Commission Regulation (EC) No 697/2005 of 3 May 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 462/2005 as regards the quantity covered by the standing invitation to tender for the export of barley held by the German intervention agency
Date: 2005-05-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, award of contract, barley, export, intervention agency

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 697/2005

of 3 May 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 462/2005 as regards the quantity covered by the standing invitation
to tender for the export of barley held by the German intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(6)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of
the
29 September 2003 on the common organisation of
market in cereals (1), and in particular Article 6 thereof,

Whereas:

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (2), lays down
the procedure and conditions for the disposal of cereals
held by intervention agencies.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 462/2005 (3), opened a
standing invitation to tender for the export of 500 693
tonnes of barley held by the German intervention agency.

Germany has informed the Commission of the intention
of its intervention agency to increase by 500 000 tonnes
the quantity put out to tender for export. In view of the
market situation, the request made by Germany should
be granted.

This increase in the quantity put out to tender makes it
necessary to alter the quantity stored by region of storage
referred to in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 462/2005.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

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 462/2005 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 2

1.
The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of
1 000 693 tonnes of barley for export to third countries
with the exception of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Romania, Serbia and
Montenegro (*), Switzerland and the United States of
America.

The regions in which the 1 000 693 tonnes of barley

2.
are stored are listed in Annex I.

___________
(*) Including Kosovo, as defined in UN Security Council

Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999.’

2. Annex I is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Regulation (EC) No 462/2005 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation 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, 3 May 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78.
(2) OJ L 191, 31.7.1993, p. 76. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2045/2004 (OJ L 354, 30.11.2004, p. 17).

(3) OJ L 75, 22.3.2005, p. 27. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 610/2005 (OJ L 101, 21.4.2005, p. 9).

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

Place of storage

Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Niedersachsen, Bremen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
Sachsen, Thüringen, Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Sachsen-Anhalt,
Berlin, Brandenburg,
Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg, Bayern

(in tonnes)

Quantity

1 000 693’