Commission Regulation (EC) No 2275/2004 of 30 December 2004 opening an invitation to tender for the reduction in the duty on sorghum imported into Spain from third countries
Date: 2004-12-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, Spain, award of contract, import, originating product, sorghum, tariff reduction, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2275/2004

of 30 December 2004

opening an invitation to tender for the reduction in the duty on sorghum imported into Spain from
third countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

disturb the Spanish cereals market. Such cumulation
must therefore be ruled out.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

(5)

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

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of 29
September 2003 on the common organisation of the market in
cereals (1), and in particular Article 12(1) thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Pursuant to the Agreement on Agriculture (2) concluded
during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade nego-
tiations,
the Community has undertaken to import a
certain quantity of sorghum into Spain.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1839/95 of 26 July
1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of
tariff quotas for imports of maize and sorghum into
Spain and imports of maize into Portugal (3), lays down
the special additional detailed rules necessary for imple-
menting the invitations to tender.

In view of the current market demand in Spain, an invi-
tation to tender
the reduction in the duty on
sorghum is appropriate.

for

products

originating

Council Regulation (EC) No 2286/2002 of 10 December
2002 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural
products and goods resulting from the processing of
agricultural
the African,
Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP) and repealing Regu-
lation (EC) No 1706/98 (4) provides in particular for a 60
% reduction in the duty applicable to imports of
100 000 tonnes of sorghum per calendar year, and a
50 % reduction over this quota. Cumulation of
this
benefit and the benefit resulting from the invitation to
the reduction in the import duty would
tender

for

in

Article 1

1.
An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the reduction
in the import duty referred to in Article 10(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 1784/2003 on sorghum to be imported into Spain.

Regulation (EC) No 1839/95 shall apply, save as otherwise

2.
provided for in this Regulation.

3.
The reduction in the import duty for sorghum laid down
in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2886/2002 shall not apply
in the case of this invitation to tender.

Article 2

The invitation to tender shall be open until 15 December 2005.
During that time weekly invitations shall be issued, with quan-
tities and closing dates as shown in the notice of invitation to
tender.

Article 3

Import licences issued under this invitation to tender shall be
valid for fifty days from the date they are issued, within the
meaning of Article 10(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1839/95.

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78.
(2) OJ L 336, 23.12.1994, p. 22.
(3) OJ L 177, 28.7.1995, p. 4. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

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

(4) OJ L 348, 21.12.2002, p. 5.

Article 4

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

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

Done at Brussels, 30 December 2004.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission