Commission Regulation (EC) No 1066/2005 of 6 July 2005 opening a standing invitation to tender for the export of common wheat held by the Hungarian intervention agency
Date: 2005-07-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Hungary, award of contract, common wheat, export, intervention agency

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1066/2005

of 6 July 2005

opening a standing invitation to tender for the export of common wheat held by the Hungarian
intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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,

(7) With a view to modernising the management of the
system, provision should be made for the electronic
the
transmission of
Commission.

information required by

the

(8)

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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3002/92 (3) lays down
common detailed rules for verifying the use and/or desti-
nation of products from intervention.

Article 1

Subject to this Regulation, the Hungarian intervention agency
shall issue a standing invitation to tender in accordance with
Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 for the export of common wheat
held by it.

Article 2

Given the current market situation, a standing invitation
to tender should be opened for the export of 500 000
tonnes of common wheat held by the Hungarian inter-
vention agency.

The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of 500 000
tonnes of common wheat for export to third countries with the
exception of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Liechtenstein,
Romania, Serbia and Montenegro (4) and Switzerland.

Special rules must be laid down to ensure that
the
operations are properly carried out and monitored. To
that end, securities should be lodged to ensure that the
goals of the operation are achieved without excessive cost
to the operators. Derogations should accordingly be
made to certain rules, in particular those laid down in
Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93.

To forestall reimportation, exports under this invitation
to tender should be limited to certain third countries.

Article 7(2a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 allows the
successful exporting tenderer to be reimbursed the lowest
transport costs between the place of storage and the
actual place of exit, up to a certain ceiling. In view of
Hungary’s geographical location, this provision should be
applied.

Article 3

No export refund or tax or monthly increase shall be

1.
granted on exports carried out under this Regulation.

Article 8(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 shall not

2.
apply.

3.
Notwithstanding the third paragraph of Article 16 of
Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93, the price to be paid for the
export shall be that quoted in the tender, without monthly
increase.

4.
Under Article 7(2a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93, the
lowest transport costs between the place of storage and the
actual place of exit shall be reimbursed to the successful
tenderer, up to the ceiling set in the invitation to tender.

(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 301, 17.10.1992, p. 17. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

(4) Including Kosovo, as defined in UN Security Council Resolution

lation (EC) No 770/96 (OJ L 104, 27.4.1996, p. 13).

1244 of 10 June 1999.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

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Article 4

1.
issue
Export licences shall be valid from their date of
within the meaning of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC)
the fourth month thereafter.
No 2131/93 until

the end of

tenderer's request or within three working days if the samples
are taken on removal from storage.

In the event of a dispute, the analysis results shall be forwarded
electronically to the Commission.

Tenders submitted in response to this invitation to tender
2.
need not be accompanied by export
licence applications
submitted under Article 49 of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1291/2000 (1).

Article 5

Notwithstanding Article
the time limit

1.
No 2131/93,
the first partial
under
(Brussels time) on 14 July 2005.

7(1)

of Regulation
for the submission of

(EEC)
tenders
shall be 9.00

invitation to tender

The time limit for submitting tenders under subsequent partial
invitations to tender shall be 9.00 (Brussels time) each Thursday
thereafter, with the exception of 21 July 2005, 4 August 2005,
18 August 2005, 1 September 2005, 3 November 2005,
29 December 2005, 13 April 2006 and 25 May 2006,
i.e.
weeks in which no invitation to tender shall be made.

The last partial invitation to tender shall expire at 9.00 (Brussels
time) on 22 June 2006.

Tenders must be lodged with the Hungarian intervention

2.
agency:

Mezogazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Hivatal
Alkotmány u. 29.
H-1385 Budapest 62
Pf 867
Tel. (36) 1-219 62 60
Fax (36) 1-219 62 59.

Article 6

The intervention agency, the storer and a successful tenderer
shall, at the request of the latter and by common agreement,
either before or at the time of removal from storage as the
tenderer chooses, take reference samples for counter-analysis
at the rate of at least one sample for every 500 tonnes and
shall analyse the samples. The intervention agency may be
represented by a proxy, provided this is not the storer.

Reference samples for counter-analysis shall be taken and
analysed within seven working days of the date of the successful

Article 7

The successful tenderer must accept the lot as established

1.
if the final result of the sample analyses indicates a quality:

(a) higher than that specified in the notice of

invitation to

tender;

(b) higher than the minimum characteristics laid down for
intervention but below the quality described in the notice
of invitation to tender, providing that the differences do not
exceed the following limits:

— one kilogram per hectolitre as regards specific weight,
which must not, however, be less than 75 kg/hl,

— one percentage point as regards moisture content,

— half a percentage point as regards the impurities referred
to in points B.2 and B.4 of Annex I to Commission
Regulation (EC) No 824/2000 (2),

— half a percentage point as regards the impurities referred
to in point B.5 of Annex I
to Regulation (EC)
No 824/2000, the percentages admissible for noxious
grains and ergot remaining unchanged, however.

If

the final result of

2.
the analyses carried out on the
samples indicates a quality higher than the minimum character-
istics laid down for intervention but below the quality described
in the notice of invitation to tender and the difference exceeds
the limits set out in paragraph 1(b), the successful tenderer may:

(a) accept the lot as established, or

(b) refuse to take over the lot concerned.

(b) above,

the successful

tenderer shall be
In the case of
discharged of all obligations relating to the lot
in question
and the securities shall be released provided the Commission
and the intervention agency are immediately notified using the
form in Annex I.

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

(2) OJ L 100, 20.4.2000, p. 31. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

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

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If the final result of the sample analyses indicates a quality
3.
below the minimum characteristics laid down for intervention,
the successful tenderer cannot remove the lot in question. The
successful tenderer shall be discharged of all obligations relating
in question and the securities shall be released
to the lot
provided the Commission and the intervention agency are
immediately notified using the form in Annex I.

Article 8

Should the cases mentioned in Article 7(2)(b) and 7(3) arise, the
successful tenderer may ask the intervention agency to supply
an alternative lot of common wheat of the requisite quality, at
no extra cost. In that case, the security shall not be released. The
lot must be replaced within three days of
the
successful tenderer's request. The successful tenderer shall imme-
diately inform the Commission thereof using the form in
Annex I.

the date of

If, as a result of successive replacements, the successful tenderer
has not received a replacement lot of the quality laid down
within one month of the date of the request for a replacement,
the successful tenderer shall be discharged of all obligations and
the securities shall be released, provided the Commission and
the intervention agency have been immediately informed using
the form in Annex I.

Article 9

1.
If the common wheat is removed before the results of the
analyses provided for in Article 6 are known, all risks shall be
is
borne by the successful
removed, without prejudice to any means of
the
tenderer might have against the storer.

tenderer from the time the lot

redress

taking the samples and conducting the
The costs of
2.
in Article 6, with the exception of
analyses provided for
those referred to in Article 7(3),
shall be borne by the
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF)
for up to one analysis per 500 tonnes, with the exception of the
cost of inter-bin transfers. The costs of inter-bin transfers and

any additional analyses requested by a successful tenderer shall
be borne by that tenderer.

Article 10

Notwithstanding Article 12 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 3002/92, the documents relating to the sale of common
wheat under
the export
this Regulation, and in particular
licence, the removal order referred to in Article 3(1)(b) of Regu-
lation (EEC) No 3002/92, the export declaration and, where
applicable, the T5 copy shall carry one of the entries set out
in Annex II.

Article 11

1.
The security lodged under Article 13(4) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2131/93 shall be released once the export licences
have been issued to the successful tenderers.

2.
Notwithstanding Article 17(1) of Regulation (EEC)
No 2131/93, the obligation to export shall be covered by a
security equal to the difference between the intervention price
applying on the day of the award and the price awarded but not
less than EUR 25 per tonne. Half of the security shall be lodged
when the licence is issued and the balance shall be lodged
before the cereals are removed.

Article 12

tenders,

the expiry of

for the
Within two hours of
submission of
the Hungarian intervention agency
shall electronically notify the Commission of tenders received.
This notification shall be made by e-mail, using the form in
Annex III.

the time limit

Article 13

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, 6 July 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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Communication of refusal of lots under the standing invitation to tender for the export of common wheat held
by the hungarian intervention agency

ANNEX I

(Regulation (EC) No 1066/2005)

— Name of successful tenderer:
— Date of award:
— Date of refusal of the lot by the successful tenderer:

Lot number

Quantity
in tonnes

Address of the
silo

Reason for refusal to take over

— PS (kg/hl)
— % of sprouted grains
— % of miscellaneous impurities (Schwarzbesatz)
— % of matter other than basic cereals of unimpaired quality
— Other

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ANNEX II

Entries referred to in Article 10

— in Spanish:

intervención sin aplicación de

Trigo blando de
no 1066/2005
Intervenční pšenice obecná nepodléhá vývozní náhradě ani clu, nařízení (ES) č. 1066/2005

— in Czech:
— in Danish:
— in German: Weichweizen aus Interventionsbeständen ohne Anwendung von Ausfuhrerstattungen oder Ausfuhr-

Blød hvede fra intervention uden restitutionsydelse eller -afgift, forordning (EF) nr. 1066/2005

restitución ni gravamen, Reglamento (CE)

— in Estonian:
— in Greek:
— in English:
— in French:
— in Italian:

— in Latvian:
— in Lithuanian:

— in Hungarian:
— in Dutch:

— in Polish:

abgaben, Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1066/2005

Pehme nisu sekkumisvarudest, mille puhul ei rakendata toetust või maksu, määrus (EÜ) nr 1066/2005
Μαλακός σίτος παρέμβασης χωρίς εφαρμογή επιστροφής ή φόρου, κανονισμός (ΕΚ) αριθ. 1066/2005

Intervention common wheat without application of refund or tax, Regulation (EC) No 1066/2005

Blé tendre d'intervention ne donnant pas lieu à restitution ni taxe, règlement (CE) no 1066/2005

Frumento tenero d'intervento senza applicazione di
n. 1066/2005
Intervences parastie kvieši bez kompensācijas vai nodokļa piemērošanas, Regula (EK) Nr. 1066/2005

restituzione né di

regolamento (CE)

tassa,

Intervenciniai paprastieji
Nr. 1066/2005

kviečiai,

kompensacija

ar mokesčiai netaikytini, Reglamentas

(EB)

Intervenciós búza, visszatérítés, illetve adó nem alkalmazandó, 1066/2005/EK rendelet

interventie, zonder

Zachte tarwe uit
nr. 1066/2005
Pszenica zwyczajna interwencyjna niedająca prawa do refundacji ani do opłaty, rozporządzenie (WE)
nr 1066/2005

toepassing van restitutie of belasting, Verordening (EG)

— in Portuguese: Trigo mole de intervenção sem aplicação de uma restituição ou imposição, Regulamento (CE)

n.o 1066/2005
Intervenčná pšenica obyčajná nepodlieha vývozným náhradám ani clu, nariadenie (ES) č. 1066/2005
Intervencija navadne pšenice brez zahtevkov za nadomestila ali carine, Uredba (ES) št. 1066/2005

Interventiovehnä, johon ei sovelleta vientitukea eikä vientimaksua, asetus (EY) N:o 1066/2005

Interventionsvete, utan tillämpning av bidrag eller avgift, förordning (EG) nr 1066/2005.

— in Slovak:
— in Slovene:
— in Finnish:
— in Swedish:

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ANNEX III

Form (*)

Standing invitation to tender for the export of common wheat held by the Hungarian intervention agency

(Regulation (EC) No 1066/2005)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Serial numbers of
tenderers

Lot number

Quantity in
tonnes

Tender prices
(EUR/tonne) (1)

Increases (+)
Reductions (–)
(EUR/tonne)
(p.m.)

Commercial
costs (2)
(EUR/tonne)

Destination

1

2

3

etc.

(*) To be sent to DG AGRI (Unit D.2).
(1) This price includes the increases and reductions relating to the lot covered by the tender.
(2) The commercial costs corresponding to insurance and services provision borne after the exit of the intervention stock up to the FOB
stage at the port of export, with the exception of transport costs. The notified costs shall be established on the basis of the average real
costs recorded by the intervention agency in the six months preceding the opening of the tendering period and shall be expressed in
euro per tonne.