Commission Regulation (EC) No 863/2005 of 7 June 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 459/2005 as regards the quantity covered by the standing invitation to tender for the export of common wheat held by the Austrian intervention agency
Date: 2005-06-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Austria, award of contract, common wheat, export, intervention agency

8.6.2005

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 863/2005

of 7 June 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 459/2005 as regards the quantity covered by the standing invitation
to tender for the export of common wheat held by the Austrian intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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 6 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

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 459/2005 (3) opened a
standing invitation to tender for the export of 130 663
tonnes of common wheat held by the Austrian inter-
vention agency.

Austria has informed the Commission of the intention of
its intervention agency to increase by 30 000 tonnes the
quantity put out to tender for export. In view of the
market situation, the request made by Austria 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 459/2005.

Regulation (EC) No 459/2005 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

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

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 459/2005 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 2

The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of
1.
160 663 tonnes of common wheat
to third
countries with the exception of Albania, Bosnia and Herze-
govina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
and Montenegro (*),
Liechtenstein,
Macedonia,
Romania and Switzerland.

for export

Serbia

The regions in which the 160 663 tonnes of common

2.
wheat 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 text in the Annex to this Regu-

lation.

Article 2

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, 7 June 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 749/2005 (OJ L 126, 19.5.2005, p. 10).

(3) OJ L 75, 22.3.2005, p. 9. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)

No 698/2005 (OJ L 114, 4.5.2005, p. 7).

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

Burgenland, Niederösterreich, Oberösterreich

Place of storage

(in tonnes)

Quantity

160 663’