Commission
within one-and-a-half hours of expiry of the weekly time limit

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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, 11 October 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1.

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ANNEX

Specimen form (*)

Award of the refund on barley exports to certain third countries

(Regulation (EC) No 1757/2004)

(Time limit for submission of tenders)

2

Quantity
(tonnes)

3

Export refund rate
(EUR/tonne)

1

Tenderer

1

2

3

etc.

(*) To be sent to the following e-mail address:
AGRI-C1-REVENTE-MARCHE-UE@cec.eu.int